See USB-C charging capacity?
by Chris Adams
The "fun" with USB-C is that not all chargers, cables, and devices
support the same charging power. Is there a way in Linux to see what is
currently happening? E.g. when I accidentally plug my notebook into the
15W port instead of the 65W port - how can I tell?
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>
4 months, 4 weeks
firefox keeps freezing on me
by Michael Hennebry
My firefox on F38 freezes a lot.
I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot.
At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open.
I closed several windows.
Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped,
but not necessarily for very long.
According to top, firefox freezes even when the load
average is less than two, most of swap is free
and neither firefox nor its minions are near the top of top.
My new suspicion is that it waits for something
that does not happen often enough.
How do I diagnose this?
--
Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun,
happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along,
cuts you open, and rips your guts out." -- Buffy
4 months, 4 weeks
Clean install of Fedora 39 on Dell notebook was working, but recent update not getting 50 selerts??
by Michael D. Setzer II
Did a clean install of Fedora 39 on a Dell Latitude 5580 and was
working fine.
After a recent updated started have it get like 50 alerts that almost
all were to add exceptions.
tried changing it from enforcing to permissive but no change
then changed targetted to minimum and no change.
Go thru the alerts and delete all, and they just popped up again
and again.
Tried to report, but it would except my login and password?
Ended up disabling selinux to get machine to not have alerts.
Tried to login to the bugzillia with my id on main machine, and it
would not accept password. Did the change option, and entered
new password that showed as Good, but then it came with
message that some system is being used, and Good wasn't good
enough. Had to use one of those generated passwords to get it to
show strong, and then it changed password??
All my Fedora 38 machines are working fine. Have another
machine that I upgraded from 38 to 39, and it seems to have no
problems.
Got frustrated and ended up just disabling the selinux completely.
Seems strange that it starts reporting all this issues, and option to
fix them are almost all to add selinux exceptions?
Thanks.
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
4 months, 4 weeks
I think Firefox crashed my system
by Patrick O'Callaghan
This morning I found this in my journal:
Dec 09 23:53:04 Bree kernel: traps: Isolated Web Co[188480] general protection fault ip:7f6a44c75871 sp:7ffc2a7be1f0 error:0 in libxul.so[7f6a42462000+4664000]
Dec 09 23:53:04 Bree systemd[1]: Started systemd-coredump(a)12-239925-0.service - Process Core Dump (PID 239925/UID 0).
Dec 09 23:53:05 Bree abrt-dump-journal-oops[182510]: abrt-dump-journal-oops: Found oopses: 1
Dec 09 23:53:05 Bree abrt-dump-journal-oops[182510]: abrt-dump-journal-oops: Creating problem directories
Dec 09 23:53:06 Bree abrt-dump-journal-oops[182510]: Reported 1 kernel oopses to Abrt
Dec 09 23:53:07 Bree abrt-server[239927]: Can't find a meaningful backtrace for hashing in '.'
Dec 09 23:53:07 Bree abrt-server[239927]: Deleting non-reportable oops '.' because DropNotReportableOopses is set to 'yes'
Dec 09 23:53:07 Bree abrt-server[239927]: 'post-create' on '/var/spool/abrt/oops-2023-12-09-23:53:05-182510-0' exited with 1
Dec 09 23:53:07 Bree abrt-server[239927]: Deleting problem directory '/var/spool/abrt/oops-2023-12-09-23:53:05-182510-0'
Dec 09 23:53:07 Bree abrt-server[239927]: Lock file '.lock' was locked by process 239940, but it crashed?
Dec 09 23:53:07 Bree systemd-coredump[239926]: [🡕] Process 188480 (Isolated Web Co) of user 1000 dumped core.
Module libxcb-dri3.so.0 from rpm libxcb-1.13.1-12.fc39.x86_64
Module libnuma.so.1 from rpm numactl-2.0.16-3.fc39.x86_64
Module libogg.so.0 from rpm libogg-1.3.5-6.fc39.x86_64
etc. etc. (I'll omit the rest of the trace)
libxul.so is part of Firefox (and Thunderbird, which I don't use).
Apparently "Isolated Web Co" is a Firefox process which has been
reported for years as leaking memory, though I haven't noticed it doing
this myself (I have a lot of swap). Some people think it's related to
viewing YouTube videos, which I do do.
My question is: why doesn't the OOM killer stamp on this before it gets
out of hand? Isn't that what it's for?
poc
4 months, 4 weeks
F38 mouse hover over Thunderbird folders changed
by Robert Moskowitz
For years, if I hovered the mouse over a folder, it would show me the
subject of the most recent message.
Now it is showing how many messages unread. I can SEE that always
displayed with the folder name...
So what changed and how do I change things back?
thanks
5 months
btrfs Backups
by Tim Evans
Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have
used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental
backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS).
Now, with a brand new laptop, with fresh install using btrfs
filesystems, I find 'dump' does not work on them. (Fortunately, I was
able to use the companion utility 'restore' to recover my /home backups
and assorted config files from the root filesystem of my old laptop.)
So, I'm looking re-script my backups using btrfs tools. So far, it
appears I cannot do btrfs snapshots to the NAS and I'm not wanting to
attach another disk to the laptop just for snapshots. Are there
analogous (to 'dump' and 'restore') btrfs utilities that can do backups
this way, and can be scripted?
Tha
5 months
USB-C cabling
by fedora＠eyal.emu.id.au
A while back I acquired a NVMe caddy but did not get to use it. I now did as I got an NVMe disk.
The caddy is
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001346524009.html
Color: 10Gbps M2PV C3
The disk is
1TB WD Blue SN580 NVMe WDS100T3B0E (PCie v4)
I expected to see 1GB/s speed.
Read [X=Y] cable from USB-X to USB-Y. Caddy on left, machine on right.
1) Directly connecting the caddy to the machine (caddy-[C=C]-socket) I see 36MB/s. So USB-2? speed.
2) Using a caddy-[C=USB3M]-socket I get 442 MB/s. So USB-3.0 speed. This is expected.
3) The kicker: caddy-[C=USB3M] then [FUSB3=C]-socket (two cables) I get the expected 1000MB/s.
I tried a few C=C , no change. Two different machines. same.
What I want, of course, is good speed with a straight C=C cable.
TIA
--
Eyal at Home (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
5 months
Missing kernel-headers for 6.6.4?
by Michael D. Setzer II
Have 6.5.6 , 6.6.3 and 6.6.4 installed, but some packages not
there? have it booting to 6.6.4, but doesn't have kernel-header for
that version. tried to install it, but get not found?
compaison on packages?
kernel-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64
kernel-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-core-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64
kernel-core-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-core-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
no kernel-devel for 6.5.6??
kernel-devel-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-devel-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-devel-matched-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
no kernel-headers for 6.5.6??
kernel-headers-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
no kernel-headers for 6.6.4??
kernel-modules-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-core-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-core-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-core-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-srpm-macros-1.0-20.fc39.noarch
kernel-tools-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
no 6.5.6
kernel-tools-libs-6.6.3-200.fc39.x86_64
no 6.6.4?
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
5 months
Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue
by richard emberson
Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue
KDE Screen Issue (or Plasma issue, or...)
1) Login screen comes up and can login.
2) KDE screen mix of colors and black... moving mouse and screen continues
to redraw random colors (but, mostly black).
3) Bottom panel (in hide mode) comes up and looks normal. Top ToolBar
is drawing like the screen (not normal) but I can tell its being drawn
ontop of the screen background (different colors/black).
5) Firefox comes up rendering like normal.
6) Thunderbird asks for password and it comes up drawing like normal.
7) Using Mouse Right Button, menu come up (look normal) and can
8 "Open Terminal". Kconsole comes up like normal.
9) From Kconsole can launch alacritty multiple times all normal.
10) Background and ToolBar still not rendering correctly.
11) Can move mouse over ToolBar and popups appear. Can also click and
launch/hide terminals, firefox, thunderbird when mouse if over their
position in ToolBar.
12) I can render a jpeg photo in eog and it comes up just fine.
With Fedora 38 KDE Spin I did not have this issue with the background
or ToolBar.
So, has anyone seen this behavior?
Where do I start?
Thanks.
Richard
Notes:
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dmesg
First mention of nouveau (same as in /var/log/messages):
[ 4.179073] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[ 4.180078] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[ 4.180114] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8280b1)
[ 4.299581] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 70.18.6f.00.05
[ 4.300463] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB DDR3
[ 4.976871] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB
[ 4.976880] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[ 4.976883] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[ 4.976885] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[ 4.976887] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000302 00020030
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Near bottom of dmesg:
[ 31.161539] ixgbe 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
[ 45.207388] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: DMA_PUSHER - ch 4 [sddm-greeter[1097]] get 000021f5e8 put 0000220df4 ib_get 00000015 ib_put 00000016 state 80000000 (err: INVALID_CMD) push 00400040
[ 256.400353] systemd-journald[538]: File /var/log/journal/582cf700f5764fe09e7f2b1840341c3b/user-1000.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
[ 300.729194] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: DMA_PUSHER - ch 9 [plasmashell[1612]] get 0000621000 put 0000621088 ib_get 00000015 ib_put 00000016 state 80000024 (err: INVALID_CMD) push 00400040
[ 301.168768] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: DMA_PUSHER - ch 9 [plasmashell[1612]] get 0000621088 put 0000622944 ib_get 00000017 ib_put 00000018 state 80000024 (err: INVALID_CMD) push 00400040
....
[ 301.678444] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 0000000c [INVALID_BITFIELD]
[ 301.678448] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 1dc0 data 03816308
[ 301.678460] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 0000000c [INVALID_BITFIELD]
[ 301.678463] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 1dc4 data 187c7dc0
[ 301.678479] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 0000000c [INVALID_BITFIELD]
.....
[ 301.678537] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000005 [INVALID_ENUM]
[ 301.678541] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 1e00 data 00040060
[ 301.678554] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000005 [INVALID_ENUM]
[ 301.678557] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 1e04 data beef0201
[ 301.678568] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000005 [INVALID_ENUM]
[ 301.678571] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 1e08 data 00140010
....
[ 362.200940] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: CACHE_ERROR - ch 9 [plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 mthd 0000 data 00000030
[ 362.211967] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP_MP_EXEC - TP 0 MP 0: 00000010 [INVALID_OPCODE] at 000000 warp 0, opcode ff9b8456 ff9b8456
[ 362.211976] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP_MP_EXEC - TP 0 MP 1: 00000010 [INVALID_OPCODE] at 000000 warp 0, opcode ff9b8456 ff9b8456
....
[ 362.319066] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00200000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 15e0 data 00000000
[ 362.323151] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP_CCACHE 00000001 [FAULT]
[ 362.323158] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP_CCACHE 000e0080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000004 00000000
[ 362.323161] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00200000 [] ch 9 [003f208000 plasmashell[1612]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 15e0 data 00000000
[ 362.323171] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: trapped read at 0000000000 on channel 9 [3f208000 plasmashell[1612]] engine 00 [PGRAPH] client 05 [CCACHE] subclient 00 [CB] reason 00000002 [PAGE_NOT_PRESENT]
[ 362.334146] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP_CCACHE 00000001 [FAULT]
...
[ 364.471270] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: trapped read at 0000000000 on channel 9 [3f208000 plasmashell[1612]] engine 00 [PGRAPH] client 05 [CCACHE] subclient 00 [CB] reason 00000002 [PAGE_NOT_PRESENT]
[ 521.901383] perf: interrupt took too long (2508 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79000
[ 566.002661] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem cc75fc98-10fb-41ab-9fb7-6f58b3c07b76 r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 566.645348] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem 055939b6-6a83-43ec-9d9a-e5394567ff3f r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 566.768251] EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounted filesystem 8d6d8835-64ce-416e-9acf-918c4810894a r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 566.864909] EXT4-fs (sde1): mounted filesystem c388fa01-5314-4e4c-8bc5-cbd9b4d85b4f r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 567.013171] EXT4-fs (sdf): mounted filesystem f4860393-482a-41aa-a7e2-601ee6afbc03 r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 1032.769502] perf: interrupt took too long (3140 > 3135), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 63000
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/var/log/boot.log
All "OK" no ERRORS
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/var/log/messages
The following appears 2018 times (and counting):
Nov 30 14:26:59 olympia kactivitymanagerd[1631]: kf.service.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.Xwayland.desktop" has Type= "Application" but has no Exec field.
# grep freedesktop.Xwayland.desktop messages | wc -l
2018
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Some nouveau messages:
Nov 30 12:42:57 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
Nov 30 12:42:57 olympia kernel: Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
Nov 30 12:42:57 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8280b1)
Nov 30 12:42:57 olympia kernel: ixgbe 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: renamed from eth0
Nov 30 12:42:57 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 70.18.6f.00.05
Nov 30 12:42:57 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB DDR3
Nov 30 12:42:58 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB
Nov 30 12:42:58 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
Nov 30 12:42:58 olympia kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
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At bottom of messages file:
Nov 30 14:43:54 olympia baloo_file_extractor[5398]: kf.baloo: Failed to add include folder config entry for "/home/emberson"
Nov 30 14:43:54 olympia baloo_file_extractor[5398]: kf.baloo: Failed to add include folder config entry for "/home/emberson"
Nov 30 14:43:54 olympia baloo_file_extractor[5398]: kf.baloo: Failed to add include folder config entry for "/home/emberson"
Nov 30 14:43:54 olympia baloo_file_extractor[5398]: kf.baloo: Failed to add exclude folder config entry for "/home/emberson"
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5 months
Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)
by Tim Evans
Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo
T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.)
It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows.
I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows
partition to make space for Fedora, but am unsure of the process for
current PC BIOS and grub setup for dual boot. Or is the Fedora installer
smart enough to handle it for me?
Are there docs for this? Thanks.
5 months
