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[Heroes Of Fedora] A token of gratitude for all the hard work!
by Sumantro Mukherjee 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hello Fedorables, I wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude to each one of you for your invaluable contributions to the Fedora 39 and 40 release cycles. Your dedication and hard work have played a crucial role in making these releases a success. You are truly amazing, and the Fedora QA team greatly values the time and effort you invest. Your contributions make a real difference, and we couldn't do it without you. I apologize for the delay in writing up the HoF, but please know that my appreciation for your efforts is unwavering. I have taken the liberty to add a few graphs and all FAS IDs of folks (even if they made a single contribution) Thank you once again for everything you do. [0] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/heroes-of-fedora-fedora-40-contribu… [1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/heroes-of-fedora-fedora-39-contribu… -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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Reboot timeout
by Patrick O'Callaghan 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

When I reboot the system, there's a delay of around a minute before anything happens. This is a single-user desktop and I really don't need to stare at a spinner for so long. Is there a setting somewhere that lets me change this? I'm aware of 'reboot -f' but I assume that would normally be too drastic. poc

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Fresh install Fedora 40.
by Ger van Dijck 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Hi All, I had a total crash on my PC and had to restore Windows 10 Professionel by using Veeam Recorvery. This was succesfull , but the bootloader was gone and Fedora 40 also . I did install a 1 Terra SSD drive . I burned a netinstall DVD Fedora 40 and tried to install Fedora 40 : Normally this is no problem ,but I am not able to create the correct disk partitioning . See following disk layout. sda1 partition ntfs 348.71 Mb system reserved. sda2 partition ntfs 195.35 Gb Windows 10 Professionel (C:\). sda 3 partition 251.02 Gb. sda 5 partition ntfs 251.02 Gb Ger Pro (D:\) free space 484.79 Gb. Fedora 40 should be installed (fresh) on the free space partition , but one way or another I do not manage. Any help would be usefull. Regards, Ger van Dijck. -- Gemaakt met Opera's e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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smartd configuration problem
by Robert McBroom 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Boot process f40 system stops for a long time with a problem with smartd. Seems to access the system drives and note that they are SMART capable. The following entries are in the journal smartd[977]: Warning via /usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify to root produced>> smartd[977]: No configuration file found at (null) or /etc/esmtprc After multiple entries smartd[977]: No configuration file found at (null) or /etc/esmtp The files referenced are not in /etc. Don't see such files on a f39 system What is the system looking to find and where can it be found.

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can't ssh into fedora lxc-container
by Mike Wright 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Hi gurus, I've installed f40 as an lxc container named FED. Default image comes without an ssh server so I "dnf install openssh-server -y" followed by "systemctl start sshd". It fails. journalctl -xeu sshd shows this: "FED (sshd)[636]: sshd.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: OPTIONS" Inspection of the sshd.service file shows these as part of the [Service] section: EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/sshd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sshd -D $OPTIONS Apparently /etc/sysconfig/sshd is supposed to contain at least one named variable ( name appears to be unimportant ). Searches showed the options name to be SSHD_OPTS, journalctl says it is looking for OPTIONS, either work if declared correctly. OPTIONS= fails because OPTIONS is null OPTIONS='' works because it is defined but empty. My question is: since the sshd.service file expects -D $OPTIONS shouldn't /etc/sysconfig/sshd define the OPTIONS variable ahead of time? If the user wants to pass values via $OPTIONS they can do so of their own accord but the service should at least start without modification to sysconfig/sshd ( IMHO ). Does this call for bugzilla? Thanks, Mike Wright

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Waking from suspend
by Patrick O'Callaghan 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Having failed to get hibernation working (see recent posts about Secure Boot getting in the way), I tried to fall back to suspending the system overnight. That works of course. What doesn't work is waking it up automatically. If the RTC can wake the system from hibernation, why can't it wake it from suspension? I don't want to have to be in front of the system to wake it up. poc

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Can't ssh into fedora container (lxc): redux
by Mike Wright 25 Aug '24

25 Aug '24

Hi all, Now that sshd is working as a service I tried to ssh in and got bounced out. Trying again with ssh -v FED ( container's name ) yields: debug1: Server accepts key: /home/mike/... journalctl -xeu sshd shows: FED unix_chkpwd[881]: could not obtain user info (mike) FED sshd[735]: fatal: Access denied for user mike by PAM account configuration [preauth] ( mike exists and has a password ) I've never run into this before. If I remember correctly this didn't happen with f38. I skipped f39. I've since destroyed f38 and can't recreate it to verify ( did it term out and is no longer in the repository? ) Some searches have said a user must attempt to login a first time before they are "setup" in the system ( is that the [preauth] ? ). Since the containers are headless that isn't possible. I tried attaching to the container ( as root ) and using sudo to become mike but that asks for a password which also fails and I get the same journalctl errors "fatal: Access denied..." Does anybody know of another way to validate new accounts? Thanks, Mike Wright

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Strange laptop behavior #2
by Paolo Galtieri 25 Aug '24

25 Aug '24

Folks, I previously sent a message regarding my laptop powering off unexpectedly. Here is an update. Power came back on, but I cannot login to my laptop. When I try to login to the mate gui it replies with power failure and authentication failure. If I enter ctrl-alt-F1, login as root I can login. If I then enter su - pgaltieri I can login as me. If I then enter su - pgaltieri it prompts for password and when I enter my passwd I can login just fine. This problem occurs on both my systems there were shutdown due to the power outage. What do I have to do to be able to log in? This is happening with F39 and F40. Paolo

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KVM image fails to resume after f38->40 upgrade
by Eyal Lebedinsky 25 Aug '24

25 Aug '24

Following an upgrade of the host (38->40) I could not start the vm. The VM was running f40 for a while just fine. It was "virsh save"d a few days ago. $ sudo virsh save e4 /data1/VMs/libvirt/images/e4.saved Normally I actually stop it but forgot to do it this time. $ sudo virsh restore '/data1/VMs/libvirt/images/e4.saved' -rw-r--r-- 1 qemu qemu 512110190592 Jul 8 18:36 /data1/VMs/libvirt/images/e4.raw -rw------- 1 root root 8472278573 Jul 8 18:37 /data1/VMs/libvirt/images/e4.saved error: Failed to restore domain from /data1/VMs/libvirt/images/e4.saved error: operation failed: guest CPU doesn't match specification: extra features: vmx-ins-outs,vmx-true-ctls,vmx-store-lma,vmx-activity-hlt,vmx-vmwrite-vmexit-fields,vmx-apicv-xapic,vmx-ept,vmx-desc-exit,vmx-rdtscp-exit,vmx-vpid,vmx-wbinvd-exit,vmx-unrestricted-guest,vmx-rdrand-exit,vmx-invpcid-exit,vmx-vmfunc,vmx-shadow-vmcs,vmx-rdseed-exit,vmx-pml,vmx-ept-execonly,vmx-page-walk-4,vmx-ept-2mb,vmx-ept-1gb,vmx-invept,vmx-eptad,vmx-invept-single-context,vmx-invept-all-context,vmx-invvpid,vmx-invvpid-single-addr,vmx-invvpid-all-context,vmx-intr-exit,vmx-nmi-exit,vmx-vnmi,vmx-preemption-timer,vmx-vintr-pending,vmx-tsc-offset,vmx-hlt-exit,vmx-invlpg-exit,vmx-mwait-exit,vmx-rdpmc-exit,vmx-rdtsc-exit,vmx-cr3-load-noexit,vmx-cr3-store-noexit,vmx-cr8-load-exit,vmx-cr8-store-exit,vmx-flexpriority,vmx-vnmi-pending,vmx-movdr-exit,vmx-io-exit,vmx-io-bitmap,vmx-mtf,vmx-msr-bitmap,vmx-monitor-exit,vmx-pause-exit,vmx-secondary-ctls,vmx-exit-nosave-debugctl,vmx-exit-load-perf-global-ctrl,vmx-exit-ack-intr,vmx-exit-save-pat,vmx-exit-load-pat,vmx-exit-save-efer,vmx-exit-load-efer,vmx-exit-save-preemption-timer,vmx-entry-noload-debugctl,vmx-entry-ia32e-mode,vmx-entry-load-perf-global-ctrl,vmx-entry-load-pat,vmx-entry-load-efer,vmx-eptp-switching Then, trying to resume from the UI gets the message: ===== Error unpausing domain: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running Error unpausing domain: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 72, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 108, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, in newfn ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1437, in resume self._backend.resume() File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2425, in resume raise libvirtError('virDomainResume() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running ===== Looking at the VM details I see: CPU model Skylake-Client-IBRS $ virsh --version 10.1.0 $ qemu-x86_64 --version qemu-x86_64 version 8.2.2 (qemu-8.2.2-1.fc40) Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers What is the correct way to resume this image? -- Eyal at Home (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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Re: Managing guest VMs on Fedora KVM host
by C. Linus Hicks 24 Aug '24

24 Aug '24

> Hi, > > I have some Linux VMs that are running out of space. Is there a tool I can > use to manage their .IMG or .QCOW files? > > In particular, I have a build farm with some Linux machines using LVM > filesystems, and I need to resize their PV’s and LV’s, grow the ext4 or xfs > filesystems, etc. inside those .IMG and .QCOW files. > > In some cases the partition I want to grow is sandwiched between others. > > What’s available? > > I saw a Redhat Access blog that mentioned virt-filesystems, but it doesn’t > seem to be built for my OS. You can use qemu-img to resize the img and qcow files. Then you can resize existing partitions or if you don't want to mess with that, resize the PV and then extend your LVs into that space. It's been a while since I've done that, but it's pretty straightforward.

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