Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?
by Garry Williams
On most occasions I have to clean files before I am allowed to update
a Fedora 30 system:
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade
[sudo] password for garry:
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 63 kB/s | 18 kB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 226 kB/s | 659 kB
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf clean all
68 files removed
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade
Fedora 30 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 11 kB/s | 5.1 kB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 2.3 MB/s | 12 MB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 1.0 MB/s | 70 MB
google-chrome 37 kB/s | 3.4 kB
Copr repo for qt5-qtbase-print-dialog-advanced o 91 kB/s | 100 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free - Updates 128 kB/s | 130 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free 570 kB/s | 735 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree - Updates 54 kB/s | 34 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree 449 kB/s | 227 kB
Visual Studio Code 363 kB/s | 2.1 MB
Dependencies resolved.
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Does anyone know what is special about this system that it requires
clean all before it will update? I have two other systems that never
experience the same problem.
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Garry Williams
5 years
qemu
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
It is say:
You can test your stick using QEMU.
qemu -hda /dev/sdX -m 1024 -vga std
I installed qemu (dnf install qemu).
Then
qemu -hda /dev/sdc -m 1024 -vga std
bash: qemu: command not found...
What I am doing wrong?
Thank.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988
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5 years
WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch
by Paolo Galtieri
Folks,
on both June 2 and June 4 I have seen the following message in the logs:
Jun 4 13:35:53 terrapin NetworkManager[1529]: <info> [1559680553.5293]
manager: rfkill: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch
Until I shutdown my system and reboot I cannot connect to my WiFi network.
Has anyone else seen this and can tell why I'm getting it? The first
time this message appears is on June 2.
Paolo
5 years
5.1 kernel and 32 bit executables?
by Tom Horsley
I have some very, very old (ancient, in fact) 32
bit statically linked executables run as part
of a testbed.
With the new 5.1.6-300.fc30.x86_64 kernel installed
this morning, they are all failing because the
programs are confused by something in the initial
code before they even get to the main program.
Anyone know if there is some major new difference in
i386 support in the new kernel?
(When I get a chance I'll boot the old kernel and
make sure it still works and this isn't something
different than I suspect).
5 years
Cloning of existing fedora install failing at switch root. Does
systemd keep system state?
by stan
Hi,
I'm trying to clone an existing Fedora install, just a / partition and
a /boot partition, both ext4. I use rsync,
# rsync -C -x -u -a -v -A -X /mnt/old/ /mnt/new
to clone both partitions from a running Fedora.
I then clean up the /etc/fstab and /boot/grub2/grub.cfg by changing the
UUIDs of the / and boot partitions.
Formerly, that would be enough. I would run mkconfig to find the new
installs from an existing Fedora, and boot into them from the grub
menu of that existing install.
That failed at switch root. Research found that the initramfs is now
hostonly, so will not boot on a different root. I generated a new
initramfs using dracut with --no-hostonly on the existing / old
install, and copied it to the new /boot. Then altered the new grub.cfg
to use that as the initramfs, ran mkconfig in the existing / old
install to pick up the change, and rebooted.
Still not working, though it now fails because systemd kills itself
after switch root. And hangs because it can't find /bin/bash. As near
as I can tell, everything is there. /usr/sbin/init links
to /usr/lib/systemd/systemd, and the initramfs has those links in it,
so why is switch root failing? The only thing I can come up with is
that systemd somehow keeps track of the system it was installed on, and
is failing to find something from the old system because it isn't
mounted.
Can anyone offer any insight?
5 years
28 --> 30
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I updated two virtually identical Fedora 28 servers
to Fedora 30 yesterday. The first one had mechanical
drives and the second had SSD drives. Motherboard, memory,
processor were identical.
The second one when perfectly.
The first one, after issuing "dnf system-upgrade reboot"
did its thing up to the transaction checks. I got bored
and walked away. a minute later it was all booted back up,
but was still in 28. I googled the issue and could not
really find anything. So I reissued "dnf system-upgrade reboot"
and this time it completed the upgrade. Go figure ...
The first one with the mechanical drives and took 2 hours and
38 minutes.
The second one with the SSD drives and took 36 minutes.
-T
5 years
F30 libvirt dnsmasq glitch
by Peter Boy
I installed KVM/libvirt on a new F30 installation.
Surprisingly, 2 instances of dnsmasq are launched:
[root@base ~]# ps -ef | grep dnsmasq
dnsmasq 1531 1 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf
--leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/libexec/libvirt_leaseshelper
root 1533 1531 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf
--leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/libexec/libvirt_leaseshelper
root 2450 2391 0 11:39 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto dnsmasq
The second instance is not connected to any port.
[root@base ~]# netstat -tulpn | grep dnsmasq
tcp 0 0 192.168.122.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1531/dnsmasq
udp 0 0 192.168.122.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 1531/dnsmasq
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:67 0.0.0.0:* 1531/dnsmasq
And I can kill the second instance without any harm I noticed yet.
Is that second instance intended behaviour for some reason? Or is it used for a function I didn’t notice yet?
Can someone reproduce that behaviour? Is it a bug of my installation?
Thanks
Peter
5 years
f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
on a pc where I had both Windows 7 and Fedora 29, with boot loader
configured in linux and grub2, I have run the update to Fedora 30 using the
usual procedure described here, and already completed on another pc (but
without the dual boot...):
https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-29-to-fedora-30/
after the commad
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
I saw the laptop rebooting, installing all the about 9k packages, than
verifying them and as soon as it had verified the last one, I saw again
reboot (is it expected?), but then in grub options I only see
memtest
windows 7
windows 7 recovery environment
So I think something went bad in updating grub2 config...
Any hint on how to recover grub, eventually booting from a usb stick in any
way?
Already happened to anyone else with f29 to f30?
I followed on the same laptop the same procedure without problems from f26
(or f27) to f29 until this problem.
Thanks,
Gianluca
5 years
a stop job.... systemd again and again....
by François Patte
Bonjour,
"a stop job is running for rc.local compatibility no limit"
This a new fantasy of systemd on my system when I shut it down and there
is "no limit": after half a hour, the computer stops with this message:
"forcibly powering off: job timed out".
This is boring!
Why this? I made no update, no change in my configuration which worked
correctly...
What is this job? We cannot know... *A job* that's all we can know!
Looking at the journal (journalctl -u rc-local) shows nothing wrong.
How to stop this weird behavior?
systemd was supposed to increase the speed, in fact since systemd
replaced the previous system boot takes more time (30s instead of 10s if
no "start job is running" occurs...) and I did not see any change in the
speed of the computer.
Thank you.
--
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
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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