Help with dumb question
by Joe Zeff
I'm at a convention in DC now, and I don't remember how to set my
laptop's timezone.
5 months, 1 week
Struggling with systemd-oomd.service
by Ralf Corsépius
Hi,
I am struggling with systemd-oomd.service
On all of my machines, I am seeing long sequences similar the logs:
Dec 14 09:12:01 lewis systemd[1]: systemd-oomd.service: Scheduled
restart job, restart counter is at 384.
Dec 14 09:12:01 lewis systemd[1]: systemd-oomd.service: Failed with
result 'timeout'.
Dec 14 09:11:20 lewis systemd[1]: systemd-oomd.service: start operation
timed out. Terminating.
Dec 14 09:09:50 lewis systemd[1]: systemd-oomd.service: Scheduled
restart job, restart counter is at 383.
Any ideas what this means and what to do about/against it?
Ralf
5 months, 1 week
Seeking advice - Considering move to Google Contacts or something
similar
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
I recently was required to upgrade my current phone (Samsung S7) to a new
phone (Samsung S52) since the one I've had wasn't 5G compatible. The
service is T-Mobile.
I've relied on using MemoToo's cloud service to sync my addressbook and
calendar managed by Evolution on my primary computer, and then to sync my
phone's contacts from MemoToo.
MemoToo provided an app, and everything worked reliably on my S7 for
several years.
In porting to the A52, the MemoToo can be installed, the contacts and
addressbook can downloaded, but they are not visible to the A52 contacts
and calendar apps. Reviewing the MemoToo forums, this seems to be a
problem shared by many MemoToo users. The S7 is still on Android 8.x while
the A52 is uusing Android 11. This could be the source of the issue, or it
could be something else.
Requesting clarification from MemoToo as to whether this issue will be
addressed results in no response.
I've also approached the SyncEvolution community. There was some advice
and some alternative apps suggested, but so far, I haven't been able to
make anything work.
So, I'm looking for advice on how to proceed from the Fedora community.
- What services are available to sync to Evolution and then to the A52,
if at all?
- Or is syncing Evolution to Google Contacts and Calendar is
satisfactory?
-- if the latter, is there guidance on setting this up?
Much thanks,
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
5 months, 2 weeks
lightdm - how to set profile picture
by Sam Varshavchik
I reinstalled the XFCE spin. Previously, the ancient, upgraded, Fedora
install originated as a default Gnome install. I switched to XFCE at some
point later.
lightdm used to show my profile picture on my login screen. I have a
distinct recollection of either something in settings, or from the panel
that opened a tool which prompted me to select a picture, interactively crop
it, and that became my profile picture. But I cannot find any readily
advertised tool to set my profile picture, after an XFCE spin install.
A few minutes spent in Google led me to /var/lib/AccountsService/users
Looking in there, I can see that I should be able to set my profile picture
by installing $HOME/.face
Is this actually the way to go, these days? There's nothing in settings that
invites a non-technical user to select their mug shot, for their profile
picture? They'd have to discover this via Google and command line?
5 months, 2 weeks
batch
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Using computer center facilities, I submit my job with the tool SGE.
Can I install the same tool under fedora?
Are there some alternatives to submit jobs running in batch?
Thanks.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A
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5 months, 2 weeks
/var/tmp/flatpak
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Why on one machine I have
4 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-3VUAC1
4 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-DDS6C1
and on my laptop:
631472 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-BYZHD1/child-oci-toPwKS/blobs/sha256
631472 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-PA8XD1/child-oci-wdwUj6/blobs/sha256
631476 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-8TNND1/child-oci-yQb2Jc/blobs/sha256
631476 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-BYZHD1/child-oci-toPwKS/blobs
631476 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-FC7WD1/child-oci-Ir0k8W/blobs/sha256
631476 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-IO1JD1/child-oci-wUM2oN/blobs/sha256
631476 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-PA8XD1/child-oci-wdwUj6/blobs
631480 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-8TNND1/child-oci-yQb2Jc/blobs
631480 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-FC7WD1/child-oci-Ir0k8W/blobs
631480 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-IO1JD1/child-oci-wUM2oN/blobs
631480 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-LU5PD1/child-oci-jL5CqP/blobs/sha256
631484 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-LU5PD1/child-oci-jL5CqP/blobs
631488 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-BYZHD1/child-oci-toPwKS
631488 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-PA8XD1/child-oci-wdwUj6
631492 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-7K8SD1/child-oci-jBMjKy/blobs/sha256
631492 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-8TNND1/child-oci-yQb2Jc
631492 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-BYZHD1
631492 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-FC7WD1/child-oci-Ir0k8W
631492 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-IO1JD1/child-oci-wUM2oN
631492 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-PA8XD1
631496 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-7K8SD1/child-oci-jBMjKy/blobs
631496 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-8TNND1
631496 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-FC7WD1
631496 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-IO1JD1
631496 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-LU5PD1/child-oci-jL5CqP
631500 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-LU5PD1
631508 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-7K8SD1/child-oci-jBMjKy
631512 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-7K8SD1
4432148 /var/tmp
While both machines must be more or less similar?
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A
===========================================================================
5 months, 2 weeks
Plasma Launch Feedback
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I have the Plasma program launch feedback enabled in system
settings, and the icons on my desktop have launch feedback enabled, but
when I run a program from the desktop or from the task bar I don't get
any launch feedback in F34. I am running F34 in a Vmware Player vm, but
I would have thought that was irrelevant. Is anyone else seeing this or
know what I am missing to actually enable this functionality?
regards,
Steve
5 months, 2 weeks
crond/anacron
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I am trouble because I guess that crond and anacron
run are very close times.
Hence, they start a backup when another backup is running.
This creates real problems.
What do you recommend?
Running only crond or only anacron?
Usually, this machine runs every day for at least 1-2 hours
durin the week, and a long loner during the week-end (when backuo
is run).
However, it may happen that the machine is not run during several weeks.
Thanks.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A
===========================================================================
5 months, 2 weeks
mounting thumb drive
by Geoffrey Leach
Fedora 32, updated at EOL, FWIW.
I have a Perl script which I use to manage thumb drives. In particular,
it supports mounting without an entry in /etc/fstab.
My problem is that mount forbids a normal user to mount using a UUID,
so the script runs as root.
Is there a way to mount using the UUID (a) without running as root and
(b) without a fstab entry? Thanks.
5 months, 2 weeks
