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f26 logwatch users: audit report tons of messages?
by Tony Nelson 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Per [1], I was seeing tons of audit messages listed in logwatch reports. (My patch fixes that, btw.) My actual question is why I wasn't seeing those messages in my old (old) F20 logwatch reports, but did see: --------------------- Kernel Audit Begin ------------------------ **Unmatched Entries** enabled 0 flag 1 pid 0 rate_limit 0 backlog_limit 320 lost 0 backlog 0 backlog_wait_time 60000 instead. Is this your experience, that some upgrade started giving tons of audit messages? I think that previously, when logwatch looked at the logfiles, it was misconfigured to not use /var/log/audit/audit.log, but instead: LogFile = modsecurity2/modsec_audit.log and what I saw came from /var/log/messages (not sure why). Now logwatch looks at the journal (that's the format of the lines I see) and is actually able to report audit issues. [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231364 -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

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Satellite upstream
by Daniel Ståhl 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Hi, I was just wondering. Are there any plans on having an upstream project for Redhat Satellite 6? Or even satellite 7? I mean, if you want to practice and test new features the only real option I've found that you have is putting together the components of 6 or running spacewalk. But that isn't what I'm looking for, I think. Any other related tips would of course be appreciated as well. -- Ds

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Fedora documentation
by CLOSE Dave 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Online Fedora documentation seems to be intentionally broken. The site has been redesigned and all links fail. Every link redirects to the site main page and the main page does not include any search function. Specifically, the RPM guide (a document which has been in "draft" status for a long time but is extremely useful nonetheless), is nowhere to be found. It was at <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RP…>. -- Dave Close "Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." -- Tom Stoppard

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PSA: RTL8723BE users beware upgrading to kernel 4.12+
by Samuel Sieb 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

For anyone else with the misfortune to have a laptop with the RTL8723BE wifi chipset, be cautious about upgrading the kernel to 4.12 or later. It might still work if you use antenna 2, but I can't verify that. In my case with ant_sel=1, the wifi can't see anything with the 4.12 kernel or higher. I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486463 if anyone else wants to follow it. There was a patch related to ant_sel not working that was applied to 4.13, but it was reverted due to a null pointer problem.

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mdadm confusion
by Jeffrey Ross 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

system is Fedora 26, all current updates I'm running raid1, two identical 500GB disks partitioned as follows: /dev/sda1 2048 789501951 789499904 376.5G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 789501952 948973567 159471616 76G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 948973568 975749119 26775552 12.8G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 975749120 976773119 1024000 500M 5 Extended /dev/sda5 * 975751168 976773119 1021952 499M fd Linux raid autodetect raid volumes: cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md124 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sda1[1] 394617856 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/3 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk md125 : active raid1 sda5[1] sdb5[0] 510656 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk md126 : active raid1 sda2[1] sdb2[0] 79670272 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda3[1] sdb3[0] 13379584 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> Mounted partitions: /dev/md126 79631372 5608820 74022552 8% / /dev/md124 388294468 23798252 344748940 7% /home /dev/md125 486308 283858 172822 63% /boot md127 is swap I get the following error in logwatch: mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/boot: No such file or directory mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/root: No such file or directory mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/swap: No such file or directory and I see that /dev/md contains the following: # ls -l /dev/md total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 16:14 home -> ../md124 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 16:14 xyzzy2.bubble.org:boot -> ../md125 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 16:14 xyzzy2.bubble.org:root -> ../md126 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 16:14 xyzzy2.bubble.org:swap -> ../md127 the entries in /etc/mdadm.conf are: MAILADDR root AUTO +imsm +1.x -all ARRAY /dev/md/boot level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=3b187b00:b3b1a1f9:6d75f8f1:62f82999 ARRAY /dev/md/home level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=d124bd7f:80519efc:a28d80db:617eafed ARRAY /dev/md/root level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=aed6ed78:840451fc:f101760f:79960f8a ARRAY /dev/md/swap level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=f84d0bd4:fe7be888:c048d500:cca10896 I have verified that the UUID numbers do match the respective volume names. so obviously the reason for the error is boot, root, and swap don't exist, if I create a symbolic links the error will go away until the next reboot. The question is what triggers making the symbolic links at boot time, is it /etc/mdadm.conf and do I simply rebuild it? and how can I change them from the hostname to be root, boot, and swap or change the mdadm command to look for the hostname entry? If I run "mdadm --detail --scan" I get the following; ARRAY /dev/md/xyzzy2.bubble.org:swap metadata=1.2 name=xyzzy2.bubble.org:swap UUID=f84d0bd4:fe7be888:c048d500:cca10896 ARRAY /dev/md/xyzzy2.bubble.org:root metadata=1.2 name=xyzzy2.bubble.org:root UUID=aed6ed78:840451fc:f101760f:79960f8a ARRAY /dev/md/xyzzy2.bubble.org:boot metadata=1.2 name=xyzzy2.bubble.org:boot UUID=3b187b00:b3b1a1f9:6d75f8f1:62f82999 ARRAY /dev/md/home metadata=1.2 name=xyzzy2.bubble.org:home UUID=d124bd7f:80519efc:a28d80db:617eafed the array names are changed to match what is actually in /dev/md, however before I change the entries in mdadm.conf I want to make sure I'm not going to cause myself grief and have to log directly on the console of the system which is about 30 min and a phone call or two away. Thanks, Jeff

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akmod timing problem or what?
by Tom Horsley 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

I just ran a dnf update on my fedora 26 box and the build and install of the nvidia akmod failed: 2017/08/28 07:28:04 akmods: Installing newly built rpms 2017/08/28 07:28:04 akmods: DNF detected error: db5 error(-30969) from dbenv->open: BDB0091 DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30969) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Error: Error: rpmdb open failed 2017/08/28 07:28:04 akmods: Could not install newly built RPMs. You can find them and the logfile 2017/08/28 07:28:04 akmods: 375.66-3-for-4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64.failed.log in /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/ After getting the system back up, I manually installed the rpm it built via dnf install and it seemed to install fine. What the heck happened during the initial dnf update?

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dnf upgrade to F26
by Paolo Galtieri 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

I tried to upgrade one of my systems to F26 according to the documentation at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade I did the download and everything went fine. I then did sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot and here is where things went weird, there was no output at all on the monitor. The disk light was flashing, so something was going on, but nothing showed up on the monitor. After a while the disk light stopped flashing, and I assumed it was time to reboot. I rebooted, but nothing happened, the system did not boot. I tried several times with the same result. That was yesterday. Today I downloaded the F26 Workstation DVD, burned to a disk and placed it in the DVD drive of the what appeared to be a dead system. This time the system booted, but there was no F26 kernel, only F25 kernels. However, there are f26 packages installed. I was going to redo the download and upgrade, but when I run dnf I get this: [pgaltieri@caseyjones ~]$ dnf Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 57, in <module> from dnf.cli import main ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf' Anyone know what I need to do to fix this system? There are 2 other systems I want to upgrade, but after this experience I'm hesitant to go ahead with the others. This system is my test system so there's nothing important on it. Any help is appreciated. Paolo

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several issues with F25
by Paolo Galtieri 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Over the last week I have observed several problems with how F25 runs on my laptop. Issue 1: The system does not suspend on lid closed. I have an external monitor attached to it and I can continue working on the system despite the lid being closed. When I run gnome-tweak-tool and indicates the system should suspend on lid closed. I have attached the png image of the gnome-tweak-tool screen. Issue 2: Back in the F24 days and even prior to that I filed a bug (1389019) which states that when I boot my laptop on battery and login the power status applet is not displayed in the MATE top menu bar. It does show up when I plug the AC cord in. This problem has now gotten worse. The power applet is no longer displayed regardless of what I try. I have had to re-open this bug since it was without it ever being fixed. Issue 3: I run the MATE desktop and so I also run the mate-screensaver. This is configured to display pictures from my Pictures directory. Under the the "Power Management" screen it is configured to suspend on lid closed and to put the display to sleep after 5 minutes. After 5 minutes the display is not put to sleep, the pictures from the Pictures directory continue to be displayed. Issue 4: If I close the lid prior to the screen saver kicking in, wait a minute and then lift the lid my session resumes without being asked to enter a password. This to me is a serious security issue. I have installed updates as of 8/15/2017 None of these issues existed a couple of months ago, except for maybe the suspend issue. It has been a recurring problem getting the system to suspend on lid closed. Sometimes it works other times it doesn't and I've made no changes :-( Has anyone else seen these issues? As a side note why is there no equivalent to gnome-tweak-tool for the MATE desktop? When I run gnome-tweak-tool under MATE I get these errors: [pgaltieri@terrapin ~]$ gnome-tweak-tool WARNING : Shell not installed or running WARNING : Shell not running None WARNING : Error detecting shell Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_group_shell_extensions.py", line 275, in __init__ raise Exception("Shell not running or DBus service not available") Exception: Shell not running or DBus service not available Of these issues Issue 2 is probably the most critical. If I'm running on battery I want to see how much time I have left before the battery power is consumed. I know I can use the upower command to find this out, but that is not a satisfactory solution. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Paolo

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What's up with firefox on f26?
by Eyal Lebedinsky 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

A recent update asked to remove firefox (55.0.1-1.fc26), and when I followed with an install I ended with the old version 54.0-2.fc26 installed. Attempting to upgrade to the latest goes nowhere (see below). I found a redhat bugzilla regarding an unwise decision to force an unnecessary dependency https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484345 mentioning there is a new package (firefox-55.0.2-3), but it is not showing up. Anyone knows what is going on with this? Firefox is the most 'net facing application here and I need to have the latest version installed. TIA == $ sudo dnf update firefox Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:37 ago on Mon Aug 28 09:49:01 2017. Dependencies resolved. Problem: problem with installed package nspr-devel-4.16.0-1.fc26.x86_64 - package firefox-55.0.2-2.fc26.x86_64 conflicts with pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.16 provided by nspr-devel-4.16.0-1.fc26.x86_64 - cannot install the best update candidate for package firefox-54.0-2.fc26.x86_64 ============================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================== Skipping packages with conflicts: (add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade): firefox x86_64 55.0.2-2.fc26 updates 82 M nspr-devel x86_64 4.16.0-1.fc26 updates 119 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================== Skip 2 Packages Nothing to do. Complete! -- Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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F26 guest in qemu/kvm and 4.12.8-300 kernel
by Ed Greshko 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

Has anyone tried running a F26 guest in qemu/kvm with the latest 4.12.8-300 kernel? When it comes to GNOME I can only boot to multi-user mode, not graphical, by removing rhgb from the boot parameters. If I attempt to boot to graphical mode it hangs at "Started user manager for UID 42" with UID 42 belonging to gdm. If I boot to multi-user mode and then login and use "startx" I am presented with a black screen and maybe the "Activities" indicator in the upper left. When it comes to KDE, which is configured for sddm, it will boot to graphical mode if I remove "rhgb quiet" from the boot parameters. However, the screen cannot be resized and issuing a "xrandr --output Virtual-0 --auto" is not effective and may result an apparent hang or a display which goes wonky in that it seems it thinks it is resized....but it isn't and the mouse isn't where it thinks it is. Any similar experiences? -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly

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