May 2019 - users - Fedora mailing-lists

[FC8] ssh and CAC card???
by Todd Denniston 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

From what I understood, the change to openssh listed in: rpm -q --changelog openssh |less as: "* Wed Jun 20 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 4.5p1-7 - experimental NSS keys support - correctly setup context when empty level requested (#234951) " was supposed to allow the Common Access Card (CAC) to work with the shipped Fedora 8 ssh. As per NSS usual, everything is undocumented, i.e., `ssh-add --help` does not help at all, and `man ssh-add` points to `ssh-add -s reader` # ssh-add -s 0 Enter passphrase for smartcard: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Could not add card: 0 # ssh-add -s 1 Enter passphrase for smartcard: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Could not add card: 1 So does anyone know how to use the possible functionality, or are we reduced to reading the source? -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

4 8

This list's search engine not working?
by HaJo Schatz 22 May '24

22 May '24

Ever since I stumbled across this list, I seem to have major difficulties searching the archives. Say I want to see my posts to the list (they all have the same footer as below), I believe I could go to http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ and enter "HaJo" as a search string. Searching in all sections, I get 0 results. Does the search engine ignore me by some reason? BTW -- I've been posting since about June, and when showing the archives sorted by author, I do find my posts. OK, not the most helpful to search for my own posts, but I do have the same issue when searching for given topics. Any other search engine out there indexing this list reliably? Google shows 0 hits on a "site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/" search... -- HaJo Schatz <hajo(a)hajo.net> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt

4 5

Re: Tomcat
by Rahul Sadotra 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi Michael, --- Michael Folin <michael.folin(a)donator.se> wrote: > how do I install Tomcat i fedora? > can't find it during the installation > If you mean during the installation of Fedora Core itself, then I don't think Tomcat is provided with Fedora Core (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). This means you will probably need to download Apache Jakarta Tomcat (either binaries, or the source which you'll need to build) and install it. Hope this helps. All the best, Rahul ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

2 1

SATA optical drives
by David Fletcher 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of months. Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's even seen a dual layer disk :'( SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable? Is anybody already running them with Fedora? Thanks for any advice/experiences. Dave F

5 4

Apache and umask for document root
by Alex 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Hi, I've set up a virtual host for a joomla website and having some permissions problems. I've seen numerous configurations online about how to set umask for the apache user, but none have worked, including creating a systemd file (/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service) with the following: [Unit] Description=The Apache HTTP Server After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target [Service] Type=notify Environment=LANG=C Umask=0006 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND ExecReload=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k graceful # Send SIGWINCH for graceful stop KillSignal=SIGWINCH KillMode=mixed PrivateTmp=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target The problem is that the files are owned by the joomla user, but also need to have access (both read and write) to be able to modify some files within the document root. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to set umask for the apache user? I'm also interested in recommended permissions settings for the joomla document root. Thanks, Alex

9 35

Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming messages? If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just change it to the current date. If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just change it to the current date. I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how. I've done some searching, still have some to do. Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if necessary.

5 5

Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)
by linux guy 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

How is it working for you ? Thanks

10 21

Re: Backing up system
by gmspro 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi, http://www.sysresccd.org/Download With the SystemRescueCd I backed up the /dev/sda6 partition in /mnt/backup/ naming "diskimage" After backing up operation the file has the automatic extension like "diskimage.000". Is this file ok to restore? If I name it "diskimage.gz" then it is automatically renamed with this extension "diskimage.gz.000" But here below http://www.sysresccd.org/Screenshots the file is name like this: "diskimage.pimg" Do I have to name with the .pimg extension during backup to restore correctly? And how can I restore it?

7 7

What do you open .mobi files with??
by Beartooth 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora- native ebook reader! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

6 10

Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?
by Gianluca Cecchi 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Hello, I have recently begun to use again gnome session and I have reinstalled nautilus. I see that nautilus depends on tracker and so the reinstall put in tracker and its things And this morning in my F28 system with SSD disk (I don't imagine on a normal sata based environment) I had to kill tracker-extract and tacker-miner processes because they hogged my cpu for several minutes.. Searching with google I found different info about disabling (or at least calm down) tracker, but they all seem not updated, in the sense that several commands/services are not present in my f28 environment. Any pointer about configuring and/or disabling it? Thanks in advance, Gianluca

6 12

Fedora 30: after update aMule do not work anymore
by Dario Lesca 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Start aMule via command line (amule-2.3.2-17.fc30.x86_64.rpm) aMule seem to work, but. Goto on Network (List Server) panel. After few second aMule crash (core dumped) with this error 2019-05-06 22:26:02: Initialising aMule 2.3.2 compiled with wxGTK2 v3.0.4 2019-05-06 22:26:02: Checking if there is an instance already running... 2019-05-06 22:26:02: No other instances are running. 2019- 05-06 22:26:03: ListenSocket: Ok. 2019-05-06 22:26:03: Loading temp files from /multimedia/aMule-Temp. 2019-05-06 22:26:03: All PartFiles Loaded. (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.945: Negative content width -17 (allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.945: Negative content width -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node border, owner GtkFrame) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.945: Negative content width -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node border, owner GtkFrame) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17 (allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17 (allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17 (allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17 (allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17 (allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -33 (allocation 1, extents 17x17) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -9 (allocation 1, extents 5x5) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -33 (allocation 1, extents 17x17) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -9 (allocation 1, extents 5x5) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -33 (allocation 1, extents 17x17) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -9 (allocation 1, extents 5x5) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (amule:22764): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:26:08.947: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbarErrore di segmentazione (core dump creato) Seem some incompatibility with wxGTK2/3 Some suggest? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)

2 2

comments in pdf
by Patrick Dupre 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Hello, Would you have a suggestion for a software capable of adding comments in a pdf file? Thank =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

11 10

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

How do I generate grub for legacy?
by ToddAndMargo 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. Now when booting from legacy, it go into "System Setup". If you press system Setup, I get a "/grub/core-system" type error Remaking grub.cfg, I get # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done Uhhhhh.. I wanted legacy, not EFI. What am I missing? Many thanks, -T My procedure: UEFI.BIOS.Dual.Boot.txt: References that stink: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=223015 https://bl.ocks.org/gdamjan/05b799162e4b3e97a30d37a89fed0fa8 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/configure-grub-to-boot-legacy-and-uefi/1293… Requirements: Fedora 29 Before installing, gparted: Wipe the target disk create a partition table as GPT create a first partition as 1 Meg unformatted set the partition flag to "bios_grub" Install Fedora 29 from a UEFI machine: "/home" was removed at installation and moved into "/" --->>> PRESUMED !!! <<<--- The machine was install and booted from UEFI The machine is mounted as /dev/sda Install the legacy BIOS boot loader: Boot into fedora on UEFI only installs 3 files # dnf reinstall grub2-pc create the BIOS .cfg file # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Note: if this complains, you forgot to create the partition above # grub2-install --removable --recheck --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda

7 41

copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?
by Gianluca Cecchi 22 Aug '19

22 Aug '19

Hello, while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem: - I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names - if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a location where the page listed is full (no blank space inside it), it seems that I cannot paste: the right mouse click doesn't offer the paste option. In these cases I temporarily switch to what should be "icon view" and in this case I always have some blank space because of how items are displayed. I select a blank space and then right-mouse --> paste Then I come back to list view... Is this a sort of bug or what? Based on this link https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-copy.html.en I should have "paste" option in menu, but it doesn't happen, see screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1ZPYPJ5B8IRDA6T_LL5AfbCD2YFAy6_/view?usp=… NOTE: keyboard shortcut ctrl+c and ctrl+v works, though Thanks in advance. Gianluca

3 4

Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?
by Garry Williams 07 Jun '19

07 Jun '19

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. -- Garry Williams

9 12

f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present
by Gianluca Cecchi 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

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 5

Konqueror :-{
by Beartooth 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

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.

7 25

Fedora 30 and problem with monitor resolution detection in gdm/Gnome?
by Gianluca Cecchi 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

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-ki… 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?usp=… 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?usp=… 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?usp=… and reboot but still the problem is here... Anyone experimented this? Thanks Gianluca

5 8

RPM specfile error with F30
by Ranjan Maitra 01 Jun '19

01 Jun '19

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 10

F29 to F30 VMware upgrade
by CLOSE Dave 31 May '19

31 May '19

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 7

Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' (F29)
by Ranjan Maitra 30 May '19

30 May '19

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

2 1

F30 Zabbix
by CLOSE Dave 30 May '19

30 May '19

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 2

F30 createrepo
by CLOSE Dave 30 May '19

30 May '19

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

2 1

binary file editor
by Robert Moskowitz 30 May '19

30 May '19

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!

2 2

system-upgrade from CIFS-mounted repo?
by Greg Woods 30 May '19

30 May '19

I have a feeling that when this is resolved I'll be doing a face palm and saying "of course, you idiot!" but I'm not seeing the answer right now. I have a local repo that I maintain using rsync from an official Fedora mirror site. This repo is located on one of my "always-on" servers using a systemd automount in /etc/fstab: worldsys:/install /install nfs rw,x-systemd.automount 0 0 This works great for installing new packages and doing updates, but it does not work for doing dnf system-upgrade. The packages are not copied when the "system-upgrade download" is done because they are already on a locally-available file system, but when the "system-upgrade reboot" is done, the upgrade fails (presumably because the remote file system is not available at the point of the upgrade boot where the upgrade transaction is run, either because the network is not up or the automount is not happening). Is it impossible to do a system-upgrade from a remote-mounted repo (which would defeat much of the purpose of maintaining such a repo), or is there a way to make the network come up and the automount happen at system-upgrade reboot time? I suppose I could set up a web server on the system with the repo so that the download would be forced at system-upgrade download time, but that's a big hammer for a small nail that I would prefer to avoid. Thanks, --Greg

2 3

alternatives to pnmixer in F30
by Ranjan Maitra 30 May '19

30 May '19

Hi, I have noticed that pnmixer has been orphaned in F30. What are alternatives that I may use? (I rather liked pnmixer and am sorry to see it go, but would be fine with checking out something else). Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

1 0

Kickstart Fedora 30 (aarch64) on Raspberry Pi 3 B+
by Felix Geschwindner 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hi Fedora community, Fedora on RPI is AMAZING and I'm working on a project to automate provisioning for a Raspberry Pi cluster. This would add a ton of CI capabilities and convenience. It would also take the edge of the nuisance that RPIs eat SD cards like I eat Oreos. Right now the process is pretty manual: 1. Put SD card in secondary machine 2. DD Fedora's minimal aarch64 image onto SD card 3. Grow partition 4. Put SD card back 5. Boot 6. Go through initial setup 7. Update all packages 8. Continue with regular config and host management This requires being physically in front of the RPIs (and provisioning machine) and involves a lot of hand holding. I'd like to make this process as headless as possible so that re-kicking a RPI is as easy as "setting a flag", rebooting and waiting for the RPI to come back up freshly installed. Right now I have the following path in mind how this could potentially work: The network interface of the RPI3B+ is capable of PXE booting, yay! So I'm thinking something along the lines of: 1. DHCP 2. Load files through TFTP (bootcode.bin -> start_x.elf -> DTB(?) -> u-boot.bin/IPXE -> kernel -> initramfs) 3. Boot kernel/initramfs which fires up Anaconda 4. Install Fedora normally 5. Use %post to copy device tree files to /boot and do other things necessary to make the RPI boot If this worked, provisioning would be as easy as: (0. Create DHCP reservation) 1. SD card into RPI 2. Turn on RPI 3. Login via SSH/VNC/etc. I managed to boot U-Boot, chain load iPXE (probably not necessary since U-Boot is capable enough) but when pulling the regular aarch64 vmlinuz/initrd.gz pxeboot images it just errors out with an error saying "Invalid application". My knowledge about the kernel/initramfs chain gets blurry here which is why all tries in altering the initrd.gz image have failed gloriously. If we can make this possible I'd be happy to turn it into a Wiki page so that others can extend their RPI environment with unattended provisioning. Happy memorial to everyone celebrating and thank you for your interest! Vascko

3 4

gnome-terminal-server.service fails with startx
by Samuel Rakitničan 29 May '19

29 May '19

I am trying to run gnome-terminal on openbox started from terminal (multi-user.target) with startx command. GNOME applications that relies on DBus can't communicate or fails to start in the case of gnome-terminal. Starting gnome-terminal tries to pull gnome-terminal-server but that service fails. Code: $ gnome-terminal # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached May 27 13:58:42 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server... May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 gnome-terminal-server[1673]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 gnome-terminal-server[1673]: Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display: May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=10/n/a May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server. On the other hand, starting the openbox from GDM works fine for DBus applications so it must be that environment is not set correctly when starting with xinit. dbus.socket and dbus.service are running. I am on Fedora 30.

1 0

F30 Grub2-mkconfig and Grub2-install not Working Correctly?
by Stephen Morris 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hi, I have upgraded from F29 to F30 via the recommenced dnf method. I have Fedora running in a vm under vmware player. Grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install no longer seem to generate the grub menu as they did under F29, the menu seems to be that generated by grubby (it could be that turning off the suppression of sub-menu creation is now being ignored). Looking at /boot/grub2/grub.cfg I cannot see any references in there to kernels, so I have attached the file for reference. Am I missing something or is the functionality now different, /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is where I have always written the grub.cfg via this process? regards, Steve

4 9

F30, user sessions fail with: systemd[PID]: PAM failed: Cannot allocate memory
by Francis.Montagnac＠inria.fr 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hi. After 2 successful upgrades from F29 to F30 and 2 successful full installations, I decided to upgrade my main machine (that runs fine since past november, installed in F28 then upgraded to F29). No luck: unable to login (graphical, textual, ssh) except root. The journal shows: May 20 12:31:41 ... kernel: Linux version 5.0.16-300.fc30.x86_64 (mockbuild(a)bkernel03.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 9.1.1 20190503 (Red Hat 9.1.1-1) (GCC)) #1 SMP Tue May 14 19:33:09 UTC 2019 ... May 20 12:37:44 ... systemd-logind[1717]: New session 3 of user fm. May 20 12:37:44 ... systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 1005... May 20 12:37:48 ... systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty2. May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user fm by (uid=0) May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: PAM failed: Cannot allocate memory May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session closed for user fm May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: user(a)1005.service: Failed to set up PAM session: Cannot allocate memory May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: user(a)1005.service: Failed at step PAM spawning /usr/lib/systemd/systemd: Cannot allocate memory I add time, from a second textual console as root, to see the "systemd --user" process reach more than 40 GB of memory before dying. The lightdm session fails also with the same error. Tries that do not solved this problem: - re-installing kernel, systemd - downgrading systemd to systemd-239-12.git8bca462.fc29 - fresh install in F30 Tries that solve this problem: - adding mem=8192M to the kernel command line this machine a 64 G of memory - commenting pam_systemd.so from PAM (but want to keep it) Any idea how to debug that? Thanks a lot. -- francis

1 1

Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request
by Max Pyziur 28 May '19

28 May '19

Greetings, Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for using MIDI on Fedora? Much thanks, Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

5 12

Fedora 30, BootLoaderSpec and generating entries under /boot/loader/entries
by Kevin Wilson 28 May '19

28 May '19

Hi all, I had installed Fedora 30, on a dual boot machine which has a second partition with Fedora 28. Fedora 30 comes by default with a new boot loader spec. I found under /boot/loader/entries/ the following: ls /boot/loader/entries/ ec1b8b7719964c8b9a1d8db430c63fd6-0-rescue.conf ec1b8b7719964c8b9a1d8db430c63fd6-5.0.9-301.fc30.x86_64.conf0 I want to be able to boot by default into Fedora 28. Is there a way by some utility to generate entries under /boot/loader/entries/ for the Fedora 28 and choose Fedora 28 as the default ? Or should I disable the boot loader spec in order to boot to Fedora 28 on this machine ? Regards, Kevin

3 3

is grubby a dumb software?
by François Patte 28 May '19

28 May '19

Bonjour, For a long time now grubby has replaced grub2-mkconfig to update the grub.cfg file. From this time, I have to correct the kernel update manualy with grub2-mkconfig because every time grubby chooses a wrong partition as the / partition. The choosen partition is not mounted, it is empty, with no boot flag.... Why grubby chooses this partition? It is so stupide that I am wondering what is the way followed by grubby to to this? Thank you for any light. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

7 9

F28, openvpn, NetworkManager
by Jack Craig 27 May '19

27 May '19

hi all, anyone got openvpn doing proper route management with vpn start/stop? my take appears to suggest NM to be the problem, but short on proof. anyone? tia, jackc...

3 11

DHCP fails on wired Ethernet after F29-F30 upgrade
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage 27 May '19

27 May '19

I've been running F30 on my Lenovo P72 laptop since upgrading to the beta. I had all sorts of SELinux problems until I reset the contexts. Now there's one last problem I haven't been able to fix and that's the wired Ethernet port. Whenever I connect to it, the NetworkManager applet loops and loops without ever getting a DHCP address. It worked fine in F29, and so does the WiFi port with DHCP in F30. systemd baffles me, and the lack of /var/log/messages doesn't give me much to look thru. I've run 'journalctl -u NetworkManager' to see what happens when I plug in the RJ-45 connector, then disconnect it: May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6461] device (enp0s31f6): carrier: link connected May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6464] device (enp0s31f6): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'carrier-changed', sys-iface-state: 'managed') May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6478] device (enp0s31f6): Activation: starting connection 'Ethernet' (8b81adbf-22bf-3f18-ba5e-85f78dc4fa17) May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6480] device (enp0s31f6): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6484] device (enp0s31f6): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6845] device (enp0s31f6): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6848] dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds) May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6863] dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): dhclient started with pid 21697 May 25 02:18:33 tiger.protogeek.org dhclient[21697]: DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s31f6 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 (xid=0x94236275) May 25 02:18:37 tiger.protogeek.org dhclient[21697]: DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s31f6 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 (xid=0x94236275) May 25 02:18:41 tiger.protogeek.org dhclient[21697]: DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s31f6 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x94236275) May 25 02:18:48 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768728.5573] device (enp0s31f6): state change: ip-config -> unavailable (reason 'carrier-changed', sys-iface-state: 'managed') May 25 02:18:48 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768728.5740] dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 21697 May 25 02:18:48 tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768728.5740] dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): state changed unknown -> done The wired Ethernet never comes up, but as soon as I unplug it the WiFi port's DHCP connection resumes perfectly. Can anyone suggest the next step? --Doc Savage

4 6

OT - Antivirus clean up USB
by Javier Perez 26 May '19

26 May '19

Hi. This is Off Topic. Is there a reliable usb or dvd distribution with tools to clean up viruses, root kits, whatever from a Hard drive? I got a quite slow windows 10 laptop from a nephew for clean up (I do not know what kind of viruses/malware might be lurking in there). Rather than hooking it to my home network I would prefer to first start it from a cleaning usb/dvd and at least catch and erase them off line instead of giving them the opportunity to try and conquer my linux realm :) Thanks -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

10 15

Kernel 5.0.17 Vega failing on boot.
by Leander Hutton 26 May '19

26 May '19

Hello, I have an AMD Ryzen with a Vega 56 graphics card running Fedora 30 and the 5.0.17 update the graphics output seems to just die after grub. Rolled back to the previous kernel (5.0.16) in grub and it comes up just fine. No errors or logs ... just sits there at the ASRock logo on screen after selecting the kernel. From what I can tell it is actually installed. Tried runlevel 1 and 3 as well and it does the same thing. The kernel works fine on my laptop but that's an Intel machine. Standard grub command line arguments except amddgpu.gpu_recovery=1 for the Vega card. I did also try it with that removed and still no go. I can SSH into it just fine but the screen is just sitting there with the BIOS manufacturer's logo, nothing telling in dmesg or /var/log/messages and it doesn't set off abrt. I'm running a pretty standard Fedora system with only some codecs and non-free software from rpmfusion. The only other thing I changed recently was adding the ROCm for OpenCL image support on my Radeon card. I removed those after I noticed this issue and reran dracut to no avail, reinstalled the kernel and all related packages as well. Nothing. Anyway, looks like I really loused something up. Luckily the older kernel still works fine. Any other ideas out there? Maybe the ROCm packages left something behind (removed with dnf remove)? Thanks! Leander

2 2

Possible nvidia driver
by rodmccown＠aircanopy.net 25 May '19

25 May '19

Updated Fedora 30 system with all latest, and latest kernel. Gnome doesn't start, but consoles seem to be ok and it does boot to multiuser....I think. When I reboot down into the previous kernel, 5.0.13-300.fc30.x86_64, everything works fine. > Wondering if there is a problem with the newer kernel and my nvidia card, GeForce GT 640. Haven't had time to really look yet, but wondering if anyone else has run across this? > Thanks. > Kindly do NOT hijack threads. Your message is completely unrelated to the one you are replying to, and changing the Subject line does not make it OK because the various list-related headers remain the same. Create a new message from scratch if you want people to reply. poc Also, Thanks Patrick O'Callaghan for so kindly informing me of how to ask for help on this user list. Last time I asked for help I was 2 versions behind on the OS and I got roasted because the OS version was too old. Maybe I should try Ubuntu.

3 3

fixrefox 67 - support for CSS media query prefers-color-scheme not working
by Barry Scott 25 May '19

25 May '19

I have firefox 67 install on f30 and its not honouring the prefers-color-scheme CCS media query. I use KDE in dark mode. This works for Firefox 67 on macOS. Is this expected to be working? Should I create bug report for this? Barry

3 2

OSM??
by Beartooth 24 May '19

24 May '19

Can dnf get me OSM? I tried osm, OSM, and openstreetmap. I don't doubt there's some sort of .iso on their own site, but with a program so vast ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

5 8

Vagrant vbguest on Fedora 30
by Paul-Erik Törrönen 24 May '19

24 May '19

Seems like there's a conflict between rubygem libs in Vagrant: $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest Installing the 'vagrant-vbguest' plugin. This can take a few minutes... /usr/share/gems/gems/psych-3.1.0/lib/psych.rb:237: warning: already initialized constant Psych::LIBYAML_VERSION /usr/share/ruby/psych.rb:237: warning: previous definition of LIBYAML_VERSION was here /usr/share/gems/gems/psych-3.1.0/lib/psych.rb:239: warning: already initialized constant Psych::NOT_GIVEN /usr/share/ruby/psych.rb:239: warning: previous definition of NOT_GIVEN was here Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins, reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network issues. The error from Bundler is: conflicting dependencies fog-core (~> 1.43.0) and fog-core (= 2.1.2) Activated fog-core-2.1.2 which does not match conflicting dependency (~> 1.43.0) Conflicting dependency chains: fog-core (= 2.1.2), 2.1.2 activated versus: vagrant-libvirt (> 0), 0.0.41 activated, depends on fog-core (~> 1.43.0) I attempted to rebuild the vagrant/vagrant-libvirt package with definitions for a newer (2.1.2) fog-core but this did not seem to fix it. Installed packages: $ rpm -qa | grep vagrant vagrant-2.2.4-1.fc30.noarch vagrant-libvirt-0.0.45-1.fc30.noarch $ rpm -qa | grep fog-core rubygem-fog-core-2.1.2-2.fc30.noarch Any clues on how to get vagrant working again? TIA, Poltsi

1 1

Custom rtsp/rtmp server for incoming video streams
by Sam Varshavchik 24 May '19

24 May '19

Searching some likely keywords using "dnf list" came up empty. There are some Android apps that stream video from the phone to Youtube/Facebook but also have an option to stream video to a custom RTSP or RTMP URL. The only thing I could find in dnf are a few packages that can stream video files to an RTSP or an RTMP client. I'm looking to do the opposite, set up a server that receives streamed video and saves it to files. Anyone knows of anything that does that?

3 6

Fedora 30 - setting IP addresses
by Kevin Wilson 22 May '19

22 May '19

HI all, I had installed Fedora 30 and /etc/network-scripts/ is empty, there are no ifcfg-eth* files. In Fedora 29, I had set eth0 to be a dhclient interface by editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp182s0f1) and setting BOOTPROTO=dhcp ... ONBOOT=yes How can I achieve similar outcome in Fedora 30 ? Regards, Kevin

4 3

DNF remove only?
by Geoffrey Leach 22 May '19

22 May '19

A package has been broken and needs to be re-installed. DNF sees the package as installed and won't take any action. DNF remove removes dependencies, so that's a solution, but requires considerable work and is frught with problems. Any suggestions?

3 3

Laptop's display not visible in setting
by Ester Muñoz 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hi everyone. I upgraded yesterday my HP Pavilion from Fedora 29 to 30. Everything went wonderfully, thank you all. I have a second monitor attached to it via HDMI. All run perfectly and when I came back I realized the laptop's screen was gray with the fedora logo on it. It is there but I can't use it, like it is not part of the desktop. In the GNOME settings I do not see any other screen than the monitor. Did not give much thought to it, and went to sleep. This morning, I disconnected the second monitor to see if booting only with its own monitor would do something and no... gray screen again. The grub screens appear on the laptops monitor but the login screen is on the external monitor. I also tried the NVIDIA X server settings where both screens were earlier and there is only one screen listed :-( Can anyone help me out to make the laptop's monitor work again? Thank you in advance Ester -- Ester Muñoz Aparicio Tuokkostie 1C19 - 18200 - Heinola - Finland GSM: (+358) 408019020 email: memunoz at gmail dot com skype: ester.munoz.aparicio IN SPAIN: C/ San Isidro 2 Urb. Altos del Cantal 11 - 04638 - Mojácar (Almería) - Spain

2 4

Fedora 30 workstation: How to use Tray Icons out of the box (without add an extension)
by Dario Lesca 22 May '19

22 May '19

When an application like remmina, telegram, keepassxc, ecc. is start, it put an icon on tray on all other DE like Cinnamon, Mate, ecc.... In Gnome, where is, and how to access, to this tray icons out of the box, without add an extension? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 30 Workstation)

1 1

Default route not correctly added
by Alex 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hi, I've just installed fedora30 desktop on a friend's computer for him. It was installed and configured here before he brought it to his house and connected it to his cable modem. Previously I had set up port forwarding on his modem from port 8027 to port 8027 on his system for web access and port 8022 to port 8022 on his system for remote ssh access. I used the gnome network manager to configure networking and just manually configured ssh to listen on port 8022 instead of the default. The problem is that, after bringing it back to his house and putting it online, the default route was not added properly and the system was unreachable until I stepped him through the process of adding it manually. This is the command I had him run as root to configure the default route: # route add default gw 192.168.9.1 dev enp4s6 Here is that /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Wired_connection_2 config: HWADDR=00:0E:0C:3B:35:68 TYPE=Ethernet PROXY_METHOD=none BROWSER_ONLY=no BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=192.168.9.110 PREFIX=24 GATEWAY=192.168.9.1 DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy NAME="Wired connection 2" UUID=850cde8f-7dc2-364a-8911-e511cdbea2e4 ONBOOT=yes DNS1=8.8.4.4 AUTOCONNECT_PRIORITY=-999 Is there something immediately identifiable that would prevent the default route from working? Typically NAME and DEVICE are the name of the device, like enp4s6, but they don't exist in this config. Is that what is missing? I can't easily reboot this machine, so want to be sure before I do it.

4 11

F30, XFCE google-earth-pro problem
by ja 21 May '19

21 May '19

I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system. google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second startup and closedown time. Tests have shown that su - fred and then running google-earth-pro avoids the delay. env shows greatly fewer environmental variables are set in the "su - fred" case. This led to an alternative approach of un-setting some environmental variables. (without the "su - fred" step) unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; google-earth-pro The delay is no longer present and google-earth-pro appears to run OK. Has anyone any idea what is going on here? How important are those environmental variables?

4 5

Command 'L' in 'fdisk' Shows a Changed List
by das 21 May '19

21 May '19

Hello Friends For a very long time I was using Fedora, much older versions. A few days back I installed Fedora 30. I was using fdisk to format an USB pendrive. After creating a new partition with 'n' and checking with 'p' that it was created, I typed 't' to change the type from 'Linux Filesystem' to something compatible with MSW. If I am remembering correctly, earlier I used 'c' for 'LBA 32' partition. But now, when I hit 'L' for the list, it showed me an entirely unknown kind of table. I could nowhere get any documentation for this new kind of table. I could not understand anything. Thanks in advance for any help. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

3 4

No console login prompt
by Michael Eager 21 May '19

21 May '19

I'm running Fedora 30 in a LXC container (the host is CentOS 7). When I start the container, I get the usual console messages, then nothing. I do not get a login prompt. When I attach to the container and run systemctl, I don't see console-getty.service running. When I try to start it, systemctl says it is masked. Unmasking and starting console-getty.service gives me the missing login prompt. Does anyone know why console-getty.service is masked by default? -- Michael Eager eager(a)eagerm.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306

2 3

Fedora and the MDS CVEs
by Justin Forbes 20 May '19

20 May '19

For those of you wondering the Fedora status of the MDS CVEs that went public on Tuesday. Here is where we stand: kernel-5.0.16 and microcode_ctl-2.1-29 contain the initial mitigations for kernel/microcode, and are in stable updates for F29 and F30, The kernel is still in updates-testing for F28 as it needs karma, but should make it to regular updates soon. libvirt and qemu have updates in updates-testing across all releases. F29 and F30 updates will push to stable today, and F28 still needs karma. All updates, once they hit stable, may take a day or two to reach all mirrors, so if you do not see it available, you can keep trying, or go directly to the main mirror. If you do not know what the MDS CVEs are, or would like more infomation on them, there is a good write up at https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/mds Thanks, Justin

2 1

Re: Planned Outage - Fedora Core Services 2019-04-10 21:00 UTC
by Tim 20 May '19

20 May '19

On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 19:16 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > There will be an outage starting at 2019-04-10 21:00 UTC , > which will last approximately 5 hours. Hmm, today there will be an outage last month? ;-)

1 0

TigerVNC fails to display new windows properly
by Alex 20 May '19

20 May '19

Hi, I've installed tigervnc according to the instructions here for a new fedora30 install: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_28&p=desktop&f=6 mate-desktop doesn't seem to work properly, so I've just stuck with the default xinitrc, which produces the default fedora30 desktop. I can connect to the remote machine after providing authorization, then the local authorization at least twice and finally getting to the remote desktop. It appears as it normally does, with "Activities" in the upper-left. The problem is that after starting any applications, whether it's the file manager, Firefox, or a regular terminal, it starts, but the app does not appear. I believe it's being directed to another display. Is that possible? I've started the application, and I can confirm it's running by connecting to the machine via ssh and finding it in the process list, but it just doesn't display on the remote desktop. I don't have physical access to the machine to see if the app is started on the default desktop. Here is my ~/.vnc/xstartup: $ cat xstartup #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc #exec /usr/bin/mate-session Here is the log file that is produced after starting vncserver: $ cat localhost.localdomain\:1.log Xvnc TigerVNC 1.9.0 - built Feb 3 2019 09:54:51 Copyright (C) 1999-2018 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.rst) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 12003000, The X.Org Foundation Thu May 16 20:28:43 2019 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 Thu May 16 20:28:47 2019 ComparingUpdateTracker: 0 pixels in / 0 pixels out ComparingUpdateTracker: (1:-nan ratio) Thu May 16 20:29:02 2019 Connections: accepted: 68.195.199.42::37586 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8 SConnection: Client requests security type VeNCrypt(19) SVeNCrypt: Client requests security type TLSVnc (258) VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888 VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888 Here is the command I run on the local machine to start the vncserver as the regular user (gary): $ vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600 -depth 24 Here is what the vncserver command shows in the process table: $ ps ax|grep vnc 6991 pts/5 Sl 0:05 /usr/bin/Xvnc :1 -auth /home/gary/.Xauthority -depth 24 -desktop localhost.localdomain:1 (gary) -fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d -geometry 800x600 -pn -rfbauth /home/gary/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -rfbwait 30000 The reason the hostname is displayed as "localhost.localdomain" is because it's on a private IP range (192.168.9.110) without DNS, and I'm using port forwarding from the cable modem to this host for port 5900 through 6000. Ideas greatly appreciated.

3 2

getfedora.org/keys 404
by raviprakash06 19 May '19

19 May '19

Hi! Thanks for building an excellent Linux distro that I have been using for about 16 versions now :-) In trying to upgrade my Fedora 29 to Fedora 30, using the instructions listed on this page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade , I was prompted to verify trust in the RPM signing keys. Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 1.6 MB/s | 1.6 kB 00:00 Importing GPG key 0xCFC659B9: Userid : "Fedora (30) <fedora-30-primary(a)fedoraproject.org>" Fingerprint: F1D8 EC98 F241 AAF2 0DF6 9420 EF3C 111F CFC6 59B9 From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-30-x86_64 Is this ok [y/N]: When I searched for the fingerprint to verify it (which I like to do so that I can trust the keys atleast as much as I trust the TLS certificate) , my first result was for the page https://getfedora.org/keys/ . However clicking on that link now gives me a 404. I ended up using a version of the page cached by the search engine to verify the keys. Has something else replaced the page? Or maybe was it inadvertently not published? Thanks Ravi

5 6

Fedora 30 install - no wifi
by Geoffrey Leach 17 May '19

17 May '19

This refers to a fresh install of Fedora 30 (Xfce spin) on a laptop that was previously running F25 with no problems. Install took place using a hardwire connection. After install, /etc/hosts was updated and the wifi using the GUI Using the instructions in https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/09/18/connect-to-wifi-network-from-comman… here's what I have. I've verified that the MAC address of the router is correct. The password supplied is the network password. Suggestions for further diagnostics and/or a fix will be greatly appreciated. # iw dev phy#0 Unnamed/non-netdev interface wdev 0x2 addr a0:a8:cd:ed:9a:09 type P2P-device txpower 0.00 dBm Interface wlp3s0 ifindex 3 wdev 0x1 addr 2e:f0:d8:c5:1e:3e type managed txpower 0.00 dBm # ip link set wlp3s0 up # iw wlp3s0 scan BSS e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f(on wlp3s0) last seen: 297.765s [boottime] TSF: 10805719880 usec (0d, 03:00:05) freq: 5765 beacon interval: 100 TUs capability: ESS Privacy RadioMeasure (0x1011) signal: -25.00 dBm last seen: 354 ms ago Information elements from Probe Response frame: SSID: NETGEAR78 Supported rates: 6.0* 9.0 12.0* 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 RSN: * Version: 1 * Group cipher: CCMP * Pairwise ciphers: CCMP * Authentication suites: PSK * Capabilities: 16-PTKSA-RC 1-GTKSA-RC (0x000c) BSS Load: * station count: 0 * channel utilisation: 0/255 * available admission capacity: 0 [*32us] HT capabilities: Capabilities: 0x9ef RX LDPC HT20/HT40 SM Power Save disabled RX HT20 SGI RX HT40 SGI TX STBC RX STBC 1-stream Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes No DSSS/CCK HT40 Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003) Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 4 usec (0x05) HT RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-23 HT TX MCS rate indexes are undefined HT operation: * primary channel: 153 * secondary channel offset: below * STA channel width: any * RIFS: 1 * HT protection: no * non-GF present: 0 * OBSS non-GF present: 0 * dual beacon: 0 * dual CTS protection: 0 * STBC beacon: 0 * L-SIG TXOP Prot: 0 * PCO active: 0 * PCO phase: 0 Extended capabilities: * Extended Channel Switching * BSS Transition * Operating Mode Notification * Max Number Of MSDUs In A-MSDU is unlimited VHT capabilities: VHT Capabilities (0x0f8259b2): Max MPDU length: 11454 Supported Channel Width: neither 160 nor 80+80 RX LDPC short GI (80 MHz) TX STBC SU Beamformer SU Beamformee VHT RX MCS set: 1 streams: MCS 0-9 2 streams: MCS 0-9 3 streams: MCS 0-9 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported VHT RX highest supported: 0 Mbps VHT TX MCS set: 1 streams: MCS 0-9 2 streams: MCS 0-9 3 streams: MCS 0-9 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported VHT TX highest supported: 0 Mbps VHT operation: * channel width: 1 (80 MHz) * center freq segment 1: 155 * center freq segment 2: 0 * VHT basic MCS set: 0x0000 WPS: * Version: 1.0 * Wi-Fi Protected Setup State: 2 (Configured) * Response Type: 3 (AP) * UUID: daefb3b6-e5b1-95e3-b129-6eff7b6db709 * Manufacturer: NETGEAR, Inc. * Model: R7000 * Model Number: R7000 * Serial Number: 32 * Primary Device Type: 6-0050f204-1 * Device name: R7000 * Config methods: Display * RF Bands: 0x3 * Unknown TLV (0x1049, 6 bytes): 00 37 2a 00 01 20 WMM: * Parameter version 1 * u-APSD * BE: CW 15-1023, AIFSN 3 * BK: CW 15-1023, AIFSN 7 * VI: CW 7-15, AIFSN 2, TXOP 6016 usec * VO: CW 3-7, AIFSN 2, TXOP 3264 usec # wpa_passphrase NETGEAR78 >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf xxxxxxxxxxxx # wpa_supplicant -i wlp3s0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant nl80211: Could not set interface 'p2p-dev-wlp3s0' UP nl80211: deinit ifname=p2p-dev-wlp3s0 disabled_11b_rates=0 p2p-dev-wlp3s0: Failed to initialize driver interface P2P: Failed to enable P2P Device interface wlp3s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f (SSID='NETGEAR78' freq=5765 MHz) wlp3s0: Trying to associate with e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f (SSID='NETGEAR78' freq=5765 MHz) wlp3s0: Associated with e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-SUBNET-STATUS-UPDATE status=0 wlp3s0: WPA: Key negotiation completed with e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f completed [id=0 id_str=] wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=e4:f4:c6:14:f9:1f reason=3 locally_generated=1 nl80211: deinit ifname=wlp3s0 disabled_11b_rates=0 wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING ^C

1 0

OTP check via API
by Adam Bishop 17 May '19

17 May '19

Is there an API endpoint I can use to perform OTP verification without the users password (i.e. just with their DN or uid)? I've got a non-web application with its own authentication system that I'd like to add MFA to, and I'd rather avoid copying the OTP secrets to it or re-writing the application.

1 1

nvidia-settings causing problems
by Alan 17 May '19

17 May '19

I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. What happens is if you have the nvidia-settings app installed, after a while the X server will no longer open any windows. xlsclients will show a bunch of nvidia-settings connections. This number grows until you hit the limit and nothing else will open. This did not happen with F29, so I expect it is something old and left over that is causing problems. I will be reporting this to the rpmfusion people as soon as I have a login on their bugzilla.

3 4

auto mount and unmount using udev rules
by Danishka Navin 17 May '19

17 May '19

Hi, I am trying to mount a USB drive to given symlink and mount it to a given mount point. Mount is working but when the device removed, I can still see the mount cat /etc/udev/rules.d/81-hnt-usb-rule.rules ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd?1", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb", \ SYMLINK+="hanthana%n", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="hnt-usb-rule.service" ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/bin/umount $(/usr/bin/mount | grep backup | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}')" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [danishka@hanthana ~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/hnt-usb-rule.service [Unit] Description=USB Mount [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/root/hnt.sh [Install] WantedBy=default.target ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cat /root/hnt.sh #!/bin/bash mkdir /backup lsblk > /var/log/hnt.log /usr/bin/mount /dev/hanthana1 /backup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/bin/umount $(/usr/bin/mount | grep backup | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}')" [root@hanthana ~]# echo $(/usr/bin/mount | grep backup | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}') /dev/sda1 Even though you can't access /backup after removing the USB, mount command shows following results (After plugin the usb and remove several times). I wonder why it automatically remove these entries as fedora normally mount USBs on default location. /dev/sda1 on /backup type ext4 (rw, relatime, seclabel) /dev/sdb1 on /backup type ext4 (rw, relatime, seclabel) /dev/sdc1 on /backup type ext4 (rw, relatime, seclabel) /dev/sdd1 on /backup type ext4 (rw, relatime, seclabel) I was testing on both Fedora 28 Gnome and LXDE. Regards, -- Danishka Navin

2 2

why the long pause after bash "command not found"?
by Robert P. J. Day 17 May '19

17 May '19

i'm finally annoyed enough about this to just ask ... on a regular basis, i mistype a command and (predictably) get: bash: xxx: command not found... but, quite often, rather than getting a bash prompt back immediately, there is a loooooooong pause, as i wait, and wait, and wait for a new prompt, finally running out of patience and breaking with ^C to get a new prompt. what in the name of mutt is bash doing all that time? if there's no such command, why the long pause in giving me a new prompt? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================

8 9

Is pcHDTV 5500 still supported...
by D&R 16 May '19

16 May '19

I have been using the above tuner card for tv reception/recording with MythTV since 2008. The last upgrade was to F27 and the last kernel that could use the card (that I am aware of) is 4.17.19-100.fc27.x86_64. More recent kernels can not get a lock on the signal. If the pcHDTV 5500 is no longer supported, what is a good replacement card to get. If it is supported what is my next step? Thanks, David

3 12

Anyone ever heard of just USB 3 dying?
by Tom Horsley 16 May '19

16 May '19

Any USB 3 stick I plug into my computer gets recognized as a USB storage device, then immediately starts getting errors such as: [ 1418.060792] usb 1-1.5: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci [ 1423.169910] usb 1-1.5: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [ 1439.042249] usb 1-1.5: device descriptor read/64, error -110 Old USB 2 sticks work no problem, keyboard and mouse work no problem. Can just the high speed USB 3 support die on a motherboard? I doesn't seem to matter where I plug it in, the hard wired plugs on the back of the computer give the same errors as the ones on the front hooked up with cables. The USB 3 sticks I've tried work fine on other computers, so they don't seem to be the problem.

2 2

Configuring apache and smokeping on dynamic IP
by Alex 16 May '19

16 May '19

Hi, I have a fedora30 desktop on a dynamic IP behind a cable modem that I'd like to configure to support apache and specifically smokeping. The problem I'm having I believe is with php-fpm. I've installed and configured it, but trying to access it results in a gateway timeout error. I do see entries in the logs when this fails, so I'm sure I'm at least reaching the desktop successfully. The desktop is on a dynamic IP (192.168.9.110) behind a cable modem with a dynamic IP. I've configured port forwarding for port 8027 to forward to port 8027 on the machine itself where apache is listening. I've also configured port 8022 to forward to port 8022 on the desktop to provide ssh access, and can ssh to it successfully. I've configured the smokeping.conf apache config to allow any IP to communicate with it for now. I can also reach the default fedora test page successfully. What is the minimum apache config that is necessary to work with smokeping without configuring a virtual host? I haven't changed the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf files from the default. I've just changed the Listen statement in ssl.conf to use 8022 instead of 80. Here is my /etc/httpd/conf.d/smokeping.conf: <Directory "/usr/share/smokeping" > Require local Require ip 68.195.193 192.168 </Directory> <Directory "/var/lib/smokeping" > Require local Require ip 68.195.193 192.168 </Directory> ScriptAlias /smokeping/sm.cgi /usr/share/smokeping/cgi/smokeping.fcgi Alias /smokeping/images /var/lib/smokeping/images Alias /smokeping /usr/share/smokeping/htdocs The /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf file is also very simple: AddHandler fcgid-script fcg fcgi fpl FcgidIPCDir /run/mod_fcgid FcgidProcessTableFile /run/mod_fcgid/fcgid_shm The /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file is also the default, and includes the SetHandler statement to use php-fpm, I believe: <IfModule !mod_php5.c> <IfModule !mod_php7.c> # Enable http authorization headers SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1 <FilesMatch \.(php|phar)$> SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock|fcgi://localhost" </FilesMatch> </IfModule> </IfModule> Here is my /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf. It is also very much the default. [www] user = apache group = apache listen = /run/php-fpm/www.sock listen.acl_users = apache,nginx pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 5 pm.start_servers = 2 pm.min_spare_servers = 2 pm.max_spare_servers = 3 slowlog = /var/log/php-fpm/www-slow.log php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/php-fpm/www-error.log php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on php_value[session.save_handler] = files php_value[session.save_path] = /var/lib/php/session php_value[soap.wsdl_cache_dir] = /var/lib/php/wsdlcache The /var/log/php-fpm/www-error.log file is empty. After attempting to reach the system remotely, I see the following message in the apache error_log from my remote IP: Wed May 15 15:42:17.997621 2019] [fcgid:warn] [pid 14476:tid 139916520441600] [client 68.195.199.42:34118] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds I only have four php packages installed: php-cli-7.3.5-1.fc30.x86_64 php-7.3.5-1.fc30.x86_64 php-fpm-7.3.5-1.fc30.x86_64 php-common-7.3.5-1.fc30.x86_64 Of course I have restarted both the php-fpm and httpd services. I'm really hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong to cause it to always timeout on an otherwise idle box.

2 1

mkpasswd
by Aleksandar Kostadinov 16 May '19

16 May '19

Hi, in Fedora 28 I used the command `mkpasswd` [1] to generate passwords according to different criteria. Now in Fedora 30 this command asks for a password to encrypt for /etc/passwd usage. Any ideas how do I get back the old `mkpasswd`? [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/mkpasswd

4 4

F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues
by Tim Evans 15 May '19

15 May '19

Just did an in-place upgrade from F29 to F30, following the procedure laid out at https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-29-to-fedora-30/ (System has been progressively upgraded for the last four or five releases via this procedure.) Coupla issues, one major. First (minor), after final reboot, I was forced to create a new user, which is now the default user on the login screen. Existing userid is still there, accessible via the "not listed?" link. Everything is intact in home directory. How to restore my old userid as the default on the login screen? Second (MAJOR), once logged into my normal account, the graphical desktop no longer shows an "Applications" drop-down; all I get is the "Places" dropdown with no immediate way to start applications. Browsing Places->Computer->/usr/bin and clicking on applications does not start them. Clicking on those (like Thunderbird) that have a shell script startup displays the text of the script. Others (gnome-termainal, for example) generate a pop up that says: "Could not display "gnome-terminal." There is no application installed for "shared library" files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file?" Now, Alt-F2 brings up a window that says "Enter Command." Typing "xterm" or "thunderbird" or "google-chrome" into this box does start the application. (So, at least, I'm not totally dead in the water here.) How to get the Applications drop-down back? -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864

2 13

Re: dnf list extras
by eqie＠mailbox.org 14 May '19

14 May '19

On 5/14/19 7:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I don't know, but I have a guess. The dnf database not only includes > every package you have installed, it has what repositories provided > them. Presumably, dnf list extras only returns those packages that came > from a repo that's currently enabled. Maybe, but I don't think so since dnf says that *all* those packages that supposedly aren't available anymore come from either fedora or updates... Also, this doesn't explain why those packages were marked as not available anymore in the first place, since they still seem to be present in the regular F30 repositories (at lest according to [1]). [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages

2 1

dnf list extras
by eqie＠mailbox.org 14 May '19

14 May '19

Dear all, I recently did the upgrade from F29 to F30. Afterwards, I wanted to clean up a bit so I did a `dnf list extras` to list all packages that are no longer available through the repositories. This returned a rather long list: apache-commons-codec.noarch apache-commons-io.noarch apache-commons-logging.noarch apache-commons-net.noarch bcel.noarch hamcrest-core.noarch jakarta-oro.noarch javamail.noarch jdepend.noarch junit.noarch kernel.x86_64 kernel.x86_64 [...] I then tried `dnf list extras --disablerepo=fedora-modular,updates-modular` which returned: kernel.x86_64 kernel.x86_64 kernel-core.x86_64 kernel-core.x86_64 kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 kernel-devel.x86_64 kernel-devel.x86_64 kernel-modules.x86_64 kernel-modules.x86_64 kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 That's more what I expected. So my question is: Why are *more* packages listed as not available anymore when those repositories are enabled than when they're not? Regards, eqie

1 0

really deep sleep mode?
by Tom Horsley 14 May '19

14 May '19

Is there some sort of ultra deep sleep mode sddm goes into if it has been unused for a while? No power on earth seems to be able to get any signal to appear on my monitor after I have let the system sit for a long weekend. Moving the mouse, tapping the spacebar, nothing works. I've had to ssh into the system and reboot to get it back twice now. Merely leaving it overnight is no problem, but leaving it for two or three days seems to render it unable to wake.

4 5

Tip: Xfce 4.13 and panel problems
by ToddAndMargo 14 May '19

14 May '19

Hi All, I have an upcoming new build of Fedora 30 for a customer. I wanted to put Xfce on it, but 4.13 way too buggy to unleash on the general public, especially with all the talking up of Linux I have been doing. Well the two deal killer bugs are https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14627 https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14854 Where programs disappear from Panel 0, and panels 0 and 1 occasionally go missing at start up. Well, one of our intrepid heroes on the Xfce bugzilla gave me this command to use: xfce4-panel -r And it works perfect on missing panels and panels with missing programs. I will put the above command in start up with a five second delay and make a desktop launcher for it too. So Xfce 30 is back on! Yippee! -T

2 1

Strange sudo latency problems
by Gianluca Cecchi 14 May '19

14 May '19

Hello, sorry in advance for the quite long post... My laptop has no physical lan adapter, so when installing Fedora 30 it bypassed the networking section (and also the hostname setting one). After first boot in post-install configuration I set up wireless connection and such. At a certain point, I don't know if due to changing hostname from the default localhost.localdomain that had been set, or due to applied updates, I had strange problems with latencies in sudo responses with great amount of time before asking the password prompt and also when opening menus in gnome, eg settings (about 1 minute before showing the window), and also the battery icon at top right disappeared.... probably due to timeout of the related daemon I noticed that sssd was automatically configured at boot even if with no configuration files: no sssd.conf, no files in /etc/sssd/conf.d ? It seems things a bit better after disabling sssd and reinserting localhost.localdomain in /etc/hostname and rebooting, but sudo becomes again sluggish when I connect an usb-c to lan adapter to connect to my work network... and I have [root@localhost ~]# ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: wlp1s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether d6:5e:e2:84:6c:07 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: enp0s20f0u2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0e:c6:c0:01:d5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.4.23.16/24 brd 10.4.23.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp0s20f0u2 valid_lft 14177sec preferred_lft 14177sec inet6 fe80::d2f4:d7f3:3d9a:7f16/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:88:fc:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 5: virbr0-nic: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master virbr0 state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:88:fc:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [root@localhost ~]# I didn't customize sudoers file and nsswitch.conf contains (with comment autogenerated at 11 May, time of install) at the moment passwd: sss files systemd group: sss files systemd netgroup: sss files automount: sss files services: sss files shadow: files sss hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname bootparams: files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc: files publickey: files aliases: files [root@localhost ~]# ll /etc/nsswitch.conf lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 29 May 11 01:26 /etc/nsswitch.conf -> /etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf [root@localhost ~]# ll /etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2402 May 11 01:26 /etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# systemctl status sssd -l ● sssd.service - System Security Services Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) May 14 09:22:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service:11: PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sssd.pid → /run/sssd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. May 14 09:22:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service:11: PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sssd.pid → /run/sssd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. May 14 10:24:36 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service:11: PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sssd.pid → /run/sssd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. May 14 10:24:51 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service:11: PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sssd.pid → /run/sssd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. Any hints to debug, and understand what is it expected to be sssd standard config in Fedora 30? Thanks, Gianluca

1 0

Laptop and only 100% and 200% monitor scaling shown
by Gianluca Cecchi 13 May '19

13 May '19

Hello, having a new 13.3" laptop with resolution of 1920x1080 and Fedora 30, I see that Gnome only gives me option of 100% scaling (that renders with too small fonts ans duch in my opinion) and 200% (that instead appears as too big). The laptop is dual boot and I see that the Windows 10 set by default 125% scaling after installation Searching around I only found at the moment an Ubuntu related thread here https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029436/enable-fractional-scaling-for-ubunt… and what I have tried and works (after reboot) is the suggested gsetting command gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" And this if I understand implies to continue to use Wayland... Any better experience if using XOrg in Fedora 30 with these kind of displays resolutions and dimensions? Any other options? Thanks, Gianluca

5 6

NetworkManager not there after upgrade to fedora 30
by Emmett Culley 13 May '19

13 May '19

NetworkManager seems to have disappeared when I updated to Fedora 30. Not only didn't my network start on reboot after upgrade, there is no NetworkManager.service to enable or start with systemctl. Running dnf list NetworkManager replies: Last metadata expiration check: 0:16:45 ago on Sun 12 May 2019 08:02:12 AM PDT. Error: No matching Packages to list Running dnf list NetworkManager* returns: Installed Packages NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora.noarch 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 @fedora NetworkManager-libnm.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 @fedora Available Packages NetworkManager-adsl.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-bluetooth.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-config-server.noarch 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules.noarch 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-fortisslvpn.x86_64 1.2.10-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-fortisslvpn-gnome.x86_64 1.2.10-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-iodine.x86_64 1.2.0-8.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-iodine-gnome.x86_64 1.2.0-8.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-l2tp.x86_64 1.2.12-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome.x86_64 1.2.12-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-libnm.i686 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-libnm-devel.i686 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-libnm-devel.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-libreswan.x86_64 1.2.10-1.fc30.1 fedora NetworkManager-libreswan-gnome.x86_64 1.2.10-1.fc30.1 fedora NetworkManager-openconnect.x86_64 1.2.4-11.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-openconnect-gnome.x86_64 1.2.4-11.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-openvpn.x86_64 1:1.8.10-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome.x86_64 1:1.8.10-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-ovs.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-ppp.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-pptp.x86_64 1:1.2.8-1.fc30.1 fedora NetworkManager-pptp-gnome.x86_64 1:1.2.8-1.fc30.1 fedora NetworkManager-ssh.x86_64 1.2.9-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-ssh-gnome.x86_64 1.2.9-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-sstp.x86_64 1:1.2.6-3.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-sstp-gnome.x86_64 1:1.2.6-3.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-strongswan.x86_64 1.4.4-2.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-strongswan-gnome.x86_64 1.4.4-2.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-team.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-vpnc.x86_64 1:1.2.6-2.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome.x86_64 1:1.2.6-2.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora NetworkManager-wwan.x86_64 1:1.16.0-1.fc30 fedora So what to I install to get Network manager back. I've managed to get my network functional by using network scripts and systemctl start network, But I would like to be able to select also connect to a wireless network. What am I missing? Note that running nm-coonnection-editor give me a network manager dialog, but none of the fields are enabled. Emmett

2 3

firewalld - what needs to be added?
by Ed Greshko 13 May '19

13 May '19

OK, firewall rules aren't in my wheelhouse. I've got an IPv6 network with a /56 prefix assigned to me by my ISP. This, I understand, is rather large and it breaks some functionality. It is meant that this be broken up into 256 /64 networks or smaller. On my ISP facing router the LAN has a /64 segment defined and all systems on the same LAN work just fine. I created a static route to a host with 2 LAN interfaces. It can be reached by using either IP address. I have made these additions net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1 net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp = 1 to a config file in /etc/sysctl.d However in order to reach that second system from the internet I need to disable the firewall on the first. Otherwise I get.... May 12 18:47:59 f30-k kernel: FINAL_REJECT: IN=enp0s3 OUT=enp0s8 MAC=08:00:27:62:b8:24:00:11:32:76:13:a8:86:dd SRC=2001:0470:0066:0cce:0000:0000:0000:0002 DST=2001:b030:112f:0001:0000:0000:0000:0010 LEN=80 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=49 FLOWLBL=875364 PROTO=TCP SPT=54428 DPT=22 WINDOW=65320 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 So, I'm sure I need to add a "rich rule" or something to the firewall but I've no idea what it should be. :-( -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

1 1

how to have dual boot on new laptop
by Gianluca Cecchi 12 May '19

12 May '19

Hello, I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install fedora 30 too. Current layout of partitions on disk is this one, if I start from an usb live: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: ..... Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System /dev/nvme0n1p2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved /dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 998574734 998007439 475.9G Microsoft basic data /dev/nvme0n1p4 998576128 1000214527 1638400 800M Windows recovery environment Any suggestion on how to proceed? Thanks in advance Gianluca

7 16

Curious sshd log messages about kex exchange
by Tom Horsley 12 May '19

12 May '19

Any theories about the origin of these messages on my home system? I suspect it has something to do with my system at work trying to ssh into my system at home while my system at home is in the process of rebooting. At least that seems to be the time frame they show up. If my home system is completely up and running and I force my work system to reconnect, these messages don't come out. May 12 11:34:08 zooty sshd[7412]: error: kex_exchange_identification: banner line contains invalid characters ...repeat a few times... I'm running fedora 30 on both of them, so presumably the ssh is compatible with itself :-).

1 0

Upgrade to F30 on Dell Precision T1700 goes into emergency mode
by Ranjan Maitra 12 May '19

12 May '19

Hi, After a three successful upgrades to F30 from F29 under my belt, a cocky me has been floored. Everything went through fine (or so it seemed) using dnf upgrade --releasever 30 but I ended with, upon reboot: You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" to boot into default mode. Give root password for maintenance. (or press Control-D to continue): One problem is that I do not have a root password. I have actually gone in using a livecd and the devices (1 ext4 and 2 xfs) appear to be clean. Any suggestions on how to proceed. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses.

3 11

Modem/Router/Router -
by Bob Goodwin 12 May '19

12 May '19

. I have a new problem with my internet connection which a few others on this list may have encountered. They [Viasat] replaced the modem and antenna in upgrading the system. The new modem has an integral router having none of the feature I need to manage data usage, I've already used more than 80% of my allowance in the first week. I normally use a router with DD-WRT installed providing the features I need, showing the amount of data used and which devices used it. The problem is feeding their router data through my DD-WRT router. An ethernet port is provided which they claim work but provide no information for doing so. They sent a "technician" a few days ago and he knew nothing more about it than I do except he assured me it should work but did not know how to set up both routers, tried what he could for an hour and said if you can't make it work and call for help, tell them to send someone else ... Yesterday I tried with my router set up on a different subnet and seemingly working until in one of many equipment reboots their router assigned my nfs server a new address, of course all I knew was it would not mount until I connected a display and keyboard this morning, Now I made theaddresspermanentusing network manager. Before this the modems provided an ethernet port to which a wifi router was connected and connecting to that was straight forward. Certainly I am not the first one to see this problem, feeding data from the ISP router to another one, and my hope is that someone can point me in the right direction if not offer a solution. Google searches have not led to a solution. Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

15 62

Updated F29 kernel and grub went bye bye
by Ranbir 11 May '19

11 May '19

Hi Everyone, I started an update of my F29 system today. Everything seemed to be going fine until the system locked up. I waited for a few minutes and then, hesitantly, I power cycled the computer. Sure enough, the boot didn't start and instead dropped into the grub shell. :/ I managed to manually boot Fedora. I reviewed the dnf history to see which packages were getting upgraded. I ended up redoing the entire operation, rewrote the grub2 config for good measure and rebooted: the same problem occurred again. Drat! Once the desktop was running again, I decided to only reinstall the kernel packages that were upgraded. That's when I saw this: Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Reinstalling : kernel-core-5.0.10-200.fc29.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.0.10-200.fc29.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.0.10-200.fc29.x86_64 2/2 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config. I must have missed those errors when I redid the update earlier. What I've found online so far doesn't reference F29 so I'm not sure what I can do to fix the problem. I did find the following two broken symlinks: [ranbir@master ~]$ ls -l /etc/grub* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Oct 4 2018 /etc/grub2.cfg -> ../boot/grub2/grub.cfg lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 31 Oct 4 2018 /etc/grub2-efi.cfg -> ../boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg I don't know if they're supposed to be broken or not. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix my now broken grub config? -- Ranbir

4 12

Grub fails with unrecognized number
by Robin Lee 11 May '19

11 May '19

I just upgraded one of my computers from Fedora 29 to 30 and after that grub doesn't work any more as it should. Now when I boot up I get briefly the following message Booting from Hard Disk... . error: ../../grub-core/kern/misc.c:465:unrecognized number. then it boots the default kernel. I was expecting the grub menu. Anybody knows what's going on? Cheers Robin

1 0

F30 - KDE on nouveau driver freezes at login
by Barry Scott 11 May '19

11 May '19

I just raised https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1706756 about this problem. KDE is complete dead after login on Fedora 30 with nouveau. I you have nvidia hardware I suggest testing that lKDE live image works for you before updating. Wish I had... Barry

4 7

simple scan no longer prints?
by ToddAndMargo 10 May '19

10 May '19

Hi All, Fedora 30 $ rpm -qa simple-scan simple-scan-3.32.2-2.fc30.x86_64 It looks like I lost my ability to print directly from Simple Scan. Is this a regression or am I missing something? -T

4 6

dnf upgrade to 29 fails with coreutils and jre1 package problems
by Alex 10 May '19

10 May '19

Hi, I have a fedora28 desktop I'm trying to upgrade to fedora29 and having a problem: # dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=29 Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Fri 10 May 2019 08:24:27 AM EDT. Error: Problem: package jre1.8.0_25-1.8.0_25-fcs.x86_64 requires /bin/basename, but none of the providers can be installed - coreutils-8.29-7.fc28.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package jre1.8.0_25-1.8.0_25-fcs.x86_64 This machine has been successfully upgraded through many previous releases and haven't had a problem. I've followed the steps here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade This includes ensuring all fedora28 updates have been applied. I've also tried rebuilding the rpm database using "rpm --rebuild" and it still fails. # rpm -qva|grep -E '^coreutils|jre1' coreutils-8.29-7.fc28.x86_64 jre1.8.0_25-1.8.0_25-fcs.x86_64 coreutils-common-8.29-7.fc28.x86_64 # rpm -e jre1 error: package jre1 is not installed # dnf repolist repo id repo name status adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated 3 *fedora Fedora 28 - x86_64 57,327 google-chrome google-chrome 3 *rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Free 563 *rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Free - Updates 289 *rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Nonfree 203 *rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Nonfree - Updates 96 *updates Fedora 28 - x86_64 - Updates 22,062 Thanks, Alex

2 1

Re: Fedora 29 LXDE, 32bit, Update-Error-Message
by Chandana De Silva 10 May '19

10 May '19

I have never done dnf update, but I suspect you are getting this message because the current updates are now installing kernel V5.0. On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 18:21 +0200, Andreas Aßmann wrote: > When trying to update by typing "dnf update" I always get the error message > > """ > Error: > Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected > packages: kernel-core

1 0

android emulator
by Patrick Dupre 09 May '19

09 May '19

Hello, Which android emulator can I use with fedora ? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

3 2

what happens to firefox?
by François Patte 09 May '19

09 May '19

Bonjour, Today all my add-ons to firefox do not work! Français language pack could not be verified for use in firefox and has been disabled! There a button "More information", unfortunately the link does not work...: Page not found Same problem with: facebook container, flash and video download, ghostery, lilo, noscript, unpaywall, video downloadhelper Since they have rewrite the code, firefox becomes more and more ugly! Why? Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

6 7

Boot & Bios Issues
by S. Bob 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hi All; I've managed to install Fedora 30 on a new LG Gram 17 laptop. I had to set acpi=off to get the live cd to boot, then I had to remove the acpi=off and rebuild the EFI grub file so the trackpad would work, subsequent boots without the acpi=off seem to work fine. I am seeing an odd situation when I shutdown & restart: 1) shutdown often takes a long time, I see that stop jobs are running either for packagekit or sometimes "flush journal to persistent storage" 2) sometimes booting up takes a long time , indicating a start job is running - flush journal to persistent storage 3) If I ever do a hard power off then it boots to what seems to be a windows boot manager, showing several options, like this: 1. ATA HDD1: HFS512G39TNF-N3A0A 2. ATA HDD2: CT1000MX500SSD4 3. Windows Boot Manager Then I need to power off again and change the following bios settings, they always get changed when I hard power off: Legacy OS Boot - (Gets set to Disabled, Fedora won't boot unless this is set to Enabled) RTC Wakeup from S4 - (Gets set to Enabled, Fedora won't boot unless this is set to Disabled) SW Guard Extensions (SGX) - (Gets set to Enabled, Fedora won't boot unless this is set to Disabled) Sometimes I need to go into secure boot configuration and choose "Delete All Signatures" If I do a dnf update and get a new kernel then the above process is triggered as well Other than struggling with booting a bit the laptop works great with Fedora. Anyone have any insight on how to fix the above issues? Thanks in advance

4 7

Boot VGA modesetting in F30
by Sam Varshavchik 08 May '19

08 May '19

I distinctly remember reading somewhere about boot video mode initialization changes that were going into F30. IIRC, something about a "flicker-free" effort that tries to switch the video mode only once, permanently, during boot, and sticking with the same video mode all the way to the desktop. I updated a system with an Nvidia chipset (an older Nvidia chipset that's natively supported in Xorg without the need for a binary blob) that does not use plymouth, it boots using an old-fashioned system console, until X starts. In F29 its grub menu came up in standard VGA, then the mode quickly changes to 132 column VGA for the duration of the boot, until the regular 1920x1080 desktop. The 132 column VGA apparently is a 1920x1080 bitmap, so I pretty much had a single video mode change, already. After updating to F30, this grub menu comes up unexpectedly in some video mode that looks like a 640x480 VGA mode. The font looks even larger than a normal 80 character font. After selecting the kernel, the boot starts, but only after an unnervingly lengthy delay, I'd say about 5-10 seconds, with a completely blank screen, before it switches to the same 132 column VGA, with the boot proceeding normally. This gave me heart palpitations, briefly, making me believe that the update bricked it. I can't find anything in the release notes or the documentation, about fiddling boot screen modes. Any pointers?

2 1

F29-F30 Upgrade With KDE Plasma Desktop Problem
by David Dembrow 07 May '19

07 May '19

I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde plasma desktop. Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent) back? The login manager displays a warning message that the plasma desktop is not available and to select a new one or the default will be used, but there is no way to select a desktop from the login display.

5 5

Stuff not mounting
by Beartooth 06 May '19

06 May '19

My experience with Fedora (currently still F29) has been that any medium I put into a disk drive or USB slot gets mounted, and an icon of it put onto the desktop -- until now. Suddenly (i.e., over the last couple weeks), when I put a medium into the drawer and close that, nothing visible happens. When I go flailing through sundry menus looking for an app to mount that medium, it usually just claims blank medium or none at all; but, once or twice, it tells me I have to be root. My guess is that what I have loused up this time must be somewhere in the configuration files. I've tried as many of those as I could find, but especially Caja, since I run Mate. Clue, please! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

2 1

F29-30 upgrade.
by William Henry 06 May '19

06 May '19

Hi all, Anyone experience this: really easy and smooth upgrade but can’t login? I can see it’s accepting the login (both my userid and root) but it just cycles back to the login screen. Been traveling and haven’t had a chance to try other login methods and sniff around logs to see what’s happening. William Sent from my iPhone

1 0

borgbackup on Fedora 30
by Leander Hutton 06 May '19

06 May '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Just a heads up for anyone using borg to do backup on F30, it seems to have a problem with one of its dependencies that causes the program to fail. Python3-msgpack is the issue. Doing a dnf downgrade to the F29 version (python3-msgpack-0.5.6-5.fc29.x86_64.rpm) looks to be a functional workaround for now. Thanks. Leander - --- Leander Hutton leander(a)one-button.org www.one-button.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUWDZdQSzkF7MomA43uJgMM1eWKQFAlzQemUACgkQ3uJgMM1e WKQDawf/QjJv0CBlZ9xZqrDFlJ5fOfFp4dAOF0p1Y0+QnPnEiV9bG7jjCixOiLsQ hiDyk4y7xNlipEuMegWwTi8vLaLKs9nNASPRIfUSlfvi4OqvJZF+SPHgRTdynGbj gfzvQU9IsojgnsvQ6FSE4UNSG7Arf8ZnG9xmH570VI1UROOwqGmx7Lb9mVxTlURU 14q3ToBWd7Ef4PQqVhJ04nBiWdf0tyiID+6//eHqPd9UKx8QOr7OJmp2v7TTfVeA vodQm218cHovvo2Hl8J0/9Y8yjbS0WE2FWSIrt4u3JOFsd0AZAhjhiNCXfWskPiv 0JntkgQ4r+vTmwe3xtDijtjzmScRMA== =gKOT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one
by Sam Varshavchik 06 May '19

06 May '19

Just an FYI for everyone. After wondering why all my extensions suddenly migrated to the bit bucket in sky, after some digging, searching, browsing, and tweeting, it's a known issue: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be- disabled-or-fail-to-install/39047 Basically, an "all your extensions are belong to us" situation.

14 18

OT mouse movement question
by Joe Feely 06 May '19

06 May '19

(I have just acquired a pen mouse, it is basically an optical mouse in the shape of a pen.) A one inch movement of the mouse on a surface, results in a 10 inch movement of the cursor on the monitor (roughly). Is it possible to change this so a one inch mouse movement would result in a two inch movement of the cursor? Joe

2 1

F28/Xfce update - lost monitor mirroring
by Robert Moskowitz 06 May '19

06 May '19

Just applied an update. It has been a few weeks since my last update, holidays and such. I use Xfce. I lost mirroring my laptop on the external monitor. All I have is laptop or external or extend to the right. I have had this times past, and fiddling around with the display dialog has been able to enable mirroring. Not this time. The resolution on both is set to 1024x768. I have tried rebooting multiple times and have gone back to the old kernel. But not joy in Mudville. I will be working on building a new system with F30, but meanwhile, I want this system to work with mirroring. Can anyone point me to something to try? thanks

1 0

28 to 30?
by ToddAndMargo 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi All, So far I have four successful 29 to 30 upgrades. I have two 28 to 30's to go. Anyone successfully get 28 to go to 30? Anything special to consider? Many thanks, -T

2 2

get -m32 flag to work in gcc?
by Tom Horsley 05 May '19

05 May '19

Just wondering what the minimal packages are I need to install to be able to build 32 bit programs in 64 bit fedora 30. Is glibc-devel.i686 the only one, or are other bits and pieces required?

1 0

Fedora 30 nvidia
by John Fawcett 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi Just before I launch into an upgrade to Fedora 30, has anyone had a successful upgrade F29->F30 with nvidia drivers? My graphics card is a bit old by now, latest nvidia driver that supports it is the legacy release 390.116. Thanks John

3 3

A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?
by Tom Horsley 05 May '19

05 May '19

I'm frequently rebooting my new fedora 30 install as I test things, and on one reboot I got the entire boot process held up by a stop job for rngd.service. I'm rebooting for God's sake. Why do you need to stop the reboot process to wait till you've gathered enough entropy which will be thrown away immediately on reboot? Can a individual service file be configured to exit immediately on reboot?

6 12

Wacom tablets on the XFCE desktop
by Sam Varshavchik 05 May '19

05 May '19

I'm tasked with finding a drawing tablet. From what I found, Wacom tablets seem to have best support, but all references I found were for the gnome-control-center's wacom settings. What about XFCE. Are there any Wacom tablet models that do not require configuring under Gnome, and will work on a stock XFCE desktop.

3 3

fedora 30 kdm busted?
by Tom Horsley 05 May '19

05 May '19

I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.

6 6

F30 Release Notes incomplete?
by Marko Vojinovic 05 May '19

05 May '19

Is it just me, or the release notes for F30 haven't been written yet? I am looking at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f30/release-notes/ and the vast majority of links inside give me a 404 error. I tend to read the release notes before I attempt to install the new Fedora release on my laptop, in order to get familiarized with the latest version, and be aware of any potential pitfalls regarding my usecases (which are sometimes unconventional). So does anyone know of any ETA when release notes will be available? My interest mainly revolves around these: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f30/release-notes/developers/De… https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f30/system-administrators-guide… TIA, :-) Marko

1 1

GeoIP2 perl modules needed
by Alex 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi, I have a fedora29 system and need the GeoIP2 modules and they don't appear to be available in the normal repos. Any idea where I can find them and their dependencies? https://metacpan.org/pod/GeoIP2::Database::Reader https://metacpan.org/pod/IP::Country::DB_File I suspect they have a lot of dependencies, some of which are available through the normal repos, but I think there are some that are not. Thanks, Alex

4 3

fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?
by sean darcy 04 May '19

04 May '19

I've installed libva and the intel driver: rpm -qa | grep libva | sort libva-2.4.1-1.fc29.x86_64 libva-devel-2.4.1-1.fc29.x86_64 libva-intel-driver-2.3.0-2.fc29.x86_64 libva-intel-hybrid-driver-1.0.2-14.fc29.x86_64 libva-utils-2.4.0-1.fc29.x86_64 I've got a cpu that should support it - Gen 9: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 94 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz stepping : 3 microcode : 0xc6 but: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1 X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 154 (DRI2) Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (DRI2Connect) Serial number of failed request: 11 Current serial number in output stream: 11 Works for root: sudo vainfo error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. error: can't connect to X server! libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_4 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.4 (libva 2.4.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Skylake - 2.3.0 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints ............ ls -l /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 8157632 Feb 14 03:16 /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so Any help appreciated. sean

2 5

how to always get menu in grub?
by Tom Horsley 04 May '19

04 May '19

I could spend the rest of the weekend trying to follow the "logic" in all of the /etc/grub.d files, or maybe I could ask and find someone who already knows: How the devil do I make grub on fedora 30 *always* show the damn menu and *always* timeout for 5 seconds? (Instead of trying to be "helpful" :-).

5 6

update to F30 seems to have failed
by Neal Becker 04 May '19

04 May '19

I just attempted update f29->f30 using sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 After reboot sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot The system got to running transaction But then seemed to hang. I waited about 15 minutes. The laptop fan was not running, indicating it was not using cpu. Alt-F2 etc would not switch consoles, so I could not get a bash shell to check. The only thing that responded is, on any keypress, it would repaint the screen with the list of packages to be installed etc. So it wasn't dead. But I don't think it was making any progress either. This is a fast machine with SSD, so I wouldn't expect to wait too long to see something happen.

13 43

install boot hangs, or has no mouse with noacpi
by S. Bob 04 May '19

04 May '19

Installing Fedora 30, LG Gram 17 laptop if I use no boot parameters the install hangs after "Started Journal Service" If I use acpi=off it boots but I have no mouse once I get to the graphical screen, if I use noacpi I get the same behavior (no mouse). Thoughts?

2 1

New LG Gram 17, trying to boot Fedora live CD, won't boot
by S. Bob 04 May '19

04 May '19

Hi All; I have a new LG Gram 17 laptop. Burned a Fedora 29 live CD, when I boot it hangs on these 2 messages: (1 of 2) A start job is running for Journal Service (2 of 2) A start job is running for for er-live\x2drw.device Eventually the Journal service fails then it starts over. Here are the Bios settings: USB Legacy Mode -- Enabled UEFI Boot -- Enabled Legacy OS Boot -- Enabled TPM -- Disabled Secure Boot -- Disabled The laptop will not boot off the live cd unless I have Legacy OS Boot enabled Thoughts? Can anyone help me debug this?

1 0

rpmfusion nvidia drivers and BLS?
by Tom Horsley 03 May '19

03 May '19

I have theoretically disabled the BLS stuff (so I can boot fedora 30 with the configfile command from an older grub that knows nothing of the BLS support in the configfile). This worked, but now I wonder about the state of the rpmfusion nvidia drivers and what they can deal with when changing kernel options (to blacklist nouveau). How much trouble are folks using the nvidia binaries in with the new grub stuff?

3 3

new Ask Fedora site
by Matthew Miller 03 May '19

03 May '19

Hi everyone! We have a new questions-and-help centered forum at https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ and I invite you to try it out. (This is based on the Discourse software, same as https://discussion.fedoraproject.org but with a different site mission.) This mailing list isn't going anywhere, but as the world marches on we need new ways to reach out and interact with people. The previous AskBot site had some strengths but overall wasn't as successful as I'd like it to be. So, we're trying something new. Take a look, tell us what you think, and, hopefully, stay around and participate. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

3 7

Fedora 30 chuckle for the day
by Tom Horsley 03 May '19

03 May '19

Looking at services on fedora 30 I didn't recognize from fedora 29, I did an rpm -q -i to tell me about the new tpm2-abrmd.service: tpm2-abrmd is a system daemon implementing the TPM2 access broker (TAB) and Resource Manager (RM) spec from the TCG. I haven't had such a laugh since my old IBM 360 days when I looked up error code IEC020I to find it means: TCP erropt = ABE and/or no SYNAD exit specified.

5 6

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade
by Rich Emberson 02 May '19

02 May '19

This morning I got the dreaded grub prompt on boot. Took me 3 hours to understand what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_popula… was talking about. I did a bunch of searching and trying things out before I hit upon the configfile grub command. Note that grub> configfile /grub2/grub.cfg.rpmsave as shown in the common bugs is not appropriate on my machine, there was no /grub2 (see below). grub> insmod ext2 grub> insmod luks grub> insmod xfs grub> ls (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos5) # note: under (hd0,msdos1) is /boot # note: under (hd0,msdos3) is encrypted / # note: under (hd0,msdos5) is encrypted /home # note: cryptomount -a does not work!!! grub> cryptomount hd0,msdos3 grub> insmod lvm grub> ls (crypto0) (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos5) # note: did not need to decrypt / for this to work... grub> configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.cfg.rpmsave # got old boot menu :-) # boot into F29 # after boot... > su .... # /sbin/grub2-install /dev/sda # /sbin/reboot # reboot into F30 # good as new... On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:33 AM richard emberson <emberson.rich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I got the dreaded grub prompt on boot this morning > Took me 3 hours to understand what > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_popula… > was talking about. I did a bunch of searching and trying things out > before I hit upon > the configfile grub command. > Note that > grub> configfile /grub2/grub.cfg.rpmsave > as shown in the common bugs is not appropriate on my machine, there was > no /grub2 (see below). > > grub> insmod ext2 > grub> insmod luks > grub> insmod xfs > grub> ls > (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos5) > (thunderbird:3111): libnotify-WARNING **: 10:29:55.823: Failed to > connect to proxy > # note: under (hd0,msdos1) is /boot > # note: under (hd0,msdos3) is encrypted / > # note: under (hd0,msdos5) is encrypted /home > # note: cryptomount -a does not work!!! > grub> cryptomount hd0,msdos3 > grub> insmod lvm > grub> ls > (crypto0) (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos5) > # note: did not need to decrypt / for this to work... > grub> configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.cfg.rpmsave > > # got old boot menu :-) > # boot into F29 > > # after boot... > > su > .... > # /sbin/grub2-install /dev/sda > # /sbin/reboot > > # reboot into F30 > # good as new... > > > > On 5/2/19 7:59 AM, David Dusanic wrote: > > Am 01.05.19 um 00:03 schrieb Chris Murphy: > >> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > >> it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > >> originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had > >> 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just > >> by running 'grub2-install' before commencing the Fedora 30 upgrade. > >> > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_popula… > >> > >> > >> It's worth going through all the Common Bugs. > >> > > > > I am not entirely sure about this issue and now I have read all the > > posts about it and this Grub 'lesson' is just not getting into me. > > > > So far the upgrade went fine as usual in my case. And now why I am > > replying here. My legacy boot has Grub and instead of booting into the > > newest Fedora 30 kernel it boots by default into an older one from > > Fedora 29. I never saw this before. So I have to catch up before the > > Grub prompt automatically selects the second kernel in the boot menu. > > > > Anybody experiencing this? > > > > -- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes >

1 0

issues with F30 Live USB stick
by Greg Woods 02 May '19

02 May '19

I created an F30 Live USB stick, but it won't boot properly. What happens is that it drops into emergency mode (dracut). Prior to this, journal messages from dracut-initqueue appear on the screen, the same message repeating every few seconds for a minute or so, then it drops into emergency mode. The repeating message is: dracut--initqueue timeout -- starting timeout scripts Then it just says "Warning: could not boot" and drops into emergency mode. I did verify that my download of "Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-30-1.2.iso" is good (the calculated sha256sum matches the checksum from the download site). I created the stick using "unetbootin" which has always worked for me with previous Fedora releases. I tried rerunning "unetbootin" to recreate the on-stick OS, but the result was the same. I tried the stick on a Dell laptop and on a desktop based on the ASUS Z87 motherboard, same result. Anybody else seen this? Has anyone successfully created an F30 Live USB stick? Thanks, --Greg

4 3

Eclipse and Fedora 30 upgrade issue
by Matthew Saltzman 02 May '19

02 May '19

Is there a workaround for the issue where the Fedora 30 upgrade decides that all of Eclipse is not compatible with Fedora 30 and removes the complete collection of Eclipse packages? If it's best to wait until the issue is resolved before upgrading, will GNOME Software automatically update my downloaded upgrade packages? If not, how to make sure that update happens before the install? Thanks. -- Matthew Saltzman School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Clemson University mjs AT clemson DOT edu

2 1

GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade
by Chris Murphy 02 May '19

02 May '19

Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just by running 'grub2-install' before commencing the Fedora 30 upgrade. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_popula… It's worth going through all the Common Bugs. -- Chris Murphy

8 14

Re: (fedora) Re: Printing problems after upgrade to F30
by Jouk Jansen 02 May '19

02 May '19

berend.de.schouwer wrote on 2-MAY-2019 10:55:14.20 >On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 09:23 +0200, Jouk Jansen wrote: >> berend.de.schouwer wrote on 1-MAY-2019 16:37:59.62 >> >> > On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 11:48 +0200, Jouk Jansen wrote: >> > > If I try to reconfigure the printer via cups and indicate that >> > > the >> > > printer >> > > is to be shared, I get the message that sharing is not possible >> > > for a >> > > Kerberos-printer. On this system I never configured Kerberos. So >> > > what >> > > is >> > > happening here? >> > I've got an identical problem. I've filed a bug report here: >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700791 >> > I think it was caused by: >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662408 >> > I don't think it's triggered by "Shared"; but rather by >> > "AuthInfoRequired" that changes from None or Username,Password to >> > Negotiate. >> > To work around it, here's what I did: >> > - move /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb to /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb.real >> > - write a script /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb to replace it: >> > #!/bin/sh >> > cat - | /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb.real "${@}" >> > Remember to make it executable. You'll notice this just calls >> > smb.real. The actual change is that this script exits with 0, so >> > Cups >> > never sees an error. Suddenly it doesn't trigger AuthInfoRequired, >> > and >> > actually prints. >> > NOTE: this will be overwritten every time cups is upgraded. The >> > workaround can be smarter if you change DeviceURI to something else >> > (say smbworks://) and create a script accordingly. >> > I do this at work for a printer that has every non-SMB port >> > firewalled. >> >> If I do the smb.real trick, I'm able to change the "Shared" and the >> "AuthInfoRequied" >> but even now I cannot print. In the "gnome-control=center" the jobs >> end up >> "paused". I get a pop-up-bubbel in my gnome session telling me that >> "credentials are required". I thought they should be picked up from >> the > DeviceURL. >They should, they do for me. >Old jobs are still stuck in paused. >You can see DeviceURI in the logs. You may need to change loglevel in >cupsd.conf to debug, because it can be a security risk to log >passwords. I raised the loglevel even to debug2, but I see no trace at all of the calls to smb when I do "journalctl -e" I see traces of the job I send but all of them with the uri ipp://localhost... I see no errors there. >>You can also try modifying the script to: >>#!/bin/sh >>/usr/bin/logger -t "${0}[${$}]" "Called with [${@}]" >>/usr/bin/logger -t "${0}[${$}]" "DEVICE_URI=[${DEVICE_URI}]" >cat - | /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb.real "${@}" Entering these lines in the script, gave me nothing: no trace of the logs when running "journalctl -e" How can I check if samba is called correctly? 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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

1 0

I say thanks for a new release !
by sixpack13 02 May '19

02 May '19

anyone ?! ;-)

2 1

IcedTeaWeb: (/usr/bin/javaws): how to run it from firefox with -noupdate option?
by Dario Lesca 02 May '19

02 May '19

When I open this URL from Firefox http://jws.agenziaentrate.it/jws/dichiarazioni/2018/FEL18.jnlp IcedTeaWeb start correctly. But only after 10/15 minutes (!!) the application start and open it. This is not acceptable. I discovered that this problem happens even if I launch the procedure by hand /usr/bin/javaws http://jws.agenziaentrate.it/jws/dichiarazioni/2018/FEL18.jnlp This is the command used from firefox (I see with "ps -fea|grep java"). After some try, I also discovered that if I run javaws with -noupdate option /usr/bin/javaws -noupdate http://jws.agenziaentrate.it/jws/dichiarazioni/2018/FEL18.jnlp the application start and open immediately. It's possible to set this options so that firefox use it? Someone can help me to resolve this issue? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)

3 7

Re: (fedora) Re: Printing problems after upgrade to F30
by Jouk Jansen 02 May '19

02 May '19

berend.de.schouwer wrote on 1-MAY-2019 16:37:59.62 >On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 11:48 +0200, Jouk Jansen wrote: >> >> If I try to reconfigure the printer via cups and indicate that the >> printer >> is to be shared, I get the message that sharing is not possible for a >> Kerberos-printer. On this system I never configured Kerberos. So what >> is >> happening here? >I've got an identical problem. I've filed a bug report here: >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700791 >I think it was caused by: >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662408 >I don't think it's triggered by "Shared"; but rather by >"AuthInfoRequired" that changes from None or Username,Password to >Negotiate. >To work around it, here's what I did: >- move /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb to /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb.real >- write a script /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb to replace it: >#!/bin/sh >cat - | /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb.real "${@}" >Remember to make it executable. You'll notice this just calls >smb.real. The actual change is that this script exits with 0, so Cups >never sees an error. Suddenly it doesn't trigger AuthInfoRequired, and >actually prints. >NOTE: this will be overwritten every time cups is upgraded. The >workaround can be smarter if you change DeviceURI to something else >(say smbworks://) and create a script accordingly. >I do this at work for a printer that has every non-SMB port firewalled. If I do the smb.real trick, I'm able to change the "Shared" and the "AuthInfoRequied" but even now I cannot print. In the "gnome-control=center" the jobs end up "paused". I get a pop-up-bubbel in my gnome session telling me that "credentials are required". I thought they should be picked up from the DeviceURL. 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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

2 1

spamprobe
by Scott van Looy 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hi, I recently recovered my home partition from some corruption. Most of everything is working OK but my spamprobe database appears not to be I use spam probe in a procmail recipe, from their examples in the man page: :0 SCORE=| /bin/spamprobe train :0 wf | formail -I "X-SpamProbe: $SCORE" :0 a: *^X-SpamProbe: SPAM spam And procmail is hanging on “spamprobe,train”, timing out and failing to deliver the message. I moved my existing spamprobe database away and created a new one and it all works as expected, but without any of my previous data from the old DB. So, two questions: What format does spamprobe use for the db and is it repairable somehow? Alternatively - I set this up about 750,000 years ago, I can see spamprobe hasn’t been updated in years, is there a better solution to set up spam filtering on fedora? I run my own mail server and I currently use RBLs and spamassassin Regards, Scott

2 5

systemd scriptlet error?
by Tom Horsley 02 May '19

02 May '19

My very first update on my newly installed fedora 30 workstation: Running scriptlet: systemd-241-8.git9ef65cb.fc30.x86_64 284/284 warning: %triggerin(systemd-241-8.git9ef65cb.fc30.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 65 Error in <unknown> scriptlet in rpm package systemd I can only hope it isn't important :-).

1 0

Tip on upgrading to FC 30
by ToddAndMargo 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi All, If you are upgrade from 29 to 30, make sure you update dnf and libdnf first do to a bug that has been fixed (my procedure below takes care of this). So far I have one virtual machine running FC30. Haven't got a chance to torture it yet though. This is my update procedure: FC 29 -->> FC 30: # rpm --rebuilddb # rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest if anything is too new, do a # dnf downgrade offender(s) # dnf --enablerepo=* update --refresh # dnf install python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade # dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 --allowerasing --best # dnf clean packages <-- optional # dnf system-upgrade reboot -T

3 4

Printing problems after upgrade to F30
by Jouk Jansen 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi all I just upgraded from F29 to F30. All looks fine except printing from the system. The printer is configured in /etc/cups/printers.conf (see details below). I noticed that in a previous file the "Shared" was set to Yes, but all the other lines are exactly the same. if I try to pront from the system the job is held in the queue telling me that there is a problem with authentication (but the authentication is included in the prints.conf file). If I look in the printer set=up menu which can be started from the "gnome-to-panel" it tells me that the job needs autentication and it asks met to enter credentials, but I cannot input them from this menu: Where should I enter them? If I try to reconfigure the printer via cups and indicate that the printer is to be shared, I get the message that sharing is not possible for a Kerberos-printer. On this system I never configured Kerberos. So what is happening here? Please help me getting printing working on this machine as it worked before the upgrade to F30. Regards Jouk excerpt form /etc/cups/printers.conf: <Printer Xerox-openvpn> UUID urn:uuid:8ee24042-e404-351f-434a-aa18ab969e10 AuthInfoRequired negotiate Info Xerox-openvpn Location Alanalul MakeModel Xerox AltaLink C8035 DeviceURI smb://DASTUD\username:password@printserver.tudelft.net/FollowMe State Idle StateTime 1556698864 ConfigTime 1540381212 Type 8433916 Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Option sides two-sided-long-edge </Printer> 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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

2 1

F30 update: libdnf, etc
by SternData 01 May '19

01 May '19

Wait a day or ??? Problem 1: package python2-hawkey-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 requires libdnf(x86-64) = 0.31.0-2.fc29, but none of the providers can be installed - libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package python2-hawkey-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 Problem 2: package system-config-services-0.111.4-2.fc24.noarch requires python-slip >= 0.1.11, but none of the providers can be installed - python2-slip-0.6.4-12.fc29.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package system-config-services-0.111.4-2.fc24.noarch Problem 3: problem with installed package system-config-firewall-1.2.29-21.fc29.noarch - package system-config-firewall-1.2.29-21.fc29.noarch requires python2-slip-dbus >= 0.2.7, but none of the providers can be installed - python2-slip-dbus-0.6.4-12.fc29.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository Problem 4: package python3-hawkey-0.28.1-1.fc30.x86_64 requires libdnf(x86-64) = 0.28.1-1.fc30, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install both libdnf-0.28.1-1.fc30.x86_64 and libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 - problem with installed package python3-hawkey-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 - package python2-libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 requires libdnf(x86-64) = 0.31.0-2.fc29, but none of the providers can be installed - python3-hawkey-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package python2-libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29.x86_64 (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) -- -- Steve

2 1

Smooth DNF Update (Yesterday Evening)
by Peter G. 01 May '19

01 May '19

I spotted an article on another site indicating release of F30. I wasn't expecting it for a week! Thus caught unprepared, for the first time ever, I did a dnf system-upgrade on my UEFI system. I had to remove cclive and, for some odd reason, there was a problem with getting the updates repo, so I blocked metalink= and unblocked baseurl= in fedora-updates.repo and everything worked smoothly. After a preliminary 2 hours, everything appears to be working as in F29.

1 0

Freeradius bootstrap overwrite my certs
by Rafael Leiva-Ochoa 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi Everyone, I recently upgraded to Freeradius 3.0.19-1 and I noticed after I restarted the service I was getting the following errors: Apr 29 22:01:29 freeradius systemd[1]: Starting FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server.... Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius sh[1970]: make: *** No rule to make target 'server.cnf', needed by 'passwords.mk'. Stop. Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2 Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius systemd[1]: Failed to start FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server.. Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=radiusd comm="systemd " exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' I got it from Fedora 28 Repo: freeradius-3.0.19-1.fc28.armv7hl. After a lot of digging, I found that a "bootstrap" script on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory was being called on the /usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service. This script overwrote my current certificate files. I had to comment out the ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /etc/raddb/certs/bootstrap to fix the problem. I am not sure if anyone else encountered this problem before. Here is what I have on my /usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service script for systemd [Unit] Description=FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server. After=syslog.target network-online.target ipa.service dirsrv.target krb5kdc.service [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R radiusd.radiusd /var/run/radiusd #ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /etc/raddb/certs/bootstrap ExecStartPre=/bin/chgrp -R radiusd /etc/raddb/certs/ ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C ExecStart=/usr/sbin/radiusd -d /etc/raddb ExecReload=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Is this being addressed on future releases? Thanks, Rafael

2 1

F30 - has it officially been released?
by Max Pyziur 01 May '19

01 May '19

Per the subject line, I see that there is this announcement (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/) but after starting the upgrade and downloading the packages, the upgrade made no progress. Usually, the announcement of a new release is made with an email blast, which as yet, I haven't received. Is the F30 release official? Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

2 2

Another issue to be aware of when you upgrade from F29 to F30
by Alan 01 May '19

01 May '19

Make sure you turn off any Gnome extensions that you have downloaded from gnome.org. There is an issue where some gnome extensions that are loaded from the user account will cause gnome-shell to crash. What you will see is you try to log in and after a few seconds it returns back to the login screen. (And yes, it is a reported bug. And yes, it still happens, because it just happened on the upgrade I am doing now.) The way I have fixed the problem is to delete anything in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ and then redownload the ones you need. Hope that helps.

1 0