TPM control
by Whenow
I got a new computer (8GB RAM, 64-bit, AMD Ryzen 5 3550h) & managed to install Fedora 30 on it. I want to gain control of the TPM and began following https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/configure-and-use-your-tpm-mo... for guidance. TPM does show up in the BIOS as enabled but I can't set anything about it.
# dmesg | grep -i tpm
gives
[ 0.000000] efi: ACPI=0x8f7fe000 ACPI 2.0=0x8f7fe014 ESRT=0x8e60b998 SMBIOS=0x8e607000 SMBIOS 3.0=0x8e605000 MEMATTR=0x7e2d4018 TPMEventLog=0x7516e018
[ 0.005638] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000008F7D0000 000034 (v04 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000002 1025 00040000)
# systemctl status tcsd
gives
● tcsd.service - TCG Core Services Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tcsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-02-27 09:30:15 PST; 26min ago
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting TCG Core Services Daemon...
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain tcsd[959]: TCSD TDDL[959]: TrouSerS ioctl: (25) Inappropriate ioctl for device
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain tcsd[959]: TCSD TDDL[959]: TrouSerS Falling back to Read/Write device support.
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain tcsd[959]: TCSD TCS[959]: TrouSerS ERROR: TCS GetCapability failed with result = 0x1e
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: tcsd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=30/n/a
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: tcsd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start TCG Core Services Daemon.
No idea what this really means.
whereis tcsd
gives
tcsd: /usr/sbin/tcsd /etc/tcsd.conf /usr/share/man/man8/tcsd.8.gz
so I have tcsd, it just isn't talking with the TPM, apparently.
# systemctl enable tcsd
gives no response, apparently succeeds.
# tpm_version
gives
Tspi_Context_Connect failed: 0x00003011 - layer=tsp, code=0011 (17), Communication failure
This is my first rodeo with TPM and I'm trying to gain control over it so I can reinstall an OS and boot live disks and such and not be banned from doing so by my computer. What's wrong with TPM & how do I gain control over it?
Thanks.
4 years, 1 month
XTerm font resource
by Dave Close
Fedora 31
xterm-351-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm
If I open an xterm window and use the menu to select the "Small"
font, I like the result. But I can't seem to find the proper
command options to get that result immediately, without the need
to use the menu. The font I find from "appres XTerm xterm |
grep -i VT100.font3" is "6x10" but that is certainly not what
I see in the xterm window. Applying the result of "appres XTerm
xterm | grep -i VT100.utf8Fonts.font3" using the xterm option "-fa
'-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1'" gets
a smaller version of the font which appears when selecting "Small".
Adding the "-fs 9.0" option gets a font that appears to be identical
but isn't as crisp. Examining both with xmag shows that mine has a lot
of half-tones but the one that comes up with "Small" doesn't.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? What options can I use on a
command line to get the same font as selecting "Small" with the xterm
menu?
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Dave Close
4 years, 1 month
gnome bluetooth?
by Tom Horsley
The gnome-control-center bluetooth page consistently tells me
there is no bluetooth device on the system.
The bluetoothctl command line tool, not only found the
bluetooth on the motherboard, but allowed me to pair a
keyboard successfully (which I am typing on now).
(via a series of absolute gibberish commands I
don't understand, but copied off a web page :-).
Is gnome bluetooth support really that useless, or am I
missing some obscure deamon it needs to run?
4 years, 1 month
Password trouble
by Beartooth
I had set my wife an account on one of my computers recently, a
Thinkpad E-series using MATE User Manager under F31. I suppose I may have
failed to set her password, though I doubt that intensely.
This is a machine that never leaves my desk, despite being a
laptop.
I typed in her usual password for logging in; I got this:
su - tslg
You are required to change your password immediately
(administrator enforced)
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a
dictionary word
su: Authentication token manipulation error
Just for the record, it consists of first letters of a line of
poetry, and does not resemble any word in any of the several languages I
know. (The app is probably just complaining of the length.) Nor had I
enforced any such requirement, nor would I.
useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even root
to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is
Suppose I try the obvious: delete and re-add her. (She has not yet
touched this particular machine, so the account is still empty.) Will she
or I then be able to set the password she chooses?
I don't mind an OS warning me of hazards I can judge better than
it can; but I do take it amiss to be forbidden something trivial.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is
4 years, 1 month
f31,kde :: dolphin autostarting without being requested
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Some time ago, after some updates, i started to have the dolphin
auto starting a window with my $HOME. This is not related to File
Manager setting as my default is Konqueror..
Did anyone encounter anything similar?
Any idea what is going on?
Thanks!
Adrian
4 years, 1 month
knotes, kaddressbook, korganizer
by Walter Cazzola
Dear Fedora Experts,
I've just completed the migration of my Linux box from Fedora 23 to 31 but I
still have some problems in "importing" my old korganizer, knotes and
kaddressbook data.
I usually use the akonadi to import all of them through the akonadi applet
I was used to find in my system tray (aknoaditray, I suppose) but it seems
that it is not there anymore. At least in my fresh installed Fedora 31.
Do I missed to install something or something has changed with the newest
version?
Currently what it is installed about akonadi is:
rpm -qa | grep -i akonadi
kf5-akonadi-server-mysql-19.04.3-4.fc31.x86_64
kf5-pimcommon-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-akonadi-server-19.04.3-4.fc31.x86_64
akonadi-1.13.0-114.fc31.x86_64
kf5-akonadi-search-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-mailimporter-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
akonadi-import-wizard-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-akonadi-contacts-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-akonadi-calendar-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-akonadi-notes-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-libkdepim-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.14.10-34.fc31.x86_64
kf5-kmailtransport-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
kf5-akonadi-mime-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64
Any idea?
Walter
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4 years, 1 month
Shutdown not working on Fedora 31 with XFCE
by Meikel
Hi folks,
when I shutdown my Fedora 31 XFCE via the menu, the system goes down,
and then after one or two seconds automatically restarts.
What I' ve to do as a work-around to shut the system down is to log into
a console and type "sudo halt" which halts the system. When a message
indicates that the system is halted I then power the machine off.
Any ideas why a shutdown via menu doesn' t work?
Regards,
Meikel
4 years, 1 month
F31 in Virtual box no shared folders available
by Peter Boy
I’m running Fedora in VirtualBox on a Mac. With F31, shared folder don’t work for me. I use the guest additions Fedora is providing. They are obviously installed automatically now when VirtualBox is detected during installation.
The configuration works flawlessly with F30 and CentOS 8 & 7. Do I have to modify something for Fedora 31? Had anybody similar issues (and a solution)?
Thanks
4 years, 1 month
Weird dnf problem... Fixed, but weird.
by Michael H. Warfield
Hey all,
Background -- I run a cluster of x86_64, armfp, and aarch64 systems and
I use a shared cache on my 100TB NAS for dnf so a package (even if it's
a DRPM) only has to be downloaded once. Works pretty damn well for me
and I know other people have tried to use (abuse) pkgcacher and socks
and straight nfs and others to do this. The dnf maintainers should
take note of a need (I've browsed some of the bugzilla reports). There
are a few of us out there that want to download rpm files ONCE and
avoid beating the sh*t out of the mirrors but don't want to build
entire mirror repositories. But that wasn't the cause of this problem.
It merely tripped over it.
IAC, on a couple of my Raspberry Pi systems, I started getting this
weird error about an sqlite error in "Generating completion cache..."
during many operations. Well, I'm pointed at an alternate cache
location but something was seriously wrong here. Just plain dnf was
giving me the same error, ignoring the dnf-overlay front-end. Tried
all the "dnf clean" options - no joy. Tried "rpm --rebuilddb" - no
joy.
Finally chased down the error message in the code to this file...
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/generate_completion_cache.py
And this line:
self.cache_file = "/var/cache/dnf/packages.db"
Fancy that. It apparently doesn't obey the caching options in dnf.conf
or from the command line. It also doesn't get cleaned in the cleanup
operations. Your only option really is to remove that db file and
rerun dnf update again to rebuild it and it's cool!
I've filed a bug report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1807238
Mostly, it can be ignored. I'm not sure WHY a bash completion database
should be in a hard coded location but I'm not sure what would be
better in the local system (maybe something in /var/lib) but it was
frustrating to have to chase this thing down in the code when that damn
database got corrupted and even worse that dbf could not clean it.
In case anyone else gets bit by this...
Regards,
Mike
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4 years, 1 month
Mate panel: false error report
by Beartooth
I got an F31 message saying Mate-panel had crashed -- and it
hadn't. This is on a machine which displays both on its own monitor and
on my main one. (Both are behind an HDMI KVM-switch. Each has panels on
all four sides, not identical.) The box that popped up the erroneous
notice asked for a report, which I started, and then wanted to upload a
whole core load, at many MiB and slowly. Stopping the upload killed the
popped up box.
If the Mate crew really does want all that dump, please tell me
how and where to send it, or what to do instead, and I will.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
4 years, 1 month
