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Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?
by Tom Horsley 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Anyone else experienced this: I have a nice modern LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray rewriter, and a nice modern computer case with zero drive bays, so I got an OWC external drive case with sata -> usb3 to hold the drive. Everything I've tried works like a champ on this drive except trying to rip a DVD. It hangs at open as long as I care to wait. (Blu-ray, no problem, cdrom, no problem, writing Blu-ray, no problem). The strace looks like: stat("/dev/sr0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0xb, 0), ...}) = 0 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/sr0", O_RDONLY <-- never finishes till I unplug it If I put the drive in another computer that does have an internal drive bay, it reads DVDs just fine with a direct sata connection. Meanwhile an old small portable USB powered pioneer drive can read DVDs just fine. Just curious if there is some kind of known bug out there. I guess my work-around is to always use the pioneer for DVDs.

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dnf Nothing to do but "Software Updates" GUI showing updates
by S.Bob 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

All; I had a situation where a dnf update showed nothing to do but the "Software Updates" GUI had updates listed. Even did a "dnf clean all" and dnf still showed "Nothing to do". Clicked on the Software Updates GUI to install them and it did... Why did dnf not see them? Thanks in advance -- `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' (By Linus Torvalds)

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xsane -
by Bob Goodwin 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Xsane can't see my scanner as user bobg, as root is detected. bobg]# scanimage -L device `genesys:libusb:001:006' is a Canon LiDE 110 flatbed scanner [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110 $ sane-find-scanner could not open USB device 0x04a9/0x1909 at 001:006: Access denied (insufficient permissions) I have no idea what permissions need fixing. Xsane was installed as su root and I tried reinstall from sudo from bobg, that made no difference. I rarely need the scanner and today when I do it wont work in Fedora 31 updated today. What have I done wrong? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, Fedora Linux-31 XFCE

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Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry
by Terry Barnaby 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries: ################################################################################ # Beam Bbackup cron setup Backup to ... ################################################################################ # # Min Hour Day Month WeekDay # Perform incremental backup to every work day 01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 2 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 3 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 4 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 5 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam This system has been in use for 10 years or more on various Fedora versions. However about 18 months ago I have seen a problem where cron will start two backups with identical start times occasionally. I have had to add a file lock system in the bbackup-beam to cope with this. Any idea on why cron might start the same job off twice at the same time ? Could there be a time change issue with chronyd ? Terry

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Blocking login attempts by country
by Richard Shaw 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

I got tired of repeated SSH attempts and honest for my home network, there's few countries that need to be logging into my system, so I'm using a combination of fail2ban and blocking by country. I created this script to make my life easier and thought I would share it. #!/bin/bash # Based on the below article # https://www.linode.com/community/questions/11143/top-tip-firewalld-and-ipse… ipdeny_tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d -t blacklist-XXXXXXXXXX) pushd $ipdeny_tmp_dir curl -LO http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/all-zones.tar.gz tar xf all-zones.tar.gz firewall-cmd --permanent --delete-ipset=blacklist firewall-cmd --permanent --new-ipset=blacklist --type=hash:net --option=family=inet --option=hashsize=4096 --option=maxelem=200000 firewall-cmd --permanent --ipset=blacklist --add-entries-from-file=./cn.zone firewall-cmd --permanent --ipset=blacklist --add-entries-from-file=./id.zone firewall-cmd --permanent --ipset=blacklist --add-entries-from-file=./kn.zone firewall-cmd --permanent --ipset=blacklist --add-entries-from-file=./ph.zone firewall-cmd --permanent --ipset=blacklist --add-entries-from-file=./ru.zone # Only need to do this part once #firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=drop --add-source=ipset:blacklist firewall-cmd --reload popd rm -rf $ipdeny_tmp_dir Thanks, Richard

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Move files into storage device -
by Bob Goodwin 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

° I connected a WD Mycloud storage device to my LAN and would like to transfer some files from this Fedora 31 computer to it. Although it seems to work well enough with the iPhones it is primarily an Apple or Windows device and does not appear to be Linux friendly. Is there a way to load some files from this box directly without sending them to an ios device first? I am hoping someone has has experience with one of these, I don't need it but it's there for the ios users on my system ... Thanks Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, Fedora Linux-31 XFCE

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remind
by David A. De Graaf 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

What's happened to the remind and tkremind packages? I just discovered, to my horror, they're not available in Fedora 31. I'm going to have to contend with a lot of unhappy birthday celebrants. -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us

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Virtual Box not loading vboxdrv on Clean install of Fedora 31
by Michael D. Setzer II 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Setting up a new system with Fedora 31, but run into a problem with VirtualBox On running Virtual Box I get this message?? WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (5.5.13-200.fc31.x86_64) or it failed to load. Please try load the kernel module by executing as root dnf install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-5.5.13-200.fc31.x86_64 akmods --kernels 5.5.13-200.fc31.x86_64 && systemctl restart systemd-modules-load.service You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. I do the recommended options. dnf packages are already installed The akmods builds the moduals, and they are in the location But restarting the systemd-modules-load results in error. Running what it recommends for getting results with this, but can't find any recommendations?? On exact same machine with Fedora 29, this was working. This is a clean install on a new hard disk. Any ideals? ● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-04-05 00:49:35 ChST; 25s ago Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8) man:modules-load.d(5) Process: 196212 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 196212 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 23ms Apr 05 00:49:35 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules... Apr 05 00:49:35 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Apr 05 00:49:35 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 05 00:49:35 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

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alacarte in fc32
by Saša Janiška 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hello, what has happened with Alacarte (menu editor for GNOME) in fc32? Will it become available eventually? Sincerely, Gour -- As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.

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LVM Merge hangs at 100%
by Sreyan Chakravarty 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

LVM merging from snapshots don't work. I have two logical volume - one is for the entire system and one is a snapshot that I have created if I want to revert things if an upgrade breaks them. This is the output of *lvs* LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert before_upgrade vgfedora swi-a-s--- 30.00g fedora 22.84 fedora vgfedora owi-aos--- 50.00g Now I perform my upgrade by running *sudo dnf upgrade -y*, the upgrade completes without any problems. Now if I want to revert back to my old system state that is the snapshot *before_upgrade*, I boot into a Live Fedora 31 environment and open my encrypted partition using $ cryptsetup open /dev/sda3 dm_crypt And I issue the command: $ lvconvert --merge /dev/vgfedora/before_upgrade This works as expected until it hits 100%: vgfedora/fedora: Merged: 99.59% vgfedora/fedora: Merged: 99.90% vgfedora/fedora: Merged: 100.00% It hangs completely. It has been almost 3 hours and I have not seen the status change. Hitting *Ctrl + C* now will produce the following output: ^C Interrupted... Giving up waiting for lock. Can't get lock for vgfedora Can't reread VG for vgfedora/fedora error flags 2 If I reboot the restoration has not been done and the logical volume *before_upgrade* has vanished. Here is my layout: lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 │ ext4 2ea20bf9-ee56-490f-b12d-bd8d34e2fa3f 694.3M 22% /boot └─sda2 crypto b09a1a64-9b05-4c23-b048-1eacd03cf60b └─luks-b09a1a64-9b05-4c23-b048-1eacd03cf60b LVM2_m B0i0fa-Yxme-Yntt-9uwM-VpFU-3xSB-K774pD ├─vgfedora-fedora-real │ │ ├─vgfedora-fedora │ │ ext4 root 1176ad7d-d3e7-4062-b799-8e2b761f10af 39.5G 14% / │ └─vgfedora-before_upgrade │ ext4 root 1176ad7d-d3e7-4062-b799-8e2b761f10af └─vgfedora-before_upgrade-cow └─vgfedora-before_upgrade ext4 root 1176ad7d-d3e7-4062-b799-8e2b761f10af What is going on ? Interestingly I have tried the same thing in other distributions like Ubuntu and this works. So seems like a Fedora specific issue. Let me know if any other information is required, like any other log files. Thanks. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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