can't reclaim disk space on F26 install
by Dave Mitchell
I'm trying to install F26 on an i386 system with a single 119Gb SSD.
It previously had F22 installed, with a straightforward partitioning scheme:
sda1 ext4 500Mb /boot
sda2 LVM encrypted, and containing /, swap, /home
I booted off Fedora-Workstation-Live-i386-26-1.5.iso, and in the
installer, I selected:
Storage Configuration: automatic
ticked: "I would like to make additional space available"
ticked: "Encrypt my data"
done
I then chose an encryption password, then the "Reclaim disk space"
dialogue appeared. I selected
Delete all
but the "Reclaim space" button remains greyed out
The "reclaim disk space" screen shows:
disk name filesystem reclaimable space action
----------------- ---- ---------- ----------------- ------
119.2 GiB ATA ... sda (blank) 118.94 GiB total Delete
ext4 sda1 ext4 187MiB of 500 MiB Delete
fedora sda2 LVM not resizable Delete
Free space 1.3 MiB
Ay the bottom of the screen it has:
LHS: 1 disk: 118.94 GiB reclaimable space
RHS: Total selected space to reclaim: 3.24 GiB
Installation requires a total of 5.59 GiB for system data
Then there is Cancel button and an inactive (greyed out) "Reclaim space"
button.
Any ideas how to proceed from here?
For this install I'm happy to for the current disk contents to be
completely blown away and for Fedora to partition the whole disk as it sees fit.
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My get-up-and-go just got up and went.
6 years, 8 months
Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful
by Ted Roche
Ultimately, my goal is to post some SWF files to Youtube.
An acquaintance created a series of screen-capture and audio-narration
video tutorials that produced SWF files, and would now like to post
them to YouTube, which doesn't appear to accept the SWF format.
I found the following suggestion [1] for converting SWF to MP4 using
gnash and ffmpeg, but gnash doesn't appear to be available in the
Fedora repos any more. Attempting to download the source from gnu.org
and build has lead to a couple of cycles of make errors, search for
the missing packages, reinstall, repeat and I'm hoping there might be
a better solution.
Has anyone done a similar conversion or could offer suggestions? TIA!
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20194270/convert-compressed-swf-to-mp4
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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
6 years, 8 months
Google Chrome won't die
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Attempting to terminate google chrome by clicking the "X" window decoration
closes sometimes leaves some of chrome's back end in existence. When this
happens, further attempts to start chrome fail and parts of the system lock up
in strange ways. Entering "$ chrome" into a shell locks up the shell; "^C" and
"^Z" have no effect; the process(es) can't be killed by using "kill -9
<whatever>"; if the user logs out, no login is possible and the system has to be
rebooted.
Terminating chrome by using the build in exit command: [Customize and control
Google Chrome]->Exit work OK.
Has anyone else seen this? What's going on?
Thanks - jon
6 years, 8 months
F25: How to force fsck at boot?
by Frédéric Bron
I would like to force fsck at boot but I tried touch /forcefsck and it
did not run or I did not see it (however the file /forcefsck
disappeared).
Thanks,
Frédéric
6 years, 8 months
installing Fedora 26 to a SSD
by Tim
Hi,
Have we got to the stage where the default install options for Fedora 26
work fine with a SSD, or should I be tweaking something?
At the moment I've let it install with whatever parameters it does by
itself. All I did was change from using LVM to EXT4 (I see absolutely
no advantage to using LVM on a single-disc computer, and a lot of
serious annoyances should I pull out a drive to read it on another
computer). And went with the boot, system root, and swap partitions
that it offers.
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Trying out Thunderbird for mail.
5... 4... 3... 2... ONE! Email has gone
Boilerplate: All mail to this mailbox is automatically deleted, there
is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.
6 years, 8 months
Is yumex working?
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I am facing a problem with yumex: I can't update a system nor install
many packages at the same time: an error window opens giving a lot of
error messages, mostly about python...
I can only use yumex to install or update one or two packages....
Does anyone facing the same problem?
Thank you.
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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, 8 months
F26 GTK icons corrupted sometimes
by Michael Schwendt
Anyone else seeing that?
When starting GTK applications such as Claws Mail or Audacious, a few
icons are not displayed correctly and contain garbage. Such as the small
magnifying glass icon left of the search field. Or the attachments icon.
Working with the programs, window refreshes usually fix the damage, but
it's odd and must be something that has crept into GNOME Shell.
6 years, 8 months
Gnome Desktop no Longer Shows Application Icons on Upgrade from F25
to F26
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I have used dnf system-upgrade to upgrade my F25 system to F26 and
now all the shortcuts on my Desktop no longer display their configured
icons, they display a text page icon instead. Under KDE they continue to
display fine.
I tried looking at the properties of the thunderbird shortcut,
clicked on the text icon to navigate to where the thunderbird icons were
and re-selected the icon, but that made no difference to the icon
displayed. Why is the upgrade from F25 to F26 now refusing to display
proper icons for the shortcuts?
regards,
Steve
6 years, 8 months
Fedora-26: KDE Scrollbars no longer have arrows at their ends
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Just upgraded from f25 to f26. Most programs run better, but scrollbars no
longer have arrows at their upper and lower ends. System Settings used to have
a function to control this, but it seems to be gone, both in native KDE and
Gnome applications. How are scrollbars now controlled in KDE?
Thanks - jon
6 years, 8 months