users October 2014

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by Bob Goodwin

I received the following response for help from the Gramps list: > How can I have Gramps with white text on a black background? I really "From your mail headers, it looks as though you're running a Linux machine. Based on that assumption; Gramps picks up colours from your desktop environment's theme. You'll have to make changes to that." I don't know where to make those changes in this case, what do I need to do? This is Fedora 20/64 bit XFCE as the signature should show. Thanks, Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE

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restarting mysql databases

by Robert Moskowitz

I am doing an install of a mysql system, and decided that I needed to change some things like host name. So I have to go back to square one with the mysql setup, but can't find any instructions for this. I TRIED: mysql_install_db And it did SOMETHING, but mysqladmin -u root password 'mypass' failed with: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

9 years, 8 months

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Heads up: possible BASH security vulnerability

by Patrick O'Callaghan

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-sec... >From the article: The vulnerability affects versions 1.14 through 4.3 of GNU Bash. [...] To check your system, from a command line, type: env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test" If the system is vulnerable, the output will be: vulnerable this is a test An unaffected (or patched) system will output: $ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test" bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x' this is a test I tried it and got the positive (vulnerable) result. Can we assume a patched version of Bash will be released shortly? poc

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Regular font for human beings to learn to write

by Orange Paranoid

Hello all, I need a regular font resembling how a human being writes in the real world. Beginners learning the English language need such a font. My requirement is in this video: http://youtu.be/BnA8dkN0ROU Please advise. Best wishes, Orange Paranoid

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partitions of external esata drives not in /dev

by JD

A new problem has cropped up with enumerating all of a disk's eternal partitions in /dev. This has not been a problem since may or june of this year. It just cropped up when I booted this morning. One external drive (sdb) is connected to the laptop via the laptop's built-in esata port, and the 2nd drive (sdc) is connected via port 1 of the expresscard/34, which has 2 esata ports. $ ls -l /dev/sdb* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Oct 5 11:25 /dev/sdb $ $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 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 Disk identifier: 0x0007b94c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb3 2048 3907028991 1953513472 83 Linux $ $ ls -l /dev/sdc* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Oct 5 11:26 /dev/sdc $ $ $ fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 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 Disk identifier: 0xec3cb3b1 Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 2048 31459327 15728640 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE /dev/sdc2 * 31459328 31664127 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdc3 31664128 162738175 65537024 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdc4 162740222 1953525167 895392473 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 162740224 288570302 62915039+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 288571392 305348607 8388608 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 305350656 1144211455 419430400 83 Linux /dev/sdc8 1144213504 1953525167 404655832 83 Linux The internal drive (sda) partitions are all listed $ ls /dev/sda* /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 /dev/sda5 $ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 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 Disk identifier: 0xe686f016 Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 417753 87955874 43769061 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 2048 415743 206848 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 87957504 960405503 436224000 83 Linux /dev/sda4 960405504 976773119 8183808 5 Extended /dev/sda5 960409600 976773119 8181760 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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Accidentally deleted Mate Volume Control icon from panel

by JD

Tried several things, none restored that exact icon. Would a reboot restore it? Right click on the panel and select Add to Panel does not list volume control among the items listed. I created on the desktop a launcher, and the command I set to /usr/bin/mate-volume-control-applet then I dragged to the panel. But it does not work as it will not show me the horizontal sliding scale of volume level. Any suggestions?

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F20 x86_64 - Multiple problems with Ark tool

by Doug Wyatt

I've already submitted a bug report on a missing dependency. Apparently Ark was rewritten in the last update to depend on a unar (not unrar) package, which I had to install manually before Ark would run. Since then I've noticed that Ark fails to display the CRC of many files in an archive correctly - many display as '0', but 7zip on a Win7 PC shows all correct CRC values. Also, more critically, many extraction operations for .rar and for .zip archives fail without notification, creating a new directory but extracting nothing to it. Again, 7zip on a Win7 PC successfully extracts the contents of the archives. Less critically, Ark sometimes successfully extracts the content of an archive into a newly created directory even when not told to create an output directory. These are all problems not encountered prior to the last update. I'll try to submit a bug report in the next day or so. Regards, D Wyatt

9 years, 8 months

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Trying out openbox - missing dependency

by JD

# rpm -qa | grep openbox openbox-3.5.2-2.fc20.x86_64 openbox-kde-3.5.2-2.fc20.noarch openbox-libs-3.5.2-2.fc20.x86_64 Tried to install other openbox packages, and ran into some dependency issues. Specifically, it is the non-availability of a dependency: gnome-panel. To wit: # yum install clearlooks-phenix-openbox-theme.noarch openbox-gnome.noarch Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package clearlooks-phenix-openbox-theme.noarch 0:3.0.15-2.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: clearlooks-phenix-common = 3.0.15-2.fc20 for package: clearlooks-phenix-openbox-theme-3.0.15-2.fc20.noarch ---> Package openbox-gnome.noarch 0:3.5.2-2.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: gnome-session for package: openbox-gnome-3.5.2-2.fc20.noarch --> Processing Dependency: gnome-panel-control for package: openbox-gnome-3.5.2-2.fc20.noarch --> Processing Dependency: gdm-control for package: openbox-gnome-3.5.2-2.fc20.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package clearlooks-phenix-common.noarch 0:3.0.15-2.fc20 will be installed ---> Package gdm-control.x86_64 0:3.5.2-2.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: gnome-panel for package: gdm-control-3.5.2-2.fc20.x86_64 ---> Package gnome-panel-control.x86_64 0:3.5.2-2.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: gnome-panel for package: gnome-panel-control-3.5.2-2.fc20.x86_64 ---> Package gnome-session.x86_64 0:3.10.1-1.fc20 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: gnome-panel-control-3.5.2-2.fc20.x86_64 (fedora) Requires: gnome-panel Error: Package: gdm-control-3.5.2-2.fc20.x86_64 (fedora) Requires: gnome-panel You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest # yum list available gnome-panel Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit Error: No matching Packages to list

9 years, 8 months

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connecting to a hardwired ethernet device

by Geoffrey Leach

This is a new Fedora 19 install. The install correctly detected the ethernet port. ifconfig sees em1, and the configuration data is correct There is a device plugged into the port, which monitors its ethernet port. (The device is known to work otherwise) So, somehow I'm supposed to specify the topology of the connection. Any suggestions on how to go about debugging the connection? Thanks.

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Problems with external SATA disk

by Frank McCormick

I am running Fedora 20 (updated from 19) and have started having problems with an external SATA disk. It's connected through a USB adapter. Smartd recognizes it but I see repeated errors in the journal about not being able to update smart data on the disk. A few days ago, (around the time I updated 19 to 20) the disk after not being used for a while would become unresponsive with attempts to access the directories on it resulting in hangs. Yet if I reboot after turning the power to the disk off and on again everything is fine for a while. fsck reports the two partitions on the disk are fine and if I run a SMART short test it passes. This is the sort of error I get if I reboot without cycling the power > Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d8088c90\x2db24c\x2d483d\x2d8865\x2d4fdf6ac2b6a8.device/start > Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d8088c90\x2db24c\x2d483d\x2d8865\x2d > Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /home/frank/external. > Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Startup finished in 2.097s (kernel) + 1.926s (initrd) + 1min 31.930s (userspace) = 1m > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 2-6: USB disconnect, device number 4 > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain smartd[433]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 0 > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sdb: unable to read partition table > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available. > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk > Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[1147]: inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdb, 10) failed: No such file or directory > > Anyone has any ideas ? Thanks -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic governments.

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