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upgrade failed
by Patrick Dupre 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Hello, On a multiboot machine, 1) on machine a) the upgrade to fc36 works, except the uname remains incorrect 2) on machine b), I made (also from fc34 to fc36) dnf upgrade --refresh dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --allowerasing Every things seems OK dnf system-upgrade reboot The upgrade starts List of upgrade to do test check It says that it is going to take a while But the upgrade ends by a reboot, without upgrade. no packages fc36 installed. dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --allowerasing provided: No match for group package "reiserfs-utils" No match for group package "qgnomeplatform" No match for group package "xorg-x11-drv-armsoc" .................. pgrading Groups: Anaconda tools base-x Container Management Firefox Web Browser Guest Desktop Agents LibreOffice Common NetworkManager Submodules Printing Support Fedora Workstation product core x86 Baremetal Tools GNOME Desktop Environment Multimedia Core Fonts Hardware Support Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 343 Packages Upgrade 6734 Packages Remove 35 Packages Downgrade 3 Packages Total size: 7.6 G DNF will only download packages, install gpg keys, and check the transaction. Is this ok [y/N]: y ....... Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Complete! Transaction saved to /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/system-upgrade-transaction.json. Download complete! Use 'dnf system-upgrade reboot' to start the upgrade. To remove cached metadata and transaction use 'dnf system-upgrade clean' The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'. Do I need to remove/downgrade the packages manually? =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A ===========================================================================

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Num Lock
by c. marlow 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Fedora 36 XFCE 4.16 Dell Optiplex 980 I am needing to know how do I get my numlock to automatically turn on when X loads and the log in screen comes up? I have Numlockx installed, but the numlock does not come on after x loads. I had it set in the DELL bios for numlock to be on at boot, but after X loads, when you go to hit a number on the 10 key all you hear is an internal beep from the computer. I have to toggle the numlock off and back on then punch the numbers in for my password. Have it set this way was fine for all the other DE's i've used... MATE and Gnome... But not for XFCE for some reason. -- =============== Thanks, Chris Please send all off list messages to: chris(a)cwm030.com

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gnome: display of battery charge as a percent
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

On a notebook, gnome displays the state of the battery at the right end of the top bar of the screen. I find that a percentage of full charge is a clearer way to present this data. It used to be an option in the gnome Tweaks tool, under "top bar". This seems to be gone in Fedora 36. You can get use this shell command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true This seems like useful functionality. - why not make it the default? - why remove it from tweaks? - why make it so hard to discover? I understand that gnome folks like to simplify things, but surely "tweaks" is a great place to stuff useful options that are not important enough to put in the main (simple) settings mechanism.

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Fedora 36 XFCE
by c. marlow 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

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

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Network boot fails in dracut-initqueue due to nm-online wrongly pretend that the network is connected
by Francis.Montagnac＠inria.fr 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

Hi. For information, I made this buzilla this morning: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104398 (I did similar for Fedora-34). I wonder if there is a single case where nm-online is useful :-( -- francis

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firewalld problems
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

I updated from Fedora 34 to 36 on my gateway machine. Computers on the LAN could no longer access the POP3 server. Somehow some service settings got lost. What else got lost in the transition? NAT/forwarding no longer works. This didn't matter because there is a second gateway with a much faster internet connection. Except it mattered today because Rogers Communications internet and phone service went out, across their service area in Canada. When I tried to use the gateway with F36, it would not work. Just as a simple example, from the LAN ping external-site generated a "Packet filtered" response returned by the gateway. On the other hand this worked fine: ping gw-LAN-address and so did ping gw-public-address This looks like a problem with forwarding. googling got me this: <https://www.it-hure.de/2021/12/firewalld-fedora-34-35-masquerade-between-zo…> It proposed this: firewall-cmd --permanent --new-policy policy_int_to_ext firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --add-ingress-zone public firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --add-egress-zone external firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --set-priority 100 firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --set-target ACCEPT firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=external --add-masquerade systemctl restart firewalld firewall-cmd --info-policy policy_int_to_ext I tried this (replacing "public" with the right zone for my setup). This isn't quite working. tcpdumping the gateways external port, I can see the ICMP Echo Request makes it out and an ICMP Echo Reply comes back, but it never make it into the LAN. Ditto for ssh. Can anyone see what I've missed? Where can I see "policy" stuff in the firewall GUI? I haven't found it. Another oddity. After I did the proposed firewall changes listed above, I dumped the netfilter rules "nft -l" and compared them with the previous dump. There seemed to be a certain amount of refactoring: there were separate functions for virbr0. Why? I no longer have confidence in the migrated firewall config. Is there a way to start over, as if this were a fresh installation of Fedora 36. I think the "policy" feature is just what I need for other problems, so it is great to see this addition. It seems too sparsely documented for me to completely understand it. Boy is "policly" an overused term in networking.

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Dual booting
by Michael Hennebry 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

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? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

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Fusioninventory packages
by Federico Alaimo 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Hello all, I wanted to know if epel 9 will bring fusion inventory agent packages (as done in epel7 and 8) and if yes, when that is expected to happen. Thanks!!

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akmods issue
by Neal Becker 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Speaking of nvidia and akmods, I just had an issue this morning. On my server I'm using nvidia proprietary driver from rpmfusion. Apparently it was updated (automatically) last night and when I tried to run experiments on the gpu this morning I got the dreaded version mismatch between the kernel driver and cuda library (or something). I tried rebooting but that didn't fix the issue. I tried running akmods manually but it didn't find anything to build. The man page for akmods was unhelpful, and looking in /lib/modules wasn't useful because you can't see the version numbers on the modules to see that everything is updated. Finally I tried rebooting a 2nd time on the theory that the akmod got run and the driver built on the first reboot, but too late - the old driver had already loaded. Surprise, that worked. So what's going on? It looks like akmod is run too late and 2 reboots are needed to get the new driver built and loaded? I checked sudo systemctl status akmods ● akmods.service - Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/akmods.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Wed 2022-07-06 07:32:31 EDT; 28min ago Process: 1166 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/akmods --from-init (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1166 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 215ms Jul 06 07:32:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Starting Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages... Jul 06 07:32:31 nbecker8 akmods[1166]: Checking kmods exist for 5.18.9-100.fc35.x86_64[ OK ] Jul 06 07:32:31 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Finished Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages. Any ideas?

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Akmod Built Nvidia Module Tainting the Kernel at Boot Time
by Stephen Morris 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Hi, I believe I am using akmod to build the nvidia kernel module when the kernel version changes and that built module is tainting the kernel because of missing signature or keys, which I am assuming are secure boot keys, but I also followed some instructions I found on the net to get nvidia keys into secure boot when I first installed the nvidia modules. I don't know whether I was getting the following messages at that time or not, as I found these when I was looking for something else. Is the issue with the following messages that the secure boot keys have to be rebuilt every time the nvidia modules are updated? Just as a follow on from this, I've read that nvidia have open sourced their linux drivers, how long will it take for those to be incorporated into the distribution to remove the requirement for the Rpm Fusion versions? [ 13.973631] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 13.973636] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 13.978637] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel [ 13.988926] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 511 [ 13.989619] nvidia0000:09:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem [ 14.040430] NVRM: loading NVIDIAUNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 510.68.02 Wed Apr 20 21:10:34 UTC 2022 [ 14.677665] caller _nv000651rm+0x1ad/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs [ 14.928567] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint. regards, Steve

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