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grub2
by Patrick Dupre 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hello, I do not understand, on my laptop, the 2 last releases of the kernel have not been done properly, and I cannot boot on them. How can I populate /boot/loader/entries properly? Now -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 155 Apr 21 12:21 c60d54440c4d444a9eb5a084a65edf40-0-memtest86+.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 466 Apr 21 12:21 c60d54440c4d444a9eb5a084a65edf40-0-rescue.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 391 Apr 21 12:21 c60d54440c4d444a9eb5a084a65edf40-6.13.8-100.fc40.x86_64.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 391 Apr 21 12:21 c60d54440c4d444a9eb5a084a65edf40-6.13.9-100.fc40.x86_64.conf Thanks. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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mariadb-admin flush logs?
by Alex 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hi, I'm using fedora40 with mariadb and noticed my logs are being rotated, but not flushed to start logging to the new file. This is the bottom of /etc/logrotate.d/mariadb: # After each rotation, run this custom script to flush the logs. Note that # this assumes that the mariadb-admin command has database access, which it # has thanks to the default use of Unix socket authentication for the 'mysql' # (or root on Debian) account used everywhere since MariaDB 10.4. postrotate if test -x /usr/bin/mariadb-admin then /usr/bin/mariadb-admin $EXTRAPARAM --local flush-error-log \ flush-engine-log flush-general-log flush-slow-log fi endscript However, when I run that command manually as root or the mysql user, it fails with access denied. $ /usr/bin/mariadb-admin --local flush-error-log flush-engine-log flush-general-log flush-slow-log /usr/bin/mariadb-admin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'mysql'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' Where is access supposed to be provided securely for this? Do you know what privileges I should enable to allow the mysql user to flush the logs without privileges?

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Logwatch
by jarmo 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Stopped working after upgrade fm f41 to f42?? As well postfix service didn't start after upgrade??? Had to enable postfix service first and start it.. Missing "Mail/Mailx" in f42??? These are my first impressions after upgrade. Where to start look, how to get Logwatch working and repoting? Jarmo

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Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail
by Charles Dennett 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to me. Also logwatch had failed to run. I quickly checked logwatch first by manually running the logwatch service and it complained that /usr/sbin/sendmail did not exist. In fact, sendmail was not even installed. The system uses postfix. Honestly, I don't recall if it was installed previously or not. I got new hardware last summer and did a fresh install of Fedora 39 then and upgraded to 40, 41 and now 42. In the following -> indicates a symlink. Checking my Fedora 41 backups, I see the following chain /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix (which is an executable file) I do not know what package owns /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix unless someone can tell me how to tell rpm to use a different rpm database than the default one. Under Fedora 42/ there was no /usr/sbin/sendmail. However, there was a /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix that was a symlink to /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix. I then installed sendmail. I tested logwatch again and it failed with the same error about a missing /usr/sbin/sendmail. I uninstalledd sendmail. This time logwatch worked because /usr/sbin/sendmail existed. The removal of sendmail left behind the following chain of symlinks: /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -> /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix Apparently, removing sendmail left behind /usr/sbin/sendmail pointing to (eventually) /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix. /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix is owned by the postfix package. /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix is not owned by any package. Probably created by the install/remove script for sendmail. After all this in order to get cron to email output I just had to restart the crond service so it could see that /usr/sbin/sendmail now existed. Charlie

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F41->F42 Postgresql Collation issue
by Max Pyziur 20 Apr '25

20 Apr '25

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Setting up environment for ML on Fedora (42)
by Neal Becker 20 Apr '25

20 Apr '25

Since it took me some effort to setup a working, reproducible environment for running Sionna 1.0.2 on Fedora (42), I have shared my instructions here: https://github.com/nbecker/fedora-ml-setup -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*

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F40 -> F42?
by Neal Becker 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 using sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot This machine is a bit slow (not a lot of memory) so I didn't hang around to watch, but about 10 min later it's running again, and still on F40. Any suggestions? Any ideas how to see the logs related to what happened? Thanks, Neal

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wifi-bluetooth card recommendation
by Terry Polzin 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card? What hoops did you have to jump through to get it to work? Thanks in advance,

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Update to Fedora 42 fails in gnome-software
by Matthew Saltzman 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Most of my machines seem to be working fine, but I have one critical one where I have the notification for Fedora 42 in the gnome-software updates window, but when I click the Download button, the progress bar shows up to about 4% and then quits with no error message and reverts to showing the Download button. I know I can use the dnf system-upgrade path, but I’d like to troubleshoot this in case there’s an issue that could bite me in the future. Updates to my current Fedora 41 have worked flawlessly up to this point. Any suggestions appreciated. * Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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sealert?
by ToddAndMargo 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Hi All, Fedora 41 setroubleshoot-server-3.3.35-4.fc41.x86_64 Any of you guys having problems getting /usr/bin/sealert -b to open? Any way to get this info from the command line? Many thanks, -T

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