migrating drives on UEFI systems
by Tim
Hi,
On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system
(e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap
over, and it'd just work.
Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply?
And do secure boot options throw any spanners in the works, too?
I tried this last night, and it didn't want to boot. I cloned it using
"dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" while booted from a gparted ISO on a USB
flashdrive (current release). Shut down. Unplugged the old drive.
Rebooted.
If it makes any difference, I can't recall if I plugged it into the
same SATA port on the motherboard. It's a board with 6 sockets, and
I'm only using two of them (DVD and HDD).
I did get it to boot by messing with the boot menus in UEFI, but it was
quite hit-and-miss about what to boot from. I can't remember now if I
selected the drive with it on, or the entry with the release's name in
it, but neither worked on the first boot. It was a few reboots before
I got it to go.
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3 years, 11 months
DNF Error with package Conflicts.
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
When I did a dnf upgrade today I got the following messages at the
beginning of dnf output.
Error:
Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package
qt5-qtbase-5.13.2-5.fc32.x86_64
- problem with installed package qt5-qtbase-5.13.2-5.fc32.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
qgis-3.12.3-1.fc32.x86_64
- problem with installed package qgis-3.12.3-1.fc32.x86_64
- package qgis-3.12.3-1.fc32.x86_64 requires
libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.13.2_PRIVATE_API)(64bit), but none of the providers
can be installed
- package qgis-3.12.3-1.fc32.x86_64 requires
libQt5Sql.so.5(Qt_5.13.2_PRIVATE_API)(64bit), but none of the providers
can be installed
- cannot install both qt5-qtbase-5.14.2-5.fc32.x86_64 and
qt5-qtbase-5.13.2-5.fc32.x86_64
- cannot install both qt5-qtbase-5.13.2-4.fc32.x86_64 and
qt5-qtbase-5.14.2-5.fc32.x86_64
Is this because qt5-qtbase-5.14.2-5.fc32.x86_64 doesn't supercede
qt5-qtbase-5.13.2-4.fc32.x86_64?
regards,
Steve
3 years, 11 months
External usb drive -
by Bob Goodwin
I have an external 4TB drive with some files stored on it that I want to
keep. I would like to connect it to the port provided on an ASUS router
which will replace the one in service now. It appears that accomplishing
that requires that the drive contain a samba share? This is an FC32
system using xfce, I dnf installed Samba. What do I need to do to make
the external drive accessible as a samba share if that is what it
requires? My effort with google has not helped ... Bob
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3 years, 11 months
Random crashes/reboots under F32
by Justin Moore
About four weeks ago I upgraded from F30 to F32. I've been using this same
hardware for a few years now, and it worked fine* under multiple versions
of Fedora.
However since I upgraded to F32 I've been finding my system randomly
rebooting about every 8-14 days. I'll just come back to it and it'll be
sitting at the encrypted partition unlock screen. When I check system logs
(journalctl -b [bootID] -r) there's no indication that something went
horribly wrong. No error messages, no nothing. It's just fine until I'm
staring at a reboot screen.
It hasn't (yet) happened while I've been sitting at the computer so I can't
tell if it's a clean shutdown or a hard reboot. Googling for "fedora" or
"F32" and "random reboots" or "random crashes" doesn't bring up anything
particularly helpful.
Tips? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
-justin
*Standard disclaimer about things like systemd and journalctl being an
absolute dumpster fire
3 years, 11 months
cinnamon restart
by José Artemio
hello, I would like to know how to report a problem, in cinnamon when
using the restart function the system crashes and that's it!
3 years, 11 months
Issue upgrading f31 to f32.
by Erik P. Olsen
After dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32 I get the following error:
the file /usr/include/mysql/mariadb_rpl.h makes conflict between the attempted
installation of mariadb-devel-3:10.4.12-3.fc32.x86_64 and mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.1.8-1.fc32.x86_64
The original error message was in Danish but I have attempted to translate it as well as I could. I hope it is understood.
What can I do about it? --allowerasing and --skip-broken do not help.
Thanks in advance.
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Fedora 31/64 bit Linux xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.2 Bacula 9.4.4
3 years, 11 months
flatpak question
by David
I have never seen this before. I just updated, but have not rebooted
( I am in Rawhide )
[david@localhost ~]$ sudo flatpak update
[sudo] password for david:
Looking for updates…
Login required remote fedora (realm https://registry.fedoraproject.org/
)
User:
3 years, 11 months
Microphone trouble
by Joe Zeff
My laptop is running F 31 and Xfce, fully updated. I'm trying to use
Zoom to participate in meetings of a club I belong to but am having
trouble with the microphone. If I use a headset and mic, I can usually
hear OK, but nobody can understand what I'm saying. If I use the
internal speakers and mic, the sound is sometimes OK, sometimes not.
However, I'm told that there's so much static from my mic that the host
mutes me before I can even say one, single word. Does anybody have an
idea as to how to correct this without throwing money at it? Buying a
new mic right now is out of the question, especially as I can't try it
before I buy it.
3 years, 11 months
frama-c can't start up on simple example
by Richard W.M. Jones
I was trying to run through the tutorial here:
https://allan-blanchard.fr/publis/frama-c-wp-tutorial-en.pdf
The first example on page 15 & 16 fails with:
[wp] Running WP plugin...
[wp] User Error: Prover 'alt-ergo' not found in why3.conf
I couldn't get any further. What I tried was:
- Install both why3 and alt-ergo. Why aren't they deps of frama-c?
- Run /usr/lib64/why3/commands/why3config by hand (why isn't it in
/usr/bin?), which creates $HOME/.why3.conf
- stracing the program, it seems like it never attempts to
open or run anything to do with alt.*ergo
~/.why3.conf contains:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
[detected_prover]
exec_name = "alt-ergo"
version = "2.0.0"
[detected_prover]
exec_name = "coqtop"
version = "8.11.2"
[main]
default_editor = "emacs -nw %f"
magic = 14
memlimit = 1000
running_provers_max = 2
timelimit = 5
----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ rpm -q why3 frama-c alt-ergo coq
why3-1.3.1-10.fc33.x86_64
frama-c-21.0-2.fc33.x86_64
alt-ergo-2.0.0-15.fc33.x86_64
coq-8.11.2-1.fc33.x86_64
Rich.
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3 years, 11 months
kde wayland and hi-dpi
by Neal Becker
Hi, I'm running F32 on a hi-dpi screen, with kde+wayland.
I find I get good results by going to font settings, and choosing Force
dpi, and selecting 120 rather than the default 96. This produces a warning
that the recommended approach is to instead use scaling. If I try scaling
the results look awful, but force dpi seems fine.
Any thoughts?
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