tigervnc server configuration limitation
by Sam Varshavchik
I'm not sure when Fedora switched to the current tigervnc systemd-based
configuration, but:
I've been using tigervnc to log in to an Ubuntu box, and it was simple to
set up tigervnc on Ubuntu for remote access. I just tried the same on Fedora
and was informed that launching vncserver was "deprecated", and pointed
towards the documentation for Fefora's systemd-based configuration.
Reading through that, the following limitation is a showstopper for me:
# # Limitations
# You will not be able to start a Tigervnc server for a user who is already
# logged into a graphical session.
That's a no-go for me. My Fedora system is configured to automatically log
into a graphical desktop. This won't work for me, then.
This is not a limitation on Ubuntu. It's too bad that Fedora cannot do the
same.
3 months, 3 weeks
Copy broken in recent Firefox?
by Sam Varshavchik
Is it just me, or is everyone else no longer able to highlight any multi-
line chunk of code in Firefox, copy, then paste it somewhere else?
I did some experiments. I can highlight a portion of a line, and that can be
pasted in another window. Highlight anything more than a line, nothing gets
pasted. I tested this on multiple sites, so it's not a single site playing
games with me. Copy/paste does not work either via the mouse middle button
click, nor right click's copy popup menu, nor the main menu's Edit/Copy/
So, what's broken:
1. Something here.
2. Firefox.
3 months, 3 weeks
Libre Office and the secondary clipboard
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Fedora 39
libreoffice7.6-7.6.5.2-2.x86_64 (From LO's web site)
Is it just me or is LO's Secondary clipboard (<ctrl><C> etc.)
a real pain in your neck? The first copy work. The second
does not. The paste is still the first copy. I have to paste
to Leafpad and recopy to get it to work.
Odd that it will paste to Leafpad, but other maintain the
first copy. I can <ctrl><C> all I want in LO nd it is
still the first copy. And that includes inside LO. Why
Leafpad is working, I can only fathom.
-T
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They malfunction when you open windows
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3 months, 3 weeks
Where is the source code for a Koji build?
by Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone,
I'm new to working with Fedora's Release Engineering. I ran across a
package that Failed To Build From Source (FTBS) for Fedora 40 at
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2226505>. I have C and
C++ experience, and I believe I can help.
I'm having trouble making my way around Koji. I can't find the source
code for wcm-0.20.0-22.fc39 to repro and fix the bug. (The Source
field does not provide the source files. After cloning, there's only
one file called 'dead.package').
Where does one find the source code? Or where do I find the package
sources that Fedora used?
Thanks in advance.
3 months, 3 weeks
star office
by ToddAndMargo
No to ask too stupid a question, but do we have an
RPM of Star Office in the repos?
Seems like we have the libraries, but not the
main program
# dnf list | grep -i star | grep -i office
libstaroffice.x86_64 0.0.7-11.fc39 @fedora
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3 months, 3 weeks
kernels > 6.5.12-300.fc39.x86_64 do not boot
by olivares33561
Dear Fellow Fedora users,
I have installed and tried to boot the 6.6.X kernels in fedora and now the latest one 6.7.3 one and
have not seen a successful boot of such a kernel. I have had to delete the kernels every time I try them.
$ sudo dnf remove kernel-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
kernel-core x86_64 6.7.3-200.fc39 @updates 66 M
Removing dependent packages:
kernel x86_64 6.7.3-200.fc39 @updates 0
kernel-modules x86_64 6.7.3-200.fc39 @updates 57 M
kernel-modules-core x86_64 6.7.3-200.fc39 @updates 32 M
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 6.7.3-200.fc39 @updates 2.4 M
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 5 Packages
Freed space: 157 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Erasing : kernel-modules-extra-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 1/5
Running scriptlet: kernel-modules-extra-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 1/5
Erasing : kernel-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 2/5
Running scriptlet: kernel-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 2/5
Erasing : kernel-modules-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 3/5
Running scriptlet: kernel-modules-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 3/5
Erasing : kernel-modules-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 4/5
Running scriptlet: kernel-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 5/5
Erasing : kernel-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 5/5
Running scriptlet: kernel-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 5/5
Verifying : kernel-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 1/5
Verifying : kernel-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 2/5
Verifying : kernel-modules-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 3/5
Verifying : kernel-modules-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 4/5
Verifying : kernel-modules-extra-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64 5/5
Removed:
kernel-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-core-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-6.7.3-200.fc39.x86_64
Complete!
olivares@fedora:~/Downloads/kerTeX/Documents/Documents/mptmp$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4c53 (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730] (rev 04)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 4c03 (rev 01)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 4c11 (rev 01)
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH Thermal Controller
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH Shared SRAM
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake HECI Controller
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake SATA AHCI Controller
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCI Express Root Port #21 (rev f0)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 06bc (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H470 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device f1c8
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH SPI Controller
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: KIOXIA Corporation NVMe SSD Controller BG4 (DRAM-less)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 2600 (rev 21)
olivares@fedora:~/Downloads/kerTeX/Documents/Documents/mptmp$ sudo lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
olivares@fedora:~/Downloads/kerTeX/Documents/Documents/mptmp$
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 1600 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI-2 connected primary 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 440mm x 250mm
1600x900 59.95*+
1152x864 59.96
1024x768 59.92
800x600 59.86
640x480 59.38
320x240 59.52
1440x900 59.89
1280x800 59.81
1152x720 59.97
960x600 59.63
928x580 59.88
800x500 59.50
768x480 59.90
720x480 59.71
640x400 59.95
320x200 58.96
1368x768 59.88
1280x720 59.86
1024x576 59.90
864x486 59.92
720x400 59.55
640x350 59.77
When booting the kernels I tried to see where they were stopping, the boot showed loading the usb mouse/keyboard combination, but showed disabled. I tried booting with regular usb mouse and keyboard and the same thing happens, the kernel does not boot. Secure boot is on. Do not know what to do to get the newer kernels to boot. I dont create a bugzilla because I no longer use the email that was associated with bugzilla. The newer kernels do work on raspberry pi though, so it may be related to the hardware? with secure boot and signed kernels, I cannot seem to find what is going on.
Is there a BIOS setting I can try? RAID ON/RAID OFF, running on nvme0 internel disk. Was running on a solid state disk(SSD) before.
Best Regards,
Antonio
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3 months, 3 weeks
New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool
by Tim Evans
[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but
wanted a broader look ]
I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC
server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the
existing backups).
The old server wrote its data (including its log files) to a network
storage appliance via NFS mount. I have set up the new machine (Fedora
39, same as the old one) and copied over all the backuppc server and
host config files, and mounted the NFS filesystem containing the old
backups. The NFS mount is set up properly on the new
hardware--'backuppc' user can write to the data pool.
Seems like this should be simple...
The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the
server admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error:
"Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to
maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."da
The BackupPC log files don't show any activity, nor does journalctl.
I do, however, see this in the httpd error_log:
[Tue Feb 20 06:36:00.553934 2024] [cgid:error] [pid 2519:tid 2670]
(13)Permission denied: [client ::1:43404] AH01257: stderr from
/usr/libexec/BackupPC/BackupPC_Admin: unable to connect to cgi daemon
after multiple tries
Can anyone explain this, and suggest a fix? My first thought was noting
UID/GID differences for the 'backuppc' user account on the two servers,
but fixing that did not solve the problem.
Thanks.
3 months, 3 weeks
gpg decrypt from a script
by Alex
Hi, I recently found an article on using sshpass with gpg to script the
process of connecting to a remote host using a password, while also
encrypting that password in a file using gpg.
$ gpg -d -q .sshpasswd.gpg | sshpass ssh user(a)srv1.example.com
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ssh-automation-sshpass
However, I think it requires having previously stored your key passphrase
into the keyring stored in memory, correct? So this script would not work
as advertised for this reason. Is that correct?
Also, I'm not new to Linux administration, but somewhat new to sshpass.
Does it only work with ssh passwords or public keys as well?
3 months, 4 weeks
