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initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?
by Grant Edwards 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

On Fedora 27 with kernel recently updated to 4.15.15-300.fc27.i686, I ran into a problem when I installed a new version of a driver (we'll call "foo") in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/[...]. Doing a "rmmod foo; modprobe foo" loads the new driver and everything works great. However, rebooting loads a 15-year old version of the driver (which doesn't work great). lsinitrd shows that the 15-year old driver is present in the initramfs. On a clean install of Fedora 27 (running an identical kernel version) the initramfs does not contain the "foo" driver at all. Did the kernel upgrade process muck up the initramfs by adding the old version of the "foo" driver? The "old" version is the one that's shipped with the kernel package, but I've never seen it included in the initramfs before. What's the best way to remove the old, broken driver from the initramfs so that the driver in the root filesystem is used on boot? Is there a way to prevent the kernel update process from adding the driver back to the initramfs the next time a kernel is updated? Alternatively, I suppose I could add a "service" that runs at boot time and does a "rmmod foo; modrobe foo", but that seems like the wrong way to fix this... -- Grant

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fedora 27 doesn't support cups administration from the web browser ?
by Angelo Moreschini 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hi, after installing fedora 27 I am not able to get the cups administration from the web browser..(http://localhost:631). Looking for help on internet I saw that in the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, should be these lines <I also checked that these lines they are on the same file (.conf) that come with fedora 21> : ------ WebInterface Yes # Allow remote access Port 631 and others too, perhaps that I didn't checked well ------ But these lines aren't on the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf of fedora 27. So my question is : really that can be true ? what is the best way for fixing the problem on my new compputer that have fedora 27 ?

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foxit reader
by ToddAndMargo 15 Apr '18

15 Apr '18

Hi All, Anyone know of an RPM out there for Foxit Reader? https://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ -T

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HW and SW threats: how to block?
by home user 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Good afternoon, background: In the past few months, I've seen a few articles on the internet about coin mining, also called cryptojacking. Seems that in a variety of ways, software can be loaded onto remote computers and then run to mine crypto-currency, often without the user knowing it. This is done to make money, sometimes for good purposes, but sometimes for malicious people or organizations. The running of most such scripts is barely noticeable (deliberately!), but some can take up so much cpu and/or gpu so as to fry the processors (by overheating them). question: I realize there's no perfect protection. But based on the knowledge and experience of the members of this list, which of the coin-mining blockers available for Firefox is best (most effective)? thanks, Bill.

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Program won't start
by Jonathan Ryshpan 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Seagate's SeaTools for Linux won't start on my system. The file is rather old and in a funky format, but it looks like it ought to run. Nevertheless, it won't run. Can anyone tell me what's goi ng on? Here's what happens: $ ls -l st-rwxr-xr-x. 1 jonrysh jonrysh 180149 Sep 12 2001 st $ file st st: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, not stripped $ st bash: ./st: No such file or directory $ strace st execve("./st", ["st"], 0x7ffc80690900 /* 76 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2997, ...}) = 0 read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2997 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 4), ...}) = 0 write(2, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 getpid() = 18983 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++

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Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Sometimes when I try to install Fedora, Windows eats my installation USB stick. Fedora is distributed as a .iso (a CD/DVD image). This image is cleverly designed such that if you dump it, byte for byte, onto a USB stick (not into a filesystem), you get a stick that can be booted. I install by booting this disk, usually in UEFI mode. But sometimes the firmware escapes me and Windows is booted. For example, if I am not quick enough typing ESC / DEL / F12 / whatever to steer the firmware to boot the USB stick. When that happens, Windows always seems to damage the image on the USB stick. What the heck is up with that? When I boot the installation stick, I always choose the option to check the contents before booting Fedora. I do this because the Windows damage is unannounced. I just had it happen again. Here's the damage, as found by cmp(1). I haven't worked hard at analyzing what it is but every changed byte started out as zero. The new bytes don't smell like ASCII (but I'm not great at recognizing ASCII in decimal). Any idea why Windows makes this unprovoked attack on installation sticks? It sure is inconvenient. Since Microsoft is unlikely to fix this Windows bug, would it be worthwhile for Fedora to take countermeasures? For example, ignore exactly those bytes that Windows damages? $ sudo cmp -l Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28_Beta-1.3.iso /dev/sdg 61462533 0 377 61462534 0 377 61471313 0 377 61471314 0 377 61471315 0 377 61471316 0 377 61472773 0 377 61472774 0 377 61481553 0 377 61481554 0 377 61481555 0 377 61481556 0 377 61483073 0 102 61483074 0 40 61483076 0 111 61483078 0 156 61483080 0 146 61483082 0 157 61483084 0 17 61483086 0 162 61483087 0 162 61483089 0 155 61483091 0 141 61483093 0 164 61483095 0 151 61483097 0 157 61483101 0 156 61483105 0 1 61483106 0 123 61483108 0 171 61483110 0 163 61483112 0 164 61483114 0 145 61483116 0 17 61483118 0 162 61483119 0 155 61483121 0 40 61483123 0 126 61483125 0 157 61483127 0 154 61483129 0 165 61483133 0 155 61483135 0 145 61483137 0 123 61483138 0 131 61483139 0 123 61483140 0 124 61483141 0 105 61483142 0 115 61483143 0 176 61483144 0 61 61483145 0 40 61483146 0 40 61483147 0 40 61483148 0 26 61483150 0 103 61483151 0 223 61483152 0 142 61483153 0 215 61483154 0 114 61483155 0 215 61483156 0 114 61483159 0 224 61483160 0 142 61483161 0 215 61483162 0 114 61483163 0 2 61499393 0 56 61499394 0 40 61499395 0 40 61499396 0 40 61499397 0 40 61499398 0 40 61499399 0 40 61499400 0 40 61499401 0 40 61499402 0 40 61499403 0 40 61499404 0 20 61499406 0 103 61499407 0 223 61499408 0 142 61499409 0 215 61499410 0 114 61499411 0 215 61499412 0 114 61499415 0 224 61499416 0 142 61499417 0 215 61499418 0 114 61499419 0 2 61499425 0 56 61499426 0 56 61499427 0 40 61499428 0 40 61499429 0 40 61499430 0 40 61499431 0 40 61499432 0 40 61499433 0 40 61499434 0 40 61499435 0 40 61499436 0 20 61499438 0 103 61499439 0 223 61499440 0 142 61499441 0 215 61499442 0 114 61499443 0 215 61499444 0 114 61499447 0 224 61499448 0 142 61499449 0 215 61499450 0 114 61499457 0 102 61499458 0 107 61499460 0 165 61499462 0 151 61499464 0 144 61499468 0 17 61499470 0 377 61499471 0 377 61499472 0 377 61499473 0 377 61499474 0 377 61499475 0 377 61499476 0 377 61499477 0 377 61499478 0 377 61499479 0 377 61499480 0 377 61499481 0 377 61499482 0 377 61499485 0 377 61499486 0 377 61499487 0 377 61499488 0 377 61499489 0 1 61499490 0 111 61499492 0 156 61499494 0 144 61499496 0 145 61499498 0 170 61499500 0 17 61499502 0 377 61499503 0 145 61499505 0 162 61499507 0 126 61499509 0 157 61499511 0 154 61499513 0 165 61499517 0 155 61499519 0 145 61499521 0 111 61499522 0 116 61499523 0 104 61499524 0 105 61499525 0 130 61499526 0 105 61499527 0 176 61499528 0 61 61499529 0 40 61499530 0 40 61499531 0 40 61499532 0 40 61499534 0 104 61499535 0 223 61499536 0 142 61499537 0 215 61499538 0 114 61499539 0 215 61499540 0 114 61499543 0 224 61499544 0 142 61499545 0 215 61499546 0 114 61499547 0 50 61499548 0 21 61499549 0 114 61499553 0 102 61499554 0 164 61499558 0 377 61499559 0 377 61499560 0 377 61499561 0 377 61499562 0 377 61499563 0 377 61499564 0 17 61499566 0 316 61499567 0 377 61499568 0 377 61499569 0 377 61499570 0 377 61499571 0 377 61499572 0 377 61499573 0 377 61499574 0 377 61499575 0 377 61499576 0 377 61499577 0 377 61499578 0 377 61499581 0 377 61499582 0 377 61499583 0 377 61499584 0 377 61499585 0 1 61499586 0 127 61499588 0 120 61499590 0 123 61499592 0 145 61499594 0 164 61499596 0 17 61499598 0 316 61499599 0 164 61499601 0 151 61499603 0 156 61499605 0 147 61499607 0 163 61499609 0 56 61499613 0 144 61499615 0 141 61499617 0 127 61499618 0 120 61499619 0 123 61499620 0 105 61499621 0 124 61499622 0 124 61499623 0 176 61499624 0 61 61499625 0 104 61499626 0 101 61499627 0 124 61499628 0 40 61499630 0 106 61499631 0 223 61499632 0 142 61499633 0 215 61499634 0 114 61499635 0 215 61499636 0 114 61499639 0 224 61499640 0 142 61499641 0 215 61499642 0 114 61499643 0 51 61499644 0 21 61499645 0 14 70490113 0 173 70490115 0 71 70490117 0 101 70490119 0 67 70490121 0 64 70490123 0 105 70490125 0 106 70490127 0 67 70490129 0 70 70490131 0 55 70490133 0 104 70490135 0 63 70490137 0 104 70490139 0 61 70490141 0 55 70490143 0 64 70490145 0 64 70490147 0 64 70490149 0 102 70490151 0 55 70490153 0 71 70490155 0 64 70490157 0 60 70490159 0 61 70490161 0 55 70490163 0 103 70490165 0 66 70490167 0 104 70490169 0 70 70490171 0 64 70490173 0 60 70490175 0 71 70490177 0 102 70490179 0 71 70490181 0 60 70490183 0 67 70490185 0 105 70490187 0 175 70492161 0 14 70492165 0 137 70492166 0 344 70492167 0 351 70492168 0 77 70492169 0 207 70492170 0 144 70492171 0 2 70492172 0 305 cmp: EOF on Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28_Beta-1.3.iso after byte 1933574144

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SD slot errors
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

I've just installed F28 beta on my Cube Mix Plus tablet. It seems to work but a sequence of messages keep showing up in the dmesg outputnevery 10 seconds. [ 537.896013] mmc1: Timeout waiting for hardware cmd interrupt. [ 537.896023] mmc1: sdhci: ============ SDHCI REGISTER DUMP =========== [ 537.896037] mmc1: sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000000 | Version: 0x00001002 [ 537.896048] mmc1: sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000000 | Blk cnt: 0x00000000 [ 537.896053] mmc1: sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000000 [ 537.896059] mmc1: sdhci: Present: 0x000a0001 | Host ctl: 0x00000001 [ 537.896065] mmc1: sdhci: Power: 0x0000000e | Blk gap: 0x00000080 [ 537.896070] mmc1: sdhci: Wake-up: 0x00000000 | Clock: 0x0000e8c7 [ 537.896075] mmc1: sdhci: Timeout: 0x00000000 | Int stat: 0x00000000 [ 537.896081] mmc1: sdhci: Int enab: 0x00ff0043 | Sig enab: 0x00ff0043 [ 537.896086] mmc1: sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000000 [ 537.896092] mmc1: sdhci: Caps: 0x7568c881 | Caps_1: 0x00000807 [ 537.896097] mmc1: sdhci: Cmd: 0x00000102 | Max curr: 0x00000000 [ 537.896103] mmc1: sdhci: Resp[0]: 0x00000000 | Resp[1]: 0x00000000 [ 537.896108] mmc1: sdhci: Resp[2]: 0x00000000 | Resp[3]: 0x00000000 [ 537.896112] mmc1: sdhci: Host ctl2: 0x00000000 [ 537.896118] mmc1: sdhci: ADMA Err: 0x00000000 | ADMA Ptr: 0x0000000000000000 [ 537.896121] mmc1: sdhci: ============================================ This looks to me as if it is trying to open the SD card (but there is no SD card in the slot). Here's the part of dmesg output where the slot is recognized: [ 2.093265] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver [ 2.093267] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman [ 2.111345] sdhci-pci 0000:00:1e.4: SDHCI controller found [8086:9d2b] (rev 21) [ 2.111363] sdhci-pci 0000:00:1e.4: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 2.112328] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:00:1e.4] using ADMA 64-bit [ 2.112348] sdhci-pci 0000:00:1e.6: SDHCI controller found [8086:9d2d] (rev 21) [ 2.112364] sdhci-pci 0000:00:1e.6: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Why would it do this?

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Help debug a network issue
by Robin Laing 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hello, I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up. Only a reboot will enable the wired network. This problem started in February after a kernel update with Fedora 26. Upgraded to Fedora 27 today and the problem still persists. I was hoping it would be fixed. The only indication of any issue is an error message that pops up. kernel: do_IRQ: 7.33 No irq handler for vector. I would like to find more details but if I cannot I will just file a bug against the kernel. Robin

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Problems with ASUS MB and CPU temperature
by GianPiero Puccioni 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi, I have recently installed Linux on my PC and I have some problems with the CPU temperature, while everything works fine under Win10. The MB is an Asus STRIX B250F - The chipset is reported by hwinfo as "Intel 200 Series PCH LPC Controller (B250)". The problem is that it seems that the fans are not controlled and the CPU temp get very high, and during some tasks (like a "dnf update" with several packages) I get a "Temp critical CPU throttled" message. The sensors command gave little help at start with the default installation. On line I found some advice and I tried using the grub option "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" and loading the "nct6775" module which reports "Found NCT6793D or compatible chip at 0x2e:0x290" in dmesg. With this sensors gave more info (Temp and Fans) but some was still missing unfortunately the problem remains. Does anyone knows what is the proper module to load for this chipset? Or if there is something else to be done. Thanks, GianPiero

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vt's enable screen blanking
by Wolfgang S Rupprecht 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I have an ancient 32-bit x86 Acer mini laptop running as a server where the X11 greeter just started crashing in a tight loop. I've turned the graphical login off but that leaves me with the first vt's login prompt displaying. Whatever is responsible for blanking the screen seems not to be doing its thing. Where is the screen blank timer configuration these days? It has been so long and things have changed so much that google is useless. I assume systemd has absorbed that function by now but I can't find it. /etc/systemd/logind.conf doesn't seem to have a screenblank setting even though it seems to have everything else. -wolfgang

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