Fedup issue with thunderbird
by linuxnutster＠videotron.ca
I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well
except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving
me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is
215GB free space, so I know that is not the problem. Obviously this has
somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird folder, but I
do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly
nudge me in the right direction?
Thanks!
9 years, 11 months
Thunderbird can't read Mail
by Mickey
Installed Fedora 20 from Fedora 18. fresh install.
Moved old email Mail Folder from F18 .thunderbird and puts all of the
contents fom old email into F20 .thunderbird.
I can see from File Manager that the OLD Emails are in the
.thunderbird/Mail folder, but How do I get Thunderbird to display those
old emails ?
I'm connected to my ISP and can download new Emails.
9 years, 12 months
F20 Where's my system mail?
by Arthur Dent
Hello all,
I have read this page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail
Having upgraded to F20 the new lack of an MTA caused me no end of
trouble with my fetchmail->procmail->dovecot setup, but I think I have
got that sorted now. I had a brief flirtation with postfix, but gave
that up as a bad job when it started bouncing all my mail.
In truth I am quite happy not to have an MTA and risk accidentally
spamming the interweb, but I now find I am lacking one thing...
My system mail (and output from my user cron jobs) used to find it's way
into procmail from which I could direct it into mailboxes to be read at
my leisure.
Without a functioning MTA how can I now achieve the same result?
Although I can ssh into the box, and I do often check logs etc, it is
reassuring to know when something has happened I would get an email, and
the regular output in email-form from logwatch was something I would
check every day.
Can I get this functionality back without the pain of configuring
postfix or (shudder) sendmail? If so how?
Thanks in advance.
Mark
9 years, 12 months
Re: Two SELinux-related things
by Daniel J Walsh
On 04/24/2014 04:56 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>> # semanage fcontext -a -e /home /u
>> # restorecon -R -v /u
>>
>> Should fix you up.
> Bingo. Thanks for your time.
>
> I did wonder if this was the cause of the problem, but (1) it didn't happen
> with the previous Linux configuration I had, and (2) I actually write
> remounting the filesystem as /home before I wrote to you. But (I now
> realize) I left /u as a symlink to /home instead of changing my actual
> home directory, so that didn't cover it.
>
>
> This still leaves me with two questions.
>
> [1] What about the way the message from SELinux failed to name a
> directory? That made it impossible for me to see what was actually
> going on. It seems to me like a bug in the alert reporting.
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/34903.html?thread=220247
> [2] How do I reach the fedora-devel people you mentioned, to ask them
> my other question?
Just send a question to the Community support for Fedora users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> list
and with information about what you are trying to do, meantion SELinux
in the message or CC me, and I will follow the discussion.
9 years, 12 months
Custom Install
by Shane Johnson
I am coming to Fedora from Debian and would appreciate some help please.
In Debian I was able to quickly install a system (vm/real) using
debootstrap. I am looking for a way to do this in Fedora.
So far I have tried using the instructions here while running under a
live CD : http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Building_a_Xen_Guest_Root_Filesystem...
and then installing mdadm, lvm2, kernel, and grub2. I change the
password and then try to reboot and it keeps getting stuck with not
being able to start the RAID after the reboot. I am able to do mdadm
-A /dev/md/{raid} and then exit until the system boots. I have tried
rerunning dracut --kver 3.13.10-200.fc20.x86_64 and it runs and
creates the new initrd file. Then I run grub2-mkconfig -o
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg and it keeps having problems with errors not
being able to access "/dev/md0 " (I added the quotes due to finding
this page : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981909. ) I
have symlinked "/dev/md0 " > /dev/md0 and gotten rid of the errors
but it is still not starting the RAID.
Does anyone have a better way to do this kind of install or a way to
resolve this problem with Grub2 that I haven't been able to find?
I have also tried running the net install cd but it won't let me just
install everything under the / on a 25GB lv with a 5GB swap lv.
Thank you in advance.
--
Shane D. Johnson
IT Administrator
Rasmussen Equipment
9 years, 12 months
Re: Thunderbird can't read Mail
by Mickey
On 04/24/2014 08:00 PM, Mickey wrote:
>
> On 04/24/2014 01:28 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On 04/24/2014 12:53 PM, Mickey wrote:
>>> I can see from File Manager that the OLD Emails are in the
>>> .thunderbird/Mail folder, but How do I get Thunderbird to display
>>> those old emails ?
>> no, it isn't .thunderbird/Mail.. you have the default folder first..
>> yours would be SOMETHING.default
>>
>> mine is:
>> .thunderbird/on53hnpo.default
>> then you have Mail, but you still need to put it below that, maybe in
>> local_folders:
>>
>> .thunderbird/on53hnpo.default/Mail/Local Folders$
>>
>> like I have a Scuba folder:
>> -rw-------. 1 pbc pbc 0 Feb 23 2011 Scuba
>> -rw-------. 1 pbc pbc 2747 Jul 27 2011 Scuba.msf
>> drwx------. 2 pbc pbc 4096 Jul 10 2013 Scuba.sbd
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Below is the profile.ini files
>
> .thunderbird/profies.ini
> [General]
> StartWithLastProfile=1
>
> [Profile0]
> Name=default
> IsRelative=1
> Path=kqe760mh.default
>
>
>
> Below is the /Mail folder , the "mail.comcast-1.net" has the new
> messages which I can read.
>
>
> The "mail.comcast.net" folder has the old emails they are the ones I
> bought over from F18, and Thunderbird IS NOT Displaying Those so I can
> not read them.
>
>
> .thunderbird/kqe760mh.default/Mail/
>
> Local Folders
> Local Folders-1
> mail.comcast-1.net
> mail.comcast.net
> smart.mailboxes
9 years, 12 months
reading adobe comments on pdf using OSS on F20
by Ranjan Maitra
Hello,
I have been given a pdf file with comments written in Adobe. All I get
are tiny yellow balloons with (physical) lines indicating that there are
comments in them. The comments themselves are unreadable. Is there some
OSS that can read them? I am using an up-to-date F20 (as of last night).
Many thanks,
Ranjan
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9 years, 12 months
advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load
and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the
prompt would produce this message:
digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit
which IIUC means this is a general problem on that computer, not
digikam specific.
An online search returned always the same "fix" described e.g. at
http://monodevelop.com/Inotify_watches_limit, that is:
##################################################################
To change the limit, run:
# echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
To make the change permanent, edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add
this line to the end of the file:
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384
##################################################################
(the current value now is 8192)
I could not, however, find any clear (to me at least) explanation of
possible unwanted side-effects of this. Should I check/do something
else (but what?) or can I safely apply those suggestions and reboot?
Is there risk that doing that stuff "as is" messes things up and
forces me to spend a day or so recovering the system?
Thanks,
Marco
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9 years, 12 months
