Thunderbird passwords -
by Bob Goodwin
Yesterday Thunderbird began asking for email passwords that it should
have been finding in its password file. Edit > Preferences >Security >
Passwords is empty, there should be two passwords there.
I don't know if this is something that has happened to Thunderbirdor
Fedora 27.
I have not seen others complaining so it must be a problem peculiar to
my updated system.
I would like to start a second profile but have not been able to figure
how that is done,Google seems to provide only information on profiles
for Windows systems.
I know I have a default profile, would like to add another to see if it
will create a passwords file that willsave passwords.
Any suggestions/help appreciated.
Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-27/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
6 years, 5 months
F26->F27 w/ dnf system-upgrade: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
by Richard Shaw
I usually have trouble upgrading because I keep a local repository of
packages and because they are shared via NFS dnf treats them as local files
and doesn't download them. I've worked around that (F25->F26) by disabling
it temporarily and distro-syncing after update.
I've also disabled my squid package cache proxy just in case but still the
problem remains. I haven't seen anything on the list and most of the google
search results are not for F26 to F27 upgrades so does anyone have a clue
what's going on?
Thanks,
Richard
6 years, 5 months
dnf hold?
by Geoffrey Leach
Now that Mozilla has provided us with its latest and greatest (sic!) Firefox, I need to prevent updates to firefox. Dnf does not appear to provide a "don't update this" option. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
6 years, 5 months
mozilla-adblockplus disabled in FF57
by Andre Robatino
The package mozilla-adblockplus is now disabled in all supported versions of Fedora, which have FF57 in stable. I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513731 but no response yet. I can't find any sign of recent activity by the assignee, Andreas Thienemann. The last few builds of mozilla-adblockplus were by rathann (FAS name, don't know full name) who just posted builds for the new mozilla-noscript-10.1.1 (very quickly BTW, was just posted upstream a little while ago). Does anyone know if Mr. Thienemann is still active?
6 years, 5 months
rsync from F27 box causes higher (30x) cpu on F26 box?
by Kasper Pedersen
I have been poking at this for some hours, and by now I could use
a second opinion. Or clue. Thirteen black candles?
Somehow, when I sit on a F27 machine and pull from a F26 machine using
rsync, something extremely inefficient happens in the F26 machine.
If I sit on a F26 machine and pull from the F26 machine, it is fast.
The good state:
---------------
I had 3 reasonable machines, all on F26:
Server - 1.8Ghz Haswell-celeron dualcore
Desktop - 3.2GHz Haswell
Backup - 2.4GHz Core2Q
Backup runs rsync, and pulls from Server and Desktop using ssh.
Nothing fancy, it copies and shuts itself down.
When Backup was reading from Server, Server would have about
- 30% cpu to rsync
- 60% cpu to ssh
and deliver 100MB/s reliably. So does Desktop.
The bad state:
--------------
After one such rsync run, I upgraded Backup to F27.
When Backup pulls from Server, Server shows:
- 99% cpu to rsync
- 6% cpu to ssh
and it delivers **11MB/s**, one tenth of what it did before.
So, 30x higher cpu load per byte delivered.
So, somehow, the rsync running on F27, which by the way reports
the same version and capabilities as the one on F26, triggers
something in the spawned process that behaves differently.
On the server, the ssh-spawned rsync process looks the same whether
it is Backup or Desktop pulling from it:
On Server, with Backup as client, 11MB/s:
root 25042 34.4 0.0 124996 5620 ? Rs 18:54 0:40 rsync
--server --sender -vlogDtpre.iLsfxC .
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_10_29_010103.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_04_235600.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_12_005938.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_12_011442.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_12_015031.m.ts
On server, with Desktop as client, 100MB/s:
root 25152 31.9 0.0 122344 3000 ? Rs 18:56 0:05 rsync
--server --sender -vlogDtpre.iLsfxC .
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_10_29_010103.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_04_235600.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_12_005938.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_12_011442.m.ts
/bulk/mux/media/xbn-2017_11_12_015031.m.ts
The command being run on Backup or Desktop is:
rsync -av -e 'ssh -i id_ecdsa' --exclude XA/ --exclude video2/
root@10.5.5.1:/bulk/mux/media/xbn* . --progress
Things I did:
-------------
Tried the still-installed F26 and F25 kernels
Desktop (F26) can rsync to and from Server(F26) at full speed.
All machines get 110MB/s when running iperf, all six ways.
The Sky2 nic in Backup is not spewing errors
iperf shows no dropped.
Swapped switchports between Desktop and Backup
Switch does not report errors
Things to do:
-------------
swap nics
upgrade a sacrificial F26 machine to F27 and try from that
/Kasper Pedersen
6 years, 5 months
f26 :: kde :: opening odt file use karc://
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! So, i upgraded to f26 (yeah, i know, I'm always a step behind)
and using konqueror, when clicking an odt file it will open the archive
with karc. i made sure that in file association odt have only the libre
office as application to be open with...
Any idea about this annoyance? and how can it be fixed?
if i try to remove the kf5-karchive, it will remove all kde packages..
Thank you!
Adrian
6 years, 5 months
Problems with Fedora 27 on Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e
by Braden McDaniel
I have a ThinkPad Yoga 11e running Fedora. A couple of months or so prior to the Fedora 27 release, some updates to Fedora 26 introduced some problems. They are thus:
The touchpad stopped working. The touch screen still works fine; but an update rendered the touchpad unresponsive.
Restart stopped working. The machine must be manually turned off and turned back on for any update process that incorporates a restart.
Neither of these problems was present in Fedora 26 at its initial release; they were both introduced by updates.
I have updated the machine to Fedora 27; unfortunately, both problems persist.
I would be happy to file bugs for these issues; but I am uncertain what component they should be filed against. Please advise.
--
Braden McDaniel
<braden(a)endoframe.com>
6 years, 5 months
Update F26 to F27
by Ger van Dijck
Hi all,
When trying to update from f26 to f27 , using dnf system-upgrade etc, , I
get a message 2 problems with grub 2 efi needs grub-tools but none of the
providers can be installed.
Next problem : grub2-tools needs librpm.so.7 but none of the....etc.
Next question : Is it possible to upgrade Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 , Fedora
26.i686 to Fedora 27.X86_64 on a 64 Bits machine ? ( Fc26 is installed
in a 32 Bits version on a 64 Bits machine (Inspiron 3710 Dell).
Following problem and question : The more I upgrade (F26) to the most
recent version , the more system messages I get concerning ACPI problems ,
Discriptor problems etc.,
I think it is wise to install Fc27 and wait to see if this ( system
messages) is still the case.
Be so kind to inform and help me.
Regards,
Ger van Dijck.
--
Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
6 years, 5 months
Unable to remove packages before upgrade to F27
by Rick Stevens
Ok, now I need some help.
I'm trying to upgrade a machine to F27 but the upgrade process keeps
bitching about two packages: ICAClient-13.3.0.344519-0.x86_64 and
aether-ant-tasks-1:1.0.1-6.fc26.noarch.
The first one does not show up as installed in dnf, rpm, yum or pkcon
and I surely don't recall installing it.
The second one shows up as installed in dnf from the command line (a
local package), but it will NOT allow me to remove it:
[root@golem4 bin]# dnf list aether-ant-tasks
Last metadata expiration check: 2:34:52 ago on Thu 16 Nov 2017 03:29:16
PM PST.
Installed Packages
aether-ant-tasks.noarch 1:1.0.1-6.fc26
@@commandline
[root@golem4 bin]# dnf remove aether-ant-tasks
No match for argument: aether-ant-tasks
Error: No packages marked for removal.
I see tracebacks in the /var/log/dnf.log regarding this.
GRRRRRR! I've rebuilt the rpmdb and tried to "--exclude=" those
packages and nothing works. Any ideas?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks(a)alldigital.com -
- AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 -
- -
- You know the old saying--any technology sufficiently advanced is -
- indistinguishable from a Perl script -
- --Programming Perl, 2nd Edition -
----------------------------------------------------------------------
6 years, 5 months