problem with thunderbird 91.1.0 folder handling
by Eyal Lebedinsky
Since the recent update to tb 91.1.0 I have the following issue.
I have a folder "correspondence" which includes about 140 sub-folders.
When I receive mail the message filters deliver each message to the selected folder. This works well and is still done properly.
However, the main correspondence folder may indicate that it has, say, 6 unread messages but only 4 of the
sub-folders show one message each. The only way (I found) to find the other two is to hit 't' and allow
it to proceed to the next unread repeatedly. This will properly show the six unread but also mark them read
which is not what I want (I keep some unread messages for later attention).
This is f34, fully updated and upgraded for too many years to remember. I very much do not want to install
a fresh tb, then maybe find the problem is not resolved anyway.
TIA
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
2 years, 6 months
Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT
by Tim Evans
I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was 78.something.) Some are just annoying; one is major.
First, annoying. Starting a new message, the Send button is grayed out *IF* there is anything in the Bcc field. As I normally Bcc myself on all messages, this hits every time. Clearing the field, re-enables the Send button. Refilling the Bcc field does NOT cause the Send button to go gray.
Second, more annoying, when trying to reply to a message, the Send box is grayed out and cannot be restored, even by clearing the Bcc box. I have not found any way to actually send a reply (other than to go to my mobile phone and do it there).
Third, less annoying, access to my local on-disk mailspool (referred to in Thunderbird as "movemail") has disappeared. Not a big deal, as I can review local logfiles with a command-line mailtool like good ole 'mailx.'
Fourth, and a major problem, my Address Book has disappeared. The data appears to still be there, as I can start typing an address and have it auto-completed, but the address book itself appears empty, and can't be opened for browsing.
FLASH: after all this Send totally fails, even though button appears active, so this saved draft was called up and sent from phone.
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2 years, 6 months
Fedora 34 does not install on laptop, screen freezes
by Javier Perez
Hi
I have a very old Acer 3050 laptop
The graphics card is Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS482M [Mobility
Radeon Xpress 200]
Initially it starts well , but after a few minutes the screen freezes hard
with a white wash
Installation does not complete.
How can I finish installation and troubleshoot this?
Is there a way to install command line?
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2 years, 6 months
xfce --> mate
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I am thinking of switching from Xfce to Mate.
(Too many won't fix bugs in Xfce.)
1) is there a yellow sticky note utility in Mate?
2) is there a way to dual install Mate alongside
Xfce and pick which one I want at logon?
Many thanks,
-T
2 years, 6 months
Partial success enabling TPM2 in an existing qemu guest VM
by Sam Varshavchik
What finally got my existing Win10 guest VM (originally upgraded from Win7)
to see a TPM2 device was the following process:
1) Make a copy of the raw disk image. This isn't really necessary, but I did
this for backup purposes.
2) In virt-manager I created a new VM, pointing to the existing raw disk
image, and directed it to use the canned "Windows 10" operating system
configuration, and also selecting the manual configuration option, and then
using that to add the TPM2 module. Google searches seemed to suggest that
the "TIS" model is the one to use, so that's what I selected.
3) This creates a new VM with the emulated "Q35" chipset, rather thanthe
existing i440fx chipset, that Win7 was originally configured for. This is
the trick, apparently.
When I booted the new VM, Windows 10 went through some noticable setup and
reconfiguration, but it did survive the transplant. The only result was it
required me sign into my Microsoft account (I recommend that the Win10 seat
be registered to a Microsoft account before doing this, this appears to be
the simplest way to avoid license/activation problems). Over the next couple
of minutes Windows10 also popped up occasional prompts about setting up this
PCI device, or that PCI device. But nothing seemed to indicate a problem
with the new VM.
And it now sees the TPM2 device, however it does show a "Device health
attestion isn't available" because "Your device does not support this
feature". After a few minutes it offered me the option to "Clear TPM" to fix
this issue (initially the button was disabled, but it became enabled a few
minutes after the boot). However that made no difference, this status
remained after the "Clear TPM" and the reboot.
I have another Win10 license which I'll try, later, with the other "CRB"
emulated TPM model, to see if that works fully. It's also possible that this
is it's way of expressing that it knows it's running in a VM. And it now
sees the TPM2 device, however it does show a "Device health attestion isn't
available" status because "Your device does not support this feature".
Is anyone else getting this error in the "Security processor
troubleshooting" (21H1, with all updates installed)?
2 years, 6 months
Soft lockup bug
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a stream of messages on the console, as follows:
Message from syslogd@Bree at Sep 23 03:56:24 ...
kernel:watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 4802s! [kworker/0:0:323591]
This is F34, fully updated. I've not seen this before.
Any ideas?
poc
2 years, 6 months
Does Chrome, FireFox, Brave etc use the PipeWire server now? - I get
mic problems
by Philip Rhoades
People,
Some told me they thought that browsers talked directly to the
soundcard?
With upgrading from F33 (X/XFCE4/ALSA) to F34 (Wayland/Sway/PipeWire) I
have been thrashing the system a bit to see how it goes and found trying
to serially record stuff online from three different browsers and also
recording stuff with a number of apps causes me to lose access to the
default mic for ALL inputs . .
Since I don't have any trouble PLAYING from as many sources as I want to
but ONLY recording, I have turned OFF access to the mic for all the
browsers (C, FF, B) and will try to only use stand-alone apps that need
the mic (using default) ie audacity, jisti, obs, zoom, arecord etc - I
will see how that approach goes for a while.
Also, because of problems in the early days with PulseAudio, I got into
the habit of routinely uninstalling it and just using ALSA plus my
.asoundrc file - now I thought PW was going to completely replace PA but
I see there are still a number of RPMs installed:
alsa-lib-1.2.5.1-2.fc34.x86_64
alsa-sof-firmware-1.8-1.fc34.noarch
alsa-ucm-1.2.5.1-2.fc34.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.5.1-1.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-utils-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64
pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
pulseaudio-qt-1.2-5.fc34.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
Any info on how this stuff is supposed to work / hang together would be
appreciated! - a diagram somewhere would be great!
Regards,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
2 years, 6 months
Monitor shuts off randomly - possibly sync problem?
by Alex
Hi,
I have fedora34 installed on my desktop with three monitors; two of
them are older 27" Samsungs, and the third is a new 34" Samsung
S34J55x. Occasionally, the 34" seems to shut off for a second, then
comes back on and continues to work normally.
Has anyone seen this type of behavior before? The other two monitors
have never done this. However, when it happens, the other two seem to
follow with shutting off for a second. It always seems to be driven by
the new 34" monitor.
The problem is that, when this happens, all of the windows on the 34"
monitor move to the 27" monitor on the right once the monitors turn on
again.
This is not a power problem, as the entire computer is connected to
the same power strip, backed by a 2200W UPS.
My video card is also new - it's a Radeon RX570. All three monitors
are connected via displayport.
I do see lines in my Xorg.0.log file periodically along the lines off
the following:
[992023.990] (EE) event3 - Logitech Gaming Mouse G900: client bug:
event processing lagging behind by 16ms, your system is too slow
[994674.766] (EE) event6 - Logitech Gaming Keyboard G910: client bug:
event processing lagging behind by 29ms, your system is too slow
But are they related? Is this also an issue? The system itself is a
12-core with 64GB of RAM, so certainly not slow.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Please let me know what more I can do to troubleshoot this before
contacting Samsung directly.
2 years, 6 months
Warm boot after Windows 10 boot - I'm not getting a dhcpd address from router?
by Michael D. Setzer II
I've been doing testing on a setup for my G4L project to
get both legacy and UEFI booting working on a single
setup. Have that working just fine now with help from
this list. Been testing with my Dell 9020 machine that has
Windows 10 as the hard disks OS that it came with. My 5
other machines have Fedora 33. Everything works fine,
except. Sometimes I miss hitting the F12 key to select the
flash for UEFI or standard USB boot from flash. Thus the
machine boots to windows. Problem, if I do a restart after
the windows boots and go to the my projects linux, it
loads fine, but it will not get IP from dhcpd server of my
wifi router. Have to do a full power off on system. Then it
will boot ok. Found a web site that seemed to identify
problem as windows doing something to the nic on
shutdown that causes the issue. The sites solution was
the echo a 1 to the reset value for the PCI device for the
nic. Came up with a process that does that easy, but
doesn't seem to work. Might be after some time, the issue
resolves, but thought the reset would be a quick solution.
Shutting down the interface with ifconfig doesn't reset it
either? Wonder if there is a command line process that
someone knows of? I can manually set an ipaddress, and
that works fine, but you have to know the network range.
Don't have network manager in the build, so right now
solution is to do a poweroff, and then power back on.
Thanks. Got the UEFI booting just fine, and have regular
boot running with grub4dos just fine. Systems using same
exact kernel and ramdisk on the flash.
Thanks again. Have a great day.
2 years, 6 months