is there an actual fedora systemd "run-postinsts" package?
by Robert P. J. Day
not sure if i'm looking in the right place, but when i'm using
openembedded to build for embedded systems, i can include a
systemd-related package named "run-postinsts" with which i can
effectively simulate firstboot; systemd service that runs on
firstboot, then deletes itself.
i figured i could examine its structure with the corresponding
fedora package, but i see nothing that looks like that. what would be
the analog in fedora if not a separate systemd package? or is that
something fedora folks would just create manually?
rday
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7 years, 9 months
USB drive name change -
by Bob Goodwin
I have an external drive I set up yesterday that has the name
"a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29." How can I change that to
something like "/run/media/bobg/externaldrive?"
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-24/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3
7 years, 9 months
alsa.card versus index
by Tom Horsley
If I run "pacmd list-cards" I get very confusing output
where the card with index: 0 has the property
alsa.card = "1", and the card with index: 1
has the property alsa.card = "0"
Since none of the command line utilities
that deal with cards ever document which
card number they mean in the help info,
I'd really like the numbers to match in
order to keep my head from exploding.
Anyone know how to influence either of these
numbers?
7 years, 9 months
WiFi conflicting with Bluetooth
by Chris Murphy
Hi,
About a dozen times per day, my Bluetooth mouse stops working. I can't
connect manually in Settings > Bluetooth. If I merely turn off the
WiFi radio (Settings > Network > Wi-Fi change from On to Off) and then
click the mouse button, it reconnects and works normally.
With kernels 4.6 and older this ridiculousness was ridiculously
tolerated (in that I continue to use Fedora slightly annoyed rather
than use macOS where this problem does not ever occur with the same
hardware). But with kernel 4.7rc7 this power cycling of WiFi doesn't
work anymore, now I have to reboot.
So the question is, does anyone have any idea how to get more details
debugging information on what appears to be a conflict between WiFi
and Bluetooth? Upstream GNOME bluetooth maintainer says it's a kernel
bug. But there's no meaningful kernel messages at all while this is
happening.
Here's the bug I've filed against the kernel, if anyone has
suggestions on improving the report that'd be great. Or heck, maybe a
solution to the problem, that'd be even better.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136221
In ancient times, I remember even Apple had problems negotiating WiFi
and Bluetooth since I guess both are on 2.4GHz and would conflict with
each other. Maybe the work around is to use the proprietary WiFi
driver instead of b43.
--
Chris Murphy
7 years, 9 months
Converting html file to PDF
by JD
I have an html file with it's associated directory containing the images.
the file is called:
abc.pdf.html
and the dir is
abc.pdf.html_files
The extensions of the files in abc.pdf.html_files directory are: .css,
.js , .png
The directory also contains the directory called viewer-vflqGVZhT_data
I tried to use pdfdoc to convert it to pure pdf and failed (sigabort).
I tried to use wkhtmltopdf and it only produced a blank page.
Any info to help me accomlish converting this to 1 pdf file would be
greatly appreciated.
7 years, 9 months
Fwd: Your message to users@lists.fedoraproject.org awaits moderator
approval
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I received the following message about 10 days ago, but still haven't seen it
posted or received the moderators rejection notice. Since there seems to be no
way to reach the moderator directly, I'm reduced to posting this to the list.
The original posting had
Subject: Dragon/Kplayer trouble playing MP4 V1
Sorry for taking list bandwidth - jon
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To: jonrysh(a)pacbell.net
Subject: Your message to users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org awaits moderator approval
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:00:13 +0000
Your mail to 'users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org' with the subject
Dragon/Kplayer trouble playing MP4 V1
Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
The message is being held because:
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Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
notification of the moderator's decision.
7 years, 9 months
F24 gedit and large text files, background becomes black
by Chris Murphy
I'm having myriad problems with gedit and large text files. OK 81MB
isn't really that large, it should be able to handle that without this
much difficulty.
First, it takes a long time to open, more than a minute, and this is
on an SSD. Next, it's doing some processing for a really long time
after it loads the document, about 5-6 minutes, while the process
consumes 100% CPU and the fans start running on high like I'm blowing
my hair dry rather than reading a document.
But the actual problem is, at some point I click out of gedit, then
back into gedit, and somehow the white background becomes black. So
it's a sea of black text on a black background and thus totally
useless.
Can anyone else reproduce this?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359476
I don't think there's anything magical about it being 81M. I don't
have this problem though with smaller files in the 1MB or less range.
I just don't know at what threshold it becomes a problem.
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Chris Murphy
7 years, 9 months
Issues with doing a fedup upgrade from 23 to 24
by Michael D. Setzer II
Not sure what the issue is. Am currently 7 timezones away from my
classroom machines, but wanted to update a few before I get back. Had to
run the process 3 times on first machine before it finally did the upgrade.
fedup --network 24 --allowerasing
Process seems to go thru just fine, and then do
dnf system-upgrade reboot
And it reboots, but then comes back to the 23 version.
Did that twice with VNC connection to machine, and then did it a 3rd time, in
which I sshed in via another local machine.
Thought that might be the issue, but then did a ssh connection upgrade
process on two other machines twice, and they did not upgrade. Can't see
the systems during the reboot process, and didn't see anything in the /var/log
files to show any errors.
Trying on those machines again, but after the failed system-upgrade, it has
to download all the files again??
Thanks.
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7 years, 9 months
Timeline of a Fedora-24/KDE reboot
by Timothy Murphy
As you will see, there is a long delay (90 seconds or so)
while shutting down.
If anyone can throw light on this I should be very grateful.
This is the re-boot timeline on my Thinkpad T510:
f=>Leave=>Restart command given and confirmed
19s just cursor on screen
f icon appears and remains on screen
114s
Thinkpad icon appears
14s automatic choice of kernel
bulb appears and slowly fills
25s
login screen - after logging in
5s
K icon appears and horizontal bar fills
30s
panel appears
It will be seen that there is a long delay (almost 2 minutes)
while shutting down.
I see from "journalctl -b-1" that the delay occurs here
------------------------------
Jul 23 14:11:38 william.gayleard.com NetworkManager[908]:
<info> [1469275898.3807] device (wlp3s0):
supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected
Jul 23 14:11:41 william.gayleard.com wpa_supplicant[1061]:
wlp3s0: Reject scan trigger since one is already pending
Jul 23 14:13:02 william.gayleard.com NetworkManager[908]:
<info> [1469275982.5130] connectivity: check for uri
'http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt' failed wit
Jul 23 14:13:05 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]: session-1.scope:
Stopping timed out. Killing.
Jul 23 14:13:05 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]:
Stopped Session 1 of user tim.
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Is the delay due to the timeout mentioned?
I am not good at interpreting the output of journalctl.
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
7 years, 9 months
