Fedora27: Firefox freezes
by Terry Barnaby
Is anyone else seeing issues with Firefox freezing up for 30secs or more
when web pages are opened in TABS ?
Since the latest Firefox 57 this is happening a lot for me (every 10
mins or so). Seems to lockup while downloading the page. You can still
operate Firefox by clicking on menu's/Tab's etc, but no tab windows have
thier web content updated. Normally the new tabs content are blank, but
sometimes a small amount of the web page is rendered before the freeze.
No obvious high CPU usage when it happens. Its as if the network has
stopped, but other applications such as google-chrome are still working.
This is with Fedora27, KDE Plasma and with an NFS mounted home directory.
3 years, 1 month
Is i686 dead and gone??
by Beartooth
I have a Thinkpad T42 which I haven't used for so long I don't
remember what's on it. When I try to boot it, it complains that it can't,
and asks me to use a "kernel appropriate for your CPU."
My main purpose is to get it usable again, preferably with Fedora
27, if that's possible. (I run F27 on all our other machines.)
I'd prefer to examine it first, if there's a way. If I run a USB
cable between it and a F27 PC, can I then mount it as if it were a
storage medium and display the contents??
Fwiw, it mounted and opened UBCD; but when I chose "CPU Info"
from UBCD's menu, it flashed up something about "stress" -- and then went
black.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
3 years, 1 month
gthumb failing to show jpeg/gif/png thumbnails in browser window
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
Suddenly, gthumb has stopped showing thumbnails of jpegs and other types
of files in the browser window.
If I do something like <ctrl>-O, I can open a file directly to view it.
However, when I do a <ctrl>-R in a directory, the window doesn't refresh.
Instead, othe types of files (*.txt, *.svg, e.g.) show up.
I can view the contents of directories using other image viewing software.
I know that I was typing quickly, and perhaps something caused the jpegs
and other files to be masked through an inadvertant configuration
procedure.
However, as yet, I haven't been able to restore gthumb to my preferred
configuration.
I've looked of the ~/.thumbnails directories; found one, deleted it. The
new thumbnails that appear are referenced to the *.txt, *svg files only.
None of the other files or thumbnails get recreated.
Any advice in this situation would be appreciated.
In the meantime, I'll keep looking and fiddling.
Thank you.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
3 years, 1 month
samba, deleting non-empty dir fails
by Chris Murphy
The gist is, whenever a directory has one or more files in it, it
can't be deleted. And it's pretty damn screwy that I can't figure this
out with a Google search.
F27 Server, F27 Workstation, i.e. Nautilus as well as smbclient
With Nautilus, I click on the target dir, click the delete button, I
get a dialog asking if I want it deleted permanently, and a red delete
button. I click the red delete button, the target dir vanishes but a.)
behind the scenes ssh'd into the server, the dir is still there b.) if
in Nautilus I click on a parent dir and then back to the containing
directory (refresh the directory that contains the directory I want
deleted) the target dir is still there.
When I do it with smbclient's rmdir command, no error. But it also
isn't deleted. No errors are logged on the server or the client.
I can do 'rm -rf' while logged in as the user (chris) who owns the
directory and the directory and contents are then deleted.
The target directory has the most permissive permissions I can imagine:
drwxrwxrwx. 1 chris chris 266 Jan 2 16:06 test
The directory which contains this directory:
drwxrwx---. 1 chris smbusers 286 Jan 2 16:06 scratch
[chris@f27s scratch]$ ls -la test
total 16
drwxrwxrwx. 1 chris chris 72 Jan 2 16:41 .
drwxrwx---. 1 chris smbusers 218 Jan 2 16:42 ..
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 chris chris 54 Nov 21 13:14 test1.txt
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 chris chris 529 Dec 17 00:19 test2.txt
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 chris chris 749 Dec 14 20:19 test3.txt
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 chris chris 1399 Dec 5 16:50 test4.txt
[chris@f27s scratch]$
So no hidden files. And yes the mount point (and everything under it)
has samba_share_t:s0 so this is not an selinux problem (and there are
no AVC errors).
If I delete the test$.txt files, select all the delete, they really
delete. And now I can delete the empty directory.
Haha! What the hell?! Maybe it's a feature that users can create
directories and files but can't effectively recursively delete a whole
directory??
I honestly cannot wait for the OMFG moment on this...
--
Chris Murphy
3 years, 1 month
Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well
by Tom Horsley
OK, I just updated my system and got the same
ridiculous delays I saw someone else complain about
recently. Not once, but twice. First when
it installed the new rpcbind, then second
when it ran the rpcbind scriptlet.
Worse than that, when I rebooted to make sure
everything was loaded from scratch and up to
date, the reboot hung for about 3 minutes
saying a start job was running for man-db-cache-update
(or something like that).
What kind of moronic decision is it to postpone
a reboot while updating the man db? If there is
anything less critical I have a hard time thinking
what it is.
For gosh sakes, keep a flag somewhere that says if
the man db is up to date and update it on a timer
when the system is back up again if required.
3 years, 1 month
autofs error : setautomntent: lookup(sss): setautomntent: No such
file or directory
by Angelo Moreschini
Hi,
I am trying with autofs, but I get this error when I check the status of
the service:
*"setautomntent: lookup(sss): setautomntent: No such file or directory"*
the full output is:
------------
[angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status autofs
● autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2018-01-02 08:28:29 IST; 7min ago
Process: 5722 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/automount $OPTIONS --pid-file
/run/autofs.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 5724 (automount)
CGroup: /system.slice/autofs.service
└─5724 /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file /run/autofs.pid
Jan 02 08:28:29 localhost.pluto automount[5724]: setautomntent:
lookup(sss): setautomntent: No such file or directory
------------
I also cannot enter (with <ls> command) the directories located on a USB HD
that I try to mount automatically.
============
To configure autofs I made this :
I added this line to the file /etc/auto.master (that was created at
installation of autofs) :
/- /etc/auto.misc
and these lines to file /etc/auto.misc :
/media/BKx_programming ntfs PRTZ_programming
/media/BKx_data-common ntfs PRTZ_data-common
I also created the partitions
*PRTZ_programming , PRTZ_data-common * on the USB HD that I try to mount
and the mounting points :
*/media/BKx_data-common*
*/media/BKx_programming*
please help me to understand the error and to solve this problem
thank you
Angelo
3 years, 1 month
micro dropout's playing video's / card games or just scrolling in an
terminal.
by sixpack13
Hallo
is it just me ?
in an terminal running "man man" constantly scrolling the pages up or down: it scrolls some line/a page (~2 seconds), stops, scrolls some lines, stops ...
Also if I play video's or card games I notice micro dropout's.
Video plays 2 seconds fluidly, then pauses/stucks for a ~1/4 second, plays 2 seconds fluidly, pauses/stucks for a ~1/4 second, and so on.
it seems like a video-buffer isn't constantly filled to play videos smooth.
I exclude hardware error cause:
- the box is just an half year old and I tested a card game under windows 7 without dropouts.
- I tested with another monitor.
I tested an elder kernel ~4.13.x without an solution.
I tested under wayland and Xorg-Gnome.
F27 is up date.
Any hints to debug/troubleshoot this ?
Or is it just me ?
3 years, 1 month
Not Quite OT: ebook readers?
by Beartooth
Onnellista Uutta Voutta! ( = Happy New Year!, I hope.)
What software do people here favor for reading ebooks?
I have a little System76 netbook ("starling" model) which I
bought several years ago (and immediately converted to Fedora) for doing
email in waiting rooms. But the ones I wait in are getting so efficient
that I often don't even get to their wi-fi before my wait is over. So I
usually just carry a book with a good bookmark; but I guess that would
also be a place to try reading an ebook -- and there are vast numbers of
them out there ...
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
3 years, 1 month