F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)
by Fulko Hew
I'm helping someone switch to Linux, and he's trying F30.
So I decided to put F30 (with KDE/Plasma) into a VM on my older (F26)
system.
My first 2 stumbling blocks are:
1/ Somehow (and I don't know how I did it), I seem to have created
a 'notes' window. Now I can't figure out how to get rid of it.
2/ I thought I'd configure the screen timeout to just blank the screen
and not lock it. I figure its under Settings -> System Settings ->
Power Management. But when I select it, I get the message:
Power Management configuration module could not be loaded.
The Power Management Service appears not to be running.
This can be solved by starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and
Shutdown'.
a) Switching to 'startup and shutdown' leaves that error info on the
screen
and I have to stop/start the settings GUI to clear it.
b) There isn't anything in 'startup and shutdown' related to 'power
management services'.
I tried Googling, but I haven't discovered any solutions for either problem
yet.
4 years, 9 months
stange dependencies
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I removed ssmtp from a machine (f30) and dnf has removed more than 100
packages as dependencies of this package. A lot of perl modules (I did
not know that ssmtp was a perl script...) and *google-chrome*....
Is it serious?
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UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
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F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
4 years, 9 months
dnf system-upgrade download + reboot does not finish upgrade.
by Federic Ducon
I am trying to upgrade from Fedora 29 to Fedora 30
dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 --allowerasing
dnf system-upgrade reboot
The download stage completes and posts a msg proposing the second line.
The reboot starts up , gets to a certain stage and automatically reboots.
On rebooting I see the same fed29 kernel is used and it just boots normally to the old system.
I would have expected something indicating that it was processing the update with the usual message like "this may take some time".
journalctl --list-boots shows me one on 2019-07-08 which seems to be the first reboot after the initial system-upgrade call. There are many reps after that as I repeated trying to find the problem.
I expected to get output from this from its boot number , but the following gives lines with datastamps earlier today.
journalctl -b -15
What do I need to get the boot log ?
TIA.
Here is a snip from one of the boot logs which appears to cover the point where reaches the Offline Update. If someone can give explicit instructions to get a better log I will try to submit it somewhere.
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=grub-boot-indeterminate comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/syst$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=grub-boot-indeterminate comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/syste$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Offline System Update (Pre).
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: AVC avc: denied { read } for pid=1 comm="systemd" name="dnf" dev="sda6" ino=1572867 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:va$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Update the operating system whilst offline...
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain pk-offline-update[648]: another framework set up the trigger
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit-offline-update comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/sy$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit-offline-update comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/sys$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: AVC avc: denied { read } for pid=1 comm="systemd" name="dnf" dev="sda6" ino=1572867 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:va$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Update the operating system whilst offline.
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Offline System Update.
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Remove the Offline System Updates symlink...
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain rm[649]: removed '/system-update'
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Remove the Offline System Updates symlink.
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=system-update-cleanup comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/system$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=system-update-cleanup comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd$
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Startup finished in 1.354s (kernel) + 8.443s (initrd) + 22.374s (userspace) = 32.172s.
Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Rebooting: unit succeeded
4 years, 9 months
what's with the "=" in the output of "dnf group info <groupname>"?
by Robert P. J. Day
perusing fedora project page on getting started with virtualization,
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/getting-started-with-virt...
and an early example reads:
$ dnf groupinfo virtualization
Group: Virtualization
Group-Id: virtualization
Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment.
Mandatory Packages:
=virt-install
Default Packages:
=libvirt-daemon-config-network
=libvirt-daemon-kvm
=qemu-kvm
=virt-manager
=virt-viewer
Optional Packages:
guestfs-browser
libguestfs-tools
python-libguestfs
virt-top
when i run that command on f30, i see no "=" sign but perhaps that's
an obsolete feature that is no longer documented, as i don't see any
mention of it in the man page.
any idea what it represents?
rday
4 years, 9 months
Docked laptop boots to use of external display and built in display.
by Terry Polzin
Hello,
I am running a current Fedora 30 on a laptop. Then the laptop is in its
docking station and is booted both the external display and builtin display
are active.
I have to open the laptop and disable the builtin display at every boot.
This seems to be a behavior issue that has recently changed. Is there a
remedy? I am running XFCE.
4 years, 9 months
Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
For a while now kernel updates doesn't update the grub menu on my system. However I could always manually update using `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub2.cfg`. But lately I can't even do that! I have already tried running `grub2-switch-to-blscfg`, but I don't think that does anything. I tried that because the comments in the config file says menus are now automatically generated from BLS config files in '/boot/loader/entries', which seems to be in order for me, there are conf files for all the installed kernels. I can't figure out where to go from here. I'm on F30, booting with BIOS. Any thoughts?
TIA,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
4 years, 9 months
Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore
by Steven Ulrick
Hello, Everyone
I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to install to
harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to nothing but a black
screen with a flashing underscore character. So, where do I go from here? I
have been successfully running Fedora 27 on this same system for quite a
while. Again, this is NOT an attempted upgrade from Fedora 27.
Steven P. Ulrick
4 years, 9 months
selinux - help - directory policy syntax
by Robin Laing
Hello,
I have searched documentation but I cannot find the answer to my question.
I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for
creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy
"thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t"
I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax
description for the two directories under this policy.
/home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)?
/home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)?
So, does the [^] mean the "user" home directory?
Does the + mean this directory? or something else?
There was a bug report about not being able to create thumbnails in the
current directory where the thumbnail program is run. Ideally that is
what I would like or a related directory. I want to create a large
number of thumbnails which would be more than the /home/{user} directory.
Is there a document that describes this syntax?
Some of the links off of the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
don't work either.
Robin
4 years, 9 months
VLC stopped launching
by Robert Moskowitz
I have been looking at a couple mp4 videos transferred from my son's phone.
I successfully opened 3 of them with vlc, closed vlc and renamed them.
Then for the fourth, vlc stopped launching.
Well I guess it is really not launching, as I see the vlc icon on the
panel. It is not responding. It won't close. It won't let me open a
file. It won't quit.
How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way
to get its attention?
thanks
4 years, 9 months
