users November 2019

users@lists.fedoraproject.org

97 participants
123 discussions

F31 upgrade non-starter
by Temlakos 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Everyone: I just tried to upgrade to F31. And I couldn't get past a few seconds in the upgrade environment before it "failed out" and rebooted to F30, after touching nothing. For the record: I started by running: sudo dnf upgrade --refresh When one of my packages (a third-party package named mkvtoolnix) didn't upgrade I reran the upgrade command with two additional flags, per the explicit suggestion: sudo dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing That did it, and I have a working version of mkvtoolnix, even with its GUI apparently baked in (so that the separate mkvtoolnix-gui package is obsolete and now removed). Then I ran this command: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=31 --best --allowerasing It took many hours, but I got 2.8 gigabytes of downloads. I also imported three GPG keys. It did successful transaction check and test. Before anyone asks: I have never been able to do a successful CLI upgrade using the system-upgrade package without passing the --allowerasing switch to the download command. I passed the --best switch because it seemed to work on the upgrade command and I thought I was adding an extra measure of security. Then I ran sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot And what happened? Well, first it rebooted into the upgrade environment. And I saw the progress screen. And then, rather abruptly, the upgrade progress screen vanished. I saw a very brief message from a program called "watchdog" that went by too quickly to read. Then it rebooted into my present F30 environment. Result: I have a working system, but it's still in F30 and I don't know why it failed to start the upgrade process, or how to get it started. At the moment I have a bunch of downloads of F31 packages, all dressed up and nowhere to go. If anyone wants to see logs, I ask just one thing: tell me what are their names, and in what folder I will find them. Then I'll be happy to copy and paste them. As far as I know, nothing like this issue has shown up in Bugzilla, unless I'm missing something. Temlakos

4 9

workstation management
by Anthony F McInerney 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hi All, Apologies if I've missed something obvious. I have 5 local fedora installations (mainly the xfce spin) on various computers, i'd like to manage centrally. Looking upstream at RHEL it seems that Satellite 5 was based on spacewalk, the new version is based on foreman. I'm not particularly fond of foreman, and the installation process on fedora requires puppet, and or docker / openshift / kubernetes, or something called forklift that uses vagrant. I'd like to run it on a particularly low power server (2cores 8gb ram). Currently running Fedora Server 31. But if one of the other editions offer something for this, i'm quite happy to switch. Spacewalk looks okay, but Redhat are only supporting it until May 2020 afaict, and doesn't seem officially supported on anything later than F29. Ansible, Salt etc, are all fine, but I would like some basic info, like disk space available etc, manage updates, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Ant.

1 0

Firefox and H264
by Frank Elsner 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hello, the firefox of the Fedora Live system doesn't play videos which require a H.264 handler. How to enable playing of H.264 videos? Without that I can't install. And is the Fedora Workstation release better? Kind regards, Frank Elsner

2 1

mismatch in hdf packages prevent upgrade from F30->F31
by Jouk Jansen 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hi All, When performing an upgrade from F30 to F31 on one of my machines the upgrade process tries to install (yes an install not an upgrade) the packages hdf.x86-64 and hdf.i686. This fails due to a mismatch in these packages of /usr/bin/h4cc and /usr/bin/h4fc. Does anyone has an idea which other package recently got a dependence on hdf and triggers this problem? If I know I may can remove the i686 version from my system. Regards Jouk Pax, vel iniusta, utilior est quam iustissimum bellum. (free after Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 b.Chr.-46 b.Chr.) Epistularum ad Atticum 7.1.4.3) Touch not the cat bot a glove >------------------------------------------------------------------------------< Jouk Jansen joukj(a)hrem.nano.tudelft.nl Technische Universiteit Delft tttttttttt uu uu ddddddd Kavli Institute of Nanoscience tttttttttt uu uu dd dd Nationaal centrum voor HREM tt uu uu dd dd Lorentzweg 1 tt uu uu dd dd 2628 CJ Delft tt uu uu dd dd Nederland tt uu uu dd dd tel. 31-15-2782272 tt uuuuuuu ddddddd >------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

3 6

GRUB and nonstandard EFI partitions
by Kad Zayar 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hello, this is the first time I participate in a mailing list. Today I attempted installing Fedora Workstation on a friend's computer and there were some peculiar quirks to the process. - Anaconda-installer asked me for a 2MB boot partition - the resulting install had no /sys/firmware/efi. Fedora was supposed to share the machine with an existing Windows10 install thru UEFI not BIOS. Turns out, his EFI partition is on /dev/sda2, while /dev/sda1 is some ms recovery system bloat. This makes scripts like os-prober unhappy (according to logs) and makes the system believe it's MBR because the fiilelsystem format of assumed /dev/sda1 does not match. We discovered this when we realised that Windows won't show as a grub entry no matter what. Now I could alter the partition table with sfdisk(8), to make /dev/sda1 point at the EFI partition, but I'm hoping you guys know a less hacky way (with grub itself maybe). altering Windows partitions is not something he's comfortable with, while reinstalling Fedora is not a problem (he still hasn't made it his own). Thanks!

4 5

how to fix error systemd-modules-load
by Cătălin George Feștilă 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

this is the error on dmesg [ 15.063818] systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. [ 15.064239] systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. I try to restart it but I got this: [root@desk mythcat]# systemctl restart systemd-modules-load Job for systemd-modules-load.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. The journalctl -xe come with this: -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1. Nov 09 16:04:02 desk systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- The unit systemd-modules-load.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'. Nov 09 16:04:02 desk systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. -- Subject: A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has finished with a failure. -- -- The job identifier is 2647 and the job result is failed. Nov 09 16:04:16 desk systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules... -- Subject: A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun execution -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun execution. -- -- The job identifier is 2651. Nov 09 16:04:16 desk systemd-modules-load[5606]: Failed to lookup module alias 'fuse': Function not implemented Nov 09 16:04:16 desk systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE -- Subject: Unit process exited -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit systemd-modules-load.service has exited. -- -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.

2 1

grub2 always defaults to old kernel despite correct configuration
by Not Random 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hello, I've had a confusing problem with grub2 for some time now. I'm now running Fedora 31, but ever since upgrading to to Fedora 30 grub has always defaulted to selecting the 3rd entry. This means that unless I stop it, Grub will always boot my oldest installed kernel. * My system is dual boot with Windows 8.1, which grub detects perfectly. (This means there are 5 entries; 3 kernel, 1 memtest and 1 Windows) * I've tried moving all the grub configuration files aside and reinstalling the package, but nothing changes. Tried grub2-mkconfig etc but nothing changes. * I've had multiple kernel updates during this time but nothing changes. * Grubby seems to thing the default kernel is selected...but grub never boots it: # grubby --grub2 --default-kernel /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64 # rpm -q kernel kernel-5.2.18-200.fc30.x86_64 kernel-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 kernel-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64 I've tried searching for solutions, but cannot find anything like this problem - most articles address choosing a permanent kernel entry - I want Fedora to go back to selecting the newest kernel by default, like it did in Fedora 29 and previous versions. Can anyone tell me where to investigate please? Thanks! Frustrated

5 13

Fedora 30 workstation keeps crashing...
by linux guy 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

My Fedora 30 workstation keeps freezing up. Can't open another session or reboot via the keyboard. Only thing it responds to is a hard reset. I've been using it for 3 years with no issues. Ideas ? How do I troubleshoot it ? LG $ uname -a Linux Brix 5.3.8-200.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 29 14:46:22 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux KDE Plasma Version: 1.15.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0 Qt Version: 5.12.5 Hardware i7-5775R with 16 GB of RAM.

5 8

VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site. That site will be the place I present services to the world; httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers" and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net; if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address, and I am not opening any inbound ports. There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html ) and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth, and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail. Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to break with FC1 or FC2? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs

8 8

Named GeoIP just got large
by ToddAndMargo 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hi All, # ls -al /var/named/chroot/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 62899374 Oct 8 12:07 /var/named/chroot/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb Just got ~20 times larger. Can I delete it and start over? Many thanks, -T

7 14

← Newer
1
...
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Older →