VideoConference Package?
by John Mellor
In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a
videoconference package available?
Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a
client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for
free, and not available for a local install.
I thought of Webex, but its Cisco. Maybe its just me :-)
I took a quick look at Jitsi, but users say it has a fatal extreme
processor utilization bug, the rpm packages are 3 years out-of-date, and
does not seem to be present in the normal rpm repos.
I also took a quick look at BigBlueButtion, which looks pretty good.
However, it only runs on an ancient version of Ubuntu, and uses a shell
installer for some unknown reason.
This seems like a major application type that appears to be completely
missing from the repos. Is anyone building one, and just hasn't
announced it yet?
4 weeks
Relating to Rawhide
by David
If you are not interested in Rawhide basics, please hit
the delete button now. This post is aimed at people
who may not know what Rawhide really is, or how it
gets updated, etc.
The link below is a Dropbox link, showing a list of
packages installed on my computer.
https://paper.dropbox.com/published/Status-of-my-Rawhide-Workstation-inst...
My Rawhide computer has been performing nominally, ( without hiccups )
since I installed the unofficial iso.
This list shows that some of the packages come from Anaconda. I assume,
( feel free to correct
me ), that those packages have not changed, since I did the install.
Right ??
Also note there are two different suffixes in the filenames "fc32," and
"fc33." Obviously, fc33 are the packages that have
been updated and re-labeled to show they are going to be in the upcoming
Version 33 of Fedora. What those suffixes actually
do in the server, meaning as to what repo they are in, I will let someone
else explain all that. I assume those packages with fc32 suffix are
identical to what you have if you are using fc32 Workstation. For
example, the package "bash" is apparently fc32.
As you can see, most of the important packages are updated in someway and
have the fc33 suffix. Meaning lots of hardwork has
been done by people. Thank you to those volunteers, etc.
Note that there is one package "fc31," that being "trousers."
As you can see, the kernel is the latest rc7 available. Since 5.7.0
will go stable in a few days, I assume that the next kernel I
get will be 5.8.0.rc0.git### or something like that, or at least that will
be the kernel on my install, in about two weeks. Feel free to correct
me.
Unfortunately, I have had little access to my computer in the past month,
due to not having a stable place to reside, and that will
likely be the case for me this summer.
I am looking forward to reading about how Fedora performs on the upcoming
Raspberry Pi 4, with 8 GB of RAM.
Another sad note, is that due to my financial situation, I had to downgrade
to a less expensive phone service provider, and in doing
so I ended up with a refurbished iPhone. I have never used an iPhone
before, and now I am doing most of my internet needs on
the iPhone. Actually, I am just using the hotspot on it, and still
doing most of my stuff on my old Android Alcatel 3V.
Cheers,
David Locklear
Novice Rawhide user
P.S. I would like to give a shout out to my buddy, Flannigan. In all
my 25 plus years of using the internet, he is the
first person I have bumped into on the internet, that we knew from other
hobbies, other than Linux. I will let him explain that
if he wants.
1 month, 3 weeks
5.6 kernel is slower to boot
by Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi,
I have just upgraded to Fedora 32 and am using the latest 5.6.10-300
kernel. But I am seeing that is slower to boot than the 5.5 kernel that
I was using in Fedora 31.
For example, when I enter my LUKS password, it takes a good 30 seconds
to start the actual boot process. In 5.5 this use to happen almost
instantaneously after I entered my password.
Anyone facing anything similar ? Or maybe knows why this is happening ?
--
Regards,
Sreyan
2 months, 4 weeks
Gjots2 installation issues on F32
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
Opened a bug report in the Gjots2 bug tracker but didn't receive a
response yet. So apparently the package has been upgraded (since v3.1.0)
to use Python3 and PyGObject for GTK-3, and is actively maintained,
which is great.
I am using Gjots2 to store my passwords, using PGP encryption and not
being able to install it is a bit of an issue.
So when downloading the latest rpm from sourceforge
(v3.1.6-1.fc31.noarch.rpm) I am getting the following errors when
installing:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides python(abi) = 3.7 needed by gjots2-3.1.6-1.fc31.noarch
Any idea how to resolve this?
Thank you.
Fred
3 months
Audacity can't play audio on Fedora 32
by Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi,
Audacity is unable to play any sort of audio in Fedora 32 on my HP
Notebook.
I installed Audacity from Gnome Software so pretty sure it is a FlatPak.
Whenever I hit the play button I get:
"Error opening sound device.
Try changing the audio host, playback device and the project sample rate."
I did ask the guys over at the Audacity Forums, but they were, lets say,
less than helpful.
You can find the full details of my thread here:
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=395574
The sound devices listed in Audacity are:
* HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 0 (hw:0.3)
* HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 1 (hw:0.7)
* HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 2 (hw:0.8)
* HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 3 (hw:0.9)
* HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 4 (hw:0.10)
* hdmi
And you can find my "Audio Device Info" from Audacity over here:
https://pastebin.com/raw/icDNX20x
So far no other application has given me any issues with sound, Firefox,
VLC, Rhytmbox all work fine. Its only Audacity that is the oddball.
Since the people at Audacity don't know what is going on, I am asking
you guys.
Let me know if any further diagnostic info is required.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Sreyan
3 months
boot/grub
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
On a multi-boot PC, how grub is updated?
In the past /etc/grub2.cfg was updated.
and now?
It seems that there are 2 tools: bootctl, and efibootmgr
What are the files managed by these tools?
How to understand?
BootCurrent: 000F
Which tool is run after an update of the kernel?
Thank.
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Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
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3 months, 3 weeks
Prevent locking screen
by Beartooth
How do I tell Fedora (currently 32 fully upgraded) never to lock
the screen??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is
3 months, 3 weeks
windows10 disk not showing up
by Neal Becker
Today my wife's windows10 lenovo laptop was not starting normally, cycling through various "repair" screens. It does seem to work at least
minimally though.
I tried booting of my f32 usb stick and thought maybe I could take a look at the SSD. But when I start gnome disks, the internal SSD doesn't
show up! lsblk doesn't show it. I looked through journalctl and saw some reference to ATA1, and I believe some kind of error.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? The SSD is working enough to boot windows and run various things like file manager, so why doesn't it
show in linux?
3 months, 3 weeks
F32 Upgrade From F31 Produces Never Seen Before Error Message in
Gnome on Xorg and Possibly also KDE.
by Stephen Morris
HI,
I have a config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to start up DM's on
Xorg in 4K monitor resolution, as in F31 both Xorg and Wayland would
start up in 800x600 resolution and I would then have to minimize then
maximize the VM window for the DM to switch into 4K resolution as I
desired. After upgrading from F31 to F32 (there were lots of issues with
the upgrade that I will detail in other threads), when the Gnome on Xorg
DM starts up (I am using Virtualbox on Wndows 10) I get a message at the
top of the DM screen specifying 'VBOxClient: Failed to Register Resizing
Support'. What exactly does this message mean?
Looking at dmesg I also get lots of the following messages:
[ 2457.520753] Service: Shared Clipboard
[ 2457.532708] Service: Host Version Check
[ 2457.543366] Service: Seamless
[ 2457.568504] Service: Drag and Drop (DnD)
[ 2457.574146] Service: Display SVGA X11
[ 2457.593861] Running service failed: VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY
[ 2458.363216] rfkill: input handler disabled
[ 2476.932326] rfkill: input handler enabled
[ 2477.087703] A fatal guest X Window error occurred. This may just
mean that the Window system was shut down while the client was still runn
[ 2477.088440] A fatal guest X Window error occurred. This may just
mean that the Window system was shut down while the client was still runn
[ 2477.089249] A fatal guest X Window error occurred. This may just
mean that the Window system was shut down while the client was still runn
[ 2477.089476] Terminating threads ...
[ 2477.298103] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2477.298113] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2477.306374] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2477.306386] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2477.307899] Error waiting for HGCM thread to terminate: VERR_TIMEOUT
[ 2477.530080] Error waiting for X11 thread to terminate: VERR_TIMEOUT
[ 2477.530218] Terminating threads done
[ 2478.064888] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2478.064895] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2734.487676] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2734.487683] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2734.704766] Service: Shared Clipboard
[ 2734.706763] Service: Host Version Check
[ 2734.708109] Shared Clipboard: Starting X11 event thread
[ 2734.709898] Service: Seamless
[ 2734.711912] Service: Drag and Drop (DnD)
[ 2734.714049] Service: Display SVGA X11
[ 2734.716013] VMWARE's ctrl extension is available. Major Opcode is 128.
[ 2734.716183] Worker loop running
[ 2734.716706] Proxy window=6291457, root window=349 ...
[ 2734.716858] Started
[ 2734.716976] 6.1.8_Fedorar137981
[ 2734.717337] Failed to register resizing support, rc=VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY
[ 2734.834519] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2734.834527] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2734.878953] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2734.878961] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2735.068488] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2735.068496] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2736.203451] Service: Shared Clipboard
[ 2736.214513] Service: Host Version Check
[ 2736.257245] Service: Seamless
[ 2736.261294] Service: Drag and Drop (DnD)
[ 2736.262580] Running service failed: VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY
[ 2736.269149] Service: Display SVGA X11
[ 2736.272574] VMWARE's ctrl extension is available. Major Opcode is 128.
[ 2736.273835] Failed to register resizing support, rc=VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY
[ 2736.370194] Running service failed: VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY
[ 2736.612437] rfkill: input handler disabled
[ 2783.634779] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2783.634786] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2815.140895] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2815.140902] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2822.904030] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
[ 2822.904038] [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
regards,
Steve
3 months, 3 weeks
