April 2019 - users - Fedora mailing-lists

[FC8] ssh and CAC card???
by Todd Denniston 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

From what I understood, the change to openssh listed in: rpm -q --changelog openssh |less as: "* Wed Jun 20 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 4.5p1-7 - experimental NSS keys support - correctly setup context when empty level requested (#234951) " was supposed to allow the Common Access Card (CAC) to work with the shipped Fedora 8 ssh. As per NSS usual, everything is undocumented, i.e., `ssh-add --help` does not help at all, and `man ssh-add` points to `ssh-add -s reader` # ssh-add -s 0 Enter passphrase for smartcard: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Could not add card: 0 # ssh-add -s 1 Enter passphrase for smartcard: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Could not add card: 1 So does anyone know how to use the possible functionality, or are we reduced to reading the source? -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

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This list's search engine not working?
by HaJo Schatz 22 May '24

22 May '24

Ever since I stumbled across this list, I seem to have major difficulties searching the archives. Say I want to see my posts to the list (they all have the same footer as below), I believe I could go to http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ and enter "HaJo" as a search string. Searching in all sections, I get 0 results. Does the search engine ignore me by some reason? BTW -- I've been posting since about June, and when showing the archives sorted by author, I do find my posts. OK, not the most helpful to search for my own posts, but I do have the same issue when searching for given topics. Any other search engine out there indexing this list reliably? Google shows 0 hits on a "site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/" search... -- HaJo Schatz <hajo(a)hajo.net> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt

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Re: Tomcat
by Rahul Sadotra 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi Michael, --- Michael Folin <michael.folin(a)donator.se> wrote: > how do I install Tomcat i fedora? > can't find it during the installation > If you mean during the installation of Fedora Core itself, then I don't think Tomcat is provided with Fedora Core (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). This means you will probably need to download Apache Jakarta Tomcat (either binaries, or the source which you'll need to build) and install it. Hope this helps. All the best, Rahul ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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SATA optical drives
by David Fletcher 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of months. Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's even seen a dual layer disk :'( SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable? Is anybody already running them with Fedora? Thanks for any advice/experiences. Dave F

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Apache and umask for document root
by Alex 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Hi, I've set up a virtual host for a joomla website and having some permissions problems. I've seen numerous configurations online about how to set umask for the apache user, but none have worked, including creating a systemd file (/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service) with the following: [Unit] Description=The Apache HTTP Server After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target [Service] Type=notify Environment=LANG=C Umask=0006 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND ExecReload=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k graceful # Send SIGWINCH for graceful stop KillSignal=SIGWINCH KillMode=mixed PrivateTmp=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target The problem is that the files are owned by the joomla user, but also need to have access (both read and write) to be able to modify some files within the document root. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to set umask for the apache user? I'm also interested in recommended permissions settings for the joomla document root. Thanks, Alex

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Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming messages? If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just change it to the current date. If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just change it to the current date. I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how. I've done some searching, still have some to do. Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if necessary.

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Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)
by linux guy 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

How is it working for you ? Thanks

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Re: Backing up system
by gmspro 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi, http://www.sysresccd.org/Download With the SystemRescueCd I backed up the /dev/sda6 partition in /mnt/backup/ naming "diskimage" After backing up operation the file has the automatic extension like "diskimage.000". Is this file ok to restore? If I name it "diskimage.gz" then it is automatically renamed with this extension "diskimage.gz.000" But here below http://www.sysresccd.org/Screenshots the file is name like this: "diskimage.pimg" Do I have to name with the .pimg extension during backup to restore correctly? And how can I restore it?

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What do you open .mobi files with??
by Beartooth 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora- native ebook reader! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?
by Gianluca Cecchi 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Hello, I have recently begun to use again gnome session and I have reinstalled nautilus. I see that nautilus depends on tracker and so the reinstall put in tracker and its things And this morning in my F28 system with SSD disk (I don't imagine on a normal sata based environment) I had to kill tracker-extract and tacker-miner processes because they hogged my cpu for several minutes.. Searching with google I found different info about disabling (or at least calm down) tracker, but they all seem not updated, in the sense that several commands/services are not present in my f28 environment. Any pointer about configuring and/or disabling it? Thanks in advance, Gianluca

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VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site. That site will be the place I present services to the world; httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers" and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net; if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address, and I am not opening any inbound ports. There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html ) and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth, and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail. Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to break with FC1 or FC2? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs

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copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?
by Gianluca Cecchi 22 Aug '19

22 Aug '19

Hello, while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem: - I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names - if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a location where the page listed is full (no blank space inside it), it seems that I cannot paste: the right mouse click doesn't offer the paste option. In these cases I temporarily switch to what should be "icon view" and in this case I always have some blank space because of how items are displayed. I select a blank space and then right-mouse --> paste Then I come back to list view... Is this a sort of bug or what? Based on this link https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-copy.html.en I should have "paste" option in menu, but it doesn't happen, see screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1ZPYPJ5B8IRDA6T_LL5AfbCD2YFAy6_/view?usp=… NOTE: keyboard shortcut ctrl+c and ctrl+v works, though Thanks in advance. Gianluca

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Modem/Router/Router -
by Bob Goodwin 12 May '19

12 May '19

. I have a new problem with my internet connection which a few others on this list may have encountered. They [Viasat] replaced the modem and antenna in upgrading the system. The new modem has an integral router having none of the feature I need to manage data usage, I've already used more than 80% of my allowance in the first week. I normally use a router with DD-WRT installed providing the features I need, showing the amount of data used and which devices used it. The problem is feeding their router data through my DD-WRT router. An ethernet port is provided which they claim work but provide no information for doing so. They sent a "technician" a few days ago and he knew nothing more about it than I do except he assured me it should work but did not know how to set up both routers, tried what he could for an hour and said if you can't make it work and call for help, tell them to send someone else ... Yesterday I tried with my router set up on a different subnet and seemingly working until in one of many equipment reboots their router assigned my nfs server a new address, of course all I knew was it would not mount until I connected a display and keyboard this morning, Now I made theaddresspermanentusing network manager. Before this the modems provided an ethernet port to which a wifi router was connected and connecting to that was straight forward. Certainly I am not the first one to see this problem, feeding data from the ISP router to another one, and my hope is that someone can point me in the right direction if not offer a solution. Google searches have not led to a solution. Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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update to F30 seems to have failed
by Neal Becker 04 May '19

04 May '19

I just attempted update f29->f30 using sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 After reboot sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot The system got to running transaction But then seemed to hang. I waited about 15 minutes. The laptop fan was not running, indicating it was not using cpu. Alt-F2 etc would not switch consoles, so I could not get a bash shell to check. The only thing that responded is, on any keypress, it would repaint the screen with the list of packages to be installed etc. So it wasn't dead. But I don't think it was making any progress either. This is a fast machine with SSD, so I wouldn't expect to wait too long to see something happen.

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Eclipse and Fedora 30 upgrade issue
by Matthew Saltzman 02 May '19

02 May '19

Is there a workaround for the issue where the Fedora 30 upgrade decides that all of Eclipse is not compatible with Fedora 30 and removes the complete collection of Eclipse packages? If it's best to wait until the issue is resolved before upgrading, will GNOME Software automatically update my downloaded upgrade packages? If not, how to make sure that update happens before the install? Thanks. -- Matthew Saltzman School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Clemson University mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade
by Chris Murphy 02 May '19

02 May '19

Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just by running 'grub2-install' before commencing the Fedora 30 upgrade. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_popula… It's worth going through all the Common Bugs. -- Chris Murphy

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I say thanks for a new release !
by sixpack13 02 May '19

02 May '19

anyone ?! ;-)

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IcedTeaWeb: (/usr/bin/javaws): how to run it from firefox with -noupdate option?
by Dario Lesca 02 May '19

02 May '19

When I open this URL from Firefox http://jws.agenziaentrate.it/jws/dichiarazioni/2018/FEL18.jnlp IcedTeaWeb start correctly. But only after 10/15 minutes (!!) the application start and open it. This is not acceptable. I discovered that this problem happens even if I launch the procedure by hand /usr/bin/javaws http://jws.agenziaentrate.it/jws/dichiarazioni/2018/FEL18.jnlp This is the command used from firefox (I see with "ps -fea|grep java"). After some try, I also discovered that if I run javaws with -noupdate option /usr/bin/javaws -noupdate http://jws.agenziaentrate.it/jws/dichiarazioni/2018/FEL18.jnlp the application start and open immediately. It's possible to set this options so that firefox use it? Someone can help me to resolve this issue? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)

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Freeradius bootstrap overwrite my certs
by Rafael Leiva-Ochoa 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi Everyone, I recently upgraded to Freeradius 3.0.19-1 and I noticed after I restarted the service I was getting the following errors: Apr 29 22:01:29 freeradius systemd[1]: Starting FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server.... Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius sh[1970]: make: *** No rule to make target 'server.cnf', needed by 'passwords.mk'. Stop. Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2 Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius systemd[1]: Failed to start FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server.. Apr 29 22:01:30 freeradius audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=radiusd comm="systemd " exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' I got it from Fedora 28 Repo: freeradius-3.0.19-1.fc28.armv7hl. After a lot of digging, I found that a "bootstrap" script on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory was being called on the /usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service. This script overwrote my current certificate files. I had to comment out the ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /etc/raddb/certs/bootstrap to fix the problem. I am not sure if anyone else encountered this problem before. Here is what I have on my /usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service script for systemd [Unit] Description=FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server. After=syslog.target network-online.target ipa.service dirsrv.target krb5kdc.service [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R radiusd.radiusd /var/run/radiusd #ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /etc/raddb/certs/bootstrap ExecStartPre=/bin/chgrp -R radiusd /etc/raddb/certs/ ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C ExecStart=/usr/sbin/radiusd -d /etc/raddb ExecReload=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Is this being addressed on future releases? Thanks, Rafael

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F30 - has it officially been released?
by Max Pyziur 01 May '19

01 May '19

Per the subject line, I see that there is this announcement (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/) but after starting the upgrade and downloading the packages, the upgrade made no progress. Usually, the announcement of a new release is made with an email blast, which as yet, I haven't received. Is the F30 release official? Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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Fedora 30 upgrade - Am I right with this error conclusion?
by Danny Horne 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hi all, Despite what I said in another thread I decided to go ahead with the upgrade to Fedora 30 (from 29) on three VMs running under VMWare. Two went without problems, but the one running my webserver (with sites secured by LetsEncrypt) gives the following errors - Error: Problem 1: package python2-acme-0.31.0-1.fc29.noarch requires python2-josepy, but none of the providers can be installed - python2-josepy-1.1.0-6.fc29.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package python2-acme-0.31.0-1.fc29.noarch Problem 2: package python2-certbot-dns-rfc2136-0.31.0-1.fc29.noarch requires python2-certbot >= 0.21.1, but none of the providers can be installed - python2-certbot-0.31.0-2.fc29.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package python2-certbot-dns-rfc2136-0.31.0-1.fc29.noarch (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) I'm assuming I just need to wait for Certbot and its dependencies to catch up, or is there a quicker way? Thanks for looking

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Re: Fedora 30 officially released! [AND RED HAT GIVES RICHARD STALLMAN (some of) HIS DUES...
by Morgan Read 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/ '...to assist Linux admins in the configuration of common GNU/Linux subsystems.' Is this the first the first time Red Hat has officially refered to the opperating system it's running in this way? If so, it must have been 15 years coming! That said, i wouldn't want to be churlish. Congratulations Red Hat in recognising the ecosystem which allowed this opperating system to delelop. Well done. Morgan Morgan Read E mstuff(a)read.org.nz Tue Apr 30 15:03:26 GMT+01:00 2019 Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>: > It's been six months, and like clockwork, we release Fedora 30 today! > > Thank you to the thousands of people who worked to bring this release > together. Fedora doesn't happen by magic: it happens because of you! > > > Read the official announcement at: > > * https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/ > > or just go ahead and grab it from: > > * https://getfedora.org/ > > -- > Matthew Miller > > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list -- announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to announce-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/announce@lists.fedoraproject.… >

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Does cups-pdf have its own mailing list?
by ToddAndMargo 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hi All, I am trying to figure ouyt how to get cups-pdf to default to Landscape. I have found how to get it to default to Letter in http://127.0.0.1.:631, but not to default to landscape. The cups mailing list tosses my eMail for soem reason. Does CUPS-PDF have its own mailing list by chance? Many thanks, -T

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FC31 (rawhide) networking problems.
by George R Goffe 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hi, I frequently run "dnf upgrade" and a few days ago did that. My system booted just fine but the networking did NOT come up as it has. It's like the system now wants to be ipv6. Manual ipv4 configuration works just fine. I'm testing in a virtual machine with VirtualBox that has also been working just fine... The SAME problem started there to. Again, it's like the system wants to be ipv6. Again, manual ipv4 configuration works just fine. I have thought that I might have goofed something up so I reinstalled the VM and selecting "KDE Plasma Workspaces" and made NO other changes. I still have the problem. I've tried different versions of VirtualBox with NO joy. Does anyone know what has changed and possibly how to recover? This whole experience has left me feeling like the village idiot... NOT as much fun as they say it is. Best regards, George...

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Gnome Terminal copy/paste inhibited by tmux
by Chris Murphy 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hi, If I'm in Gnome Terminal (no tmux), anytime I mouse over a URL it's automatically underlined and I can right-click on it to get a contextual menu with one of the options being to open the link. Simple. Perfect. If I run tmux, and in a tmux window/pane whatever, URLs are likewise automatically underlined, and yet right-click does nothing. On the one hand, Terminal clearly recognizes this is a link by underlining it. But on the other hand something tmux related inhibits that contextual menu. Any ideas either how to fix this or if you think it's a bug? I'm kinda inclined to file an RFE type bug upstream because it's pretty aggravating; but if there's some work around I haven't discovered that'd be even better. -- Chris Murphy

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AskFedora has moved to Discourse!
by Ankur Sinha 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that we've moved AskFedora to a new Discourse instance at https://askbeta.fedoraproject.org. In the coming days, https://ask.fedoraproject.org will also be updated to point to the new instance. Our Askbot instance is now in read-only mode, and will be moved to https://askbot.fedoraproject.org. Discourse is a great new discussion platform that allows for conversations, in addition to question-and-answer workflows. Given how troubleshooting usually does require a few rounds of discussion, we feel that Discourse's workflow fits it just a bit better. You can, of course, mark replies as "solutions" and so on to make information easier to find. Please note that we've limited access via FAS only---it helps us combat spam, get useful metrics, and it makes it easier for folks to start contributing to the community. Please take a minute to check out the new instance. - https://askbeta.fedoraproject.org/c/start-here -> we've summarised useful tips on using Discourse in this category. - https://askbeta.fedoraproject.org/c/site-feedback -> please post suggestions, ideas, feedback in this category. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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UEFI boot with BIOS password, am I screwed?
by Richard Shaw 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

I had Windows 10 and Fedora dual booting nicely on a i5 laptop but then the HD died. I replaced it with a 1TB SSD (Yay!) and restored windows first per the recommended method. I then booting Fedora 29 Live and performed an install and all seemed to go well except it won't boot to fedora! When I try to get to a boot menu I only see Windows Bootloader and Fedora (the latter doesn't work). When I boot to Fedora Live I see multiple entries with efibootmgr including two Fedora entries. I assume one is for the old system and one for the new. When I try to go into advanced settings in Win10 to change UEFI settings it reboots me but there is a password on the BIOS. I can't remember if I set a password of maybe the kids did somehow but I have tried every password I have ever used and it won't let me in. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Richard

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Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox
by Dario Lesca 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

On a i7+16Gb+SSD notebook of a my friend I have install Fedora 29 workstation (all work fine! ... thank to all!) and into qemu/kvm/libvirtd via virt-manager I have install a win10pro with all virtio driver (disk, network, ecc..). After few days my friend say me that the win10 is slow and less efficient than same installation on another PC with VirtualBox. He told me "virtualbox is better and faster" I have heard this statement in other cases in the past and the only solution (sig!) was to replace qemu with virtualbox. There is some other solution to optimize qemu/kvm on Fedora to increase the performance for win10 VM? Someone has some performance comparison between the two virtualization system? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)

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tc and clearing qdisc
by Alex 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

Hi, I'm relatively familiar with traffic shaping using qdisc, but I don't know where this came from or how to clear it. I don't plan on using traffic shaping on this host and would like to just to clear it. It affects my bmon network and bandwidth monitoring. This is a fedora29 system. Where is this configured? Any ideas greatly appreciated. [root@darwin ~]# tc -s qdisc ls qdisc noqueue 0: dev lo root refcnt 2 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 qdisc mq 0: dev eno1 root Sent 88139039438 bytes 140573320 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 14645) backlog 0b 0p requeues 14645 qdisc fq_codel 0: dev eno1 parent :8 limit 10240p flows 1024 quantum 1514 target 5.0ms interval 100.0ms memory_limit 32Mb ecn Sent 8656592525 bytes 16100730 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 484) backlog 0b 0p requeues 484 maxpacket 66870 drop_overlimit 0 new_flow_count 2023 ecn_mark 0 new_flows_len 0 old_flows_len 0 qdisc fq_codel 0: dev eno1 parent :7 limit 10240p flows 1024 quantum 1514 target 5.0ms interval 100.0ms memory_limit 32Mb ecn Sent 12876191548 bytes 18838064 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 1437) backlog 0b 0p requeues 1437 maxpacket 66870 drop_overlimit 0 new_flow_count 1945 ecn_mark 0 new_flows_len 0 old_flows_len 0 qdisc fq_codel 0: dev eno1 parent :6 limit 10240p flows 1024 quantum 1514 target 5.0ms interval 100.0ms memory_limit 32Mb ecn Sent 15675323229 bytes 20889032 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 3434) backlog 0b 0p requeues 3434 maxpacket 68264 drop_overlimit 0 new_flow_count 2249 ecn_mark 0 new_flows_len 0 old_flows_len 0 ...

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fedora 29 suspend/hibernate not working (SOLVED)
by t_pol 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Hi List, I'd like to share my experience in solving the suspend/hibernate problem on my new laptop HP PAVILION 15-cs0989nl (I've read some post on the internet regarding this argument). The laptop has a "NVIDIA GEFORCE card" as well as an "Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)". After the new Fedora 29 Installation the system automatically loaded drivers "nouveau" for the NVIDIA card. Analyzing the logs after an unsuccessful suspend command I've noticed a number of messages regarding this driver, so I've decided to blacklist it putting the following in the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 and adding the command: rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau to /etc/default/grub in the line starting with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" and then recreating the grub.cfg with grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg Last thing I did was to disable safe boot in BIOS Setup. That's it. Right now both suspend and hibernate work like a charm. Hope this could help someone. Ciao

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fedora 29 trying to mount missing disk
by doug.lindquist＠atlanticbb.net 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

I replaced a hd lately because I needed more space. It was encrypted with LUKS. I removed the line from crypttab for the old disk. now when I boot it tries to mount the old hd too. is there another file that needs changed? Apr 23 04:36:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.device: Job dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc> Apr 23 04:36:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.device. -- Subject: Unit dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.device has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.device has failed. -- -- The result is timeout. Apr 23 04:36:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Resume from hibernation using device /dev/mapper/luks-ed6811c7-c830-47f2-9dd3-55b349490e7f. -- Subject: Unit systemd-hibernate-resume@dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit systemd-hibernate-resume@dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.service has failed. -- -- The result is dependency. Apr 23 04:36:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate-resume@dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.service: Job system> Apr 23 04:36:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc830\x2d47f2\x2d9dd3\x2d55b349490e7f.device: Job dev-mapper-luks\x2ded6811c7\x2dc> Apr 23 04:36:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Local File Systems (Pre). -- Subject: Unit local-fs-pre.target has finished start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

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trying to identify file (if any) corresponding to LBA
by Andre Robatino 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

I'm running 64-bit F29 using the default LVM, but with no separate home partition. Today smartctl reported that "Current_Pending_Sector" and "Offline_Uncorrectable" increased from 0 to 1. Running a self-test failed almost immediately with Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 42494 3299402936 I'm trying to follow the instructions in https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/BadBlockHowto . Fdisk gives [root@lenovo-pc ~]# fdisk -lu /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc3017146 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 1024000 500M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 1026048 536872959 535846912 255.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 536872960 538970111 2097152 1G 83 Linux /dev/sda4 538970112 3907028991 3368058880 1.6T 5 Extended /dev/sda5 538972160 3907028991 3368056832 1.6T 8e Linux LVM [root@lenovo-pc ~]# so the bad LBA is in both sda4 and sda5. Trying tune2fs to find the block size gives [root@lenovo-pc ~]# tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep Block tune2fs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda4 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. [root@lenovo-pc ~]# tune2fs -l /dev/sda5 | grep Block tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda5 [root@lenovo-pc ~]# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/fedora-root | grep Block Block count: 419037184 Block size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 [root@lenovo-pc ~]# so I'm guessing that the block size is 4096. In computing the problem block, I'm not sure whether to use /dev/sda4 or /dev/sda5. Also, if I run debugfs, it doesn't allow me to open either device, so at this point I'm not sure how to identify either the inode or file (if there is one) corresponding to the block. Can anyone help?

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x11 and the mouse
by ToddAndMargo 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Hi All, Fedroa 29, x64 Xfce 4.13 Is there an X11 (not Xfce's settings) setting out there somewhere for how the mouse behaves? Many thanks, -T

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f29 iso customization : value of inst.stage2 and iso re-packaging
by Adrian Sevcenco 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Hi! I would like to customize the iso net-install of f29 by pointing the inst.stage2 to a local http location but i do not find a reliable point of information ... looking over https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f29/install-guide/advanced/Boot… i see : "This option expects a path to a directory containing a valid .treeinfo file; the location of the runtime image will be read from this file if found. If a .treeinfo file is not available, Anaconda will try to load the image from LiveOS/squashfs.img." but the f29 net-install image does not have .treeinfo file, not LiveOS directory nor squashfs.img (it have an install.img) So, how can i point inst.stage2 to a location containing install.img? Also, i fail to find a method to repackage back the iso.. Any idea if the el7 method (with mkisofs) would work the same ? Thank you! Adrian

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clean-up after upgrade.
by home user 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Good afternoon, A short while ago, I upgraded from f28 to f29. One post-upgrade step suggested by the upgrade instructions is: ----- bash.3[~]: dnf list extras Last metadata expiration check: 0:32:03 ago on Thu 18 Apr 2019 02:01:12 PM MDT. Extra Packages clutter-gst.x86_64 1.6.0-20.fc28 @fedora clutter-gst2.x86_64 2.0.18-5.fc28 @fedora compat-libicu57.x86_64 57.1-2.fc28 @fedora eclipse-emf-query.noarch 1.10.0-5.fc28 @fedora eclipse-emf-validation.noarch 1.10.0-5.fc28 @fedora eclipse-fedorapackager.noarch 0.6.0-4.fc28 @fedora eclipse-mdt-ocl.noarch 6.2.1-4.fc28 @fedora eclipse-mdt-uml2.noarch 5.2.3-3.fc28 @fedora gegl.x86_64 0.2.0-38.fc28 @fedora java-9-openjdk.x86_64 1:9.0.4.11-6.fc28 @fedora java-9-openjdk-headless.x86_64 1:9.0.4.11-6.fc28 @fedora kernel.x86_64 5.0.6-100.fc28 @updates kernel.x86_64 5.0.7-100.fc28 @updates kernel-core.x86_64 5.0.6-100.fc28 @updates kernel-core.x86_64 5.0.7-100.fc28 @updates kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 5.0.6-100.fc28 @updates kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 5.0.7-100.fc28 @updates kernel-devel.x86_64 5.0.6-100.fc28 @updates kernel-devel.x86_64 5.0.7-100.fc28 @updates kernel-modules.x86_64 5.0.6-100.fc28 @updates kernel-modules.x86_64 5.0.7-100.fc28 @updates kmod-nvidia-5.0.6-100.fc28.x86_64.x86_64 3:418.56-1.fc28 @@commandline kmod-nvidia-5.0.7-100.fc28.x86_64.x86_64 3:418.56-1.fc28 @@commandline kmod-nvidia-5.0.7-200.fc29.x86_64.x86_64 3:418.56-1.fc29 @@commandline libXevie.x86_64 1.0.3-14.fc27 @fedora libgit2.x86_64 0.27.8-1.fc29 @updates lucene4.noarch 4.10.4-12.fc28 @fedora mozjs24.x86_64 24.2.0-11.fc26 @@commandline python2-pygpgme.x86_64 0.3-26.fc28 @fedora bash.4[~]: ----- My grub menu does include the last 2 patches. In the above output, I see kmod-nvidia and kernel entries. Is is safe for me to the "dnf remove $dnf repoquery --extras --exclude=kernel,kernel-\*) as suggested by the upgrade instructions? Thank-you, Bill.

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Re: Problems with plank settings app
by Frank McCormick 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

On 2019-04-20 4:08 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/20/19 9:49 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> In installed the dock plank on my Fedora 29 installation this >> morning, then found >> >> a python-based plank settings app. > > Where did you find it? You will need to file a bug there. That I have done. > >> I suspect it's related to Apples threat to Plank developers over use >> of the icon zoom property >> >> which the fruit company has apparently patented ?? Plank is reported >> to have removed the zoom option, > > This is why software patents need to be eliminated: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=… > > (Patent number 7,434,177) > >> Is there a work around? I don't particularly care about the zoom >> function eye-candy but >> >> it would be nice to be able to use the settings app. > > Until upstream fixes the app, you can either edit the python code to > remove that part or modify the schema file to include that setting. > _______________________________________________ I edited the schema file, which I then recompiled and it now works. No actual zoom as I suspect the authors pulled that part of the code. Thanks Frank

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What is a "CHESEN"?
by ToddAndMargo 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

$ xinput --list --short | grep -i chesen ⎜ ↳ CHESEN PS2 to USB Converter Mouse id=17 [slave pointer (2)] ↳ CHESEN PS2 to USB Converter id=16 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ CHESEN PS2 to USB Converter System Control id=18 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ CHESEN PS2 to USB Converter Consumer Control id=19 [slave keyboard (3)]

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Is something wrong with the testing mailing list?
by Todd Chester 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

Hi All, I noticed that testing mailing list suddenly went dead. So I when to the archives https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test%40lists.fedoraproject.or… and noticed that posts are arriving, but no one is answering them. So apparently nothing is getting relayed back to members. This list is normally really, really chatty. Is it down? Anyone here know how to contact the administrator? -T

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Problems with plank settings app
by Frank McCormick 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

In installed the dock plank on my Fedora 29 installation this morning, then found a python-based plank settings app. However it does not work with Fedora's version of plank (0.11.4). The settings app gives this error: (planksetting.py:6935): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 12:41:28.299: Settings schema 'net.launchpad.plank.dock.settings' does not contain a key named 'zoom-enabled' /usr/bin/planksetting14: line 1: 6935 Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) python3 /usr/share/planksetting/planksetting.py I suspect it's related to Apples threat to Plank developers over use of the icon zoom property which the fruit company has apparently patented ?? Plank is reported to have removed the zoom option, Is there a work around? I don't particularly care about the zoom function eye-candy but it would be nice to be able to use the settings app. Thanks

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Feature request : Vivaldi
by Beartooth 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

I tried installing Vivaldi from its own site, used it a few weeks, and liked it immensely. Then I happened to discover that it was not available via dnf. With copious bad memories of dependency hells, and despite great reluctance, I gave it up. I still miss it. Couldn't it be added to one or another of the Fedora repos?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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why dnf wants to reinstall to same version ?
by sean darcy 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

FC29. I have a server for video encoding. I use x264, which I keep updated to the most recent git packaaged in an rpm. rpm -q x264-libs x264-libs-0.157-0.20190331.fc29.x86_64 I then rebuild all the packages that depend on x264, including avidemux-libs. I just rebuild on my machine, without chaging the version, since the version hasn't changed, it's just linked to the new x264 version. rpm -q avidemux-libs avidemux-libs-2.7.3-1.fc29.x86_64 But dnf want to replace my rebuild version, with the version for the repo: dnf upgrade --refresh .............. Problem 1: package avidemux-libs-2.7.3-1.fc29.x86_64 requires libx264.so.155()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install both x264-libs-0.155-2.20180806git0a84d98.fc29.x86_64 and x264-libs-0.157-0.20190331.fc29.x86_64 I don't want to bump the avidemux-libs version, since I want to know when a new one is available. I don't want to keep adding "-x avidemux.." Why does dnf want to replace the installed package ? How does it even know it's not the same package as the repo ? sean

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Feature request: pre-tweaking
by Beartooth 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

Whenever I do a fresh install (preferably a net install or one from a live medium -- they're smaller), as soon as I reboot into it and update it, I launch dnfdragora and go through, first, all the apps I know I don't need, or hope I won't. (When in doubt, I hit Apply often and read through the resulting list with great care.) That done, I start over, this time looking for things I know or hope I will want. By the time I've done both, I've pretty well killed a day, often two. And then I still have to do the other half: arranging panels, icons, and the like into places where my fingers can find them, without taking what's left of my mind off what it's doing. As an old retired fart blissfully unconcerned with production of anything, I can afford all this; but it's gawdawful tedious. If there's a better way that a non-technoid can use, somebody please clue me in! If I could have my druthers, I'd like some snapshot that would record my tweaks shortly before a fresh install, and write them to a temporary external medium. Then after the fresh install, it would check as best it could, show me the changes, and offer to carry them out. I realize such a tool could never be perfect. There will always be new releases of one standby or another, and other bigger changes that give the May or November release of Fedora good reason for taking a new number. Nevertheless, there are also mature apps, such as mailers and list servers, that some of us want and some of us don't, which change only slowly. There are terminal tabs, font sizes, locations of launchers, and so forth and so on. The tool I'm wish-dreaming of would seize *my* tweaks and carry them over to feed into the new install. All this or something like it happens now with an upgrade, and may the developers be blessed above all nations for making it the preferred way! But sometimes for instance I replace a machine .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Historian of Tongues Squirreler, Double Retiree, Linux Evangelist

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Running vdagent with QEMU/KVM + Spice
by Patrick O'Callaghan 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

F29 host with Win10 guest. I want to use Spice to get the improved features (shared folders, cut-and-paste between host and guest, etc.), but when I install Spice Guest Tools under the Win10 guest I immediately lose the mouse and keyboard in the guest. 'Immediately' meaning that after installation it freezes before I can even dismiss the 'Install Done' pop-up. As I understand the Spice docs, there is supposed to be a vdagent running in the host, but there isn't. Even when I try to run vdagent from a terminal it doesn't appear to do anything. I can run vdagentd (using 'sudo') but that makes no difference. Any thoughts? I can post my guest XML file if it's of interest. poc

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Is there a way to download the text showing on a web page?
by ToddAndMargo 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Hi All, Curl can download the source of a web page. Is there a way to download what shows on a web page after all the javascritps have done their thing? (From the command line, not my hand and my mouse.) Many thanks, -T

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how to get stoken?
by S. Bob 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Hi all; I have Fedora 29 running as my laptop, I can run dnf search stoken and it finds it, however if I create a new Fedora 29 VM dnf cannot find stoken. Anyone know what package / repo I need to install to get stoken? One odd thing is that dnf provides shows stoken (on my laptop) as coming from fedora.repo $ dnf provides stoken Last metadata expiration check: 5 days, 12:45:06 ago on Fri 12 Apr 2019 09:23:10 AM MDT. stoken-cli-0.91-6.fc29.x86_64 : Command line tool for stoken Repo : fedora Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/stoken I visually compared the fedora.repo files on the laptop vs VM, they seem to be the same

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ls question
by ToddAndMargo 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Hi All, Not to ask too stupid a question, but it there a way to run an ls that only gives me the file name and its size? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you say, "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say, "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." -- Linus Torvalds ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions.
by Erik P. Olsen 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hello, I have problem installing VirtualBox Guest Additions. My host is 5.0.7-200.fc29.x86_64 And when I run the VGA installer on the guest system I get: [erik@localhost VBox_GAs_6.0.4]$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.0.4 Guest Additions for Linux........ VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 6.0.4 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... Copying additional installer modules ... Installing additional modules ... VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules. This may take a while. VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version> VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 5.0.7-200.fc29.x86_64. VirtualBox Guest Additions: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log to find out what went wrong VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until the system is restarted VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting. VirtualBox Guest Additions: modprobe vboxsf failed [erik@localhost VBox_GAs_6.0.4]$ Perhaps someone on this list has overcome this problem and would explain what I did wrong? The /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log was of no help. -- Thanks, Erik P. Olsen

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x2go trivia question
by Tom Horsley 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

Sometimes when I run x2go, the remote desktop window will come up with a name for itself like: X2GO-tweety-50-1555418435_stD.x2goinit_dp24 Other times it will come up with a name like: x2go-tomh Anyone have any idea why it sometimes chooses one and sometimes the other (like I said, just curiosity - nothing earth shattering depends on the answer :-).

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What is "org.freedesktop.UDisks2"
by Sam Varshavchik 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

And more importantly, why is it having a cow with kernel 5.0.5 on one, just one, of my servers: Apr 9 17:48:44 monster dbus-daemon[1223]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms) kernel 5.0.4 is ok. kernel 5.0.5 is ok on other machines. But on this machine, this mystery box fails to open. This is what's responsible for various silly things that Thunar was doing, on my XFCE desktop. Googling brings up a bunch of stuff, but very vague, and doesn't really help me knowing where to look next. My only glimmer of hope, is that booting 5.1.0 from rawhide on the same server appears not to have this issue, so this is probably fixed already/maybe/perhaps/i-hope-so.

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alternative to pdftk
by Patrick Dupre 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Hello, What are the alternatives to pdftk? I need to rotate a pdf file. Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

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Nonexistent service to disable: zz-fortune
by Frank Elsner 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Hello, without changes to my configuration suddenly all logwatch cron jobs show up the error message Nonexistent service to disable: zz-fortune Why this? What has happend? How to make logwatch work again? --Frank Elsner

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how do I run a local widows of a program in a VM?
by ToddAndMargo 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Hi All, Fedora 29 Xfce 4.13 I have a qemu-kvm virtual machine (VM) of Ubuntu. I have two programs that won't run in Fedora installed in it. I know about "ssh -X11" and occasionally use it in other situations. But X11 is slow and clunky. Is there a better way to run a local windows of a program in a VM? Many thanks, -T

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Whither CHECKSUM?
by Geoffrey Leach 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

First-time making an install CD (Fedora 30 from Fedora 28) Following the instructions for verifying a downloaded image from getfedora.org, $ curl https://getfedora.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import Now, verify that the CHECKSUM file is valid: $ gpg --verify-files *-CHECKSUM No *CHECKUM in the download directory. So, where are they?

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wxbanker?
by ToddAndMargo 14 Apr '19

14 Apr '19

Hi All, Anyone know of a port for wxbanker to Fedora? https://launchpad.net/wxbanker/+download Many thanks, -T

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tracker-extract keeps crashing and flooding journal
by Francesco 14 Apr '19

14 Apr '19

After updating my system yesterday, I noticed that tracker-extract is crashing a lot and so my journal is flooded by many coredumps.. I wasn't able to disable it completely, so I need to terminate it every time I log in with: tracker daemon -t Is anyone having the same issue? Versions: - tracker: 2.1.8 - tracker-miners: 2.1.6 - Fedora 29 Workstation I reported a bug here (via Abrt): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1697484 -- fp PGP: 0x96D200BA

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Fedora Not Detecting RTL8821CE wifi adapter
by t_pol 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

Hi list, got a new laptopP (HP Pavilion 15-CS0989NL). I have problem with Realtec wifi adapter RTL8821CE which is not detected at all while BT works fine. Does anyone have the same problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Ciao Angelo

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How do you request a package in RPMFusion?
by ToddAndMargo 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

Hi All, Okay, I give up. I can find everyone else's requests for packages in RPM Fusion, but I can't find the form to fill out for a new request. -T

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alien?
by ToddAndMargo 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

Hi All, Anyone have a comment on the effectiveness of using "alien" to convert .deb packages into .prm? https://www.maketecheasier.com/convert-deb-files-rpm/ A better way? Many thanks, -T

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Thunar confused by kernel 5.0.5
by Sam Varshavchik 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Is anyone running XFCE seeing Thunar being very confused when booting kernel 5.0.5? Mine no longer automounts my removable usb storage mp3 player. As a consolation prize, of sorts, Thunar informs me that /boot, /home, /sys, and the like, are removable volumes, and shows a folder icon for each one of them on the desktop. With an option to unmount them, of course. Plugging and unplugging the USB device is detected, in some way, with the typical stuff showing up in /var/log/messages, but thunar doesn't see it. Everything's fine in 5.0.4.

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30 upgrade does not take
by ToddAndMargo 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi All, This is what I am running to upgrade from 29 to 30 beta: # rpm --rebuilddb # rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest if anything is too new, do a # dnf downgrade offender(s) # dnf --enablerepo=* update --refresh # dnf install python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade # dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 --allowerasing --best # dnf clean packages <-- optional # dnf system-upgrade reboot When I run the "dnf system-upgrade reboot", it reboots, tells me an upgrade is on progress, and about five second later, reboots again, shows no 30 kernels, and I am back in 29. What did I do wrong? Many thanks, -T

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Xfce 4.14?
by ToddAndMargo 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi All, Fedora 29 Xfce 4.13 I have a customer interested in me putting Fedora 29 on a laptop. Problem: Xfce 4.13 is too buggy to release on the general public. Me, I am loyal and know how to cope with the bugs, but a typical user, I would not wish that on them. Is 4.14 anywhere near? If not, is there a way to lock Fedora 29 into Xfce 4.12? If not, I guess Mate would be the closest alternative. I could always go with gnome, but it has a bad case of the weirds. Many thanks, -T

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smartmontools issue
by Eyal Lebedinsky 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

fedora 28 up-to-date. I have a new array, not yet commissioned, and one disk now complains Device: /dev/sde [SAT], FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW! and the reason, I understand, is this ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate PO---K 001 001 001 NOW 0 My issue is that the disk works fine and never had any errors reported. Also, smartmontools db does not include this disk ST12000NM0007-2A1101 and update-smart-drivedb is failing with /usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h.error.raw: *** BAD signature *** I know that some disks report funny numbers and smartmontools needs to know which one to trust. I see a relevant ticket from 2018-06-15.... https://www.smartmontools.org/attachment/ticket/1042/smartctl-SEAGATE-ST120… And I see that smartmontools has other issues with these disks: Write SCT (Get) Feature Control Command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters Wt Cache Reorder: Unknown (SCT Feature Control command failed) I ran some short and long smart tests but all failed immediately. SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors) Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: unknown failure 90% 250 0 # 2 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 90% 247 0 # 3 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 90% 247 0 # 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 17 - The other (identical) disks in the array report ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate PO---K 100 100 001 - 0 I can request a replacement, but want to ensure that this is not just a smart software issue which may pop up again on another disk. Should we have smartmontools v7.0 (released end of last year) by now? It includes this disk. As I mentioned, the array is not yet commissioned and I can afford to fiddle with it for a while. TIA -- Eyal at Home (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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Brave and Flash?
by ToddAndMargo 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hi All, FC 29 X64 (not 32) I have a web site that requires the flash plugin. Anyone know how to get Flash to work in Brave? Pepper Flash? -T

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systemd triggers a shutdown or a reboot every few minutes. Not.
by Sam Varshavchik 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

According to /var/log/messages, systemd thinks the system is going down for a shutdown or reboot: Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Basic System. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Sockets. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Closed Multimedia System. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Closed D-Bus User Message Bus Socket. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Timers. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Paths. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Reached target Shutdown. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Starting Exit the Session… Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Received SIGRTMIN+24 from PID 52890 (kill). Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 0. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory /run/user/0… Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/ 0. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 0. That was completely made up: [root@monster ~]# w 08:42:33 up 1 day, 23:30, 1 user, load average: 0.54, 0.53, 0.37 greping /var/log/messages, this is spammed every few minutes: Apr 8 08:10:12 monster systemd[52274]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:13:12 monster systemd[52316]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:15:16 monster systemd[52372]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:18:12 monster systemd[52420]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:23:12 monster systemd[52486]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:25:16 monster systemd[52530]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:28:12 monster systemd[52598]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:33:12 monster systemd[52764]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:35:16 monster systemd[52808]: Stopped target Default. Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Default. What in blazes is it doing?

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qemu goes to 100%?
by Tom Horsley 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Here's a weird one I just noticed: I've been using a Windows 10 virtual machine to run my tax software. I've got it displayed in virt-viewer and all is well, then I close the virt-viewer window and leave the KVM running. About 5 minutes later I see a cpu suddenly pegged at 100%. I run top and see that qemu is the culprit. I start virt-viewer again, and it goes back to normal. Anyone else seen this? Why would nobody looking at it make it go crazy I wonder?

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Need a statement on Fedora's purpose
by ToddAndMargo 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Hi All, I just had a vendor tell me they do not support Fedora Server because the the developers of Fedora had stated that it is not a stable release and is used only as a testing ground for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). And as such, they only supported RHEL and Cent OS. Huh ?????? Fedora is more stable in my experience that RHEL ever was. When I was running Scientific Linux (clone of RHEL of CentOS) I almost went INSANE! Is there a statement from the Fedora developers somewhere that I could send this vendor to straighten him out? Many thanks, -T

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Remote Assistance
by ToddAndMargo 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi All, I subscribe to Go To Assist, but they are dragging their ever living feet on supporting Linux. (And I complain bitterly to them about it on a frequently basis.) Do you guys know of a remote assistance package that will work on Fedora? The target customer will be logging into hot spots, so there will be no port forwarding on routers allowed. -T

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upgrade f27 to f29 : repositories in archive, how to update
by Adrian Sevcenco 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi! I am trying to upgrade my long overdue f27 to f29 (to prepare for f30 :)) but i have problems with : Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates' I already updated my system by pointing the baseurls to the archive but then if i try dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=29 --setopt='module_platform_id=platform:f29' i get this 'failed to synchronize' no matter what link i use ... Is there a way to workaround this? Thank you! Adrian

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sane : how to remove old scanners ?
by sean darcy 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

On fedora 29 , sane-backends 1.0.27. scanimage -L shows a number of scanners that are no longer connected, and haven't been used in years. In what file is this info stored ? Couldn't find any reference under /etc/sane.d. Is there a way to remove the old scanners from the command line ? sean

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docker-io removed from epel RHEL6
by Brando Mota 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

hi! I can not install the docker-io package in RHEL 6.10 x86_64 because this package is removed from repo epel. how to find this package in epel again? thanks.

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how to check for disk fragmentation?
by home user 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Good evening, I recall that a few years ago, I somehow checked my Fedora system for disk fragmentation. I also think the tool came with Fedora; i did not have to install it separately. Now, I don't recall the name of the tool that did that. Nor can I find any tool to do that. How do I check my F-28 system for disk fragmentation? thanks, Bill.

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F30 and php 7.3
by sixpack13 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hallo upgrade and running F30 without any trouble. ***a big thanks folks !!!*** one inconvenience: I'm runnning baikal to sync calendars, etc. between thunderbird and my android smartphone. => http://sabre.io/baikal/ baikal currently doesn't support php 7.3.x (only 7.2.x) ! there are some info's in the wild that workaround's being in worked on (not tested so far: a VM with F29 serves my F30 Thunderbird since yesterday) Questions, esp. to the php experts: ========================= 1. Is it feasibility to temporally "downgrade" ( e.g. F29 packages) to php 7.2 *without* breaking my really smooth running F30 ??? my box is a workstation running httpd only to sync between box/smartphone, so I guess nothing really special 2. any hints ?

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Building custom installation media
by Suvayu Ali 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hi Everyone, I want to build my own installation media (on USB). I would like to include additional packages for an offline installation. However all I could find is this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testi…, which is horribly out of date. Does anyone know a more current set of steps? I have tried asking on #fedora-devel, but didn't receive any response yet. Thanks for any pointers. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Tip: Android tablet
by ToddAndMargo 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hi All, Kernel 5 fixed the issue with MTP and my wife's Android tablet. If your's did not work, try again under kernel 5. :-) -T

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Apache 2.4 and CustomLog with pipe returns "error writing"
by Alex 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hi, I have a fedora28 system with apache-2.4.34 and would like to try to do some more advanced logging to report on bandwidth, users, and other stats. I've identified this script as part of munin called apache_logger that requires a change to how apache logs by default. I've added the following to my virtual domain: <IfModule mod_log_config.c> CustomLog "|/usr/share/munin/apache_pipelogger" "%v %p %m %B %D %s" </IfModule> When reloading apache, it reports the following in the error_log: [Wed Apr 03 14:35:50.129503 2019] [log_config:warn] [pid 18084:tid 140401642026752] (32)Broken pipe: [client 66.249.70.4:59383] AH00646: Error writing to |/usr/share/munin/plugins/apache_pipelogger %v %p %m %B %D %s Is that the correct format? Perhaps this is the format for an apache-2.2 script and the one for apache-2.4 is different? I've tried several variations of this, including setting the LogFormat and providing a name for it, but it always results in the same "error writing" error. The script I am using is here: https://github.com/munin-monitoring/contrib/blob/master/plugins/apache/apac… Would someone take a look for me and see what I'm doing wrong? Also, does spawning a new shell for every hit cause a significant amount of overhead? Should I consider doing this another way? What's the best way to get stats from apache like bandwidth, users, page views, error codes, etc in the form of a graph similar to what munin produces?

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Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

I have a no-name netbook-style laptop running up-to-date Fedora 29. <https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_367&item_id=…> When I close the lid, fedora almost always puts the notebook in sleep mode. Unfortunately, once in a while, it does not. And then my battery runs down. The notebook has a light that indicates sleep by blinking slowly. Unfortunately, it is not visible while the lid is closed. Bad design. I could put the notebook to sleep and then close the lid, but this is quite a bit more fiddly. Why would Fedora fail to sleep once in a while? Does anyone else experience this? How would you go about diagnosing this problem? (My fear is that this is a firmware bug. I'm pretty sure that there will never be firmware updates.)

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Alternative grub entries
by Patrick O'Callaghan 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

I'm interested in configuring grub to allow selecting different sets of kernel parameters at boot time. I know I can edit the boot command line by hand, but this is tedious and error-prone. (An example might be to choose between the Nouveau and Nvidia drivers by selecting the appropriate menu entry). And of course I'd want this updated automatically with each new kernel version (i.e. each kernel would then have two alternative entries). How feasible is this? poc

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Resilient network configuration
by CLOSE Dave 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

On every version of Fedora in the last ten years or so, the basic network configuration is stored in files under /etc/sysconfig. When the machine boots or I run "systemctl restart network" (or "service network restart"), those files determine how the network gets set-up. After that, I can change the configuration with several tools. For example, I can run something like, # ip address add 192.168.0.37/24 dev eth0 label eth0:xx and a new interface alias will be created. But how do I make this alias resilient so that it will appear automatically after a boot or a network restart? For a primary interface with a static address, I may be able to add the information as IPADDR2 (etc) in ifcfg-eth0. But how do I do this if the primary interface gets its address via DHCP? -- Dave Close

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