i686 in F32??
by Beartooth
A few months back, I had lots of trouble with what should have
been a routine, by-the-book dnf upgrade from one version of Fedora to
another. What turned out, after much frustration, to have been the
trouble was that I had several sort-of-duplicates: rpms the same except
that one was .i686 in addition to another that was .86_64.
I have just done a dnf upgrade, which installed
libFAudio-20.09-1.fc32.i686 and libFAudio-20.07-1.fc32.i686. Should I now
do dnf remove *.i686?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
1 year, 8 months
KDE device notifier
by GianPiero Puccioni
Hi,
recently I noticed that when I plug in a USB key it doesn't show in the device
notifier and it doesn't ask as usual what to do with it.
More info:
-I am on F32 with KDE and sddmm as login manager.
-when I plug in the key it appears in dmesg
usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
scsi host6: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
etc etc
-lsblk sees it
sdb 8:16 1 29.4G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 1 29.4G 0 part
-I usually had it in /etc/fstab as
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk auto rw,exec,noauto,user,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
As I like to mount it only if I want, but I tried without the noauto and without
that line
-The device notifier is configured to mount automatically devices when plugged
in, but when I open it it says "no devices available".
-If I try "mount /media/disk" as user it works without any problem.
And I am sure it worked before.
It seems that the problem is that the system sees it but the device notifier
doesn't. Is there a recent update that could have caused this?
GiP
1 year, 8 months
Just for fun
by David
I am trying to create a bootable USB drive for Fedora 33 or Rawhide,
but the only computer I have access to tonight is a Chromebook.
My first attempt ( on my new Ryzen computer ), booted to the screen where
it ask if I want to start Fedora
or test the media, and the test immediately failed. I did not try to
reboot and
try the option to start Fedora. ( this was the latest iso of Fedora 33
from the
happyassassin website. )
My second attempt was a different iso ( Rawhide LXQT, but that one stated
it was just the most recent built ). That one would not boot.
So at the moment, I am not sure if one can use a Chromebook to successfully
create a good USB drive. It seems plausible.
I will try at least one more time.
Here is a summary of the steps. 1 ) rename Fedora.iso to Fedora.bin 2 )
open up the
"Chrome Recovery Tool" from there is works similar to Fedora
ImageWriter. ( They
probably stole it. LOL ! ) So is there any chance it would only make a
bootable image
suitable for a Chromebook installation. It does not give you choice of
changing the format
type. So I do not know if it changes it. Prior to that I tried Fat32.
My other option is to use the Linux container. and the dd command.
Right ?? How hard
could that be. But I do not see how the container can see the USB
drive. I can share the
contents of the drive with the Linux container though.
All this is way above my deteriorating I.Q.
David Locklear
P.S. I have just built a Ryzen 3 1200AF system with ASUS motherboard and
have access
to ethernet. Is there some other way to get Fedora on it ??
For some reason, my old SSD with Fedora on it would not boot. I
probably electrically fried the
SSD mishandling it. I have some other Linux SSDs, and probably with
Fedora 31 on them.
but they are not accessible this week.
1 year, 8 months
Fedora 32 + nVidia graphic artifacts on resume
by Sanne Grinovero
Hello all,
after resuming from standby, many applications seem to omit repainting
or refreshing areas of the screen.
The system seems stable overall: applications keep running correctly,
but I can't see important areas on the screen.
For example, I might be able to open my email inbox, but then I can't
archive an email as the area where the control buttons are supposed to
be is entirely white (or black, in other applications).
Or, someone pings me on IM - I can see the text but I can't reply as
the reply area isn't there... you get the idea, it's annoying :)
I've seen this happening both when using Gnome and when using i3.
Since I'm running the nvidia proprietary drivers I'm assuming this is
not related with Wayland, more likely some optimisation of the nvidia
driver or how it integrates with X ?
Would anyone have a suggestion as to how to debug this further, or a
possible workaround?
Maybe some nvidia driver option I could pass on the kernel, or in the
X config file?
I'd highly appreciate solving this, as it's my primary development
machine: having to close all applications for frequent reboots has
become very inconvenient.
Unfortunately I can't easily roll back some update: I had this problem
for many weeks, as initially I dismissed it as "just a glitch"; I had
not paid enough attention to it and hadn't noticed that it was related
to resuming from standby.
This is what I'm running today:
- linux 5.8.6-201.fc32.x86_64
- nvidia 450.66
Thanks!
Sanne
1 year, 8 months
GDAL Code Dump
by Clifford Snow
I'm getting a core dump using any of the gdal utilities on F32. For example
running orginfo --help returns
Usage: ogrinfo [--help-general] [-ro] [-q] [-where
restricted_where|@filename]
[-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-geomfield field] [-fid fid]
[-sql statement|@filename] [-dialect sql_dialect] [-al]
[-rl] [-so] [-fields={YES/NO}]
[-geom={YES/NO/SUMMARY}] [[-oo NAME=VALUE] ...]
[-nomd] [-listmdd] [-mdd domain|`all`]*
[-nocount] [-noextent] [-wkt_format WKT1|WKT2|...]
datasource_name [layer [layer ...]]
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)
I tried reinstalling all components but still have the same problem.
Bugzilla doesn't show any open bugs. Is anyone else experiencing problems
with GDAL?
Thanks,
Clifford
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1 year, 8 months
dnfdragora not making all updates available
by Temlakos
Everyone:
The reform of dnfdragora to put all available updates into groups is not
updating everything, and not updating many things it used to update
without fail.
The only reliable thing my system will update, are applications and
various desktop relevant things. And not all applications, either.
Basically, if it is not in a group, dnfdragora will not update it and I
have to fall back on the traditional Software Management application to
do these updates.
The following packages typically fail of update and even of selection on
dnfdragora:
* The kernel and related packages.
* Browsers other than Firefox.
* Application packages from repositories foreign to the Fedora
community, such as "bunkus.org" (mkvtoolsnix), google (for chrome), and
Adobe Systems Incorporated.
* System packages that run background processes that normally load
themselves at startup and stay resident.
I've checked for all possible settings I can make to solve this problem.
No joy.
I've tried refreshing metadata (which, by the way, takes fifteen minutes
every time). No joy.
I tried selecting "not showing the groups." No joy.
Suggestions?
Have any of you noticed the same issue?
My desktop is KDE.
"Check for updates" counts all packages that need an update. But again:
if they're not in a group, they're not available for a selection.
(Note: if you're going to tell me to report this as a bug, I need to
know exactly where and how. I've filed bugs in the wrong place and they
get no action.)
Temlakos
1 year, 8 months
Re: Firefox unable to play online videos
by Frank McCormick
On 2020-09-07 11:34 a.m., Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
>
> On 9/7/20 10:06 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> I am running Fedora 32 up to date. It is a relatively
>> new install and I noticed a few days ago Firefox is unable
>> to play any online videos, including those on CNN.COM and Foxnews.com
>> as well as other sites.
>> I get various errors including error #4 from CNN. On foxnews
>> the circular loading image just continues forever.
>>
>>
>> I noticed Saturday I believe Firefox was updated to 80.0.1.2 but I
>> don't recall whether it was able to handle online video
>> before the update.
>>
> I posted a message about this a few weeks ago
> (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.o...)
> . I was told I should install ffmpeg. I had used Fedora 32 before, and
> Firefox in it, and had been able to view videos without having to
> install additional software.
>
> I have yet to install ffmpeg. I am too lazy to activate the rpm fusion
> repository. Im just hoping some new Firefox update will get my videos
> going. I can't even watch Netflix.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Please let me know if you find out how to get videos playing,
>
>
>
>
Well I had tried everything else so I activited the rpm fusion
repository, installled ffmpeg (a HUGE download and install) and it
solved my problem. Videos now work everywhere.
Thanks for the suggestion and I jhope it will solve your problem as well.
Frank
1 year, 8 months
vinagre
by antonio montagnani
I can connect from my Fedora laptop to my 2 Rasperry's with no issues,
they can connect each other with vinagre and vnc, but I cannot connect
from either Raspberry to my Fedora laptop with vinagre, as soon as I
give permission to connect, connection is closed. Any idea??? no
difference if firewall is active or disactivated
--
Antonio Montagnani
Linux Fedora 32 (Workstation)
Fujitsu
1 year, 8 months
Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)
by Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends,
I have a strange situation that shows up only on F32 (only linux distributions tried) but does not show up on Windoze or Muck. The way to illustrate this is rather complicated, so I will first summarize.
For my introductory students, I use a java-based front-end to R called Deducer. I am able to install without a hitch and even bring it up and run some functions and graphical displays. However, when I ask it to do a few specific functions, the windows all come crashing down. So, my question is: how do I figure out the source of the problem? I have used this program for years, and including last spring under F31, and linux has never been an issue. This has been tried on three F32 machines by me and a former student and all have resulted in crashes. Embarrasingly, these continue to work as expected with Windows and MacOS, though installation, especially for the latter is a pain.
How can I get error messages out of this mishap to file a meaningful and targeted bug report?
Any suggestions?
Ranjan
If you are interested, here is how I go about installing Deducer. I need R-core installed, as well as curl-devel, and of course java. Other fedora packages may also be needed.
sudo dnf install R-devel curl-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
then:
sudo R
install.packages(c('JGR','Deducer'))
q()
Note that the second line will ask for which repo to use, and any are fine, the first one is from rstudio.com. Also, the installation function may ask for more libraries to be installed.
Once installed, go to R and inside R, type:
library(JGR)
library(Deducer)
JGR()
The last function call will open a graphical interface with a jaguar logo (pretty cool). All is well. In the bottom window type:
data(cars)
Then go to the graphical interface above, and under "Plots" -> "Quick" -> "simple boxplot"
This opens a window, and put speed as x variable and run.
A window begins to open and the entire window system running JGR comes crashing down.
Btw, since I know the commands to give in R, on the commandline, when I call the function, things work as expected. It is only on the JGR() window that it crashes.
The worst part? I get no error messages. So, how can I get error messages out of this mishap to file a meaningful and targeted bug report?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
1 year, 8 months
OT: Program to create documents with collapsible paragraphs
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I am looking for a program for creating documents with the possibility
of easily collapsing/expanding paragraphs and inserting multimedia
contents (pictures and audio files).
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
1 year, 8 months
