Oh oh. I screwed up my F26 installation. Help keep me from
destroying everything....
by vendor＠billoblog.com
So, I decided to do a clean installation of F26 over my F25
installation. My old configuration was:
Dual boot HP laptop: Win 10, F25.
F25 had an encrypted /home partition, a separate /swap partition (I know
I don't have to have one, but I'm old), and an unencrypted / partition
where, I thought, /boot/efi lived.
I do the installation using the GUI from "Install to Hard Drive" on the
USB live distro ((KDE spin), and choose "delete everything associated
with only F25." I am required to create a /boot/efi partition by the
GUI. So I do (I vaguely remembered that F25 was happy using the system
uefi partition, but I don't remember).
I install, and everything seems to go well.
Then I reboot, and my old F25 boot options come up (i.e. a list of F25
kernels and the Win 10 bootloader). Of course, it can no longer find
the F25 kernel. The Win 10 boots up fine.
So... I'm figuring I mis-configured where to put the boot directory, and
somehow it's finding the old one (which may well be in the system uefi
partition -- I don't remember).
The last time I had a problem with this, I ended up trying to move
directories by hand, and wrote over the Windows boot loader, which
caused me no end of headaches. I don't want to make that mistake again.
Here's what's on my hard drive:
sda1: "EFI system partition", containing BOOTSECT.BAK EFI
FSCK0000.REC FSCK0001.REC FSCK0002.REC FSCK0003.REC FSCK0004.REC
mach_kernel System 'System Volume Information' 260 MB
sda2: Microsoft reserved partition (I can't mount it) 128 MB
sda3: Windows data partition 103.42 GB
sda4: Windows recovery partition 731 MB
sda5: Windows recovery partition (another one, apparently) 25.43 GB
sda6: This looks like my old F25 boot partition (I thought it was
deleted) 18 GB It contains:
config-4.8.16-300.fc25.x86_64
config-4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64
config-4.9.5-200.fc25.x86_64
efi
elf-memtest86+-5.01
extlinux
grub2
initramfs-0-rescue-95f65550951744038812b588382884c8.img
initramfs-4.8.16-300.fc25.x86_64.img
initramfs-4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64.img
initramfs-4.9.5-200.fc25.x86_64.img
initrd-plymouth.img
lost+found
memtest86+-5.01
System.map-4.8.16-300.fc25.x86_64
System.map-4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64
System.map-4.9.5-200.fc25.x86_64
vmlinuz-0-rescue-95f65550951744038812b588382884c8
vmlinuz-4.8.16-300.fc25.x86_64
vmlinuz-4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64
vmlinuz-4.9.5-200.fc25.x86_64
sda7: "EFI system partition" 23.28 GB. Ut contains:
EFI
mach_kernel
System
sda8: This looks like the F26 boot partition that is not being called.
9 G
9cd45473cdd74075934e438993760520
config-4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64
efi
elf-memtest86+-5.01
extlinux
grub2
initramfs-0-rescue-ea56b271f5994ca7b63e2028c325a528.img
initramfs-4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64.img
lost+found
memtest86+-5.01
System.map-4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64
vmlinuz-0-rescue-ea56b271f5994ca7b63e2028c325a528
vmlinuz-4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64
sda9: Encrypted /home partition, 760 GB
So, it looks like I've managed to create two System EFI partitions. Who
knew?
Two questions:
Is there a simple fix-by-hand for this?
If I have to re-install from the USB, what mistake did I make and how to
I not do it again?
Thanks!
billo
6 years, 11 months
Green screen error in VLC
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
This happens after upgrading from F25 to F26, when playing a video --
no image; only a green screen. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
6 years, 11 months
Fedora 26 qemu breaks Win10 guests
by Sam Varshavchik
Upgraded F25 that had a Win10 guest VM to F26.
When the VM got started, the initial logo and the spinning circle came up,
but then the display cleared to what appears to be the VGA 648x480
resolution, with gray vertical lines and something else.
After a few minutes of this I force-rebooted the VM. Windows 10 went into
"Automatic Repair", then gave up, reporting some corrupted file. It didn't
find any restore points either.
So, I'm now reinstalling it from a recovery disk. I have no idea if the
restored image will come up…
6 years, 11 months
Mouse middle-button does work well on sound volume control
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I have just upgraded from F25 to F26, and I am using XFCE. When I try
to change the sound volume by using the mouse middle-button on the
volume icon (taskbar), it does not work. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
6 years, 11 months
F26: make: error while loading shared libraries: /lib64/libgmp.so.10: unexpected reloc type 0x000208a8
by Barry Scott
I was in the middle of doing some coding and I got this:
$ make
make: error while loading shared libraries: /lib64/libgmp.so.10: unexpected
reloc type 0x000208a8
At no time was I doing any updates or other priv'ed actions that might change
the system.
No dmesg since boot up 2 hours ago.
I check with rpm:
$ rpm -q -V gmp
..5...... /usr/lib64/libgmp.so.10.3.2
Did a reinstall:
$ dnf reinstall gmp
And rpm verify has nothing to report:
$ rpm -q -V gmp
Now make is working again.
Any idea what is going on?
Barry
6 years, 11 months
lost three-finger middle button after upgrade
by Sjoerd Mullender
I upgraded my laptop (Dell XPS 13) to Fedora 26. Unfortunately, I lost
the three-finger click on the touchpad to get an emulated middle button
in the process.
I use XFCE.
I cannot find any relevant configuration in the Mouse and Touchpad
settings, nor with xinput, or the settings editor.
My questions: is this a bug, and if so, in what component?
I'm happy to file a bug report, but it helps to know the answers to the
above.
--
Sjoerd Mullender
6 years, 11 months
VirtualBox and F26.
by Erik P. Olsen
Any known issues with VirtualBox on F26?
--
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen
6 years, 11 months
F24 QEMU running away at 100% cpu after system resume
by Robert Moskowitz
This is an ongoing pain in the hind side. All too often, when I resume
my F24 system after a suspend, my QEMU is running away at 100% and my
F21 image (that I use for a few apps that I like from F21) is
non-responsive.
The only option, so far, has been to force the image off, then restart
it, then get everything working again.
It does not matter if I Pause the image or not.
I have not been able to find any telling messages in syslog.
Other than upgrading (I am waiting for F26 to ship, but I will just port
the F21 image to the new F26 system), any recommendations? I am at the
IEEE 802 conference this week, so I suspend many times during the day as
I move between sessions. And next week is IETF with again lots of
suspend/resume activity...
Thanks
Bob
6 years, 11 months
Multi-user VNC on F23 and later
by CLOSE Dave
I'm trying to setup a multi-user VNC server on recent versions of Fedora
without success thus far. I understand that doing so requires a display
manager with XDMCP support. The current default DM is SDDM which does
not include such support (at least so far as I've found). That means I
need to change the DM.
Following a suggestion I found somewhere, I ran "dnf install kdm;
systemctl enable --force kdm.service". I chose KDM because the machines
involved generally use KDE, not Gnome. That seems to be a painless
substitution. However, I'm sure I'll have to install some protections
against automatic updates that reverse the change.
Then I tried to follow the instructions in RH Bugzilla 1393971
(<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393971>) and those at RH
Solutions 2516 (for XDMCP with xinetd) and 2681531 (which replaces
xinetd with a systemd socket). I also modified /etc/kde/kdm/Xaccess to
uncomment "*". After this I get a connection but no login screen, just a
blank screen with a momentary note about using F8.
The log shows several errors at different times in my experiments.
Sometimes Plymouth is not running. Sometimes I'm told the VNC service
got more than one socket. Usually KDM reports that it can't open the
display, using an IPv6 notation for the display.
Can anyone point me to instructions which take into account systemd and
the structure of recent Fedora releases? It seems to me likely that I've
messed up something simple in trying to adapt the instructions (which
are for xinetd and GDM). Or have I provided enough information to make a
guess as to the problem?
--
Dave Close
"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." -- Tom Stoppard
6 years, 11 months
Can't change F26 XFCE desktop image background
by Sam Varshavchik
Something is fundamentally not working here. I'm just trying to change the
desktop background picture.
I go into Settings > Desktop. The "Background" tab is open by default.
The "Folder" dropdown list offers several predefined locations. I pick
"Other", and a file selection dialog opens, showing the contents of
"/usr/share".
But every file and subdirectory of "/usr/share" is grayed out and disabled.
I can't actually browse the filesystem. The dialog is dead.
The only thing I can do here is pick from one of the preselected directory
locations on the left, like "Desktop", "Documents", "Music", etc. Each one
opens the corresponding directory, but that's it. Every file and
subdirectory is grayed out and disabled.
I'm seeing this on two separate laptops that were upgraded to F26. What the
heck is going on?
6 years, 11 months
