Fonts in F27
by Gordon Messmer
After upgrading to F27, I noticed that fonts looked "off". I made a
screenshot of Thunderbird and gnome-terminal displaying roughly
identical contents on Fedora 25, 26, and 27. The older two releases are
identical, but F27's fonts (both fixed-width and variable-width) appear
to be the same width as they were previously, but taller. Characters
like monospace 'o' used to be round and are now oblong. Everything
seems slightly heavier as a result of the additional pixels. Does
anyone know if this change was intentional? Personally, I think it's
worse than before.
5 years, 11 months
F26 update: gnome-terminal doesn't launch; locale issues
by Mike Zingale
I just did an update from F25 to F26 via dnf. After it boots, I can no
longer start gnome terminal (nothing shows). If I ssh into the machine and
try it remotely, I see the following:
$ gnome-terminal
(process:3586): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Error constructing proxy for
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling
StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached
So it looks like there is a locale issue in my update. Does anyone know
how to fix this?
5 years, 11 months
how to correctly log without journald (and its blobs)?
by Franta Hanzlík
In previous Fedora distros was (IMHO) right way to log only to syslog,
without journald and its (for me) unwanted annoying binary logs, by using
configuration as:
*) Set systemd log target to syslog:
systemd.log_target=syslog (syslog-or-kmsg) ---- on kernel cmdline
systemd.default_standard_output=syslog --/
and
LogTarget=syslog ---- in systemd.conf
DefaultStandardOutput=syslog --/
*) configuring rsyslog to listen on /dev/log unix socket:
$SystemLogSocketName /dev/log ------ in rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad imuxsock ----/
$OmitLocalLogging off ---/
$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/syslog --/(legacy directives)
$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/socket -/
$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/stdout /
(not sure when all last three directives needed)
*) prevent to run journald:
systemctl mask systemd-journald.service
(and maybe mask systemd-journal-flush.service)
And it works fine.
But in actual Fedora 24 in systemd man page values syslog-or-kmsg and
syslog are missing in LogTarget option. As systemd/journald man pages
say hardly anything about exact mean of appropriate configuration for
this purpose, then please when someone more knowledgeable can advise:
- where to direct the systemd output? Maybe to kmsg an then read it in
rsyslog via imklog?
(rsyslog should have also imkmsg module, but is not in rsyslog-8.12.0-3.fc24)
- what about /run/log/journal/.../system.journal ?
On my test F24 system it have open rsyslogd, abrt-dump-journal-oops and
abrt-dump-journal-xorg (no need for these last two) processes. Uses it
also something else?
- what about /run/systemd/journal/{dev-log,socket,stdout} unix sockets?
Should rsyslogd listen on them?
- /dev/log seems be now symlink to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log socket
(as defined by systemd-journald-dev-log.socket) Should it be left
(because now something sends to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log), or can
be /run/systemd/journal/dev-log removed?
Thanks in advance for some clarification about this.
Franta Hanzlik
6 years
downloading ALL Packages of a fedora release.
by JD
I do understand that robots are not allowed.
In my current situation, I would NEED to be
able to download all the Packages, save
them all on a thumb drive, and make
yum use that as the repo, to fix my problems
with a non-networked machined.
6 years, 2 months
how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
by William
Good afternoon,
I found out the rather hard way what caused those boot failure problems
that were the subject of a threat starting last month. After my weekly
"dnf upgrade" last Thursday, I checked my root e-mail, and found the
hard drive had 8 bad sectors, then 16 bad sectors. A smartctl short
test showed several parameters "pre-fail", and the others "old-age". I
obtained a new drive. My Cray Research friend gave me a USB stick with
"Clonezilla-Live-Version" on it. That duplicated the old hard drive
onto the new one, but apparently not 100%. After the old drive was
removed and the new drive installed, I could not boot. The system was
being put into a grub shell(?). (It displayed the "grub> " prompt.)
After beating out heads against the wall (or the phone), my Cray
research friend gave me another USB stick with "Boot-Repair-Disk" on it.
That rebuilt a grub file, but not correctly. But at least I got a
grub menu when booting, and I was able to edit the shell that the grub
menu entry would run. I had to take the "efi" off the commands
"linuxefi" and "initrdefi". That allows me to boot up Fedora. But the
menu is missing an entry for windows, and I still have to edit that
script every time.
I want the grub menu to offer the three most recent patches of Fedora,
the most recent Fedora rescue shell, and windows-7, in that order.
(This is a dual-boot system.) And I want the shells launched by the
menu entries to be correct. How do I get that accomplished - the
correct Fedora-25 way? If it matters, the motherboard uses UEFI bios.
Thank-you in advance.
Bill.
6 years, 2 months
smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive.
by William Mattison
Good evening,
(f26; Gnome) This past spring, with a lot of help from this list, I replaced the dying hard drive on my home workstation. But when I use the "disks" tool to check the health of the new hard drive, smartmontools continues to report test data from the old drive. I've looked at the smartmontools web site, but I don't see a way of telling smartmontools to update itself to the new drive. I'm a home user with no real sys.admin., OS, or hardware training. So please spell it out clearly, in detail:
How do I make smartmontools (and the disks tool) aware of the hard drive replacement and monitor the new hard drive properly?
Thank-you in advance.
Bill.
6 years, 2 months
Epson XP-860: available printer driver won't print in duplex
by Temlakos
Everyone:
Recently I bought an Epson XP-860, to replace the XP-810 that finally
quit on me after many long years of service.
But when I went to install a printer driver, I found that duplex
printing is simply not available.
It might or might not be significant that the recommended printer
drivers are Epson XP-820 CUPS/Gutenprint drivers, regular and simplified.
I tried installing the Epson Printer Utility from the Epson site. But
that doesn't seem to do anything to make full duplex available.
Temlakos
6 years, 2 months
secure boot disabled
by AV
I installed Fed 27 on a Dell XPS 13 9370 using Fed 27 Live
on a usb stick after deleting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS that came
installed on the device.
I checked that secure boot + necessary conditions were
set to 'enabled' in UEFI.
However after install I find 'secure boot disabled'.
$ dmesg | grep -i secure
[ 0.000000] secureboot: Secure boot disabled
[ 5.630671] Loaded UEFI:MokListRT cert 'Fedora Secure Boot CA:
fde32599c2d61db1bf5807335d7b20e4cd963b42' linked to secondary sys
keyring
$ ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/Secure*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5 Jan 31 16:33
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/SecureBoot-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-
00e098032b8c
Can this have anything to do with the fact that this notebook
only has Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 (C) ports so that I had to use
an adapter cable ?
As I did not expect this I did not check what happened under Ubuntu.
(Aside from some probably neglectable ACPI hiccups everything else
seems to be working OK).
AV
6 years, 2 months