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Scriptlet errors during manual installation of Fedora 23
by Andrej Podzimek 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hi, Because Anaconda doesn't support my usual partitioning scheme (root on Btrfs in LVM in LUKS in LVM in GPT, /boot on Btrfs, etc.), I created the entire layout manually and tried to install Fedora using dnf. The same layout works perfectly fine in ArchLinux. I basically followed this howto, with adjustments for s/yum/dnf/ and for EFI/GPT: http://dustymabe.com/2014/05/29/manual-linux-installs-with-funky-storage-co… The initial filesystem installation (dnf install -y --releasever=23 --installroot=/mnt/sysimage filesystem) already got a few glitches of this form: Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package filesystem This^^^ happened to roughly half of the installed packages. I tried to proceed with the rest (i.e., to install @core @standard kernel grub2 grub2-efi sihm grub2-tools), but it failed with scriptlet errors that prevented a few key packages from getting installed at all: error: %prein(selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-157.fc23.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 126 Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package selinux-policy-targeted Packages with those errors are reported as failed after the verify step. What I tried next: * setenforce 0 * upgrading the installation environment and/or the sysimage with dnf and rpm from rawhide * --releasever=22 instead of 23 * ...and checking for a few other common points with this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270663 * a plain sysimage directory with no predefined Btrfs subvolumes in it * unmounting, remounting, checking that everything has seclabel on, no weirdness in dmesg, etc. Well, nothing of the above helped; the error is still the same. How can I diagnose this? Where can I dig out the exact reason why the scriptlets are failing? Provided that Anaconda actually does some steps that I'm missing and can carry out the installation correctly, is there a way to *force* it to just accept whatever is mounted into /mnt/sysimage at the moment, without trying to make sense of it? I'm pretty sure dracut can handle my partition layout just fine, so the entire issue here is about getting the basic installation done somehow. Theoretically I could create a simple-and-stupid layout that Anaconda can handle, proceed with the installation and reshuffle the partitions afterwards, but that's sooo cumbersome that I thought I'd first ask whether someone knows a workaround to the scriptlet problems. Cheers, Andrej

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ATA2:00: link is slow to respond....
by Angelo Moreschini 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Hi, my computer boot only in emergency mode ... Looking the journalctl (command journalctl -xb), I found (in thejournalctl ) these lines in red color : ATA2:00: link is slow to respond.... (and after..) ATA200: SRST failed (erro 16) That seem indicate that it is a problem to access the HDs.. I found a possible solution to the problem in this post: http://codeverge.com/opensuse.org.help.install/-solved-ata1-srst-failed-err… There is wrote that :...the problem can depend by the physic set up of the HD (as "master", "slave", "single drive", ...): this set up can be done by changing the position of a jumper on the HD... I know that, in the past time, the HDs had to be set physically in this way.., but recently I never heart anymore that the modern HD need this operation.. So actually I don't care anymore of the configuration of the HDs (my HD is Toshiba 1 TB that I bought few mounts ago). I would like to have a confirmation that what I read in the post is only an obsolete information and, in any case, I would like to know also what I can do to go around in my problem.. >From the command line: ls /dev/sd* I get: give me this input : /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 Thank you regards Angelo

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Screen rapidly blanking on and off
by Ted Roche 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

I've run into a problem with my Dell Inspiron where the screen blanks every second, unless I'm typing or moving the mouse. Spinning the mouse around the screen will keep the screen lit, while typing will blank between keystrokes, and I'm a fair 70 wpm typist. This ia Fedora 23 64 bit installation, and I've seen the problem on all three of the current kernel installs, Linux jupiter.in.tedroche.com 4.7.4-100.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 15 18:48:53 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 4.7.4, 4.7.5, and 4.7.6. Nothing in the logs stands out and unusual. Suggestions on what I might look at to troubleshoot ths? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem
by Gregory P. Ennis 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Everyone, I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped to use for archive files for some digital images. Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10 system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried to connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution to completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the drive is plugged in a usb port. Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives? Thanks for you help!!!! Greg Ennis

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md-raid1 + lvm
by Gour 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Hello, I’m new Fedora (f25-beta) user considering to fully (after having Fedora on my netbook) migrate to Fedora. At the moment I run Debian (Sid) and have two hard disks: 1x1TB and 1x2TB (one old 1TB disk recently died) and have the following layout: sda: 1 - BIOS boot 2 - md-raid1 (root, xfs) 3 - md-raid1 (home, xfs) sdb: 1 - BIOS boot 2 - md-raid1 (root, xfs) 3 - md-raid1 (home, xfs) 4 - swap 5 - backup partition Now I’ve a feeling that, somehow, Fedora favours usage of LVM partitions…Otoh, I’ve been told that using LVM on top of RAID(1) might not be the best solution, so wonder whether you recommend to keep the same layout as on Debian or to put my raid-1 volumes in LVM containers? Another concern I have is in regard to separate /boot partition which I was not using on Linux for quite some time, but see that Fedora’s automatic layout does create it? Sincerely, Gour -- One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness.

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Dual boot
by Celso Viana 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Dear All, I had a setup with "Windows 10" and "Fedora 23" dual boot (UEFI). I installed the "Fedora 24" on this machine and the installer failed to detect the most "Windows 10". Does anyone know how to reconfigure / reinstall GRUB to Windows appears in the boot menu? Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org Palmas/TO

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A single mouse click is interpreted as two clicks
by Paul Smith 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Dear All, My XFCE installation of Fedora 24 was working properly, but now a single mouse click is often interpreted as two clicks. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

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starting remote firefox via SSH
by bruce 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Hi. This is a "continuation" of the issue of starting firefox for a diff user on a box. If one logs into (SSH) into a remote box, and wants to start firefox on the remote machine, such that all firefox operations occur on the remote machine.. Different sites suggest setting the DISPLAY var, as well as xauth, etc.. none of which seem to work. The local/remote are both centos/fed. The goal: To be able to SSH into a remote box, and run a py script that initiates a py/selenium binding/process to use firefox. -This requires that the remote box be able to start/run firefox for the user that the SSH session was started as/under. The SSH/Firefox issue: -How to SSH into the box, and start firefox? (Already set up the keys, to allow ssh into the box vai ssh 192.168.1.4) Tried: ssh 192.168.1.4 foo@box1# DISPLAY=0: firefox ---ERROR: cannot open display: 0: foo@box1# export DISPLAY=0: foo@box1# firefox ---No protocol specified ---ERROR: cannot open display: 0: This has to be simple! Any thoughts??

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nc missing option -z
by Suvayu Ali 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hi, I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have internet connection before I run a few scripts. I would use the -z option in particular. But now I see that has been removed: $ nc -z imap.gmail.com 993 && sync-my-email.sh ncat: invalid option -- 'z' Here is the excerpt from the old manual page: -z Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -l option. Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement? Thanks for any ideas. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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install.img
by CLOSE Dave 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

I need a copy of the install.img file for Fedora 20. It doesn't seem to be present in archives.fedoraproject.org or in the F20 netinstall ISO. Can anyone point me to a copy? -- Dave Close

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