How to obtain a list of all the logged in users which are currently
logged in to my LDAP server?
by Pratik Rana
Hi ,
Today while working on one of my client i realized that it is possible to delete one self by the user who is logged in using
->ipa user-del 'user' command
I found out that it can be avoided by adding a function for protecting deletion of any logged in user in the user.py file under the claa user_del
However i could not find out any way to get the details of any or all the logged in user.
Can anyone tell me how to deal with this??
4 years, 8 months
Re: Vagrant vbguest on Fedora 30
by Paul-Erik Törrönen
Hello, reported some time ago about an issue with Vagrant in F30 with
the topic above.
Didn't have the original email left (since no-one answered), so will
post an update.
The latest (2.2.5) version of Vagrant released by Hashicorp, which is
not yet available from Fedora, fixed the issue. I used the CentOS
package to update the installed one.
Just a FYI in case you run into similar issues.
Poltsi
4 years, 8 months
Playing Blueray Movies in F30
by Stephen Morris
Is it posssible to play Blueray discs I have bought within Linux? I've
been unable to get VLC to play the disc in both F30 and Windows 10.
regards,
Steve
4 years, 8 months
F30 Thunderbird format question
by JD
Writing a new message always starts the format in "Pararaph" mode
instead of "Body Text"
And this leads to the messages being double spaced.
How can I change it so it will default to Body Text every time?
Thanx!
4 years, 8 months
gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.
by home user
(f29; gnome; Firefox 68.0; all patched late this morning)
While trying to sign on to a financial institution's web site, when I
start to enter the password, the cpu suddenly gets extremely busy and
stays that way. I had to hit the power button. Upon booting up again,
I launched ksysguard, and then re-tried the login. Again I saw the cpu
essentially max out. I had to hit the power button. Upon booting up, I
launched "top" in a terminal, and then retried the login. Again the cpu
essentially maxed out. "top" showed that gnome was the cpu hog.
I again hit the power button and booted up. This time I logged in to a
plasma session. I was able to log in and do what I had to do with no
problems.
This one is really strange. How do I determine what the problem is?
This problem did not occur before today's "dnf upgrade". The last
patching before today was last Thursday.
thanks,
Bill.
4 years, 8 months
How to find out which wifi card
by Robert Moskowitz
I am working on my non-working wifi now. The last critical item (I hope).
Just installing the broadcom-wl rpm got the card recognized, and I am
seeing SSIDs, but cannot connect. Perhaps some setting needed.
So I figure to start I need to know what card F30 thinks I have. Win10's
driver for this unit is BCMWL63a.
I can't find my old notes on how to list information about the card itself.
thanks
4 years, 8 months
Mostly OT: recommendations for simple personal static website
generator (Fedora 30)
by Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends,
After over 20 years, I am having to create a new personal website. I looked around a little and feel that I would like to have a static website. So, I was wondering about possible recommendations available on Fedora 30 (ideal) but otherwise that would be easy to get started on. I found something called getnicola.org but I was wondering if there are other more preferred options.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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4 years, 8 months
Finding some ../../lib/ symbolic links in /lib?
by Michael D. Setzer II
Had just done an installation of Fedora 30 i386 in a Virtual Box after an
upgrade from fedora 28 on another one failed after the upgrade seemed to
run fine, but reboot ended with a grub minimal prompt that showed nothing.
Restored the backup for the fedora 28, and it works fine, and the new fedora
30 seems fine, but in having to rebuild the missing stuff noticed the ../../lib
links. Since there are /lib directory is already at the top, the ../.. doesn't do
anything, but it just weird. Link the link is from something like, /usr/lib, and
then tries to link to ../../lib to be correct.
Have the build working ok, but was a lot of extra work with the failed dnf
upgrade.
Thanks.
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4 years, 8 months
Upgrade from F29 to F30 fails to boot
by Chris Kottaridis
I have a machine that I have been upgrading since F25. All of them went
smoothly from F25-F29.
I did the upgrade from F29 to F30 yesterday and it seemed to go OK till
the boot after installing everything.
I guess the naming I am using for my root partition is confusing the
upgrade, although it has not changed since all the previous upgrades
that worked fine. From the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg the F29 boot options
show that my LVM root partition ends with roota:
linux16 /vmlinuz-5.1.18-200.fc29.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-roota ro
rd.lvm.lv=fedora/roota rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8
This works in F29 and all the previous upgrades have worked fine.
However, for F30 after the installation when it tries to reboot it
complains that it can't find roota so it can't mount root and goes into
a very minimal mode. I mounted the /boot partition in this restricted
mode to look around.
The new F30 kernel wants to install a 5.1.19 kernel, but there is no
line for that version in grub.cfg, although it shows up as the first
option during boot.
I noticed a file called grubenv that has this line:
kernelopts=root=/dev/mapper/fedora-roota ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root
rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet
Notice it has roota for the root variable, but not roota for the
rd.lvm.lv value.
I added an "a" to the rd.lvm.lv value in grubenv and tried a reboot and
it rebooted the 5.1.19 kernel just fine and came up as F30.
I am confused why this upgrade didn't add the "a" to the rd.lvm.lv value
but always did in the previous upgrades?
Also, I am not sure that the upgrade is fully complete as there is still
no entry in grub.cfg for the 5.1.19 kernel.
How do I get the 5.1.19 entry into the grub.cfg file?
This machine is a test machine for the a production machine. It is
configured the same way as the production machine. I apply patches on
this machine first then the production machine. Likewise for upgrades. I
would like to not have to do any hack like this if there is something
that can be done that will result in a smooth upgrade on the production
machine. This machine is a VM and I took an image of it prior to the
upgrade attempt. I have no problem reinstalling the image prior to the
upgrade and trying it again if there is a way to get a clean upgrade.
My overriding concern is that this is something I will continue to run
into on future upgrades.
Thanks
Chris K
4 years, 8 months
Enlarging the swap partition
by Robert Moskowitz
I erred in setting up my F30 system. Since the notebook has 4GB memory,
the install set up swap of 4GB.
This is not enough. I have two options. Add more memory (which will
take more electrons to support), or enlarge swap. Of course more
swapping even to an SSD will probably use more electrons (this is about
battery life).
So the question for now is can I shrink partition 4-5 (why did the
install do it this way?) and expand swap, or is this just too risky and
just go with more memory.
thanks
# parted /dev/sda
(parted) print all
Model: ATA WDC WDBNCE5000PN (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB primary ext4 boot
2 1075MB 4576MB 3501MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 4576MB 79.7GB 75.2GB primary ext4
4 79.7GB 500GB 420GB extended
5 79.7GB 500GB 420GB logical ext4
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 69G 19G 47G 29% /
/dev/sda1 976M 222M 688M 25% /boot
/dev/sda5 385G 224G 142G 62% /home
4 years, 8 months
