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Tablet
by GianPiero Puccioni 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

Hi, a friend just got a tablet and and has some problems with it. Is has F32 installed, the tablet is a Ugee M708 which is seen by lsusb as a XP-Pen 10 (?). It works as a mouse and can be used to draw in graphics programs but it doesn't have all the extra stuff and cannot be configured or calibrated, at least not with the usual Watcom program. According to info on the net it should use the Digimend driver but that doesn't seem to be available in the Fedore repository. Any suggestion? GiP

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F32 --> F33 upgrade fails .
by Kostas Sfakiotakis 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Greetings , Upon trying to download the files in order to be able to upgrade from F32 to F33 i get the following errors Error: Problem 1: package openssh-ldap-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64 requires openssh = 8.3p1-3.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed - openssh-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package openssh-ldap-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64 Problem 2: package tomahawk-0.8.4-23.fc31.x86_64 requires libboost_filesystem.so.1.69.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - boost-filesystem-1.69.0-18.fc32.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package tomahawk-0.8.4-23.fc31.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) The thing is that even if i try to use the --skip-broken option the download of the files will not begin either . Now apart from deleting the offending packages , trying the upgrade and then reinstalling them is there anything else that i can try ???

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Why is only 11 GB used of my 12 GB swap file ?
by Sreyan Chakravarty 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

Hi, I have created my swap file using the command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/fedora.swap bs=1M count=12288 status=progress So this should produce a 12 GB file right ? I can confirm it does: $ ls -lh /fedora.swap -rw-------. 1 root root 12G Nov 27 20:23 /fedora.swap So why is the swap memory in my system reported as 11 GB by the free command ? $ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.7Gi 1.4Gi 4.5Gi 394Mi 1.8Gi 5.6Gi Swap: 11Gi 0B 11Gi Why is it 11 GB ? Shouldn't it be 12 GB ? Am I missing something? What is the reason for this? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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Sync rpms with other computer
by Mayavimmer 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

How do I sync rpm packages with another computer? I have a list of the remote's rpms generated with "rpm -qa". I expect to have to modify a couple of packages in the list due to hardware dependent rpms like xorg. Otherwise it should be a simple matter of downloading the rpms from the edited list and then installing them. Or is there already a script for this?

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Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs
by Sreyan Chakravarty 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hi, I am confused about whether I should use TRIM or DISCARD on my laptop. I use LVM on top of LUKS and I do make frequent use of snapshots. Merging them to my root volume. I have a regular HDD and not a SSD. Will enabling TRIM and DISCARD help me? If so, how do I do that ? I have already tried enabling: issue_discards=1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and then dracut -f But fstrim -v / still fails with : fstrim: /: the discard operation is not supported So how do I enable it in Fedora32 ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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Read-only flash drives
by Joe Zeff 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course, change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I unmount the drive. Generally, I need to reformat the drive to get it working properly. And, it's not just Fedora; my sister uses Xubuntu, and has the same issue. Does anybody know a way to keep this from happening, or to fix it without reformatting?

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virt-install fails with F33 with "Failed to start Switch Root"
by Michal Schorm 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hello, I am deploying VMs via kickstart files, so the process can be completely non-interactive. Right now I'm stuck with Fedora 33. The following command works completely fine on F32, F31 and so on, but not F33. Can you please help me fix it? virt-install \ --connect qemu:///system \ --network bridge:virbr0 \ --initrd-inject /var/local/minimal.ks \ --name test_name_3 \ --disk /VMs/test_name_3.qcow2,size=10,format=qcow2 \ --memory 2048 \ --location https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/32/Server/x86_… \ --hvm --vcpus=2 --check-cpu --accelerate \ --graphics none \ --extra-args 'ks=file:/minimal.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200' Just change the URL to point to F33 repo. It will fail, after the whole installation is complete and the VM should start one last time, with following error: Failed to start Switch Root. Failed to switch root: Specified switch root path '/sysroot' does not seem to be an OS tree. os-release file is missing. I checked that the file "/etc/os-release" is in place and populated. I uploaded the used Kickstarter file, as well as some logs here: https://gitlab.com/Faramos/vm/-/snippets/2042979 I also tried to force installation with EXT4 partitions (instead of F33 default BTRFS), but it hasn't made any difference. Nothing else in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:ChangeAcceptedF33 seems suspicous to me. I am using an F32 host. -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat --

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RE: Read-only flash drives
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

-----Original Message----- From: Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 10:40 AM To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> Subject: Re: Read-only flash drives On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 07:36 +0000, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > Once in a while we come across thumb-drives, that after using a couple > of times, can’t even be reformatted. Some people leave them plugged in all the time, and although they think only that they're using them occasionally, they're getting warm from whatever their computer was doing in the background. I view thumb drives as some temporary media for sneakernetting, I'd never rely on them for storage. But, I wonder, those having trouble with them: Are they buying the cheap and nasty ones? -----Original Message----- Not intended to steal the thread, But do you consider "Kingston DT50, 16GB USB3" cheap & nasty? We use them as boot-device, filling them with a image with "dd" Upto now, we considered them bricked, and threw them away. Next time I'll ask to keep them for further analysis. Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Re: Read-only flash drives
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

You’re still lucky. Once in a while we come across thumb-drives, that after using a couple of times, can’t even be reformatted. From: "Joe Zeff" <joe(a)zeff.us<mailto:joe@zeff.us>> Date: Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 00:02:35 To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Read-only flash drives Every now and then I buy a flash drive and find that when I mount it it's owned by root and read only except by root. I can, of course, change that by using chown and chmod, but that only lasts until I unmount the drive. Generally, I need to reformat the drive to get it working properly. And, it's not just Fedora; my sister uses Xubuntu, and has the same issue. Does anybody know a way to keep this from happening, or to fix it without reformatting? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Strange pause after running gedit from regular text terminal window.
by Michael D. Setzer II 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

The pause varies in time, and sometimes shows message and sometimes doesn't?? Example $:gedit gccdirectory.1126 (org.gnome.gedit:4156283): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:13:25.756: Calling org.xfce.Session.Manager.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method “Inhibit” Get no response for about 5 or more seconds (but varies) Pressing up arrow key to pull up the previous commands. Then it will respond with all the keys pressed after the pause. Installed geany and did the same kind of process with the same files, and it never shows the pause or error messages. Running xfce desktop. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: NFS Problems in Fedora 33
by Ed Greshko 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

On 26/11/2020 03:36, Robert wrote: > My fstab entry is as follows. > 192.168.2.100:/STUF/STUFF /home/me/STUFF nfs rw 0 0 OK. Using just nfs on the fstab entry would mean that it should use the default protocol on the server. I am using a Centos7 server that hasn't been modified. So, nfs-v4 is being used. You can verify this by using "df -T" on the client. Also, you should check the server's /etc/nfs.conf to make sure no modifications have been made. The default is.... #[nfsd] # debug=0 # threads=8 # host= # port=0 # grace-time=90 # lease-time=90 # udp=y # tcp=y # vers2=n # vers3=y # vers4=y # vers4.0=y # vers4.1=y # vers4.2=y # rdma=n > My 'hosts.allow files is as follows: > > portmap: 192.168.2.100 # 192.168.2.100 is the Data Server > rquotad: 192.168.2.100 > mountd: 192.168.2.100 > statd: 192.168.2.100 I do not use "hosts.allow" onn my systems. > Do you have 'selinux' running? Oh, yes. I only disable selinux if I need to troubleshoot. > I am not sure just how to find out which version I am running. > I assume you mean on the client when you ask about 'Can you switch to mounting NFS-v4?' I think I covered that above. Using "df -T" will show nfs4 if the mounted share is using V4. Also, I think you indicated that you have some things sym linked on the client side? Could you try and open files which are directly on the mount point as opposed to the sym link location? --- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions.

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xournal++ dev
by Patrick Dupre 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hello, I am not sure that it is the right list to post it, but there is a development version of xournalpp 1.1 which is not available in fedora Is there a chance to have it soon? Actually, I have not been able to get the sources. =========================================================================== 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 ===========================================================================

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Keyboard switches to US keyboard after each reboot
by Joachim Backes 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi, I'm running F33 with Cinnamon/German nodeadkeys keyboard layout. Having the problem that after each reboot the keyboad layout switches to US layout. Workaround (not permanent; valid until next reboot): "loadkeys de" in some console windowd (Ctrl Fx ...) Anybody sees a solution for this problem? Kind regards -- Fedora release 33 (Thirty Three) Kernel-5.9.11-200.fc33.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

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Bricked system after migrating to thin LVMs
by Sreyan Chakravarty 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi, I have cloned my original root LVM, and then migrated to the newer thin LVMs using partclone. Both backup and restore went off without causing any problems. But when I am now trying to boot into my system, it asks for the encryption LUKS passphrase but after that I am getting: dracut-initqueue[300]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts I have not changed anything. Even my logical volume name is the same as before. These are the backup and restore commands that I have used from the Fedora live environment: (Creating the backup) # partclone.ext4 -c -s /dev/vgfedora/fedora | gzip -c --best > /run/media/liveuser/externalhdd/fedora.tar.gz (Restoring the backup) # gzip -c -d /run/media/externalhdd/fedora.tar.gz | partclone.ext4 -r -o /dev/vgfedora/fedora These commands were run as root from Fedora live environment and prior to taking my backup I had set my logical volume to read-only via: # lvchange -pr vgfedora/fedora This is my current volume group and logical volumes: # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert fedora vgfedora Vwi-a-tz-- 700.00g pool00 16.61 pool00 vgfedora twi-aotz-- 929.75g 12.50 16.61 # vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vgfedora 1 2 0 wz--n- 929.99g 8.00m This is my /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/vgfedora-fedora / ext4 defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 1 UUID=4d112d8e-080d-44f2-8962-9c13f20a7885 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=041A-E511 /boot/efi vfat defaults,uid=0,gid=0,umask=077,shortname=winnt 0 2 /fedora.swap none swap defaults 0 2 I have not changed the /etc/fstab after the migration since nothing has changed. /dev/mapper/vgfedora-fedora still exists. The only difference is that it is a thin LVM volume. This is my GRUB_CMDLINE: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.luks.uuid=luks-2ec7f1ae-6f9b-4896-a7b2-be7809e9d2f4 rd.lvm.lv=vgfedora/fedora resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/03aef3ba-dca1-4cba-a3f5-36c5c0fe948e resume_offset=1449984" The UUID of the LUKS encryption is still the same, as I can confirm from here : # ll /dev/disk/by-uuid/ # lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Nov 24 03:38 2ec7f1ae-6f9b-4896-a7b2-be7809e9d2f4 -> ../../sda3 I don't know what else I have to change, or what is going wrong. Grub is asking for the password for LUKS and is setting up the encrypted partition, but after that nothing happens. I guess it is not able to load the root logical volume. Do I have to re-generate my initramfs ? I didn't think that would be necessary since the LVM thin tools were already installed. Please let me know if any other info is required from my side. Need some help as I am unable to use my laptop. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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Fedora-33 No Sound
by Bob Goodwin 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

In a new install of Fedora-33 desktop I have no sound. I have fiddled with the problem for several days to no avail so I guess I need to ask for help. PA Volume appears to get an input but i see no output ... The system had sound with the previous install which was removed when anaconda did the present install. Any ideas, suggestions, whatever? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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Clone logical volume using dd
by Sreyan Chakravarty 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

Hi, I use LVM on top of LUKS. My entire root file system is on a logical volume. I have no seperate home or swap partitions. I would like to know how can I clone this logical volume to my external hard disk. I have seen commands like : dd if=/dev/vg/root_lv of=/mnt/exthdd bs=64k conv=noerror,sync status=progress I have a couple of questions about this: 1) Why use noerror and sync? noerror might give me a corrupted image and sync is just going to increase the size of my image with padding. Why use them? 2) What is rationale behind block size? Will using 4M block size instead of 64K give me a different image? I need my image to be an EXACT COPY. Need your help. Thanks.

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Why is the LibreOffice group blank ?
by Sreyan Chakravarty 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hi, I wanted to remove all LibreOffice components so I tried the following command: sudo dnf remove -y @libreoffice This resulted in: No packages marked for removal. Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================ Package Architecture Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================ Removing Groups: LibreOffice Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================ Complete! This was strange since the group had no packages in it. Why is that ? Just to confirm I installed the LibreOffice group once again via: sudo dnf install -y @libreoffice And that resulted in: Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================ Package Architecture Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================ Installing Groups: LibreOffice Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================ Complete! Why is there a blank group of LibreOffice ? Why aren't the required packages in it ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade
by Denis Shaposhnikov 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hi! After upgrade my Fedora from 32 to 33 I found Meta key in the gnome-terminal works strange. Looks like now the gnome-terminal recognizes Alt key as Meta key. Everywhere in the system Win key is the Meta key and in the gnome-terminal only Alt key is the Meta key. I see it because before Win+Backspace deleted the whole word, but now it deletes just one symbol and Alt+Backspace deletes the whole word. Does anybody know how to return it to previous behavior?

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HTML/PDF -
by Bob Goodwin 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. I have a two page report in HTML form that I want to change to PDF. I can scan a printed copy but I would like to convert the HTML file I received to PDF. LibreOffice reformat it into a four page document, I would prefer to keep the original two page style. Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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'smbclient' Crashing on Fedora 33
by Tim Evans 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Have been working this on the BackupPC users mailing list, but it's looking more like a general problem in F33's Samba utility, 'smbclient.' BackupPC is a backup server package that uses Samba, rsync, and other protocols to backup clients, including Windows PC's. Basically, it runs a command like this for a SMB backup of a PC: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\new-pelican\\C\$ -U backup -E -d 2 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - Output is piped to BackupPC utilities that unpack and index the backup, and do other housekeeping My backups have consistently failed since my upgrade to F33 (were working without problems for years before, and most recently on F32). Looking closely, it appears 'smbclient' is crashing after passing exactly 47 files. (BackupPC then quits after data stops coming in.) I've run this command at the command-line; it runs for a few seconds then reports a core dump. Gnome shell then prompted me to file a bugzilla, which I have done. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900232 "[abrt] samba-client: remove_do_list_queue_head(): smbclient killed by SIGSEGV") Anybody have further suggestions, please? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864 |Owings Mills, MD 21117

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f33 :: where should i fill bug against dnf-dragora?
by Adrian Sevcenco 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hi! Is there a specific place where can i fill a bug for dnf-dragora? It is maddening that weird sorting where i have (descending order): 9994.2k 999.7k 998.5k 996.6k 994.9k 9928.2k ... is this alphabetical sorting or what? Thanks! Adrian

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Waterfox?
by ToddAndMargo 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Hi All, Anyone have an experience with Waterfox? https://www.waterfox.net and do you like it? Also, any sign of RPM support for it out there anywhere? Many thanks, -T

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KDE System Monitor Widget Problem after upgrade to Fedora-33
by Jonathan Ryshpan 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

Th KDE System Monitor Widget does not display Network Speed. There is a box on the panel where the network load would normally be shown. Relevant Sensors are: "Download Rate" and "Upload Rate". System is * Fedora-33 (as of this afternoon) * System Monitor Sensor 1.0 * KDE Frameworks 5.75.0 * Qt 5.15.1 (built against 5.15.1) * The xcb windowing system CPU load appears to be working properly.

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Post F32->F33 upgrade rsync w ssh fails
by Max Pyziur 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

Greetings, Even though I had done the F33 upgrade sometime ago, I am only now seeing that it appears to have affected my rsync backups. When my CentOS server issues the rsync backup the following error appears: no hostkey alg rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.6] Any suggestions on how to resolve this? I've done some Googling; it seems that crypto policies have been upgraded; general suggestion is to regenerate keys; but so far I'm having no success restoring the rsync process. Much thanks as always, Max pyz(a)brama.com

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Re: Audio Disc Burning software recommendation
by Sreyan Chakravarty 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:31 PM Frank Elsner <frank.elsner(a)mailbox.org> wrote: > If it carrys an ISO9660 file system simpy mount it and play with any > player. > No that's not what I meant by reading. I meant before you actually write to a disc, you have to have the data from your original disc somewhere right ? What would you use to record that from the original disc ? That's what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.

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