font longevity questions.
by home user
Good morning,
I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old,
that I'm converting to LibreOffice Writer in Fedora-35. I'm having to
do this in 3 steps:
1. In windows-7, content is copied from the word files to Writer files.
Tweaks are made to line spacing in tables. The word documents use two
fonts: Times New Roman (various sizes; sometimes regular, sometimes
italic, sometimes bold), and Vivaldi. Writer in windows-7 seems to
support all the fonts used in the word documents.
2. Writer files are copied to my Fedora workstation.
Unfortunately, neither Times New Roman nor Vivaldi are available in
Fedora-35. So I need a step 3: to convert the fonts to choices that are
available in Fedora-35, and are expected to be available for a long time
to come. It's that last condition that I need help with. It's happened
to me in the past that a font that I used in Writer (in Fedora) ceased
to be available, so I changed it to the closest match that was
available. Then that font ceased to be available. So before I start
step 3 with them 240ish Writer files, how do I know which fonts are
likely to be permanent or supported in Fedora for many years, and which
are most vulnerable to being sunset sooner rather than later?
By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font selection tools?
Thank-you in advance.
1 year, 9 months
f36 - kernel update breaks resolv.conf
by Eyal Lebedinsky
I am on f36 for a few weeks now, upgraded from f34.
This is the second time this happened. A 'dnf update' runs fine but hangs at the very end, after the list of 'Veritying'.
dnf (the python3 process) is in state D+ (though I could kill it).
dnf.log ends with
2022-05-31T21:32:33+1000 DDEBUG RPM transaction start.
2022-05-31T21:37:51+1000 DDEBUG RPM transaction over.
It is missing the usual final stanza, like
2022-05-16T22:21:23+1000 DDEBUG RPM transaction over.
2022-05-16T22:21:23+1000 DDEBUG timer: verify transaction: 672 ms
2022-05-16T22:21:23+1000 DDEBUG timer: transaction: 2669 ms
dnf.rpm.log ends with this interesting line
2022-05-31T21:37:06+1000 INFO '/etc/resolv.conf' -> '../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf'
and sure enough I lost connectivity which may have lead to dnf hanging.
Rebooting leave my network setup broken in the same way.
Restoring resolv.conf to my usual hand made file gets things going.
This seems to happen when a kernel is updated but not at other times.
While I can "fix" it (I keep a resolv.conf.good) when it happens, I would rather sort it out permanently if it is a local issue.
Any idea?
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
1 year, 10 months
firefox ignores my temporary directory setting
by Eyal Lebedinsky
firefox 100.0.2
I set up a temp dir in about:config
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory /data/Firefox_temp
At no point did I see any activity there but if I empty that directory then FF creates it on launch, so it knows about it.
Here is what I do:
Open the URL
http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/
Click on
PDF file (304K bytes)
A popup asks "What should Firefox do with this file?"
- I have "always ask" set for this file type in Settings/General/Applications
at this point I see a new file in my home directory
-rw------- 1 eyal eyal 308839 May 14 17:33 _qBdbX0t.pdf.part
I now select
Open with xpdf
and click
OK
The above random file disappeared and another file appears
-rw-r--r-- 1 eyal eyal 308839 May 14 17:33 gzip.pdf
I now close firefox and this file remains.
I restart FF and it is still there.
On another machine the file is created in ~/Download.
How do I get FF to use the nominated directory?
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
1 year, 10 months
Fedora 36 update vs broadcom-wl
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have an 11-year-old netbook. The WiFi hardware needs the broadcom-wl
driver from RPM Fusion.
The Fedora upgrade from 35 to 36 worked fine, including keeping/updating
broadcom-wl.
But WiFi didn't work. The desktop didn't even see the device. I needed
to issue the command
sudo depmod
I've had to do this in previous upgrades too.
This is pretty easy to do but not at all obvious (I leave notes to myself
so that I don't have to rediscover the solution).
My guess is that this is a simple oversight in packaging. If so, it is an
RPMFusion problem, not a Fedora problem.
1 year, 10 months
subtitles conversion question
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I have some films in mkv format with many subtitles tracks :
hdmv_pgs_subtitles
I can extract these tracks and I want to convert them in srt text
format.
I use a java script (found on the web) BDSup2Sub512.jar which can
convert the hdmv_pgs files in two files: one has extension .idx the
other one the .sub extension.
I found this web site:
https://subconverter.com/convert-sub-idx-to-srt-online
Which I can use to convert these two files in a .srt file. So far, so
good!
Is there a tool on linux which could do the same job?
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)6 7892 5822
1 year, 10 months
upgrade to F36 forgot WiFi passwords
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have several WiFi networks and several notebooks.
Whenever I updated a notebook to Fedora 36, some WiFi passwords needed to
be re-entered.
I don't remember the exact details. I think that if I were updating over
WiFi, that password was retained.
I don't have any remaining updates that I wish to do so I'm not willing to
put the effort into creating a good bug report.
1 year, 10 months
Disable rpcbind on NFS server
by Ian Pilcher
I don't need rpcbind, as I only use NFSv4. Is there any way to set up
or configure the NFS server-related units (nfs-server.service, etc.) to
not start rpcbind?
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1 year, 10 months
Foliate does not work
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I cannot be sure, but I suspect that after having upgraded to F36,
Foliate no longer works.
Any ideas? Do others experience the same problem?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
1 year, 10 months
Frequent Crashes with Puddletag
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone,
I am running Fedora 36, fully updated as of right now...
I am running version 2.1.1-1 of puddletag. That is the most recent
version of puddletag in the official Fedora repo.
I have had puddletag crash on multiple occasions since I started running
this version under Fedora 36. I have not been able to narrow down
anything that I am doing when the crashes occur that would help narrow
things down.
Anybody else having issues like this? If not, any advice on how to
debug/troubleshoot this issue?
There is one bug on the Fedora Bugzilla for puddletag:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2084341
but since puddletag crashes silently, and without invoking ABRT, I have
no idea if that report has anything to do with my issue.
Thank you,
Steven P. Ulrick
1 year, 10 months