Dual booting
by Michael Hennebry
I recently acquired a
Refurbished: Grade A Dell OptiPlex GX980 Tower PC, Intel Core I3-550 3.2Ghz, 8G
DDR3, 1T HDD, DVD, VGA, WiFi, Bluetooth ...
I can boot it from a live Centos 7 disk.
According to W10, the HDD is partitioned as follows:
System: 350 MB
C: 930.44 GB
recovery: 750 MB
I think that I would want to dual-boot it (Windows/Fedora)
in case I ever need Windows for something.
I have set up dual booting before,
but it has been a long time.
Ideally it would be a triple boot:
one for Windows, one that I just installed
and one that I've been using lately.
Mostly what I remember about the process is that getting the information
from various distant places in the galaxy was a bit of a chore.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
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4 hours, 9 minutes
Wifi not Started at Boot and Networkmanager Wifi Last Used Stats
Wrong
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I booted into Fedora this morning and had no network available
because wifi had not been started. Dmesg showed the following message:
iwlwifi: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -110
There is not an issue with the wifi router as my wife was using the
internet on her laptop at the time.
Also, when I looked at the wifi definition it said the wifi was
last used 3 hours ago, but it has been over 9 hours since I shutdown my
pc and that was from Windows, so where is networkmanager (assuming
Fedora is still using networkmanager) getting its information from? I am
using KDE for my desktop.
regards,
Steve
7 hours, 58 minutes
System is locking up a lot
by Robert Moskowitz
Since updates Saturday night I have been having hard lock ups. It looks
like Firefox is the trigger.
Lenovo X140e notebook
F35 current with all updates as of Saturday night.
Xfce desktop
It was really bad at first. I finally managed to kill Firefox auto load
pages by in a non-graphics session, watching what top was reporting
going on in the graphics session and killing Firefox.
Then starting Firefox and closing all my windows as they open. Finally
got it to start up with nothing to open. That was this morning. Things
seemed to be working OK until now when I got to my Hilton hotel for the
night and going through their miserable portal that FIrefox would not
accept their cert, and then it locked again.
Just booted. Updated again and only got added:
Upgraded:
alsa-sof-firmware-2.1.1-1.fc35.noarch
mariadb-connector-c-3.2.7-1.fc35.x86_64
mariadb-connector-c-config-3.2.7-1.fc35.noarch
pipewire-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
pipewire-utils-0.3.52-4.fc35.x86_64
Skipped:
python3-reportlab-3.6.10-1.fc35.x86_64
I can't tell where, in /var/log/messages the system locked and then I
rebooted. I did not note the times closely.
Anyone hear anything like this? So far can't find anything in bugs.
1 day, 6 hours
hardware RAID1 NVMe card?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Any of you guys know of a PCIe card that will do
hardware RAID 1 with two NVMe drives?
I have found some, but they are way to elaborate,
and as such, way too expensive.
Many thanks,
-T
2 days
Cleaning /var/lib/dnf/yumdb
by Michael D. Setzer II
Are files in /var/lib/dnf/yumdb of any use??
Dates of files and directories seem to all be June 20 2019
and seem to be for Fedora 29 and earlier.
Machine is currently running Fedora 35??
Is there a command to clean them correctly.
Are the just leftovers from pervious versions.
dnf autoremove didn't do anything.
du . shows total size as 42620 .
Was doing a search from files from / and saw a number of
old files in results.
Thanks.
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(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
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4 days, 19 hours
Fedora 36 XFCE
by c. marlow
Hi,
Fresh install of Fedora 36 XFCE SPIN.
I can walk away from my computer and come back after the screen blanks
off and move my mouse and the lock screen will say:
"YOUR CAPSLOCK IS ON" on the screen locker..... But I never use the CL
( Caps Lock)
What could be randomly activating the caps lock when I move the mouse?
Is it Fedora doing it?
The computer does not power down and go into standby. The tower is
always running.
Dell Optiplex980.
Logitech wireless keyboard K520
Thanks,
Chris
5 days, 7 hours
Bugzilla - when no "component" exist - ?
by lejeczek
Hi guys.
Where do we report missing "components" in Bugzilla.
I'm looking to file a BZ for R-core but there is no "R" nor "R-core"
neither in Fedora nor in EPEL.
many thanks, L.
6 days
CPU Access in the Kernel
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
Just a quick question. To determine how many cpu's/cores/channels
the kernel is configured to support, do I need to look at the kernel
source to determine if all of the cores I have are capable of being
used, or is there something else available to tell me without going to
the source?
regards,
Steve
6 days, 7 hours
Re: using e2fsck and un mounting
by Bill Cunningham
On 6/27/2022 8:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 6/27/22 17:37, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> On 6/27/2022 8:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> Did you mean to send this off-list?
>>>
>>> On 6/27/22 17:01, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>>> <off point> ext2, yes version 2 I use, was mounted RO at a later
>>>> point, SO I used mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 /. To remount to be
>>>> able to change the fstab and save to a rw filesystem. <off point>
>>>
>>> Why are you using ext2? That's probably the biggest cause of your
>>> problems. Otherwise, it would have most likely repaired itself.
>>>
>> It will run fsck, but missed a few things anyway. IDK that journals
>> are needed so much anymore with memory management being what it is.
>> If anything, btrfs I would think would be better. Maybe lvm. I'm only
>> using 30 GB anyway. I usually don't have this problem.
>
> The journal has nothing to do with memory management. It's about
> filesystem protection. btrfs would also be better because it is
> always "journaled" (not exactly, but fairly equivalent).
I thought it was involved in "swapping". Like a swap file my bad.
6 days, 11 hours
Secondary groups missing?
by Alex
Hi,
I've added my user to multiple groups in /etc/group, but running "id" only
shows the primary group.
$ id
uid=1003(alex) gid=1003(alex) groups=1003(alex)
This user belongs to a number of other groups.
$ grep ^alex /etc/group
alex:x:1003:group1,group2
I remember many years ago having to modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to allow the
user to join multiple groups, but I don't recall what those changes are, or
if that's even the proper way anymore. Ideas?
Of course I've logged out and logged in again
6 days, 12 hours
