So you’re in front of your shiny new laptop / netbook/ ultrabook / toaster, you’ve put Fedora 20 on a USB stick, filled up the progress guitar pick, only to be dropped to an emergency shell with errors like: dracut-initqueue[398]: Warning: Could not boot. dracut-initqueue[398]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1 does not exist Starting Dracut Emergency Shell… Warning: Read more »
The problem So you’re using Fedora 19, you update yum one day, and a few days later you find some strange lockscreen behaviour. The look of your lockscreen has changed – a different background colour, clock size, and password box positioning. So far so good. But wait, why does a second lockscreen appear after you Read more »
Had an error like this while upgrading your system lately?: insufficient disk space need 40M free on /boot (0M free) If so, it’s likely because you have lots of kernels installed and the automatic size of your /boot partition, as configured during Fedora’s installation wizard, has become insufficient. In my case I have real-time kernels Read more »
Ardour 3 is the most powerful Free Software music software currently available. Although Fedora isn’t a GNU/Linux distribution that’s designed for audio professionals, with a little work it can be configured to process sound with low-latency (without 20+ millisecond delays or artefacts like pops and crackles), and get easy access to repositories with many recent Read more »
ownCloud uses automated testing to check for problems, and writing and executing these tests is important for any contributor. In my capacity as an ownCloud systems developer I use these tests to quickly verify that my apps don’t break after merging or pulling new code. For those less familiar with Ruby however, getting the Cucumber Read more »
Android emulator allows you to test apps and websites from an Android user’s perspective, without the need for a physical Android device. The Emulator does not work “out of the box” in Fedora however, and only a version for 32-bit machines is provided. Additional packages are required, and the GUI must be started from the Read more »
Webgen does not work with new versions of Ruby. Using Webgen installed using ruby and rubygems from Fedora repos results in errors including “obsolete and deprecated Config”. To get webgen to work, we will use RVM (Ruby Version Manager). This allows you install multiple versions of ruby side by side. RVM is not available in Read more »
Plenty of resources explain how to install unrar support in Fedora, but what about when you need to create rar files, instead of merely extracting them? Rar has licensing issues which is why it isn’t available in standard Fedora repositories. The package ‘Unrar’ is available in rpmfusion repositories, but to get rar compression support you Read more »
These instructions will allow you to view web pages that are served by your local web development server from within a virtual machine. Example scenario: you run a local web server on Fedora for development, and you want to test your local site pages from within another operating system which is running in a virtual Read more »
GTimeLog is a simple and effective time tracking application for GNU/Linux. It is the preferred tool of top FSFE staff. It is not currently available in official Fedora repositories however, so in order to use it you must manually install it using Python. Fortunately this is simple to do. These instructions were originally written for Read more »