Problems upgrading f35->f36 : At this point I can't get there from
here
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I have just upgraded from Fedora-35 to Fedora-36 using dnf system-
upgrade. The upgrade appeared to go without problems, but the system
has been extremely slow since the upgrade -- programs take a long time
to start or respond, delays in typing, etc. There seems to be a great
deal of CPU and disk activity for no apparent reason
===> Does anyone have a suggestion of how to investigate?
For lack of a better idea, I decided to reinstall my system: I built
installation media using Fedora Media Writer and started a re-
installation process. However the Fedora installer for KDE thinks my
system is BIOS based, while in fact it is UEFI based; so it wants me to
create a biosboot partition at sector 0 of the drive.
===> Does anyone have a suggestion of how to investigate?
System Info is:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.17.13-300.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
The BIOS is:
American Megatrends Version 2.16.1240, Copyright 2015
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Thanks for your help - Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net>
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1 year, 10 months
can't reach internet.
by home user
(sent from Thunderbird running in windows-7)
From Fedora-35, I cannot reach the internet at all.
- Firefox and Thunderbird each take several minutes trying before
notifying me of time-out.
- If, as root, I do "dnf info firefox", it takes several minutes trying
before giving me curl errors. So here too, apparently no internet access.
- In the corner of the display (gnome), there's usually a little
fork-like symbol next to the little symbol that I click to log off or
shutdown. That symbol is not showing.
- Firefox is able to communicate with the modem. I did not see anything
in the modem's display in Firefox that looked like a problem.
- An rkhunter scan shows no problems, but I realize that doesn't check
everything.
- Last night, I was in a 3-way zoom meeting on this work station (using
Fedora-35 and Firefox) for almost 2 hours as a participant (not host).
Immediately after that meeting ended, I shut down for the night. I
noticed in the past that after a zoom meeting, some things do seem to be
messed up in Fedora; I don't recall any details. I've been simply
rebooting to solve that. Zoom does seem somehow "dirty".
- This is a dual-boot workstation. When booted up in windows-7 (like
now), I am able to connect to some sites in Firefox, but not all. Some
that I can connect to are unusually slow. Thunderbird also works, but
is unusually slow.
The modem is an Arris T25 SURFboard, DOCSIS 3.1 for xfinity internet and
voice. I originally thought the problem was the modem, but since it
seems to be working when I boot into windows-7, I now think the problem
is more likely to be in Fedora.
I have no formal training or experience in sys.admin.
H-E-E-E-L-P ! ! !
1 year, 10 months
auto unlock encrypted disks using clevis/tang works for ext4 but not
btrfs?
by Barry Scott
I have setup a tang server to offer up the unlock key for
by fedora systems that uses encrypted disks.
This works great with my file server that uses LVM and ext4.
But my desktop system that uses the btrfs does not unlock the
disk automatically. I see the logs on the tang server that show
that there are transactions to ask for the key but it does not work.
I'm jumping to the difference being btrfs, but admit that I'm far
from having evidence to show that is the problem.
I used the exact same setup steps for both systems so I'm reasonably
confident that the config is good.
Anyone else see this issue?
Barry
1 year, 10 months
SSH, PuTTy and no authentication methods available
by Jeffrey Ross
I keep running into an issue with PuTTy users logging into the system
(Fedora 35), I found that if I edit:
/usr/share/crypto-policies/DEFAULT/opensshserver.txt and add ^ssh-rsa at
the beginning of the PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms list will allow users to
login again, however anytime there is an update to the crypto stuff on
the system my change gets wiped out.
So my questions are
1) which file should I be updating so my changes aren't removed all the time
2) is adding ^ssh-rsa the best change or is there a better or more
proper one? (I can't get rid of putty, but would like to take the least
evil fix)
Thanks, Jeff
1 year, 10 months
updatedb.conf?
by Tom Horsley
The plocate rpm appears to include an /etc/updatedb.conf file
(shows up in rpm -q --list plocate).
But my system doesn't have an /etc/updatedb.conf file, and judging
from the backups, it has never had one on fedora36.
Anyone on fedora 36 that does have an /etc/updatedb.conf file?
1 year, 10 months
"hardlink" errors during weekly "dnf upgrade".
by home user
Before proceeding, please note that I have no sys.admin. training or
experience. I'm a home user trying to maintain my home f35 workstation.
When doing my weekly patches (dnf upgrade), I get swamped with
"hardlink" error messages. There are a huge number of them, and they
fly past far too fast to see what dnf was doing when the messages
started. I found the messages in two log files. I put them on the
google drive. The file names with links to them on the google drive are
as follows:
dnf.rpm.log.1
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/17VBjtSM_6YNSRcsvjmYRvuSRbnGkbMzp/view?us..."
dnf.rpm.log.3
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/14GJdhNN0Kcr2_m3sXa7FMU-vHWY1WBpz/view?us..."
The 10 terminal display log lines after the last "hardlink" message are:
----------
Upgrading :
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-libs-3:470.129.06-2.fc35.i686 88/159
Upgrading :
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-libs-3:470.129.06-2.fc35.x86_64 89/159
Running scriptlet:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-3:470.129.06-2.fc35.x86_64 90/159
Upgrading :
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-3:470.129.06-2.fc35.x86_64 90/159
Running scriptlet:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-3:470.129.06-2.fc35.x86_64 90/159
Cleanup : urw-base35-fonts-20200910-9.fc35.noarch 91/159
Erasing : kernel-5.17.6-200.fc35.x86_64 92/159
Running scriptlet: kernel-5.17.6-200.fc35.x86_64 92/159
Cleanup : system-config-printer-1.5.15-5.fc35.x86_64 93/159
Erasing : kernel-modules-5.17.6-200.fc35.x86_64 94/159
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The log files generated by today's "dnf upgrade" are these:
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-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1024681 Jun 2 12:46 dnf.librepo.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 779081 Jun 2 13:08 dnf.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6254 Jun 2 13:07 dnf.rpm.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 14186202 Jun 2 12:43 dnf.rpm.log.1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 88 Jun 2 12:42 dnf.rpm.log.2
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12846472 Jun 2 12:42 dnf.rpm.log.3
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19131 Jun 2 12:38 dnf.rpm.log.4
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If you need/want to see any of those, let me know and I'll put it on the
google drive.
H-E-E-E-L-P !!!
1 year, 10 months
Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters
Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming
messages?
If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just
change it to the current date.
If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just
change it to the current date.
I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how.
I've done some searching, still have some to do.
Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if
necessary.
1 year, 10 months
Fedora 36 gnome connections shows only top half of a window
by George N. White III
I was gifted a 2013 vintage iMac with a "Fusion" drive whose SSD was
failing.
Since it has a nice screen, I was using Apple's VNC client when I wanted a
GUI on my head-challenged Fedora systems (currently one on F35 and one
F36). When the SSD died, I installed
F35 on an external USB drive. Gnome Connections was working well, so I
installed F36 on the internal hard disk. That seemed to go well, but
Connections is only showing the top half of the VNC screens for both
servers.
lshw says:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GK107M [GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master
cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
I tried novnc_proxy and that is working properly, but I wanted to ask if
others have seen this. I'm reluctant to try a non-free driver unless I
encounter a problem with novnc_proxy or a spell of weather that keeps me
indoors (next winter?).
--
George N. White III
1 year, 10 months
cursor color?
by Jack Craig
hi folks,
Normally the cursor is black.
is it possible to change the cursor color on F34?
tia, jackc...
1 year, 10 months
