Do I need KDE??
by Beartooth
I run F26 with MATE. I use Konqueror for man pages, and K3B
sometimes. (Past experience has been that one of Brasero, K3B, or one
other (I'll think of it ...) will normally burn any CD or DVD I may want,
but often I can't tell in advance which.) I can't think of anything else
from KDE that I often launch knowingly.
So I get lists like today's from dnf upgrade, which had a very
long list of kf5-* entries (even though it saw nothing this morning), and
can't help wondering ....
What other things from KDE might I be using without knowing it?
IfI really use it as little as I think, does it really make sense
to keep KDE installed??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
6 years, 10 months
hey guys.. ssh/key-gen question
by bruce
Testing Digitalocean
I can create a ssh key I can create a remote instance and poulate it
with the key to be able to do
ssh foo_user(a)1.2.3.4
and access the vm with no issue...
however::
if i spin up 1.2.3.4, as well as 5.6.7.8
how can i be on box 1.2.3.4 and do ssh foo_user(a)5.6.7.8
if i'm spinning up 1.2.3.4 and 5.6.7.8 what do i need to provide in
each box o accomplish this!
thanks
maybe i need rum!
6 years, 10 months
Fedora upgrade, 25 to 26 -
by Bob Goodwin
It appears that I am the only one on
this list who has not been able to
complete the upgrade from Fedora 25 to 26!
Yesterday I used about 4 GB of my 25 GB
monthly allocation on the effort and
apparently the result is a collection of
1.7GB rpms.
[bobg@bobg ~]$ du -h
/var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/
1.7G /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/
As I recall it downloaded 1958 of them
with only one problem, something about
gedit, and I excluded that, then things
went on normally it seemed.
This morning I am presented with a dark
blue window with black text that I can
not read. At the bottom in white text on
black are two buttons, "Learn More" and
"Download." When I click Download it
begins to do exactly that at about 16 Mb/s.
Where am I in the install process, is it
simply going to do a typical update or
is going to download everything again?
Presently, ssh from this box shows:
[bobg@bobg ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five)
Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-25/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
6 years, 10 months
How would this bug be classified in bugzilla.
by William Oliver
I'd like to submit a bug to bugzilla, but I don't know what
classification it would be. A suggestion would be appreciated.
Here's the bug:
I use Blender (the 3D modeling program) extensively. It runs fine on
fedora 25. In fedora 26, it crashes. The following error appears on
my terminal:
If I run the blender using the package (e.g. sudo dnf install blender),
and run it, I get:
> [oliver@localhost ~]$ blender
blender: /usr/include/llvm/Support/Casting.h:236: typename
llvm::cast_retty<X, Y*>::ret_type llvm::cast(Y*) [with X =
llvm::CompositeType; Y = llvm::Type; typename llvm::cast_retty<X,
Y*>::ret_type = llvm::CompositeType*]: Assertion `isa<X>(Val) &&
"cast<Ty>() argument of incompatible type!"' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
If I download it directly from blender.org and install it locally, I
get:
[oliver@localhost blender-2.78c-linux-glibc219-x86_64]$ ./blender
found bundled python: /home/oliver/blender-2.78c-linux-glibc219-
x86_64/2.78/python
blender: /usr/include/llvm/Support/Casting.h:236: typename
llvm::cast_retty<X, Y*>::ret_type llvm::cast(Y*) [with X =
llvm::CompositeType; Y = llvm::Type; typename llvm::cast_retty<X,
Y*>::ret_type = llvm::CompositeType*]: Assertion `isa<X>(Val) &&
"cast<Ty>() argument of incompatible type!"' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
Everything worked fine in fedora 25.
Thanks!
billo
6 years, 10 months
Hard drive starting at 63
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I have a hard drive startaing at 63
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dev/sdb1 * 63 2050047 2049985 1001M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 2050048 14338047 12288000 5.9G 83 Linux
Can I fix it easily?
Actually, this was the initial disk of the computer which came
with a fat32 partition
Can I backup the partition, and modify the partition table for
this partition only without any trouble?
I guess that it is a boot partition recognized by grub
menuentry 'FreeDOS (on /dev/sdb1)' --class freedos --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-16D0-8CB8' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod fat
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 --hint='hd1,msdos1' 16D0-8CB8
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 16D0-8CB8
fi
parttool ${root} hidden-
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
In addition, sdb2 is seen as a linux partition by fdisk,
but as a ntfs partition by gparted (and testdisk). I guess that it correct.
HPFS - NTFS 127 155 29 892 128 4 12288000
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 6291 MB / 6000 MiB
fsck /dev/sdb2
fsck from util-linux 2.28.2
Unsupported: replay_log()
Volume is dirty.
Unsupported: check_volume()
Checking 4096 MFT records.
Unsupported cases found.
ntfsck was unable to run properly.
ntfs-3g.probe /dev/sdb2
ERROR: ntfs-3g.probe: Probe type is missing
But, I can mount it.
Thank
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
===========================================================================
6 years, 10 months
wrong disk size
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
My 500 Go disk has shrunk to 31.5 G!
Failed to read extended partition table (offset=196141056): Invalid argument
Disk /dev/sdc: 31.5 GiB, 33820284928 bytes, 66055244 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
It should be
Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
How can I fix it?
Thank
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
===========================================================================
6 years, 10 months
Aargh! Who fools with /var/run/nologin
by Tom Horsley
I just changed the enabled/disabled services on
my /fedora26 boot partition to match the state
of the services on my fedora 24 system.
Now every time I try to login, it says that
/var/run/nologin exists and it won't let me.
What furshlugginer services turn this on and off?
I thought it might be in gdm.service so I switched
back to gdm from kdm, but it still happens.
I disabled a bunch of junk like modem manager and dropbear,
nothing that I see should have the slightest
connection to login (and nothing that isn't
already disabled on my fedora 24 system).
6 years, 10 months
GUI update from 25 to 26, dnf still looking at f25 repos
by Richard Shaw
I just upgraded my "spare" laptop (that's literally the hostname!) and I
ran into one small problem and one larger problem it seems.
The small problem. I keep my own repository of certain packages not
available through other means on my main desktop accessed though
autofs//nfs.
The software center was able to access the metadata during the download
phase but system-upgrade apparently didn't download the packages assuming
they were local. I remember filing a bug for this with fedup...
The bigger issue is everything says Fedora 26 (/etc/fedora-release) and
Gnome system information, but when I run dnf it's still looking at the
Fedora 25 repos.
Where does dnf look for $releasever?
Thanks,
Richard
6 years, 10 months
last update f25 db5 error
by François Patte
Bonjour,
With last update of kernel (4.11.9-200.fc25.x86_64) akmod is unable to
install nvidia modules.
Error message:
erreur : db5 erreur(-30969) de dbenv->open: BDB0091 DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:
Database environment version mismatch
erreur : impossible d'ouvrir l'index Packages en utilisant db5 - (-30969)
erreur : impossible d'ouvrir la base de données paquet dans /var/lib/rpm
Erreur : Error: rpmdb open failed
But rpm
kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.11.9-200.fc25.x86_64-340.102-3.fc25.x86_64.rpm was
built and I could install it manually usinf dnf install.
What is wrong with the automatic install through akmod?
Thank you.
--
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
6 years, 10 months