Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?
by Garry Williams
On most occasions I have to clean files before I am allowed to update
a Fedora 30 system:
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade
[sudo] password for garry:
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 63 kB/s | 18 kB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 226 kB/s | 659 kB
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf clean all
68 files removed
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade
Fedora 30 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 11 kB/s | 5.1 kB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 2.3 MB/s | 12 MB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 1.0 MB/s | 70 MB
google-chrome 37 kB/s | 3.4 kB
Copr repo for qt5-qtbase-print-dialog-advanced o 91 kB/s | 100 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free - Updates 128 kB/s | 130 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free 570 kB/s | 735 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree - Updates 54 kB/s | 34 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree 449 kB/s | 227 kB
Visual Studio Code 363 kB/s | 2.1 MB
Dependencies resolved.
==================================================================
Does anyone know what is special about this system that it requires
clean all before it will update? I have two other systems that never
experience the same problem.
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Garry Williams
2 weeks, 3 days
f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
on a pc where I had both Windows 7 and Fedora 29, with boot loader
configured in linux and grub2, I have run the update to Fedora 30 using the
usual procedure described here, and already completed on another pc (but
without the dual boot...):
https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-29-to-fedora-30/
after the commad
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
I saw the laptop rebooting, installing all the about 9k packages, than
verifying them and as soon as it had verified the last one, I saw again
reboot (is it expected?), but then in grub options I only see
memtest
windows 7
windows 7 recovery environment
So I think something went bad in updating grub2 config...
Any hint on how to recover grub, eventually booting from a usb stick in any
way?
Already happened to anyone else with f29 to f30?
I followed on the same laptop the same procedure without problems from f26
(or f27) to f29 until this problem.
Thanks,
Gianluca
2 weeks, 5 days
Konqueror :-{
by Beartooth
When did Konqueror become enslaved to Google? Is there a way to
liberate it? Or at least to get it back to displaying man pages?
I don't use Google, except by way of Duckduckgo or other privacy-
providing intermediary. In fact, my main and almost only use of Konqueror
is for man pages, which fonts big enough for my ancient eyeballs format
unreadably elsewhere. (I run Mate, and if I could find a second string to
Brasero that I could count on, I could uninstall all of KDE.)
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
3 weeks, 1 day
Fedora 30 and problem with monitor resolution detection in gdm/Gnome?
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
I have an Intel Skull NUC, model NUC6i7KYK, with Intel video adapter
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Iris Pro Graphics 580
(rev 09)
detailed specs here:
https://www.intel.it/content/www/it/it/products/docs/boards-kits/nuc/nuc-...
It is connected to a Dell U2515H:
https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/06291c
It was initially installed with F29 (with Wayland disabled in
/etc/gdm/custom.conf) and used resolution always being 2560x1440.
Almost when F30 was released I upgraded and no problems until today.
When powering on I see no user icons in gdm.
So I switched to sddm and lxdm and there I was able to see my users login,
but both trying Gnome session and Mate session it seems I don't see the top
bars.
While in Mate with Alt+F2 I opened a terminal window and executed xdpyinfo.
Strangely it reported a not possible resolution....
screen #0:
dimensions: 5120x1440 pixels (1354x381 millimeters)
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x162
depth of root window: 24 planes
So I decided to force 2560x1440 with this file, named 00-monitor.conf and
put into directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ml522neE-l6hsGKtGXnWHnz2cpxCsuJO/view?us...
After reboot still gdm is not able to show me any user icons (perhaps it
doesn't use the conf file), and again using lxdm and sddm and choosing
Gnome session I don't see top bar and other things.
Instead, i can use without any problem Mate and now I can see the top bar
and correctly use the session.
Opening xdpyinfo from a terminal I correctly get what forced:
screen #0:
dimensions: 2560x1440 pixels (677x381 millimeters)
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x162
depth of root window: 24 planes
Things above let me think about a problem in Gnome itself, impacting gdm
too..
Yesterday evening while connected I updated as from this log, without
rebooting:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10F-i8ogYAuXIouAC0o6t3DZ08yLz_q15/view?us...
And I think this update generated the problem, because this evening after
booting I had it.
I tried to switch to a terminal and update again and I got these packages'
updates:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TUdZVlwLakIEjm8Y7ybx8m2cMhIEzlFS/view?us...
and reboot but still the problem is here...
Anyone experimented this?
Thanks
Gianluca
3 weeks, 1 day
RPM specfile error with F30
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I have the following specfile which compiled fine in F29 but is not able to find references to standard functions in X11, etc even though the compilation happens without error (outside the rpmbuild environment). So I am wondering if anyone has some suggestions on what has changed/is going wrong.
Here is the spec file:
$ fpaste thaali.spec
Uploading (1.4KiB)...
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/3sHHnOdGoM4YHmdzzJRzgQ
And here are the messages that I get when I try to build:
$ rpmbuild -bb thaali.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.k76G12
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf thaali-0.4.2
+ /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /home/maitra/rpmbuild/SOURCES/thaali-0.4.2.tar.bz2
+ /usr/bin/tar -xof -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd thaali-0.4.2
+ /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YvXEwJ
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd thaali-0.4.2
+ autoreconf -if
+ CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
+ export CFLAGS
+ CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
+ export CXXFLAGS
+ FFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules'
+ export FFLAGS
+ FCFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules'
+ export FCFLAGS
+ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld'
+ export LDFLAGS
+ '[' 1 = 1 ']'
+++ dirname ./configure
++ find . -name config.guess -o -name config.sub
+ '[' 1 = 1 ']'
+ '[' x '!=' 'x-Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' ']'
++ find . -name ltmain.sh
+ ./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
+ /usr/bin/make -O -j8
/usr/bin/make all-recursive
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -c -o thaali.o thaali.c
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src'
gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -lSM -lICE -lX11 -o thaali thaali.o
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `delete_dock':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:231: undefined reference to `XDestroyWindow'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:232: undefined reference to `XDestroyWindow'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `create_dock':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:268: undefined reference to `XCreateSimpleWindow'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:271: undefined reference to `XCreateSimpleWindow'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:274: undefined reference to `XAllocClassHint'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:281: undefined reference to `XSetClassHint'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:282: undefined reference to `XFree'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:284: undefined reference to `XAllocWMHints'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:294: undefined reference to `XSetWMHints'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:295: undefined reference to `XFree'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:297: undefined reference to `XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:327: undefined reference to `XSelectInput'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:328: undefined reference to `XMapRaised'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:329: undefined reference to `XFlush'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:301: undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:302: undefined reference to `XSetSelectionOwner'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:304: undefined reference to `XGetSelectionOwner'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:310: undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:319: undefined reference to `XSendEvent'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:321: undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:322: undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `add_icon':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:385: undefined reference to `XReparentWindow'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `add_tray_icon':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:455: undefined reference to `XSelectInput'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:456: undefined reference to `XWithdrawWindow'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:460: undefined reference to `XSync'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:461: undefined reference to `XMapRaised'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:464: undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:471: undefined reference to `XSendEvent'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `configure_tray_icon_attrib':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:499: undefined reference to `XGetWindowAttributes'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:516: undefined reference to `XMoveResizeWindow'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `handle_event':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:530: undefined reference to `XGetWindowAttributes'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:537: undefined reference to `XResizeWindow'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `eventLoop':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:566: undefined reference to `XNextEvent'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:602: undefined reference to `XGetSelectionOwner'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:603: undefined reference to `XSetSelectionOwner'
/bin/ld: thaali.o: in function `main':
/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:620: undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
/bin/ld: /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src/thaali.c:631: undefined reference to `XCloseDisplay'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:335: thaali] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:357: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:298: all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YvXEwJ (%build)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YvXEwJ (%build)
What is going wrong?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
3 weeks, 3 days
F29 to F30 VMware upgrade
by CLOSE Dave
I have upgraded three VMware images previously running Fedora 29 to
Fedora 30 using system-upgrade. All the images are running on the same
ESC hardware and, so far as I know, use the same VMware foundation. The
first worked flawlessly. Both the second and third failed in exactly the
same way: they failed to reboot successfully after the upgrade.
When the reboot occurred, VMware reported a "alloc magic" error
immediately and froze. Not being a VMware expert, I referred the issue
to someone who is and he discovered that the MBR, master boot record, on
the image was corrupt. After installing a new MBR, the system booted and
the upgrade showed no further problems.
While investigating, we were sidetracked by the content of grub.cfg. It
appears that grub no longer includes a section for each possible system
to be booted. Not seeing any, we thought grub.cfg was corrupt also. But
that is apparently not the case. After the MBR fix, the generated
grub.cfg works properly.
--
Dave Close
3 weeks, 4 days
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' (F29)
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
On a new Fedora 29 installation, I get:
sudo dnf update
...
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular'
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular'
So, I look around, and the solution may be:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
However, it is on updates-testing and I can not get past installing anything because I always hit the above.
I even download the three rpms and try a local install but get the same result because I am unable to get past the above.
sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2019-28516f8c38
...
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular'
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular'
Any suggestions how to get around this bug? I even tried doing:
sudo rpm -Uvh
for the three rpms (and they seemingly installed) but I still get the same error upon updating.
sudo dnf update
Fedora Modular 29 - x86_64 0.0 B/x | 0 B 00:00
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular'
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular'
Any suggestions as to what I could try?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
3 weeks, 4 days
F30 Zabbix
by CLOSE Dave
On F30, zabbix-agent requires "zabbix = 4.0.7-2.fc30" but zabbix
provides "zabbix = 1:4.0.7-2.fc30". The result is that DNF will not
update either.
--
Dave Close
3 weeks, 4 days
F30 createrepo
by CLOSE Dave
In previous installations, /usr/bin/createrepo was a symbolic link to
/usr/bin/createrepo_c. Now with createrepo_c-0.14.1-1.fc30.x86_64, that
link is no longer created. This disrupts lots of scripts and will force
changes to a lot of documentation, including Fedora's own online.
--
Dave Close
3 weeks, 5 days
binary file editor
by Robert Moskowitz
For F28, I am looking for a file editor that when I paste from the
clipboard, I can see any special characters.
I am having problems with a web form copy to clipboard. You can see at
test page at:
http://www.htt-consult.com/button2.html
In Firefox on my F28 system, there is a character copied to the
clipboard that is in front of the sed command of line 1 that displays in
mousepad and geany as a space.
When I paste it into Libre Word, I get the text in a bunch of boxes.
I want to know what that character really is to figure out what is wrong
with my java script.
BTW, I have been told that Chrome does not put any character in front of
the sed command on the copy button.
Any help greatly appreciated!
3 weeks, 5 days
