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All-Flock Special Edition of 5 Things in Fedora This Week (5tFTW 2014-08-05)
by Matthew Miller 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-08-05/> 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 August 5th, 2014: Late? Flock re-registration is not required ------------------------------------------- This week, is Flock our annual conference for Fedora contributors. We alternate between Europe and North America, and this year, we’re in Prague in the Czech Republic. While we asked for pre-registration, that registration is *not necessary* to attend. You won’t get a t-shirt, lunches, or a conference badge, but you’re still welcome to attend. Just show up at the Czech Technical University in Prague tomorrow, August 6th, or any day through Saturday. * http://flocktofedora.org/ * http://flocktofedora.org/location/venue/ Don’t take a taxi — take the bus -------------------------------- If you’re coming from the airport in Prague, we recommended you take the bus] — see transportation details on the Flock page. It’s simple and costs just 32 CZK — about $1.50 US. * http://flocktofedora.org/location/transportation/ Flock keynotes: free and open software, from governments to laptops ------------------------------------------------------------------- We have two exciting keynote talks at Flock. The first will be from Gijs Hillenius of European Commission’s Open Source Observatory & Repository, giving an overview of FOSS in public administrations in Europe. The second is from Sean “xobs” Cross, on the Novena laptop project — an entirely open hardware system built around a quad-core ARM processor (and available for preorder from Crowdsupply). * https://twitter.com/Sjig (Gijs Hillenius) * http://osor.eu/ * https://twitter.com/xobs (Sean “xobs” Cross) * http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page * https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop A sampling of sessions ---------------------- Many sessions at Flock focus on practical, technical aspects, like Josh Boyer’s State of the Fedora Kernel or Aditya Patawari’s Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project. Others focus on important social and community issues, like Jiří Eischmann’s Fedora Ambassadors: State of the Union, Marina Zhurakhinskaya’s Outreach Program for Women, or Sarup Banskota’s The curious case of Fedora Freshmen (aka Issue #101). Flock is also about planning for the our future, and there are two of these in particular I’d like to highlight. First, on Thursday, Stephen Gallagher is running Fedora.next.next: Planning for Fedora 22. Fedora 21 is now approaching alpha, but Rawhide, our development branch, is already the first inklings of Fedora 22. We already have some approved features targetted for that release next year (for example, the DNF command-line package manager), and many of the ideas we’re starting with F21′s Fedora Cloud, Fedora Server, and Fedora Workstation will really come into realization in F22. Come and help us decide what we’ll aim to accomplish. Second, on Saturday, Toshio Kuratomi and Haïkel Guémar are moderating a discussion on the future of Fedora governance. This will be much more broad than just the Fedora.next product working groups, and will probably focus on a proposal to restructure the Fedora Project Board to be a representative council with membership drawn from various Fedora subprojects. Of course we won’t make any decisions at a conference which not everyone can attend, but we do hope to come out of this with a solid plan — so, again, come join us if you’d like to help. * State of the Fedora Kernel: http://sched.co/Sc0wuX * Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project: http://sched.co/SbYwmu * Fedora Ambassadors: State of the Union: http://sched.co/SbU3Ab * Outreach Program for Women: http://sched.co/SbUkDi * The curious case of Fedora Freshmen (aka Issue #101): http://sched.co/SbRuOy * Fedora.next.next: Planning for Fedora 22: http://sched.co/1kI1hXj * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF * The future of Fedora governance: http://sched.co/Sc6Oux Can’t be in Prague? There will be video! ---------------------------------------- Live video will be available from at least the bigger session rooms at Flock, and available online after the conference as well. Take a look at the Flock Conference 2014 Prague YouTube Channel, starting at (approximately) 06:45 UTC Wednesday morning. (That’s 8:45 here in Prague.) **Note the last-minute channel change!** * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQIXiF6fxPCtHw_XwHFq6nA Bonus call for help! -------------------- If you *will* be here, we could use help writing up summaries of the talks for Fedora Magazine. Just a few paragraphs on any talk that you find interesting would be great — you can contact Chris Roberts or Ryan Lerch for access. (Ryan’s at home in the U.S., but Chris will be at the conference, and in fact has a session *about* Fedora Magazine on Wednesday morning, so if you come to that we can hook you up.) * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrisroberts * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ryanlerch * Fedora Magazine: http://sched.co/SbRL3X -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Fedora Project Leader mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org <http://fedoraproject.org/>

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Re: Fedora support for the Asus ,> N-150 usb wifi adapter
by R. G. Newbury 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

> Robert Moskowitzwrote >> Ed Greshko wrote: >>>On 08/04/14 08:19, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>OK. It is in another F20 box, but as this is a one liner, I can type it over here... >>> >> >>Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0b05:1786 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB-N150 802.11n Network Adapter [Realtek RTL8188su] >> note that looking athttp://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl819x I don't see a reference to RTL8188su only r8188eu (rtl8188eu) and that driver is only in "staging". > thanks but this still is getting the warning in messages that ouldn't > find support for the device, and ifconfig does not list it. Realtek chipsets are like D-Link chipsets. And it is hard to find the correct one. The page at wireless.kernel.org does not list the RTL8188SU chipset. I found (somehow) some time ago that the proper driver is the r8712u chipset. If you have it installed (which may take a download and copy to /lib/firmware etc. then the ASUS-N10 is recognized and the module loaded on insertion. Works like a charm, including when I tested at a friend's place where he has an N speed router. The only place which seems to list and cross-reference all of the Realtek chipset variants is here: https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x which is based on, but extends the wireless.kernel.org page. The rtl8192su driver (which is still a work in progress apparently) is intended to replace the r8712u driver, and may be worth testing. -- R. Geoffrey Newbury

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fuse - permission denied (f20)
by Neal Becker 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

I know in the distant past we had a fuse group, but IIUC this is no longer needed. sshfs localhost: mnt fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied ls -l /dev/fuse crw------- 1 root root 10, 229 Jul 31 03:42 /dev/fuse What's wrong?

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Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?
by William Oliver 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight it and hit ctl-c or to copy it or ctl-v to paste it. Is there anything analogous to "named registers" in vim that will allow me to copy into different buffers (or, in vim, registers) so I can grab and paste from multiple instances? If it makes a difference, I'm running Fedora 20 with KDE 4. billo

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simple DVD read error - ALL DVD
by Balint Szigeti 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

hello I have two DVDs which contains AVI files. I can't read it in my fedora box but it works in gentoo and windows. I used the DVD drive and the DVDs before so I don't think it is a HW problem. I got this in dmesg: [ 7892.555826] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code [ 7892.555834] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 7892.555836] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 7892.555839] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 7892.555842] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [ 7892.555847] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 7892.555851] ASC=0x10 <<vendor>> ASCQ=0x90 [ 7892.555854] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: [ 7892.555856] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 [ 7892.555866] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 [ 7892.555872] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0 what shoud I do now?

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Affordable 802.11n USB dongle that IS supported in Fedora
by Robert Moskowitz 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

I spent 30 min going through all the 'clearance' open boxes at MicroCenter today with my notebook, trying to see if any came up as supported. None did. I went to the section with the unopen items and found the Asus claiming Linux support. So much for that; looks like you have to build it yourself and hope for the best. So is there a USB 11n dongle that IS supported and can be had for < $20? Actually an external antenna is a plus as it will be on a server that at times will be a client and times an AP.

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no such file or directory using "-" character
by Angelo Moreschini 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hi I need to go inside a directory named <notebook-source>; but I am not able to do it. Using the command cd /.../notebook-source I get the output : "no such file or directory" ----------- I tried to go around to the problem using the command ls : if I use the command : <ls notebook* > (using the wildchar *) then I get the correct output: "notebook-source". but if I use the command : <ls notebook-source > then I get (again) the message " no such file or directory" Why this happen ? ===== Seem that the problem is connected with the use of the character "-" inside the name of the directory.... ; but I didn't know the character "-" is forbidden to form nane of the files or directories.. What is my problem? It is some thing that I dont know about the rules to form name of files and directories ? Regards thank you Angelo

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Fedora support for the Asus N-150 usb wifi adapter
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

The packaging says Linux support. But my F20 system is not recognizing the device. So any hints on how to get this working?

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no such file or directory using "-" character
by Angelo Moreschini 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

On 08/03/2014 09:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi > > I need to go inside a directory named <notebook-source>; > but I am not able to do it. > > Using the command cd /.../notebook-source Hi Angelo, probably: cd ~/notebook-source, or directly: cd notebook-source??? What do you mean by "/.../"? I guess, the leading /.../ is the culprit. Joachim Backes ========== Hi Joachim, I wrote "/.../notebook-source" , only with purpose to indicate theFULL PATH of the directory... THING HOTHER... I think the explanation of the problem have to be in some intrusion of characters, ...how Neil says.... I tryed more.....: I renamed the directory to notebook ------ I did this using Mautilus (the graphic interface) ------ BUT the problem was not solved.. (ALL IS HOW IT WAS BEFORE: typing ls notebook I get still no such file or directory ) I tried ls -d notebook* | od -tx1 the result is : 0000000 62 6f 74 65 42 6f 6f 6b5f 696e 73 74 61 6c 6c 0000020 61 74 69 6f 6e 0a 0000026 I am not sure as it have to be interpretated you help me to understand it ? Thank you for your help Angelo

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Serviio 1.4.1.2: Some id3 tags don't display
by Steven P. Ulrick 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Hello, Everyone I initially posted this question on the Serviio forum. But I did not get any responses, and I still am having the problem. The following email is re-constructed from my postings to the Serviio forum: Part 1: I am running Serviio 1.4.1.2 on a system with Fedora 20 Linux installed. My issue is that the id3 tags from SOME mp3 files don't display on my TV. Here is a step by step description of how Serviio behaves when the id3 tags load, and when they don't: Behavior when ID3 tags DON'T display: 1. Select mp3 file to play. 2. Wait a fairly long time for song to start playing. 3. Song starts playing, but... 4. No id3 tags display on the TV. Behavior when ID3 tags DO display: 1. Select mp3 file to play. 2. Song starts playing immediately. 3. id3 tags display on TV as they are supposed to. I don't have any issues with MP3's that I get from ripped CD's that I own. The only issue is with SOME mp3's that I purchase from AmazonMP3. I have discovered a workaround: 1. Remove offending MP3 files from media server. 2. Force Serviio to refresh itself. 3. Check log files to make sure that Serviio removed the offending files from it's database. 4. Remove ALL id3 tags from MP3 files. 5. Rename the files using the new id3 tags. 6. Put back on media server and let Serviio refresh itself. 7. Result? id3 tags display perfectly on TV. First I rename the files I removed from the media server to include all of the id3 tags that I delete. Then I fill the id3 tag fields from the file names, then rename according to my preferred style of renaming. The two id3 tag editors that I use on Fedora Linux 20 are Easytag 2.2.1 & Puddletag 1.0.4. The id3 tag libraries that Easytag and Puddletag use are as follows on my system: python-mutagen-1.20-6.fc20.noarch libid3tag-0.15.1b-17.fc20.x86_64 id3lib-3.8.3-31.fc20.x86_64 taglib-1.9.1-5.fc20.x86_64 Part 2: I just opened up, in a hex editor, two mp3 files that I purchased from AmazonMP3. Both files do not display the id3 tags on my TV. They start out like this: ID3.....PIPRIV.. and ID3.......PRIV.. Here is the first line of a MP3 that I purchased from AmazonMP3 where the id3 tag used to NOT display on my TV. I have since fixed the issue with this file using the method detailed in my original post on this subject: ID3......vTiT2.. Here is the first line in a hex editor, of an MP3 that I purchased from AmazonMP3 that has worked PERFECTLY from the moment that I put it on my media server: ID3......&TALB So far, the id3 tags that do NOT display properly in Serviio seem to have "PRIV" or "PiPRIV" on the first line when I open the offending MP3 files in a hex editor. Also, the first tag on the mp3's that I checked in a hex editor appears almost at the very top. So far with perfect consistency, the first tag on an offending MP3 file from AmazonMP3 starts at approximately line offset "0000:2020" Next time I purchase MP3's from Amazon, I will check them in a hex editor before I play them with Serviio, to see if I can predict if an MP3 will have it's id3 tags displayed correctly on Serviio. Part 3: I am still having this problem. I thought that I had fixed it the following way: 1. Scan all my MP3's using a command line program called "eyeD3": eyeD3 * | grep PRIV 2. If the above command showed any MP3's with the offending "PRIV" tag field, I would run the following in the appropriate directory: eyeD3 --remove-frame PRIV *.mp3 3. Sync my MP3's from their main location to my media server. 4. Voila! The tags were back! Until tonight. So, I checked the new offending files, and they had no PRIV tag frame. I then thought that maybe Serviio didn't see the changes because the time stamp did not change. So, I ran "touch" on all the offending MP3's that I discovered tonight. Synced them to the media server, made sure that Serviio updated the files appropriately, with the result that those files STILL have no tags... So, I am stumped. Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, any help any of you Fedora users that also happen to be using Serviio that can help me permanently fix this is greatly appreciated! Thank you, Steven P. Ulrick P.S.: I THINK that this email is being sent as plain text. If not, I do apologize.

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