GUI update from 25 to 26, dnf still looking at f25 repos
by Richard Shaw
I just upgraded my "spare" laptop (that's literally the hostname!) and I
ran into one small problem and one larger problem it seems.
The small problem. I keep my own repository of certain packages not
available through other means on my main desktop accessed though
autofs//nfs.
The software center was able to access the metadata during the download
phase but system-upgrade apparently didn't download the packages assuming
they were local. I remember filing a bug for this with fedup...
The bigger issue is everything says Fedora 26 (/etc/fedora-release) and
Gnome system information, but when I run dnf it's still looking at the
Fedora 25 repos.
Where does dnf look for $releasever?
Thanks,
Richard
6 years, 11 months
last update f25 db5 error
by François Patte
Bonjour,
With last update of kernel (4.11.9-200.fc25.x86_64) akmod is unable to
install nvidia modules.
Error message:
erreur : db5 erreur(-30969) de dbenv->open: BDB0091 DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:
Database environment version mismatch
erreur : impossible d'ouvrir l'index Packages en utilisant db5 - (-30969)
erreur : impossible d'ouvrir la base de données paquet dans /var/lib/rpm
Erreur : Error: rpmdb open failed
But rpm
kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.11.9-200.fc25.x86_64-340.102-3.fc25.x86_64.rpm was
built and I could install it manually usinf dnf install.
What is wrong with the automatic install through akmod?
Thank you.
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6 years, 11 months
f26 KDE Install fail - SSD
by Robin Laing
Hello,
Trying to help someone install F26 on an older laptop that has just had
the HDD replaces with an SSD. The SSD was used for a short time on a
different machine.
A couple of install attempts with the KDE live stick were a big failure
when formatting the partitions. CPU usage (dual core) went to 100% on
both cores and then died.
SSD was partitioned but not formatted.
I have no experience with SSD troubles but this seems strange for a
little used drive to not be able to be formatted.
Could the formatting issues be related to partitions not being on the
end of the virtual cylinders?
Will test later once we get the drive out of the laptop to see if we can
partition and format it.
Robin Laing
6 years, 11 months
keyboard producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above,
cedilla-below)
by George R Goffe
Hi,
System is Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide), fully up to date with the rawhide repo.
Firefox and Opera are producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below) when I type in text windows. Other apps such as konsole seem to work just fine and I have not seen this problem elsewhere.
locale says:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Any/all hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
George...
6 years, 11 months
lvm
by Patrick Dupre
Hello
fdisk shows a list of lvm partitions which is not updated
probably resulting from previous mounts of disks with different
names.
How can I update this list?
pvscan does the same
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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6 years, 11 months
After Upgrade from F25 to F26 VMware Workstation is refusing anything
...
by Walter H.
Hello,
I did this as explained here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
and after this I can't start VMware Workstation;
removing and installing VMware Workstation (latest release: 12.5.7) new
doesn't help ...
(the same as if I hadn't removed and installed new)
ifconfig only shows this:
enp63s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::673e:4262:54d2:1816 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
inet6 #myprefix#::1:1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
ether 24:00:00:00:00:24 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 18656 bytes 1210711 (1.1 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 25349 bytes 35314278 (33.6 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 32 bytes 2848 (2.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 32 bytes 2848 (2.7 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
and before the upgrade there were two extra virtual interfaces from
VMware ...
one used when VMs run with Host-only network connection, and
one used when VMs run with NAT network connection ...
(the same as I'm used to with Windows release)
Greetings,
Walter
6 years, 11 months
Fedora on a Dell Precision 7520?
by Sherman Grunewagen
Two questions:
(1) Is anyone here running a late version of Fedora on the new
Dell Precision 7520 (or 5520)?
(2) I ordered the 7520 with a cheap disk drive. It will come with Ubuntu installed.
I intend to replace the drive with a M.2 PCIe 1TB SSD card (Samsung PM961).
How do I do a "disk copy" to the SDD so that the machine will boot Ubuntu from it?
(Once I confirm things are working, I will blow away Ubuntu and install F25 if
the answer to (1) is not negative.
6 years, 11 months
testdisk fails
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I still have an issue wit the first ntfs partition
Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=107 sector=63
NTFS at 0/32/33
NTFS at 1697/43/11
NTFS at 2480/106/59
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 83
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 83
Current partition structure:
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 1697 43 10 27262976
2 P HPFS - NTFS 1697 43 11 2480 106 58 12582912
3 P HPFS - NTFS 2480 106 59 3133 32 35 10485760
4 E extended 3133 32 36 60801 80 63 926439472
No partition is bootable
ntfsresize v2017.3.23 (libntfs-3g)
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 0: Invalid argument<br />Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x0)
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
ERROR(5): Opening /dev/sdc1' as NTFS failed: Input/output error
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired.
It is probably beyond this list!
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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6 years, 11 months
A note of thanks....
by Ed Greshko
Just updated a dual monitor system from F25 to F26 and *everything* went smoothly
with one nice surprise.
I run the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion on this system. I was expecting, as always
happened in the past, that on reboot I'd be looking at a blank screen with a blinking
cursor. I was expecting to have to switch to a terminal, or ssh into the system, to
type in the command to manually build the kmod-nvidia package. But no, the system
came up in graphics mode but without nvidia or nouveau loaded (forgot to check what
it did load).
So, I was able to login, bring up a konsole (I use KDE) and copy/paste the necessary
command to rebuild kmod-nvidia. Nice.
--
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6 years, 11 months
mount /dev/mapper
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
To get the backup of partition table
I need to mount
/dev/VolGrpSys1/root
ACTIVE '/dev/VolGrpSys1/root' [39.35 GiB] inherit
but I get:
mount /dev/VolGrpSys1/root /mnt/backup/
mount: /dev/mapper/VolGrpSys1-root is already mounted or /mnt/backup busy
fsck from util-linux 2.28.2
e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Warning! /dev/mapper/VolGrpSys1-root is in use.
Root1: clean, 741140/2580480 files, 12085996/20630528 blocks
How can I mount this volume?
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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