Display Manager question
by David
Last week, I replaced the file "default.png" in my background directory,
and was delightfully enjoying a new custom backsplash, instead of the new
fancy
one that Fedora has ( light color blue with some rectangular glass cluster
).
In my recent update yesterday, something replaced my custom backsplash
with the old default.png.
Why would an update do that ?
This is the kind of stuff you can expect from living in Rawhide, so
I am NOT complaining. And I am using Xfce, so the DM
is LightDM, specifically,
lightdm-1.30.0-8.fc32 ( Rawhide's current version, if using Xfce )
David Locklear
P.S.
It would be nice if distros offered an easier way to customize the login
backsplash.
4 years, 1 month
Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry
by Iosif Fettich
Hi Terry,
> I have assumed the system time is always UTC synchronised using chronyd. The
> servers user code is running under the GMT timezone. I was wondering if the
> tweaking of the time by chronyd could cause this issue, but I would have
> thought this situation would have been handled by crond if this could happen
> and I have seen this issue about 4 times in a year, so it is not a totally
> sporadic event.
grep-ing my /var/log/messages brings up entries like
Apr 5 08:16:43 localhost chronyd[900]: System clock wrong by 1.516625 seconds, adjustment started
Apr 5 08:16:43 localhost chronyd[900]: System clock was stepped by 1.516625 seconds
Maybe you have some similar adjustements or bigger on the system?
One second off hitting exactly the moment your crontab scripts start could be
an explanation to 'double starts', although it seems rather improbable to have
that happen that often.
If you still have some logs around from the last time it happened, maybe you
can check if there is a connection between such adjustemnts and the
double-starters.
Otherwise, checking if such adjustements are happening often per day or just
once in weeks might be a next step to do in order to track down the issue.
Best regards,
Iosif
4 years, 1 month
Why can I view my encrypted lvm logical volumes without opening them
with my passphrase?
by Sreyan Chakravarty
I just installed Fedora 31 on my laptop. I had created a volume group and
logical volumes from the Anaconda installer itself. I had marked the
checkbox for encrypting my fedora partition , and when booting I am asked
my passphrase, so I thought everything was fine.
But when I am booting into a live environment and do an `lsblk` . This is
my output:
```
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 512M 0 part
└─sda3 8:3 0 930.5G 0 part
├─vgfedora-root-real 253:0 0 700G 0 lvm
│ ├─vgfedora-root 253:1 0 700G 0 lvm
│ └─vgfedora-before_hibernate 253:3 0 700G 0 lvm
└─vgfedora-before_hibernate-cow 253:2 0 50G 0 lvm
└─vgfedora-before_hibernate 253:3 0 700G 0 lvm
```
1. **How on earth are my Volume Groups visible from the live environment?**
I did not even open up with `cryptsetup open --type luks2 /dev/sda3` . What
is going on here ?
2. As you can see **I have created a snapshot, is that even encrypted ?**
Or is it only my root ? **I need everything to be encrypted even
snapshots.**
3. I can even do a `vgchange -a y` and select all my logical volumes.
**This really should not happen as it should not even be visible from the
live environment** . Again what is going on ?
4. **How can I verify what is encrypted and what is not ?**
My understanding was that the LVM would not even be visible since it is
under encryption. So how am I able to detect it from the live environment ?
Let me know if any other information is required.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
4 years, 1 month
GRUB2 defaults to rescue after dnf update
by Richard Shaw
I recently updated one of my F31 machines and rebooted it remotely. I was
wondering why I couldn't get to it after a couple of minutes so I went out
and switch the input to the PC (It's the multimedia machine) to be greeted
by a rescue prompt.
I rebooted again locally to find that when the grub menu appeared it was
defaulting to the rescue line.
I also just noticed there are 5 kernels listed in the menu but I only have
the usual 3 installed.
grubenv has the latest, 5.5.13, as the saved entry but this appears to have
no effect.
# grub2-editenv list
saved_entry=6ca716a66a574a03a155f3fcdcea1c3f-5.5.13-200.fc31.x86_64
boot_success=1
boot_indeterminate=1
kernelopts=root=/dev/mapper/vg_calvin-lv_root ro rd.lvm.lv=vg_calvin/lv_swap
rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=vg_calvin/lv_root KEYTABLE=us
rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Richard
4 years, 1 month
pm-suspend command
by Frank Elsner
Hi,
if I remember correctly there was a "pm-suspend" command available in Fedora.
| # pm-suspend
| bash: pm-suspend: command not found
Is it gone? How to suspend the system by command?
Stay healthy,
Frank
4 years, 1 month
Replicating an installation
by Geoffrey Leach
My internet service comes over a satellite, and with it a relatively
small monthly download allowance. Which motivates the following
question.
Once I have installed a new disto and downloaded the RPMs that I use, is
there a procedure by which I could gather together everything that I
have added, so that I could transfer the files (RPMs, or whatever) to
a local system, without resorting to the internet? (Or, at least, to a
significant amount!)
Thanks.
4 years, 1 month
openvas install
by Frederic Muller
HI!
Just trying to install openvas on Fedora and getting this:
sudo dnf install openvas-gsa
Last metadata expiration check: 2:24:25 ago on Sun 05 Apr 2020 02:22:38
PM +07.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides libopenvas_base.so.9()(64bit) needed by
openvas-gsa-7.0.3-10.fc31.x86_64
- nothing provides libopenvas_misc.so.9()(64bit) needed by
openvas-gsa-7.0.3-10.fc31.x86_64
- nothing provides libopenvas_omp.so.9()(64bit) needed by
openvas-gsa-7.0.3-10.fc31.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
Did a few google searches but didn't find any solution. Any idea what
I'm missing or eventually should I report a bug against the package?
Thank you.
Fred
4 years, 1 month
spinfinity plymouth theme mystery
by Sam Varshavchik
This laptop boots with the spinfinity plymouth theme, and there's a white
progress indication bar at the bottom of the display, progressing from left
to right, during the boot.
That other laptop, over there, also boots with the spinfinity plymouth
theme, but there is no progress bar. Spinfinity just spins on its own, and
that's the only thing that happens, until the desktop comes up.
I compared the plymouth packages on the two laptops. The only difference is
that the first laptop has plymouth-theme-solar theme installed, in addition
to spinfinity; and all other plymouth packages are the same.
I'll try installing the solar theme on the other laptop, but I can't see
that making a difference. The absence of the progress bar, on the 2nd
laptop, is a Scooby-Doo mystery to me.
4 years, 1 month
Re: Move files into storage device -
by Bob Goodwin
On 2020-04-05 10:20, Tim Evans wrote:
> It appears there is an extraneous space in this command, right after
> "202/"
"/192.168.2.202/ 214 /mnt/test" is an error, I copied the wrong line, I
was not using the 214 ...
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia,
Fedora Linux-31 XFCE
4 years, 1 month
dhcp client sometimes fails?
by Tom Horsley
I'm using network, not NetworkManager. I've got a bridge set up
with my (one and only) ethernet point connected to it. I'm
running fedora 31.
Randomly, when I reboot the system to get a new kernel
or something, dhcp will fail to assign an IP address to
the bridge. I'll reboot again and it will be OK (I have
also been able to do an ifdown/ifup to get an IP addr).
I once found a web page that said STP (spanning tree
protocol) slowed things way down, and with my config
I can't possibly have any loops, so I disable STP. That
did indeed make network startup far more reliable, but
it still sometimes fails.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is there some
magic I can perform to make it reliable? I don't have
this problem when configured with a static IP, but they
were redoing a lot of network infrastructure and
recommended everyone switch to dhcp.
It also seemed very reliable before I created the bridge
(but I need the bridge to run virtual machines).
Working from home, I've now become paranoid about installing
updates that need a reboot for fear I won't be able to get
to the machine again because the network never comes back up.
Maybe I should install a script in rc.local that checks to see
if an IP address was defined, and reboots again if not :-).
4 years, 1 month
