Thunderbird & non-english characters ?
by lejeczek
Hi guys.
I'm trying to add an account in Thunderbird, address
contains non-english chars and Thunderbird stops, does not
proceed further, colors the field in red & sticks ! mark there.
That surely must be not an issue of Thunderbird/OS but my
configuration somewhere, right? Email accounts/address with
non-english chars are a norm nowadays?
thanks, L.
8 months
GPT Partition
by Bill Cunningham
I am just starting to get into the UEFI with my newer computer. I
notice that f38's auto partitioning creates a partition and formats it
with xfs. I suppose manually ext4 could be used. This drive I don't
believe is too big for ext4. But it would take a little time to format.
My question is, using manual or "custom" partitioning would I want
a 250-500 MB partition with the ID 0xef00 and then an ext4 partition,
for use with linux? I know M$ adds all kinds of additions to the UEFI
spec. What is needed for linux in making a custom partition set up?
Bill
8 months
OT but F38: Cisco SecureClient VPN suddenly stops connecting since
this morning
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I have a strange problem, after last night's updates on F38. I am not actually sure that that is the cause, but I can no longer get Cisco's VPN to work. (I have to use Cisco's SecureClient because of the more "secure" 2-factor-authentication required to connect: before that, I used OpenConnect for a long time, and did not have a problem till I was forced to move to Cisco's version two years ago. I have till date not had any issue with Cisco either.)
But that last statement in parenthesis only holds till last night. From this morning, I am unable to connect to Cisco's VPN. After logging in, and going through 2FA, all of which are successful, I get that:
"Cisco Secure Client was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway. Please try connecting again." <Close>
which is on top of:
"The certificate on the secure gateway is invalid. A VPN connection will not be established." <Close>
Things I have tried:
1) Trying on a different machine, with an up to date, F38, I have the same issue.
2) Using my wife's F37 machine (possibly not very up to date) and I am able to connect on VPN using the same account, so the issue seems to be with me and F38.
3) Back to my F38 machine, I looked at /var/log/report as the connection was happening, and got the following, and was wondering if it shows anything that is fixable.
However turning this file in pegs the message at 62KB (which is over the limit of 60KB, that I was not aware of and causes the post to be rejected) so I will send that in the next email.
In the meantime, if you have some ideas on what is going on, please let me know.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
8 months
Problem with mediawriter on old Fedora installation
by Joe Zeff
For a number of different reasons, my desktop is still on F25, and my
laptop's hard drive has failed. I need to make a bootable USB drive,
first to install F38 on my laptop's new drive and second to get my
desktop current. Alas, when I try to run mediawriter, it failed with a
Segmentation fault twice, at the same spot. I know that there's a way
to put the .iso onto the drive with dd, but don't know the proper
incantation as I've never had to do it before. If somebody can provide
it, I'd be grateful.
8 months
OT: Inventory able to track racks, shelves and shelve sections?
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
I've been looking for a inventory free software to track the mess I have
in my workshop and haven't found anything able to "adequately" track
shelves numbers and sub-divisions.
It seemed to be something very obvious for me, imagining big warehouses
with shelves and cartons and people being easily able to find that
carton full of .... that, in row 18, rack 99, shelve 3 inside section B.
Well it is not. In fact warehouses are often treated as "locations" with
nothing else in most cases.
So I am curious if anyone knows of any way (I thought of using the
comment section but that's not really a great way to do it) to handle
this, or any software if it exists?
Thank you very much for your insights.
Fred
8 months
signature issue with recent dnf update (fc38)
by Eyal Lebedinsky
The below message shows, then the update proceeds to completion.
Is it a problem? Is there something I should do or is it something at the repository side (which one?).
I found articles suggested rebuilding the rpm db. However, since this problem happened on two machines
I find it unusual to have the same issue in the two databases.
[later] following a vague memory of looking into it before, I looked at an old package
tux.x86_64 3.2.18-9.fc6 @System
and then
$ rpm -V tux.x86_64
error: Verifying a signature using certificate CAB44B996F27744E86127CDFB44269D04F2A6FD2 (Fedora Project <fedora(a)redhat.com>):
Key B44269D04F2A6FD2 invalid: not signing capable
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 61
Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 4f2a6fd2: BAD
Header SHA1 digest: OK
package tux.x86_64 is not installed
Is it related?? Why the error showing now?
TIA
=====
Running transaction check
error: Verifying a signature using certificate CAB44B996F27744E86127CDFB44269D04F2A6FD2 (Fedora Project <fedora(a)redhat.com>):
Key B44269D04F2A6FD2 invalid: not signing capable
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 61
Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 4f2a6fd2: BAD
Header SHA1 digest: OK
Transaction check succeeded.
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
8 months, 1 week
Cloning disk with dd give me "Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit
full"
by Jon Ingason
I am trying to clone /dev/sdb, Hitachi HTS545050A7E380, 465.76 GiB, to
/dev/sbc, Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500G, 465.76 GiB.
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=4MB of=/dev/sbc bs=4MB conv=noerror,sync
dd: Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit full
2+0 records in
1+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4,2 MB, 4,0 MiB) copied, 0,144554 s, 29,0 MB/s
What is wrong with this?
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Regards
Jon Ingason
8 months, 1 week
QCad
by ppadilcdx
I'm tracking Fedora 39, the latest build/update have QCad crashing
consistently after opening it and adding anything to the empty drawing.
New to Fedora so not sure if this is reportable (as I'm tracking ahead
to the next release). Not sure if this is the correct mail list to send
this to, so apologies. Any pointers welcome.
Regards
Pete
8 months, 1 week
