users February 2019

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on screen keyboard?
by ToddAndMargo 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hi All, Anyone have a favorite on screen keyboard that will operate under Xfce? I have been using Florence, but it seems to not be supported anymore and crashes a lot. Many thanks, -T

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vcgencmd missing in Fedora 29 arm
by Simone Marchioni 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

Hi to all, I'm new both in the ARM and Raspberri Pi world. Managed to install Fedora 29 Server on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with an USB SSD. The system works flawlessly but I can't find vcgencmd and relative commands to manage the hardware of the RPI. Looked for an RPM package but I can't find nothing. Is there a package with tools to manage HW? Temperature, CPU Frequency, and so on. Or is better to replace vcgencmd with something else? Thanks in advance Simo

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Shredding a removable drive (OT)
by Jonathan Ryshpan 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

I'm using shred on some 2Tb USB disk drive that I plan to give away. So far it has taken 8 hours to shred 50% of the drive, which implies that it will take about 16 hours to shred the whole drive. I have another 2 drives to go. Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, other than smashing the drives to bits? Thanks - jon

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strange issue with tty
by Robin Laing 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Hello, I am trying to trace down a strange issue with one of my computers. tty1 will display a strange character "Ĝ" instead of spaces. Clear the screen and the characters fill all the blankspaces. Reboot, the terminal is filled with these characters. Other tty's (ctl+alt+F{x}) on the computer work as expected. No X running on this computer. Two different video cards. I am at a loss. I have not tried to change any settings on the computer for the tty's that I can remember. Robin

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Email address
by ergodic 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Please change my email address from gmml(a)embarqmail.com to g&m(a)embarqmail.com

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getting rid of every trace of docker from fedora 29 for re-install?
by Robert P. J. Day 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

as part of an intro tutorial i'm writing, i want to provide a recipe for installing docker-ce on fedora 29 from absolute scratch, and part of that will involve how to first get rid of every trace of any old docker- or container-related stuff. if one has no interest in preserving old containers, i'm proposing running (as sudo, naturally): $ dnf remove "*docker*" $ rm -rf /var/lib/{containerd,docker,docker-engine} i'm fairly sure that's overkill, but the point is to simulate truly starting from scratch. the above *seems* to work, is there any reason it would cause problems before i kick in with installing the proper yum repo file and running: $ dnf install docker-ce thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================

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Fedora Project Slack Workspace
by Thomas S. Clayborne 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Hi all, I recently joined the QA group, and I wanted to put a feeler out for setting up a Fedora slack workspace. There's currently a Slack group for the FEDORA repository management tool, more on that here, https://duraspace.org/fedora/ which I am also a member of, and almost every day they have quite a few people joining looking for help with *this* Fedora project by mistake. I think if we set up something for this project, it would both make things easier on that group and help those in need on Slack. I've set up an initial workspace at fedoraprojectgroup.slack.com (fedora-project.slack.com was taken by the project mentioned above) and am happy to send out invites to anyone who emails me at tsclayborne(a)fedoraproject.org Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on this

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After an update, VM's no longer have Internet access
by Patrick O'Callaghan 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

I updated my system this morning. Updated packages included a new kernel and some SElinux stuff among other things (the complete list is attached). I now find that neither of my QEMU/KVM guests (one Fedora, one Windows 10) have Internet access, though they do have access to my host. They were both working perfectly before the update. Nothing else in my system has changed (in particular, I haven't touched the Firewall rules and the last updates to NetworkManager or Qemu were several days ago). I rebooted to the previous kernel - no difference. I set SElinux to permissive and rebooted the Fedora guest - no difference. Before trying to downgrade the entire update, is there anything else I can do? poc

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[F29] Ext4 file system inconsistencies
by Marco Guazzone 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

Hello, I'm running an up-to-date Fedora 29 x86_64 (kernel 4.19.13-300.fc29.x86_64). My ext4 file system got inconsistent twice in a week: the first time, the '/home' partition; the last time, both '/root' and '/home' partitions. I had to use a live distro to fix it with fsck. I ran several disk test utilities to check for HW errors, including: * HDDScan 4.0 (http://hddscan.com/) VERIFY, READ and BUTTERFLY tests * Diagnostics tests from Dell's BIOS * SMART self-test All these tests succeded: no problem detected. If I exclude HW errors, the only other option is a SW error (in the kernel?). Any idea? Thank you for your help. Marco

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Re: Fedora 29 display -
by Bob Goodwin 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

On 02/01/19 22:54, Marshall Neill wrote: > F9 will toggle the sidebar view. . That was it, perfect, I start Thunar, click on "^" to get to "/" and then pressing "F9" brings up the display I need, NETWORK is at the bottom of the list and from there I can get to the NAS. Thank you for the help, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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Fedora 29 display -
by Bob Goodwin 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

When I start Thunar I have a column at the left that displays DEVICES, PLACES, and NETWORKS with a few sub-folders under each. This box was a new install. On a second Fedora 29 computer this left hand column is missing and I have had no success finding the difference between the two. This was an upgrade from Fedora 27 ... Both computers are updated daily and run XFCE. I would like to have it in both. What do I have wrong? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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tip: cd previous directory
by ToddAndMargo 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hi All, I just discovered this. To cd back to the previous directory cd - What a time saver! -T

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