System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?
by John Pilkington
Hi all: I have two old systems (with old nVidia graphics), recently
upgraded from f38 to f39 and both at present using nouveau. One was
OK-ish, the other had screen-recognition and HDMI-audio issues, and I
thought it might be worth trying the more-mainstream f40.
Now the main problem is with the previously OK (single-boot) box, which
reports after the download and dnf-testing that
"At least 446 MB more space (is) needed on the / filesystem".
Google (fedoraforum) has a suggestion of trimming the journalctl log,
but neither that nor any other space-clearing actions that I have tried
has made any difference. KDiskFree shows multi-GB space on all except
current /boot and a hopefully inactive remnant of another, much
older/boot with a different mount point. Both of those have sizes
around 450 MB and free space around 150 MB. TTBOMK only the current
6.8.7 f39 kernel and its rescue version are installed.
Suggestions? Thanks.
John P
41 minutes
rc.local
by George R Goffe
Hi,
I noticed some time ago that rc.local became a service. I'm just getting around to address this issue but am having trouble getting my fedora 41 system to "notice" my efforts.
Can someone post what they're doing to implement this new way of doing things, please?
Best regards,
George...
1 hour, 49 minutes
crippling nvidia display issue.
by home user
(f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor;
kmod 4xx driver)
I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to
upgrading from f-38 to f-39.
There were no hints of any problems. The kernel and the graphics driver
were replaced during this "dnf upgrade".
The akmods did finish before I rebooted.
The shutdown took 5 minutes because it ran akmods (a second time?!).
During the boot-up, there was a message that it was failing back to nouveau.
The display is not working properly; only one monitor is being used and
everything is oversized in the display.
I am not comfortable proceeding with the f-38 to f-39 upgrade with the
work station in this condition.
Important: I have only one old kernel. I have no rescue kernel.
How do I get this workstation working properly?
2 hours, 58 minutes
F40 hibernation issue
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I've changed nothing since upgrading to F40 a week ago, yet I now find
these errors in the journal:
Apr 30 01:02:39 Bree systemd[1]: Reached target sleep.target - Sleep.
Apr 30 01:02:39 Bree systemd[1]: Starting hibernate-preparation.service - Enable swap file and disable zram before hibernate...
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: dev-zram0.swap: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: hibernate-preparation.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: Finished hibernate-preparation.service - Enable swap file and disable zram before hibernate.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: hibernate-preparation.service: Consumed 2.698s CPU time.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: Starting systemd-hibernate.service - System Hibernate...
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: Stopping systemd-zram-setup(a)zram0.service - Create swap on /dev/zram0...
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd-sleep[90707]: Failed to find location to hibernate to: Operation not permitted <------------------
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-hibernate.service - System Hibernate.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: Dependency failed for hibernate.target - System Hibernation.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd[1]: hibernate.target: Job hibernate.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Apr 30 01:02:42 Bree systemd-logind[1061]: Operation 'hibernate' finished.
...skipping...
And the system is not hibernating.
/dev/zram0 exists and is configured:
# swapon
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/SWAP/swapfile file 48G 0B -2
/dev/zram0 partition 8G 512K 100
poc
6 hours, 50 minutes
2 sets of backups with Backups?
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
I currently do weekly backups with Backups and Duplicity> I was thinking
to add another batch job of daily backup, faster, for specific files and
folders that are updated daily.
Unfortunately Backups doesn't seem to give the options for 2 batches, or
selecting single files. How would you do about that then?
I have a NAS to which I plan to copy those files.
Thank you for your help.
Fred
9 hours, 15 minutes
can I clone from a usb flash drive to an NVMe drive?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I am making up a USB flash from of Fedroa 40 MATE for
a customer to play with.
If he likes it, can I clonezilla clone it over
to his brand new NVMe drive (gpart it to expand
the extents)?
-T
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9 hours, 19 minutes
KiCAD has lost my part symbols
by Fulko Hew
I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago,
(back when I was still running F33/F34)
I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7)
And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts
have no symbols on the schematic.
What happened to them, and how can I restore them?
TIA
Fulko
1 day, 1 hour
Fedora 40 - KeePass fails to run
by John List
Hi,
Just an FYI that KeePass is failing to run on my recently upgraded Fedora
40 machine. I'm not sure of the correct place to report the issue.
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John
1 day, 16 hours
Live USB extra space
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I "Finally" have a customer interested in Fedora. I
talked him into letting me spin a Live USB flash drive
for him to play with before we jump ahead.
Question: Is there a way to use the extra space on the
drive to install a few more programs for him to experiment
with?
Many thanks,
-T
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They malfunction when you open windows
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1 day, 18 hours
how long does dnf system-upgrade take?
by Fulko Hew
I don't update my Fedora systems unless I have a real need,
so yesterday I started updating from F35 to F38
I used the:
dnf system-update download --releasever=xx
process.
- My first update from F35 to F36 worked.
- Then I did the F36 to F37 update.
KDE wouldn't work until I uninstalled qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld
to get KDE on X11 to work again.
- Once that was working I started the F37 to F38
It did all the downloads, transaction checking, and (presumably) installing
and is now showing:
Booting 'Fedora Linux (6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64) 38 (KDE Plasma)'
It's been about 2 hours... How long do I have to wait?
It's also too bad, it doesn't tell you what it is or was last doing.
Help!
Fulko
1 day, 22 hours
