Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.
by murph nj
Hi all:
I've got an odd problem that I was hoping for some help on.
The laptop was previously working fine, I am running F30, updated regularly.
I've got an Acer laptop that has been shutting down suddenly. (I
suspect a bad battery, working on that.)
After a sudden shutdown last night, I now get a kernel panic on boot
right after "Starting Switch Root..."
I was able to boot from a USB stick, and was able to read the journal,
but I didn't see anything obvious to help.
I was able to get all of my data off of the (encrypted) disks, so
that's not a problem, but I don't want to just give up, and wash and
reload too quickly.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--murph
3 months, 3 weeks
Re: Backing up system
by gmspro
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?
1 year, 3 months
Missing MiscFixed 16 font in Fedora 31
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I upgraded to F31 late last week and I am missing the MiscFixed 16 font that I prefer using. Where would I find it?
Many thanks,
Ranjan
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1 year, 3 months
how to install zoom client.
by home user
Good morning,
(f-29)
(background)
Last week, I was to participate in a "Zoom" meeting for a charity that
I'm involved in. I have the needed software on my rarely-used windows-7
box. But I could not complete the windows-7 login (some problem with a
windows-7 service). I've since found there is a "Zoom" client for
Fedora. "dnfdragora" does not find anything for it. But I found a web
page that I hope has what I need. I've downloaded the package
("zoom_x86_64.rpm"), and I've downloaded a "Public Key"
("package-signing-key.pub"). The web site from which I've downloaded
these also has a line:
Key fingerprint: [some 40 hex digit number]
(4 questions)
1. Do the 2 files need to be in a specific place to do the install? If
yes, where?
2. Do I need to be "root" to do the install?
3. What do I do with the "Key fingerprint"?
4. How do I do the install (preferably using "dnf")?
thanks,
Bill.
1 year, 6 months
VideoConference Package?
by John Mellor
In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a
videoconference package available?
Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a
client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for
free, and not available for a local install.
I thought of Webex, but its Cisco. Maybe its just me :-)
I took a quick look at Jitsi, but users say it has a fatal extreme
processor utilization bug, the rpm packages are 3 years out-of-date, and
does not seem to be present in the normal rpm repos.
I also took a quick look at BigBlueButtion, which looks pretty good.
However, it only runs on an ancient version of Ubuntu, and uses a shell
installer for some unknown reason.
This seems like a major application type that appears to be completely
missing from the repos. Is anyone building one, and just hasn't
announced it yet?
1 year, 8 months
Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?
by Earl Terwilliger
Hi,
I've managed to use the kickstart files to create a Fedora 31 KDE live CD
without any problems.
Actually I have a simple python script which conglomerates all the KS
files together to make it easier to deal with. Then I customize it and
have it copy some files into the /var/www/html directory.
I am now trying to see what is necessary to have it encrypted (with Luks)
so it prompts for the password at boot time.
part /boot --size=512 --fstype=ext4
part / --encrypted --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --size=8200 --fstype=ext4
Those commands don't seem to make it encrypted.. Is encryption ignored for
the livecd? Am I not doing something correctly, or is this not possible?
Thanks,
Earl
2 years, 1 month
System becomes unusable when copying a large file via USB into HDD
by Sreyan Chakravarty
I have just installed the latest version of Fedora Gnome on my HP laptop. I
had to import a 50 GB OVA file from my USB HDD to my hard drive via USB 3.0.
When the copying was taking place through VirtualBox, the system hung
almost completely, I was not able to even move my mouse.
Why does this happen ?
Reading this:
https://askubuntu.com/q/397249/628460
It seems to be the case for Debian based OSes, but then why is it happening
in Fedora ?
I just formatted from Windows 10, and while I hate a lot of things about
it, it never made the system unusable during heavy I/O operations. I had
multiple tabs in Chrome open without any lag whatsoever.
I say this, not to criticize Fedora but to point out this should be the
case in modern OSes. So why am I facing this issue?
Let me know what you think and if any further information is needed.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
2 years, 1 month
how to solve this error any solution available ??? on rhel 8 system
by VISHAL DHANURE
[root@localhost ~]# ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh
Configuring the installer...
Searching for JVM on the system...
Extracting installation data...
Running the installer wizard...
Can`t initialize UI
Running in headless mode
Exception: java.awt.HeadlessException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "main"
2 years, 1 month