Adobereader won't install
by Mickey
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the
command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in
/var/log/messages.
9 years, 10 months
fix a broken gnome desktop ?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Following a recent kernel update I rebooted and can no longer use
Gnome3. I receive this error:
"Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the
system can't recover. All extensions have been disabled as a precaution."
Usually there is no mouse after this happens. A "return" returns me to
the login screen and I can choose one of the different desktops from
there, all of which work.
I am loathe to yum remove, yum install. The remove wants to take 554MB
of packages with it and I'm not willing to gamble that I'll have a
usable system afterwards.
Anybody seen this before? How did you recover from it?
Thanks for your help,
Mike Wright
9 years, 10 months
OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.
by Rolf Turner
This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and
without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so
many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive, cranky, cryptic,
but above all *knowledgeable*) I thought I would ask here.
The question is actually two-fold:
(1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird
spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders and
subfolders.
I can of course re-subscribe to them, but since I have a rather large
number of folders and subfolders (and subsubfolders ...) this is a
lengthy and tedious task.
Has anyone any insight into why this unsubscription phenomenon should
occur and how one might prevent it from occurring?
(2) Failing the last, is there any way to *speed up* the process of
re-subscribing? I would like a way of essentially subscribing to
*everything*, with a single click (or something like that) and then be
able to go through and unsubscribe to those relatively few folders to
which I do not wish to subscribe.
Groping around on the web I found a way to bypass the "subscribe"
system. One goes to Edit -> Account Settings -> Server Settings ->
Advanced, and then unchecks "Show only subscribed folders".
This is not too bad, but it leaves me with a number of bits of crap in
my folder list that I *do not* wish to see. Things that Thunderbird
imposes on the user, like "Journal", "Junk E-Mail", "Notes", "Sent
Items", "Sent Messages", etc. (The last two really puzzle me; what
function might they serve that is different from the function of the
"Sent" folder?) It seems to be impossible to get rid of these, and the
only way to mask them is to unsubscribe. But then I need to *subscribe*
to all of the stuff that I *do* want to see.
Grateful for any insight or advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance.
R. T.
Rolf Turner
Technical Editor ANZJS
9 years, 10 months
Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.
by Rolf Turner
On 13/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/13/14 07:35, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I had to muck around a bit to get Adobe Reader installed; yum
>> didn't "directly" work (probably because my Fedora 17 is EOL).
>>
>> According to notes that I kept, the recipe (found somewhere on the
>> web) that I used was:
>>
>>> su
>>> rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noa...
>>> rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
>>> yum -y install nspluginwrapper.i686 AdobeReader_enu
>>
>>
>> This seemed to work .... until now???
>>
>> The output from the ldd command is lengthy, so I am sending it as an attachment.
>>
>> Thanks very much for taking the time to think about my problem.
>
> OK.... Seems like reader is installed fine. You can prove this by
> running "acroread" and bringing up the reader.....which is a 32-bit
> application.
I use acroread all the time and it seems to work just fine.
> I'm pretty sure the error message is harmless as I don't think
> t-birdmakes use of that particular plug-in.
I kind of figured that. Still I don't like having these little
untidinesses in my system. Upsets my OC craving for order.
> Now, you probably will run into a bit of difficulty or
> inconvenience.You have 2 copies of t-bird installed. One is well integrated with
> Fedora. The other not. So, if you were to click on a mailto: link in a
> web page, the older version of T-Bird will start. Also, at the moment,
> you are probably starting T-Bird from a command line. Not sure if you
> want to go about fixing that.
I think I know how to handle that. I am *currently* starting T-bird
from the command line, but now that I am reasonably happy that the
upgrade is working OK I'm pretty sure that I can tidy things up and make
T-bird start from a clickable icon.
>
> FWIW, when I previously replied I didn't notice that my message went
> directly to you. This AM I resent to the list for completeness. If you
> want to keep this discussion off-list, it is fine by me.
Not a problem to stay on-list. I just replied to your off-list message
before I saw your on-list one. I am cc-ing this reply to the list.
> Another thing..... On my systems I have....
>
> [egreshko@meimei opt]$ rpm -q AdobeReader_enu
> AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
>
> I don't think that latest, and last, version is in the Adobe repo. I
> downloaded the rpm from Adobe and installed directly.
I just did "rpm -q AdobeReader_enu" on my laptop and got
> AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
which is, unless my eyes deceive me, exactly what you got. So (unless I
misunderstand) all is well, nicht wahr?
Thanks for your help.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
9 years, 10 months
*ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
On trying to boot, Fedora crashes on my Lenovo Thinkpad T430 with this
message:
Booting 'Fedora (3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64) 20 (Heisenbug)'
[ 2.718947] [drm:cpt:cpt_serr_int_handler] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO
underrun
Actually, all kernels after 3.13.10-200.fc20.x86_64 are crashing on boot
on my laptop, but this is the first time I get an error message. Plus, I
also have random crashes a few times per day.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com>
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
9 years, 10 months
removing plymouth
by Balint Szigeti
hello
Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I
know it handles the boot screen and the user interaction during boot.
Does it mean, if I remove this package I can't examine what happened
during the boot or I can not boot?
Balint
9 years, 10 months
How to make usb stick for F20 Xfce live ??
by sean darcy
I've got a new HP laptop running Windows 8.1, with uefi boot. I've
shrunk the windows partition, so I have 500+ gigs free.
I've dl'd the F20 Xfce Live iso. I checked the sha256, which matched.
I've got a 2gig usb stick. I followed the instructions on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB.
Disk Image Writer completed without error.
I booted the HP laptop with the usb stick. Up popped the grub menu. I
tried test medium. That failed early. Seems to have failed the checksum.
Recreated the usb stick, same result.
Went ahead and booted to the livecd. It booted, the balloon filled up,
but then it hung at the Fedora "f".
On the usb stick in LiveOS was a 600 meg file called squashfs.img.
unsquashed it. That generated a 3+ gig file ext3fs, with this sha256 sum:
d9adb2bd65f7b69b6c772592a16c4167038c332838efc8ac6700534245028be1 ext3fs.img
Any help appreciated.
Jay
9 years, 10 months
making fc20 backup
by Jackson Byers
What I am still very uncertain :
how to handle, ie backup,
dirs like
/dev, /proc, /sys, /srv
/media, /run
In the past (f14,f16) I have muddled through these
somehow, but always felt I wasn't doing it quite correctly.
I recall some advice e.g., just create the dir, /dev, but not its
contents.?
or,
Is it actually ok to do full update of all above dirs, including contents?
What I am still very uncertain :
how to handle, ie backup,
dirs like
/dev, /proc, /sys, /srv
/media, /run
In the past (f14,f16) I have muddled through these
somehow, but always felt I wasn't doing it quite correctly.
I recall some advice e.g., just create the dir, /dev, /proc,...
but not the contents.
or,
Is it actually ok to do full update of all above dirs, including contents?
advice?
9 years, 10 months
NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr
by Gareth Williams
After a frozen install while trying to make a dual-boot system I had
to hard-reboot my laptop using the power button.
On restarting, I was greeted with a UEFI message telling me that there
was no bootable device installed! I quickly inserted a boot CD and
managed to boot into my installed Fedora 20 by editing the
booted CD's grub commands (thank goodness for grub's command line
completion!).
I therfore know that my Fedora installation (including the EFI
partition) is intact and that my crash had somehow corrupted my UEFI
NVRAM.
A quick check with 'efibootmgr -v' confirmed this, as it just listed
the basic 'fallback' paths (no filepaths to the Fedora installed EFI
files).
The simple answer was therefore to re-add the entry for Fedora and
reboot. In order to get the correct syntax for efibootmgr I grep'd
'/var/log/anaconda.program.log' and found:
'efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 1 -l
\EFI\fedora\shim.efi'.
I simply escaped the back-slashes by changing them to
double-back-slashes and ran the command as root.
I confirmed that everything had worked using 'efibootmgr -v' again and
it showed that the entry was there, so I rebooted.
Unfortunately, I was greeted by the same 'no bootable device' message
as before at which point I had to use the boot CD to get back in
again.
To my suprise 'efibootmgr -v' didn't show the entry that I'd just
created - it had simply vanished.
I Googled and Googled and got nowhere. To get out of this
predicament, I installed Fedora again in the partition I'd earmarked
for the dual boot, at which point anaconda os-probed all
partitions/installations, re-created grub's grub.cfg file and fixed
the NVRAM. I was then able to successfully boot my laptop.
Fortunately, there was a kernel update waiting for me, so installing
that reconfigured grub2 and my main Fedora installation was the
default in grub again.
While I'm now working again, there is still the issue of not being
able to alter NVRAM using 'efibootmgr' directly.
My question therefore is: Does anaconda do something else after
running 'efibootmgr' to make it permanent? Or: Why can anaconda update
NVRAM using efibootmgr, while I can't?
Thanks in advance.
9 years, 10 months
