Thunderbird add-on
by JD
in TB (Thunderbird for the un-initiate :)
Tools -> Add-Ons
no longer provides "install add-on from file.
Could someone show how to install an-add-on from file?
Thanx.
7 years, 7 months
bad results from adding samsung v-nand SSD 950 PRO M.2 to ASUS
laptop
by Robert P. J. Day
yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available
slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted
a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and
(reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit):
ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: revalidation failed
etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency
shell.
i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to
work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung
page for that drive:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro...
thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track
this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something
stupid i've done, it would be good to know.
rday
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7 years, 7 months
Hardware Suggestions for Desktop Fedora
by Drew Samson
Hello,
I've been using Fedora inside Virtual Box on a Windows 7 host for a few
years now so I can learn Fedora / Linux before taking the plunge and
unplug from Windows more permanently. I think I'm ready to take the
plunge and build a new desktop with Fedora 24 being my primary os and at
most run Windows (should I need it for some reason) inside a VBox vm. I
suspect running Fedora inside a vm is really different than running it
right off the hardware like changing a hdd controller with a mouse click
is much faster & easier than swapping a cable and/or setting or adding
an adapter so I'm trying to do my homework before spending $.
My question is: what hardware would someone recommend for building a
non-gaming high-end desktop? About the only non-negotiable element are
my 2 30" dell u3011 monitors both running at 2560x1600. Since I'm a
day-trader I need really good color & resolution for my trading charts
but things like a high frame rate for gaming are not necessary. I have
no amd / intel cpu preference - just 8 cores preferably and probably 4
ram slots on a mb since I don't want less than 32gb ram. Recently I saw
someone indicate nvidia graphics are not linux friendly and since that's
what I've always used on my builds an alternative is needed. I've had
really good results with Gigabyte mb's but am willing to try another
brand. I'd also like to use an ssd hdd so does Fedora support sata3 or
even sata 3.2 well? Am I correct in thinking ddr3 or ddr4 or ram specs
of any kind (latency) are pretty much irrelevant and Fedora would
support all such hardware? Does Fedora have issues with hardware raid
which I usually use? Does Fedora care about 3 or 4 channel ram
configuration? Not being a gamer I don't use SLI but since we're on the
subject about compatible hw...does Fedora / linux / open-source have any
capable sli graphics cards which work well and easily?
If someone has built an entire system like this recently would you be
willing to share your component build list? Or if you have a graphics
card which installed easily and would support my resolutions would you
mind sharing it? If someone was frustrated with a particular component
would you mind sharing what to steer clear of?
I would prefer to avoid the click & pray approach to component selection
so I'm asking what has worked well for others...or what was problematic.
Thanks for any advice & feedback.
Drew
7 years, 7 months
Long standing Xfce desktop problem
by Robert Moskowitz
I don't really know how to categorize this, so let me explain. This
started a while back on my F22 system and is continuing on the F24 system.
What I switch workspaces I often get a screen that looks something like
a desktop snapshot. It goes away when I move the mouse, kind of block
by block. An <alt-tab> to a different app on the switched-to workspace
causes a complete repaint of the proper app and an <alt-tab> takes me back.
This has been a pain for some time.
Then I noticed that if Firefox was busy on one workspace, the one I was
on would switch to this fake screenshot. I would try and get back the
active screen, but the screenshot keeps coming back until Firefox is
done doing whatever it is doing (like reporting the progress of a file
download).
Firefox seems to be really tied into this. But what might be the
problem and how do I report this as a bug. My weak search foo has not
found any thing reported like this.
Guidance on resolving/reporting this is greatly appreciated.
7 years, 7 months
bugzilla always logs out as of late if leaving a BZ session in
firefox?
by Joachim Backes
Hi all,
since some weeks I have the following problem with bugzilla page: each
time I open a BZ page, I'm prompted to login in BZ again. This happens
since some weeks. Does BZ logout automatically if closing the browser
(firefox for example)? I never had to re-login to BZ in earlier times
after leaving the browser.
So, any solution for this problem?
All comments are welcome.
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
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http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/
7 years, 7 months
where to find info on detailed colour customizing gnome destktop (or does anyone can answer the questions)
by Jouk Jansen
Hi All,
I updated to F24 and again the cutomizing of Gnome3 seems to heve been
changed. Can someone answer the following questions (or , please, direct me
to where I can find it or direct me to a better place to ask)?
1) It seems that depending on the theme the titlebars are displayed/not
displayed. What option in the theme-files triggers this?
2) I found out how to change the colour of the titlebar for most windows.
However, tis does not work for gnome-terminal. I could not get this one
change from "mourning" black. What is different for gnome-terminal and
how to change the colour of its title-bar
3) Gnome3 is very proud on having "invisible" window boundaries. But, if
you like to stack windows with the same background colour, with slight
shifts on to of each otherm it is very hard to see where one window ends
end the next starts. I would like to to have visible boundary in this
case, How do I configure that in the theme files?
Regards
Jouk
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7 years, 7 months
non-live media for spins??
by Beartooth
I run a hybrid of xfce4 and mate, plus k3b and konqueror, on three
PCs, a laptop, and a tablet. Tweaking all that after a fresh install
involves literally 1.5 - 2 days per machine, going through fine print in
yumex, finding things I can delete and others I can add.
It would be well worth the risk to upgrade the whole shebang, two
or three times at least, between installs. But you can't do that with live
media, which seem to be all there is on the download site.
There used to be options like fedup, or yum upgrade as opposed to
yum update. Is there a dnf equivalent? How/Where do I get it??
7 years, 7 months
TB 45.2.0 max folder size
by JD
Here we are in the 21st century, and the TB
still cannot handle folder sizebigger then 4GB.
I just tried to move contents of a small old inbox into a backup inbox,
which would have increased the size of the backup by 30+ MB,
and I got the following warning message:
The folder Inbox.Bkup is full, and can't hold any more messages. To make
room for more messages, delete any old or unwanted mail and compact the
folder.
So, I still cannot figure out why every other app can handle BIG_FILES,
but TB cannot.
7 years, 7 months
something messing up USB recently?
by Tom Horsley
I just tried to plug in my old kindle, and f24 wouldn't
recognize it as a disk device (it has always worked
in the past).
After trying lots of different USB ports, I finally
did a "dnf update" and rebooted the system just
to make sure everything was totally up to date.
After the reboot, it recognized the kindle right away.
Now I wonder if this was bit rot on my system because
it was up "too long" or if some recent update fixed
something with USB.
I guess there are some things man was not meant to know :-).
7 years, 7 months
Dump Upgraded Today, Now, Um, Dumps
by Tim Evans
After literally decades of counting on good ole 'dump' for backups, I
find it failing and dumping core this morning, right after dnf upgrade
to the latest version (1:0.4-0.28.b45.fc24.x86_64). Downgrading to
prior version (1:0.4-0.27.b44.fc24.x86_64) fixes the problem.
# uname -a
Linux harrier 4.6.5-300.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 28 01:10:12 UTC 2016
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hardware is a Lenovo T530 laptop.
# dump 9uzf /raptor/harrier-root-9-08.11.16.dump /
DUMP: Date of this level 9 dump: Thu Aug 11 12:42:54 2016
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Aug 7 13:10:00 2016
DUMP: Dumping /dev/mapper/fedora-root (/) to
/raptor/harrier-root-9-08.11.16.dump
DUMP: Label: none
DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
DUMP: Compressing output at transformation level 2 (zlib)
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 1045164 blocks.
DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Thu Aug 11 12:43:00 2016
DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
DUMP: DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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7 years, 7 months