installing Fedora 24 on (originally) efi systems
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I have an ASUS R503U which originally came with a Windoze8.1 installation. I have no need for it so I scrapped it. I also, consequently have no need for EFI.
I was wondering if it is required for me to install Fedora 24 on an EFI system. I can not seem to get out of EFI so maybe what I am looking to do is not possible. Is it possible to do the same in an old grub setup.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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7 years, 6 months
Strange F24 upgrade
by CLOSE Dave
I have several machines I've recently upgraded from F23 to F24 using
DNF. Daily upgrades of F24 packages on most of them are proceeding as
expected. But this morning I found one that did a very peculiar
"upgrade". Details below.
# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)
# rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-24-2.noarch
# uname -a
Linux <machine> 4.6.6-300.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 21:07:35 UTC
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# cat /var/log/dnf.rpm.log
...
Sep 07 23:31:25 INFO Upgraded: goffice-0.10.32-1.fc23.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:28 INFO Upgraded: gnumeric-1:1.12.32-1.fc23.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:28 INFO Upgraded: perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-ECDSA-0.08-1.fc23.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:29 INFO Upgraded: duplicity-0.7.10-1.fc23.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:29 INFO Cleanup: gnumeric-1:1.12.31-1.fc24.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:29 INFO Cleanup: goffice-0.10.30-1.fc24.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:29 INFO Cleanup: perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-ECDSA-0.07-4.fc24.x86_64
Sep 07 23:31:29 INFO Cleanup: duplicity-0.7.09-1.fc24.x86_64
...
So, it appears that, having been asked to do a routine upgrade, DNF
chose to /downgrade/ these four packages to their F23 versions. Why? Is
it just because the F23 versions are numerically greater than the F24
versions? But how is DNF even finding the F23 packages in the F24 repos?
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Dave Close
7 years, 6 months
Firefox slow to recognize inputs after screen unlock
by Javier Perez
Hi
Has anyone had this problem?
After I unolock the screen, firefox seem slow to recognize mouse or
keyboard input. There is a period of about three minutes where no matter
what I do it will not register with firefox (switch tabs, try to click on
link, etc.).
I can switch and move windows, and terminal and other programs recognize
the input without problems.
I am using Fedora 24, XFCE ( but I think something similar happened also
with KDE.
Linux 4.7.4-200
Firefox 48.01
How can I start troubleshooting this?
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7 years, 6 months
keyboard icons for ibus
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I want to add an input method to ibus: so I created a new file in
/usr/share/m17n and a new png icon in /usr/share/m17n/icons.
I can access this new input method in ibus preferences, but the icon of
this input method is not displayed when I switch to my input method...
Only a gear is displayed.
Does anybody know if there is some icon database to update for m17n?
Thank you.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
7 years, 6 months
cron
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Finally, I still do not know how to manage the schedule for cron.weekly
and cron.daily, since /etc/anacrontab or /etc/crontab are just ignored
in fc24.
Thank.
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Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
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7 years, 6 months
network manager applet in f24
by François Patte
Bonjour,
There is something wrong with this applet in f24: when the computer
resumes from suspend, the applet shows as if the network was not
connected. In fact it is connected but, it impossible to change the
connection, ie.: if before going to suspend, the computer was connected
on a wifi, it is still conected to the same wifi but it is impossible to
change this or to use an ethernet connction...
Thank you
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
7 years, 6 months
grub2 resolution and nvidia driver
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I have 2 computers with nvidia video cards (not the same) and at boot
time the grub2 resolution is correct for one and not for the other one.
/etc/default/grub are almost the same for both computers (the screen
resolutions are not the same)
GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND="vbe"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
GRUB_GFXMODE="1280x1024" (or 1440x900)
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="keep"
At boot time, the "splash screen"
(/boot/grub2/themes/system/fireworks.png) has a correct resolution for
both computers, but after that, the display of boot messages is correct
for on computer (ie. the resolution is kept) and for the other one, the
resolution falls back to a default one (something like 640x480).
Any clue?
Thank you.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
7 years, 6 months
diff or deduplicate two volumes with different folder structures
by Chris Murphy
Drives A and B have many overlapping files but I want to find out what
files don't exist on each. Thwarting this is directory structure
differs between the two drives, and I'm fairly certain some of the
file names differ on the two drives also.
Therefore I need something hash based. I started with this:
$ find /brickA -type f -exec md5sum "{}" + > brickA.txt
$ find /brickB -type f -exec md5sum "{}" + > brickB.txt
What I need next is to:
Make a copy of the files, brickAcopy.txt and brickBcopy.txt
Loop: Extract each md5sum in brickA.txt, grep for it in brickAcopy.txt
and brickBcopy.txt, and if it's found in both, delete the line in both
files.
What remains in each file are paths to files that don't exist on the
other drive. This must be a solved problem, so I'm open to alternative
approaches.
Both drives use Btrfs, I can create snapshots and perform a "dedup"
operation on those snapshots directly. Ideally the dedup would delete
the files in both snapshots (i.e. it'd be considered data loss if it
weren't for the snapshots) just to save time. But if necessary I'll
just do a one way dedup with the two operations reversed and suffer
the extra processing time.
Ideas?
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Chris Murphy
7 years, 7 months