Tor browser launcher.
by Ger van Dijck
Hi All,
I did an update for the torbrowser-launcher today to version
0.3.1-1.fc29.noarch and suddenly I can not launch the browser anymore .
Question : What is wrong and / or how can I solve this problem ?
Regards ,
Ger van Dijck.
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Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
5 years, 3 months
Thunderbird-yahoo e-mail authentication and security.
by home user
background
==========
For the past few days, most every step of using yahoo e-mail in
Thunderbird is taking minutes rather than seconds. Examples: log in,
selecting a folder, selecting a message. I've changed nothing. I
looked at Thunderbird help. I saw in a different, very recent problem
that the user was advised to change his authentication method.
The authentication methods that Thunderbird offers for IMAP, SSL/TLS are
Normal password, Encrypted password, Kerberos / GSSAPI, NTLM, TLS
Certificate, OAuth2.
I do not have a cell phone or any texting or social networking accounts,
so I cannot use 2-factor.
questions
=========
1. Am I correct is believing that nothing that I did in the "unwanted
checks for updates." thread would cause these problems?
2. What are the advantages, disadvantages, and security risks of each of
the 6 authentication methods offered by Thunderbird for yahoo e-mail?
5 years, 3 months
unwanted checks for updates.
by home user
(F-28; gnome)
In a posting in the "downsized grub menu" thread, I said:
"Something keeps trying to do automated updates, but I have not been
able to figure out what, or how to shut it off."
Tim replied, and suggested looking for something similar to MATE's
"mate-session-properties". I'm starting this new thread to address this
issue.
I found a settings gui in gnome, but I cannot find anything (other than
".bashrc" and ".bash_profile") for managing what is automatically
started when I log in.
In a LibreOffice thread some time ago, I was advised to install a gnome
package called "Software" so I could install a font needed to replace a
discontinued font in my LibreOffice products. This is when I started
seeing the unwanted update checking and notices. I have not been able
to find a way to configure the package "Software" at all.
How do I get rid of the unwanted update checking and notifications? By
the way, I manually patch the workstation almost every week with "dnf
upgrade". Like some other members of this list, I prefer doing this
manually.
5 years, 3 months
downsized grub menu.
by home user
Good morning,
After upgrading from F27 to F28, when booting up, I get a quickly
disappearing set of error messages just before the grub menu shows up.
Then the grub menu shows up in a very small gray font. The error
messages disappear too quickly for me to get the full text of them. But
by (re-)booting many times, I've been able to get this much:
(4 lines like ...)
error: file '/grub2/themes/system/[something]' not found.
(a 5th line ...)
Press any key to continue...
The grub menu itself is difficult to read, partly because the font is so
small (one pixel shorter in height and I would need a magnifying glass),
partly because the text color is gray (white would be better). Most of
the grub menu shows up in the upper left corner of the left monitor.
The last line shows up in the lower left corner of the left monitor.
This problem definitely started with the upgrade to F28. What happened?
How do I get this downsized menu back to a bigger, whiter font, with the
whole thing together rather than split between upper and lower corners?
By the way, I cannot find a "/grub2" directory.
It seems downsizing is no longer limited to companies trying to increase
product prices in sneaky ways.
thanks,
Bill.
5 years, 3 months
upgrade from F28 to F29
by Antonio M
during an upgrade of one of my systems I get:
Errore:
Problema 1: package AdobeReader_ita-8.1.7-1.i486 requires /bin/basename,
but none of the providers can be installed
- coreutils-8.29-7.fc28.i686 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
- problem with installed package AdobeReader_ita-8.1.7-1.i486
Problema 2: package coreutils-8.29-7.fc28.i686 requires coreutils-common =
8.29-7.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
- package jre1.8.0_111-1.8.0_111-fcs.i586 requires /bin/basename, but
none of the providers can be installed
- coreutils-common-8.29-7.fc28.i686 does not belong to a distupgrade
repository
- problem with installed package jre1.8.0_111-1.8.0_111-fcs.i586
any idea???
Rgds
Antonio Montagnani
Linux Fedora 29 Workstation
da/from Gmail
5 years, 3 months
Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau
by Tim Evans
Linux osprey 4.19.10-300.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 17 15:34:44 UTC 2018
Noticed this message while booting this weekend, although I had thought
the Nvidia driver was being used.
# rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
nvidia-settings-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
nvidia-persistenced-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64
journalctl says, in part:
Dec 22 22:21:22 osprey /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3409]: Kernel command
line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.19.10-300.fc29.x86_64
root=/dev/mapper/fedora_newosprey-root ro
rd.lvm.lv=fedora_newosprey/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_newosprey/swap
pci=noaer rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Dec 22 22:21:24 osprey /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3409]: (II)
config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3
(/dev/input/event16)
Dec 22 22:21:24 osprey /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3409]: (II)
config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7
(/dev/input/event17)
Dec 22 22:21:38 osprey nvidia-settings-user.desktop[3812]: ERROR: NVIDIA
driver is not loaded
Is something missing? What else to look at? Thanks.
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Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court
443-394-3864 |Owings Mills, MD 21117
5 years, 3 months
F28/Xfce - mirror display broken after update
by Robert Moskowitz
I lost mirror display after this last update and reboot.
In the display panel, the mirror display option is greyed out. I cannot
figure out what magic to enable it.
I have set the resolution of the laptop to the same as the monitor; this
has helped in the past.
The login panel is properly mirrored, but when I log into my account it
switches to the extended mode where I can drag windows from the laptop
screen onto the external monitor.
I have tried all sorts of fiddling with advanced options, but nothing
seems to enable the mirror mode.
:(
Very important here....
thanks in advanced.
5 years, 3 months
F28 - dnf proble with hplip
by Robert Moskowitz
Been a bit over a week since my last update. Tried to do one a couple
minutes ago and got:
Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package
hplip-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.35()(64bit) needed by
hplip-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64
Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package
hplip-libs-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.35()(64bit) needed by
hplip-libs-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64
Problem 3: cannot install the best update candidate for package
libsane-hpaio-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.35()(64bit) needed by
libsane-hpaio-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64
Problem 4: package hplip-gui-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64 requires
libsane-hpaio(x86-64) = 3.18.6-11.fc28, but none of the providers can be
installed
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
hplip-gui-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.35()(64bit) needed by
libsane-hpaio-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64
Problem 5: package hplip-libs-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64 requires
hplip-common(x86-64) = 3.18.6-10.fc28, but none of the providers can be
installed
- cannot install both hplip-common-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64 and
hplip-common-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- problem with installed package hplip-libs-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
hplip-common-3.18.6-10.fc28.x86_64
- nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.35()(64bit) needed by
hplip-libs-3.18.6-11.fc28.x86_64
Is this recent or an 'old problem' that I missed?
Not going to do an update with a new kernel, requiring a reboot when
there is a new hplip in the works.
thanks
5 years, 3 months
Dovecot
by Mike Chambers
Had to reinstall my server using Fedora 29, and configuring local mail,
via dovecot, I forget where to set the mail_location path to? ~/Maildir
doesn't give off errors, but I seem to currently not get any mail. I
thought /var/mail/ was the main root mail dir for users but I can't get
dovecot not to error pointing to it, such as /var/mail/%u or whatever.
Any ideas if that makese any sense? LOL
5 years, 3 months
Using rsync to get the Fedora repositories
by CLOSE Dave
I have a script that uses rsync to pull the Fedora repositories nightly.
If I run it manually, it works flawlessly. But if it runs via cron, I
get an error on all the Fedora 28 repositories. I do not get the error
on Fedora 27 or RPMFusion 27 or 28 repositories. The script sets timeout
values to 3600 seconds but fails in only a few seconds. (I haven't
started to sync F29 repos yet.)
The error message is,
rsync: safe_read failed to read 1 bytes [Receiver]: Connection reset
by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(276) [Receiver=3.1.3]
The commands in the script are,
# cat mirror
#!/bin/sh
/root/bin/mirror-fedora-27
/root/bin/mirror-fedora-28
/root/bin/mirror-rpmfusion-27
/root/bin/mirror-rpmfusion-28
And the F28 subordinate script is,
# cat mirror-fedora-28
#!/bin/sh
opt="-aHv --timeout=3600 --contimeout=3600 --exclude=repoview/**"
opt+=" --usermap=:apache --groupmap=:apache --exclude=0ad-*"
opt+=" --exclude=/*/armhfp/** --exclude=debug/**"
opt+=" --exclude=repoview/** --exclude=*.html"
opt+=" --exclude=/*/SRPMS/** --delete-excluded"
src="rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora"
dst="/var/www/html/pub/fedora/linux"
r="releases"; u="updates"; s="Server"; e="Everything"; w="Workstation"
doit () {
mkdir -p $dst/$3
rsync $opt $src/$2 $dst/$3
}
doit "$e x86_64" $r/28/$e/x86_64/os/ $r/28/$e/x86_64/os
doit "$s x86_64" $r/28/$s/x86_64/os/ $r/28/$s/x86_64/os
doit "$w x86_64" $r/28/$w/x86_64/os/ $r/28/$w/x86_64/os
doit "$u x86_64" $u/28/$e/x86_64/ $u/28/$e/x86_64/os
Other scripts are similar with the obvious substitutions.
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Dave Close
"Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
--Groucho Marx
5 years, 3 months