Oh God! More helpful software :-).
by Tom Horsley
For as long as I can remember I've run dnf update in a root
xterm and when all the akmod activity and wot-not is finished,
I've run reboot from another terminal.
Now, it won't reboot "because root is logged in".
Gah! Who cares if root is logged in?
Can I disable this helpful feature any way?
3 years, 6 months
Deprecating SCP
by Jakub Jelen
Hi Fedora users!
Over the last years, there were several issues in the SCP protocol,
which lead us into discussions if we can get rid of it in upstream [1].
Most of the voices there said that they use SCP mostly for simple ad-hoc
copy and because sftp utility does not provide simple interface to copy
one or couple of files back and forth and because of people are just
used to write scp rather than sftp.
Some months ago, I wrote a patch [2] for scp to use SFTP internally
(with possibility to change it back using -M scp) and ran it through
some successful testing. The general feedback from upstream was also
quite positive so I would like to hear also opinions from our users.
It still has some limitations (missing -3 support, it will not work if
the server does not run sftp subsystem, ...), but it should be good
enough for most common use cases.
Today, I set up a copr repository with the current openssh from Fedora +
the patch [2] for anyone to test and provide feedback, either here on
the mailing list, or in the github PR according to ones preferences.
I am looking for any kind of feedback from the idea through the
usability, implementation. Is this something you would like to see in
Fedora soon? Do you have something against this? Is your use case missing?
[1]
https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2020-June/038594.html
[2] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194/
[3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jjelen/openssh-sftp/
Thanks,
--
Jakub Jelen
Senior Software Engineer
Crypto Team, Security Engineering
Red Hat, Inc.
3 years, 6 months
newbie question
by David
Is Fedora 32 more stable than 33 or vice versa, as on November, 2020?
If a user were to take present state of Rawhide, but not update risky
packages, would there be any benefit to that ? Meaning to manually
update, skipping some packages.
Are some Desktop Environments in Fedora more stable ?
What are some packages that are the most risky to update ? systemd ?
mesa ? kernel ?
David Locklear
3 years, 6 months
Have I bricked a PC?
by Beartooth
I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine.
I can't get it to boot from the DVD.
It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to
get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till now. (I've been
doing system upgrades with dnf; but that doesn't work any more.
The first display on boot says American Megatrends, copyright
2015.
This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October
30, about a transaction test error. The conclusion was that I had
allocated space badly in F 32, and might as well install F 33 from
scratch. That's what I'm trying to do.
I've been running Fedora since it came out; if I can get this
thing to boot from the live DVD, I ought to be able to install it to the
hard drive. But the boot options are innumerable -- most of them
apparently not connected with the BIOS, if there still is one.
Is there hope? What info do I need to post??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
3 years, 6 months
New parallel port card won't work
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Here we go again.
I now have a Siig JJ-E01211-S1 Single Parallel Port PCIe Card
https://stage.siig.com/products/it-products/serial-parallel/parallel/pcie...
System Requirements:
...
Linux kernel 2.6 and later version
Works with Linux but not supported
And Printer Admin and CUPS do not find it.
Troubleshooting:
1) connected a USB to Parallel converter card. Printer work fine
2) boot off of Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-33-1.2.iso. Printer
admin still can't find the card.
3) With
# modprobe -r lp
# modprobe -r parport_pc
# modprobe parport_pc io=0x378 irq=11
# modprobe lp
the card does show up and you can print to it, but
the jobs instantly disappear and nothing shows on
the printer's status screen
What next?
-T
Here is some data on the card
# udevadm info --attribute-walk /dev/lp0
Unknown device "/dev/lp0": No such device
# lspci -nn | grep -i moschip
01:00.0 Parallel controller [0701]: MosChip Semiconductor Technology
Ltd. MCS9900 Multi-I/O Controller [9710:9900]
# lspci -vv -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 Parallel controller: MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd.
MCS9900 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
Subsystem: Device a000:2000
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at e010 [disabled] [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=8]
Region 2: Memory at ac001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=4K]
Region 5: Memory at ac000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=4K]
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [80] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <1us, L1 <2us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr+ NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency
L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk-
ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s (ok), Width x1 (ok)
TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed
Status: InProgress-
VC0: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=ff
Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
VC1: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
Ctrl: Enable- ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=00
Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
Capabilities: [800 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF-
MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF-
MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+
MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr+
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap- ECRCGenEn- ECRCChkCap-
ECRCChkEn-
MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap-
HeaderLog: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3 years, 6 months
Any better gnome-system-monitor?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I have been using gnome-system-monitor, but it does
not show CPU usages when CPU's are tied up with
system interrupts. htop does, but it is not GUI based.
Anyone have a favorite GUI that will give me
accurate CPU usage?
Many thanks,
-T
3 years, 6 months
Fonts wrong size and not displaying properly after upgrade to F33
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
When Thunderbird highlights a mail line in, say, my inbox the
bottom of the highlight bar is right on the bottom of the text making it
look like the bottom of the text is chopped off. The same situation
happens with icon labels on the desktop. Also the text in the taskbar
entries for running applications is completely garbled and in konsole
the cursor displays two to three characters past the end of the
character being typed in.
I'm using version 84.0a1 of Thunderbird.
I'm using KDE in xorg. I haven't tried KDE in Wayland now have I
tried any of the Gnome options as yet and I'm using gdm as my display
manager.
Has anybody seen this issue with F33 after an upgrade from F32, or
know what I can look at to rectify the situation?
regards,
Steve
3 years, 6 months
XOrg does not start automatically after switching to KDE
by Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi,
I just switched to KDE, but when I now start my laptop the KDE display
manager does not automatically start with boot.
It halts at :
localhost login:
I have to manually type in my user and password, then issue the command
'startx' then SDDM actually starts.
How can I make it so that it starts on boot like GDM ?
These are the commands I used to install and enable KDE, taken from here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
sudo dnf install @kde-desktop
sudo dnf install switchdesk-gui (then selected Plasma)
sudo dnf install system-switch-displaymanager
(this did not work as there is no such component in the repos)
Then I disabled to GDM and enabled SDDM via:
sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo systemctl enable sddm
So can someone help me ? Let me know if any other diagnostic info is needed.
Where did I go wrong ?
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
3 years, 6 months
Re: (fedora) Re: second ethernet device not "seen"
by Jouk Jansen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote on 7-NOV-2020 14:26:28.21
>On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 09:45 +0100, Jouk Jansen wrote:
>> > On 11/6/20 11:54 PM, Jouk Jansen wrote:
>> > > I'm running Fedora 32. I have a Mobo with 2 internet connectors.
>> > > However,
>> > > the second one I do not "see" when I'm running Fedora 32.
>Not an answer to your question, but why aren't your replies in the same
>thread as the original post?
Probably because my mail-client adds (if not present) "(fedora)" to the
subject. Its makes it easy for me to sort them out.
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
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Kavli Institute of Nanoscience tttttttttt uu uu dd dd
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3 years, 6 months
Re: (fedora) Re: second ethernet device not "seen"
by Jouk Jansen
Samuel Sieb wrote on 8-NOV-2020 01:39:52.79
>On 11/7/20 5:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> Not an answer to your question, but why aren't your replies in the same
>> thread as the original post?
>The only clue being the "x-vms-to:" header, it appears to be coming from
>a VMS mail system. I had no idea people still ran those operationally.
Yes it is OpenVMS.
But it is not the reason. That is a (automatic) modification I added in the
mail-client to change the subject line, as I explained in an earlier reply.
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
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3 years, 6 months
