Audio book download -
by Bob Goodwin
.
Can anyone tell me how to download files from Amazon's audible.com with
fedora 24 that I can copy to a flash drive? They refer to several
applications they provide, none or which appear to be Linux apps ...
Normally I just get MP3 files, etc. and can deal with them.
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-25b/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
7 years, 5 months
USB flash -
by Bob Goodwin
"Your message to the test mailing-list was rejected for the following
reasons:
The message is not from a list member"
Perhaps someone can offer a suggestion here?
=
I am trying to use an USB flash drive but it does not mount/show up on
desktop. It is listed under lsusb though.
Normally this just works but not in this Fedora-25 beta.
What am I missing or doing wrong?
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-25b/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
7 years, 5 months
gnome-abrt claims the kernel is tainted
by George R Goffe
Hi,
"my" fc23 x86_64 system gets the following messages below which trigger gnome-abrt execution. The results of this report that the kernel is tainted but there are no modules listed. I had assumed that the tainted flag was due to the vbox kernel modules being loaded so I used rmmod to remove them. subsequently I got another message (see below) but gnome-abrt still claims that the kernel is tainted.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
Thanks,
George...
7 years, 5 months
youtube-dl
by JD
A new strange behavior of this util.
When downloading a format of the file that is pure video (i.e. no audio)
I end up with tens of small files each one labeled by the name of the
listed movie
appended with .part-FragN where N ranges from 0 to more than 200
sometimes.
I updated youtube-dl by running youtube-dl -U and retried. It does the
same thing.
After it finished getting all the fragments, it does not catenate them
into a single
video file.
How can I get around this problem?
Thanx!!
7 years, 5 months
Alternatives to Theme Font size changer Firefox plugin?
by Sam Varshavchik
The popular theme font size changer Firefox plugin,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/, no
longer supports Linux.
The default Firefox font size is too small for people with poor eyesight. As
far as I can tell, the only thing that official "Firefox themes" do is set a
background image for the UI. As Benny Hill would say, biiiiiiiiiiiiig …deal.
The top-ranked comment on that extension page suggests hacking "userChrome-
example.css" in ~/.mozilla/firefox.
$ find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name userChrome-example.css -print
$
There goes that idea.
Googling around the only other suggestion I found was to hack
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx setting in about:config. All that did, apparently,
was making the Firefox UI elements themselves bigger, but their font size –
the menu and the URL bar – remained exactly the same.
Anyone has other suggestions?
7 years, 6 months
Changing umask in fedora24
by Alex
Hi,
I posted a message the other day regarding changing the umask for
users in an apache DocumentRoot on a fedora24 system and haven't
received any responses. Maybe my question too confusing with the
DocumentRoot discussion.
Does anyone know how to reliably change the umask for regular users
(specifically the apache user) on fedora24?
The methods I've searched and tried apparently no longer work on fedora24.
Thanks,
Alex
7 years, 6 months
Re: GPG2 can't read smartcard
by Laverne Schrock
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Corey Sheldon
<sheldon.corey(a)openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/27/2016 02:20 AM, Laverne Schrock wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have several Fedora 24 boxes, all of which have
>> /home from NFS. Some of these boxes were fresh
>> installs and some are upgrades from 23 (some of
>> which were fresh installs, and some of which were
>> probably upgrades from 22, etc).
>>
>> On the fresh installs, running `gpg2 --card-status`
>> prints out the card info. On the upgraded boxes,
>> running the same command gives
>>
>> gpg: selecting openpgp failed: No such device
>> gpg: OpenPGP card not available: No such device
>>
>> On both boxes, `rpm -qa | grep gnupg | sort` gives
>>
>> gnupg-1.4.21-1.fc24.x86_64
>> gnupg2-2.1.13-2.fc24.x86_64
>> gnupg2-smime-2.1.13-2.fc24.x86_64
>>
>> On both boxes, `rpm -qa | grep pcsc` gives
>>
>> pcsc-lite-1.8.17-2.fc24.x86_64
>> pcsc-lite-ccid-1.4.23-1.fc24.x86_64
>> pcsc-lite-libs-1.8.17-2.fc24.x86_64
>>
>> On both boxes, `ps ax -o user,stat,command | grep scd` gives
>>
>> root Ssl /usr/sbin/pcscd --foreground --auto-exit
>> schr1230 SLl scdaemon --multi-server
>>
>> On the fresh boxes, the pcscd process sometimes
>> dies, but it comes right back when I run `gpg2 --card-status`
>> again. It doesn't seem to die on the old (non-working) boxes.
>>
>> I've checked dmesg and the device is being detected. It
>> is a Yubikey Neo. On the upgraded machines, when I log
>> out after trying this (or even just Ctrl-Alt-F1 to gdm) there
>> is a popup that says
>>
>> Authentication is required to access the smartcard.
>> Administrator
>> Password: <box for pw here>
>>
>> Entering the password has no effect.
>>
>> Any idea on what might be different on these older systems
>> that prevent this from working?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laverne Schrock
>> _______________________________________________
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> At this point:
>
> Authentication is required to access the smartcard.
> Administrator
> Password: <box for pw here>
>
> what admin password are you using the local system admin password or the
> smartcard admin password ( which on MOST smartcards, assuming no
> `unblock pin` has been run is 123456
>
I was trying the local root password. It didn't occur
to me to try using the admin PIN. I'll try that next
time I'm able to reproduce the prompt (turns out
it is a little intermittent). That said, one really
*shouldn't* need the admin pin for everyday tasks.
7 years, 6 months
Build rpm - extract source
by arnaud gaboury
Here is part of my spec file:
-----------------------------------------------
Name: mattermost
Version: 3.4.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative
URL: http://www.mattermost.org
Source0:
https://releases.mattermost.com/%{version}/mattermost-%{version}-linux-am...
License: MIT
Group: System Environment/Daemons
........
%prep
%autosetup
---------------------------
Now testing:
$ fedpkg --dist f24 prep
leaves me with this error: mattermost-3.4.0: No such file or directory
$ ls returns in fact mattermost. I guess the difference is due to untar.
How can I tell in my spec file that the source directory will be named
%{name} and not %{name}.%{version} ?
Then, I though the %autosetup macro would have download the source, which
is not the case. I need to run $ spectool -g *spec to get the source. Is it
the normal behavior?
Thank you for help.
7 years, 6 months
