Re: ARRGH: Anaconda F20: dumb Dumber DUMBEST!
by R. G. Newbury
On 23/01/14 12:49 PM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2014, at 8:52 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury(a)mandamus.org> wrote:
>> >Now this sort of blind stupidity really irritates the hell out of me.
>> >
>> >I was trying to do a stand-alone install of F20 on my laptop. The installer knows that I have an Intel 3965 wifi setup, but NetworkManager*would not connect* no matter what I tried. So I continued, without network access.
>> >
>> >Anaconda burped in the middle of the install with a fatal error: No more mirrors! I presume it was searching for an update (for PackageKit)... WTF???
>> >Whoever thought that requiring network access was a good idea needs to be taken out and spanked.
> This is what install media? DVD.iso, netinst.iso, live desktop iso? What is Installation Source set to when this happens? By default it's set to Local Media for DVD and live desktop. And by default in Installation Source the option "Don't install the latest available software updates" is checked. I've done numerous no network installs while QA'ing F20 and have never once encountered what you're reporting.
Hard drive started dieing on Tuesday night. Bought new drive a lunchtime
yesterday.
Using a DVD iso, installed on a USB stick using (iirc) dd.
This was probably the 20th or 30th install try, what with problems with
NetworkManager not connecting with wifi and KDE hanging on the kdm
splash page (*before* login). Finally gave up on KDE after about 4 hours
last night.
I was sitting at the dining room table (with the wireless router
approximately directly under my feet in the basement rafters) and no
wifi through a couple of tries. The network connection "wizard" was
playing clown, not wizard and refused to do anything.
I cold re-started, *ignored* attempting to connect and continued.
Installation source set to local media (or whatever it is called). On
this try I was attempting to install w LXDE as the DM,
It barfed.
At work, w network cable plugged in, it automagically connected and the
install proceeded.
Major pain, and another program is throwing a snit-fit too. If I could
reliably go back to F17 I would..... but I would be faced with the same
problem -> No more mirrors!!
Geoff
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10 years, 3 months
pdfnup on F20
by Ranjan Maitra
I am a little confused that my pdfnup does not work on F20 (it worked
just fine on F19).
Here is my command:
~$ pdfnup -nup 2x2 introduction.pdf
----
pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 2.08.
pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults...
(none found)
pdfjam ERROR: no PDF/JPG/PNG file found at -nup
~$ ls introduction.pdf
introduction.pdf
So it does exist. So what is going on?
Many thanks!
Ranjan
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10 years, 3 months
ARRGH: Anaconda F20: dumb Dumber DUMBEST!
by R. G. Newbury
Now this sort of blind stupidity really irritates the hell out of me.
I was trying to do a stand-alone install of F20 on my laptop. The
installer knows that I have an Intel 3965 wifi setup, but NetworkManager
*would not connect* no matter what I tried. So I continued, without
network access.
Anaconda burped in the middle of the install with a fatal error: No
more mirrors! I presume it was searching for an update (for
PackageKit)... WTF???
Whoever thought that requiring network access was a good idea needs to
be taken out and spanked.
Geoff
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10 years, 3 months
EXFat file system
by Mickey
I have a GoPro Camera that has formatted the SD Card to a ExFat file
system and Linux cannot read the sd card.
What do I have to do to be able to read card, I can only read it in
Windows 7.
10 years, 3 months
Any sound at all in Fedora 20?
by Tom Horsley
I submitted this bug last night about no sound on my home
system:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056833
Out of curiosity, I checked out sound on my f20 work system
today, and I see the same "dummy output" as the only
choice in the gnome sound control.
Does anyone have sound on their fedora 20 system?
These are two radically different machines.
Is there some system service I may have disabled
in my ignorance that needs to run in order to
have sound?
10 years, 3 months
IPv6 breakage in NetworkManager
by R. G. Newbury
On 01/22/2014 12:52 AM,
> From: Dan Irwin<rummymobile(a)gmail.com>
> Seeing significant issues with IPv6. After some time, IPv6 completely seems
> to stop working. IPv4 is unaffected.
>
> Re-connecting to wifi seems to restore IPv6 connectivity.
>
> However, various things (ssh, firefox) stop working completely. Open ssh
> sessions "freeze". Web page requests time out.
>
> At the same time, I can access IPv6 resources from other machines which do
> not run NetworkManager.
>
> Next time this occurs, I hope to have some time to diagnose this problem
> further. In the meantime, is anyone else seeing such breaking wrt IPv6?
>
> Something to note, I run numerous servers with IPv6, both physical and
> virtual. These servers run CentOS; None run NetworkManager, and all have
> working IPv6 connectivity.
I have been seeing similar issues with NM on IPv4 with an Intel 4965
wifi chipset.
It got so bad on F17 that I installed an Asus N-10 rtl8712u based USB stick.
SAME PROBLEM over the last two days attempting to install F20 and
actually get it to work (KDE problems).
The nm=applet would notify me that it was disconnected, but on opening
the applet, it would show it was still connected BUT there was actually
no connection. Sometimes I can get it to re-connect: about 30% of the time.
IF I can get F20 installed, I will disable NM and move to wicd which
seems to work.
R. Geoffrey Newbury
10 years, 3 months
Gnucash vs. Kmymoney
by Jonathan Ryshpan
It looks like Kmymoney is based on Gnucash, judging from today's update
notes. Is this correct? I'm trying to choose between them for keeping
track of my own finances, and this may simplify the choice. Any further
comments on either program are welcome.
jon
10 years, 3 months
GNOME Shell and password prompts
by Matthew Saltzman
What app is it now that prompts for passwords when Evolution decides it
needs one reentered?
I subscribe to a couple of gmail calendars that don't require passwords,
yet I am prompted frequently and unpredictably to enter passwords for
them. The prompts are the big black popups, not the old Evolution
popups, so I guess there is some utility that handles password requests
for GNOME. Then the question is, is it Evolution or the utility that
keeps bothering me?
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10 years, 3 months
How is wireless signal strength for NetworkManager calculated
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I was wondering how wireless signal strength (as displayed by the
network-manager applet) is calculated. There is a percentage reported:
what does this percent mean and where does NetworkManager get its
values from?
While I am here, I also wanted to know the answer to the question as
to how the interfaces are decided in latter-day Fedoras: to elucidate,
it used to be that eth0 and wlan0 and ppp0 were the interfaces. Now it
seems to depend (and vary from one machine to the other). How do these
get decided nowadays? Is there a generic way to get to the correct
interface to use in programming? I am thinking of conky which requires
the interface (from ifconfig, say) to set up signal strength, etc.
Many thanks for any enlightenment and best wishes,
Ranjan
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10 years, 3 months
procmail testing
by Robert Moskowitz
From old message:
On 12/30/2013 06:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> First of all, let me reiterate one thing. "sendmail" does not do local delivery by itself. It relies on another program to do this. In the default configuration (sendmail.mc) on Fedora it is defined to use procmail for local delivery.
>
> Now, if you (pl) would do a bit of man page reading you'd find in "man crond"....
>
> -m This option allows you to specify a shell command to use for
> sending Cron mail output instead of using sendmail(8) This com‐
> mand must accept a fully formatted mail message (with headers) on
> standard input and send it as a mail message to the recipients
> specified in the mail headers. Specifying the string off (i.e.,
> crond -m off) will disable the sending of mail.
>
> So, you can edit /etc/sysconfig/crond to contain....
>
> CRONDARGS=-m/bin/procmail
>
> systemctl restart crond.service
>
> Now, the only "problem" is that procmail cannot initially create files in /var/mail. So, to get this to work you'll need to do, as root....
>
> touch /var/mail/username
> chown username:mail /var/mail/username
>
> I know this works with procmail but not sure about mailx. You can certainly test....
>
> So, you don't need sendmail. procmail will do just fine.
So I installed procmail, and did the test:
cat d1.letter |procmail
and sure enough I got:
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/rgm
Great. I could view the mail with cat. So I ran mutt, and mutt
complained that /var/spool/mail/rgm is not a mailbox.
So what is missing? What is mutt saying was not done in constructing
/var/spool/mail/rgm?
10 years, 3 months