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Printer Brother DCP-J132W
by Patrick Dupre 11 Jul '26

11 Jul '26

Hello, I collected a Brother printer (CDP-J132W), but have not been to make it works in USB Tt is not recognize by lsusb It shows up in the printer manager as CUPS-BRF-Printer Address localhost:631 Driver Generic Text-Only Printer The "test Page" does not not anything. The search for driver runs for ever. I tried linux-brprinter-installer but it want to install mfcj880dwlpr-1.0.0-0.i386.deb mfcj880dwcupswrapper-1.0.0-0.i386.deb brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb brscan-skey-0.3.4-0.amd64.deb I also tried brscan4-0.4.11-2.x86_64.rpm and dcpj132wlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm brsaneconfig4 -d says sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. ----------------------------- ls -R -all /proc/bus/usb ls: cannot access '/proc/bus/usb': No such file or directory ----------------------------- cat /proc/bus/usb/devices cat: /proc/bus/usb/devices: No such file or directory ----------------------------- scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). ----------------------------- ----------------------------- ping In /etc/printcap CUPS-BRF-Printer|CUPS-BRF:rm=Teucidide:rp=CUPS-BRF-Printer: Cups-PDF|Cups-PDF:rm=Teucidide:rp=Cups-PDF: DCPJ132W:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dcpj132w:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\ :if=/opt/brother/Printers/dcpj132w/lpd/filterdcpj132w: lpq -P CUPS-BRF-Printer CUPS-BRF-Printer is ready no entries but lpr -P CUPS-BRF-Printer /etc/printcap does not print anything printer setting Printer state: Idle The option "tests and Maintenance" is not available webmin says that it avaialable It may be a driver issue (why Text-Only Printer?) lpr.cups -PCUPS\-BRF\-Printer /usr/libexec/webmin/lpadmin/bw.ps lpr.cups: Unsupported document-format "application/postscript". =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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vulnerabilities.
by home user 09 Jul '26

09 Jul '26

Within the past few days, I saw an article in Yahoo Finance or Yahoo News reporting that some AI (Anthropic) finds thousands of security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Here's one article about this: "https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/anthropics-claude-mythos-finds.html", but I don't know if that's the same article that I saw before. I wonder: just how vulnerable is Fedora? ... and how vulnerable is Firefox?

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ssh forward agent
by Frederic Muller 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Hi! Is there something that changed in F42 making forward agent no longer working? I'm logging in using SSH key to a VPS to which I usually log in without any problem. I then sudo su, but it's asking for a password. My config is as such: Host myhost Hostname thatsite.com ForwardAgent Yes User myself IdentityFile ~/.ssh/s1_sca PubkeyAuthentication yes ControlPersist 5m I copied the old .ssh from my backup so it's all the same files and I do manage to ssh to the server, just not sudo su. Thank you. Fred

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Barcode reader Android
by Ger van Dijck 18 May '26

18 May '26

Hi All, A question witch has nothing to do with Fedora : Does excist a barcode reader without advertising links for Android ? Ger van Dijck.

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GUI alternative to dnfdragora?
by ToddAndMargo 07 May '26

07 May '26

Hi All, Fedora 43 Anyone have a favorite GUI alternative to dnfdragora? (I use the command line, but that is above most of my low skill users.) Many thanks, -T

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dnf update on F43 says not enough space!
by Ranjan Maitra 07 May '26

07 May '26

Hi, I am trying to do sudo dnf update but I get: ....... Transaction Summary: Installing: 5 packages Upgrading: 393 packages Replacing: 393 packages Removing: 5 packages Total size of inbound packages is 1 GiB. Need to download 0 B. After this operation, 15 MiB extra will be used (install 3 GiB, remove 3 GiB). Is this ok [y/N]: y ............ [398/398] Total 100% | 0.0 B/s | 0.0 B | 00m04s Running transaction Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. - installing package kernel-core-6.19.14-200.fc43.x86_64 needs 2MB more space on the /boot filesystem - installing package grub2-efi-x64-1:2.12-43.fc43.x86_64 needs 4MB more space on the /boot filesystem - installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.12-43.fc43.x86_64 needs 4MB more space on the /boot filesystem However, df -h says: Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd7 ext4 95G 23G 68G 25% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 32G 19M 32G 1% /dev/shm efivarfs efivarfs 256K 232K 20K 93% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars tmpfs tmpfs 13G 2.7M 13G 1% /run /dev/sdd2 ext4 920M 785M 72M 92% /boot /dev/sdd4 ext4 46G 16M 44G 1% /tmp /dev/sdd5 ext4 46G 488K 44G 1% /usr/local /dev/sdd3 vfat 952M 20M 932M 3% /boot/efi /dev/md126p1 ext4 1.8T 713G 941G 44% /home tmpfs tmpfs 6.3G 7.2M 6.3G 1% /run/user/1000 tmpfs tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service tmpfs tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service Why am I running out of space? How/what do I have to fix here? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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Re: volume icon no longer works after F42 -> F43 upgrade
by Bob Marčan 06 May '26

06 May '26

On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:52:35 -0600 "Ranjan Maitra via users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed Mar04'26 09:15:34PM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > > From: Sergio Cipolla via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:15:34 -0000 > > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > Cc: Sergio Cipolla <lists(a)tutanota.com> > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: volume icon no longer works after F42 -> F43 upgrade > > > > Maybe volumeicon is already deprecated. > > I just did a web search for alternatives: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=modern+replacement+for+volumeicon+linux&ia… > > -- > > Thank you, I have pavucontrol, and that works even now, but that does not do the same thing as volumeicon which actually can be made to use pavucontrol (which is what I used to do) and does not go into the system tray. Perhaps it will work: the rest (really, volctl and pwvucontrol on linux) do not seem to be in the Fedora repos. > > Ranjan > -- https://github.com/fernandotcl/pa-applet pa-applet.spec ========= # do not generate debugging packages by default %define debug_package %{nil} %global _hardened_build 1 %define name pa-applet %define tarname %{name}-master.tar.gz %define version 1.0 %define rel 0%{?dist} Summary: pa-applet is a systray-applet that allows you to control some of PulseAudio features. Name: %{name} Version: %{version} Release: %{rel} License: GPL Group: Applications/Productivity Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz Prefix: %{_prefix} Vendor: Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos <fernandotcl AT gmail.com> Packager: %{packager} Provides: %{name} AutoReqProv: yes Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root BuildRequires: glib2-devel gtk3-devel libnotify-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel autoconf automake pkg-config Requires: pasystray #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %description pa-applet is a systray-applet that allows you to control some of PulseAudio's[1] features. More specifically, pa-applet allows you to control the volume level of the default sink and mute or unmute it. It also allows you to change the active profile of the default sink, which can be useful to tell PulseAudio to redirect audio to the HDMI output instead of outputting to the built-in speakers in a computer connected to an HDMI device. pa-applet is not meant as a replacement to padevchooser[2] or pavucontrol[3], which are much more feature-complete projects. pa-applet offers a more limited feature set, but in a nicer shell, more appropriate for regular desktop usage. Note that this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the PulseAudio project. #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %prep %setup -n %{name}-master chmod +rw -R * #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %build ./autogen.sh #./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --mandir=%{_mandir} --disable-nls %configure --disable-nls make #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %install [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir} -type f -exec gzip -9nf {} \; || true cd $RPM_BUILD_DIR/%{name}-master find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ! -type d | sed -e "s@^$RPM_BUILD_ROOT@@g" \ -e "s@^%{_prefix}/bin@%attr(755, root, root) %{_prefix}/bin@g" \ -e "/^\%{_prefix}\/share\/doc\/.*$/d;" \ > %{name}-filelist #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %post %preun #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %clean [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %files -f %{name}-filelist %defattr(-,root,root) %doc [A-Z][A-Z]* ChangeLog #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %define date %(echo `LC_ALL="C" date +"%a %b %d %Y"`) %changelog * %{date} Bob Marčan <bob.marcan(a)proton.me> - Fedora 43

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Update f43->f44 killed knode
by Neal Becker 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

I couldn't update without removing knode, which I guess is unmaintained and dragged in some now unsupported kde4 components. After removing upgrade went fine, but a sad day. knode has been the only decent usenet client for a long time now. Back in the day I could follow development on all my favorite topics in one place, and very efficiently. Now they are scattered all over: discourse, others I can't even remember, so now I just can't bother. -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*

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After upgrade to Fedora 44 found some repos giving dnf errors on cert??
by Michael D. Setzer II 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

Solutions seems Fedora 44 changed path, so had to modify the repo files in two of mine. ssslcacert=/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem instead of sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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Dnf upgrade from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 doesn't honor sleep.conf setting.
by Michael D. Setzer II 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

Had settings set to [Sleep] AllowSuspend=no AllowHibernation=no AllowSuspendThenHibernate=no AllowHybridSleep=no But after upgrade saw a message about it going to shut down because of inactivity. Sleep.conf had been changed to have these lines all commented out, and the no change to yes?? Reset and reboot. Have things running on machines, and don't want them shutting down. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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