booting problem
by doug.lindquist＠atlanticbb.net
I recently tried to install Centos 8 on my 3tb uefi hd that already had
Fedora 32 and Windows 10 on it. The Centos installation did not finish
because it could install the boot loader. It ended up screwing up the uefi
boot because it will no longer boot to anything. It looks like the bios
reset to non uefi boot only. My mb is Gigabyte B450 Auros with 64gb mem.
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Doug Lindquist
oug.lindquist(a)atlanticbb.net
3 years, 10 months
Neverwinder Nights on linux (shot in the dark)
by Richard Shaw
I've played the Original Neverwinter Nights since I used to run windows
while in college. My son has taken an interest (honestly one of the best
games ever). I haven't played it in some time and recently I tried but it
just hangs.
I have multiple other computers with nvidia or intel based graphics and it
just "works" after installing the required i686 packages, but on my system
with an AMD RX580, nothing.
I've tried strace but it didn't reveal anything useful, and gdb after
installing a few gigs of debuginfo packages there's some output but the
majority seems SDL or radeon. Since it works on other computers in the
house my guess is that's it's radion drive related.
Anyone have any luck playing it with an AMD based graphics card?
I am loathe to try the full amdgpu pro drivers as the entire reason I moved
from Nvidia to AMD was to avoid binary blobs...
Thanks,
Richard
3 years, 10 months
No way to have graphics
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I do not understand.
This installation does not want to run in graphics mode anymore.
It seems that the X session starts correctly, but for some reasons, just
immediately leave the session.
I checked from another installation (also fc32), every thing is fine.
I tried both in root mode and in user mode, no way.
I also tried by crating a new user.
I did chroot on the installation which work, but startx says
xinit: giving up
unable to connect to X: server: Connection refused
server error
xinit -- /usr/bin/Xvnc :1
says
xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1
xinit: connection to X server lost
This may have happen after I installed a font
I run dnf update correctly.
===========================================================================
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
===========================================================================
3 years, 10 months
USB drive -
by Bob Goodwin
/I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at
/run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk
I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk"
but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake and render it
inaccessible. Can that be done and what is the command for changing the
name? Bob
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Strange dnf behavior or UFU (user foul up)?
by George R Goffe
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade a system here and am having some difficulty with dnf. Could I get some help or tips or suggestions please?
Below is what I would enter in a bugzilla.redhat.com bug report. I thought I'd check here first in case I've done something stupid.
Thanks,
George...
Description of problem:
Attempting to upgrade this system. First try revealed errors with "nut" and "gnutls" so I reran the command adding --exclude='nut-*' and --exclude='gnutls*'. This retry listed several other packages with problems. Second try, adding --exclude='kdevelop*' and --exclude='python*'. This resulted in the "protected packages" message.
It's clear that there's a bug here or (probably) I don't understand dnf as well as I thought.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.2.21-1.fc33.noarch
How reproducible:
always for now
Steps to Reproduce:
1.see below
2.
3.
Actual results:
see below
Expected results:
clean and successful system upgrade
Additional info:
fc33-bash 5.0 /donez# /usr/bin/dnf -y --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --best --allowerasing --exclude='gnutls-*' --exclude='nut*' upgrade
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.6 kB/s | 986 B 00:00
Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora release 32 kB/s | 14 kB 00:00
Error:
Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package thonny-3.2.7-2.fc32.noarch
- problem with installed package thonny-3.2.7-2.fc32.noarch
- nothing provides python3.9dist(asttokens) >= 1.1.10 needed by thonny-3.2.7-3.fc33.noarch
Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package pdfarranger-1.5.3-1.fc33.noarch
- problem with installed package pdfarranger-1.5.3-1.fc33.noarch
- nothing provides python3.9dist(pikepdf) >= 1.7 needed by pdfarranger-1.5.3-2.fc33.noarch
Problem 3: cannot install the best update candidate for package kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
- problem with installed package kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
- nothing provides libprocesscore.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
- nothing provides libprocessui.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
Problem 4: cannot install the best update candidate for package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
- problem with installed package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
- package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 requires kdevelop-libs(x86-64) = 9:5.5.1-2.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed
- nothing provides libprocesscore.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
- nothing provides libprocessui.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
Problem 5: cannot install the best update candidate for package gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64
- cannot install both gnutls-3.6.13-6.fc33.x86_64 and gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64
- package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64 requires gnutls(x86-64) = 3.6.13-3.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed
- problem with installed package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64
Problem 6: cannot install the best update candidate for package gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686
- cannot install both gnutls-3.6.13-6.fc33.i686 and gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686
- package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686 requires gnutls(x86-32) = 3.6.13-3.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed
- problem with installed package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686
Problem 7: cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
- cannot install both python3-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.x86_64 and python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
- python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686 has inferior architecture
- package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires python(abi) = 3.8, but none of the providers can be installed
- problem with installed package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64
Problem 8: cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-devel-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
- problem with installed package python3-devel-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
- package python3-devel-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.x86_64 conflicts with python3 < 3.9.0~b1-4.fc33 provided by python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
- package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires python(abi) = 3.8, but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686
- cannot install both python3-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.i686 and python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686
- package nut-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires libupsclient.so.4()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
- problem with installed package nut-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64
- package nut-client-2.7.4-30.fc33.x86_64 is filtered out by exclude filtering
fc33-bash 5.0 /donez# /usr/bin/dnf -y --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --best --allowerasing --exclude='gnutls-*' --exclude='nut*' --exclude='kdevelop*' --exclude='python*' upgrade
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 177 B/s | 986 B 00:05
Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora release 43 kB/s | 14 kB 00:00
Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf
3 years, 10 months
USB drive -
by Bob Goodwin
/I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at
/run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk
/I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk"
but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake and render it
inaccessible. Can that be done and what is the command for changing the
name?**Bob
//
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3 years, 10 months
Multiboot question
by Steven Usdansky
I have two bootable disks, and SSD with F32 (and Win 10), and a HDD with F31 and a few other distros. Each disk has its own EFI partition. F32 mounts the SSD's EFI partition at /boot/efi; F31 mounts the HDD's EFI partition at /boot/efi. Both Fedoras have the appropriate entries in their respective /boot/loader/entries directories, and in both cases, GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG is set to true.
If I update the F31 kernel, then boot off the SSD, I am not offered the option of booting F31 with the new kernel unless I regenerate the SSD's boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg. What I want is for the SSD's bootloader to automatically offer me the option of booting any kernel configured in the F31's /boot/loader/entries, rather than offering me only the options in its own /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg.
Is this even possible?
3 years, 10 months
perl-Math-GSL
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I could not compile perl-Math-GSL-0.40 because this package does not deal
with gsl 2.6
Thus, I installed gsl 2.5 independently of gsl 2.6 (gsl-2.6-2.fc32.x86_64)
and I was able to build the rpm package which requires libgsl.so.23
I put a link to this library (provided by gsl 2.5) in /usr/lib64
and run ldconfig
But
dnf install /home/pdupre/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/perl-Math-GSL-0.40-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm
is not happy
Last metadata expiration check: 1:53:24 ago on Wed 03 Jun 2020 09:26:44 AM CEST.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides libgsl.so.23()(64bit) needed by perl-Math-GSL-0.40-1.fc32.x86_64
How can I bypass this issue?
Thanks.
===========================================================================
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
===========================================================================
3 years, 10 months
build package
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I am rebuilding the perl packages that I need.
perl-Math-GSL-0.40.tar.gz
rpmbuild -bb perl-Math-GSL.spec
gives an error:
Checking for GSL using gsl-config
Found GSL 2.6 (via gsl-config) installed in /usr
Checking if gcc supports "-Wall"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-sometimes-uninitialized"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-function"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-value"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-function"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-variable"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-gnu"...yes
Checking if gcc supports "-g"...yes
unsupported version: 2.6 at Build.PL line 77.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.I4k1Cb (%build)
Checking on the Build.PL file;
it seems to be due to
my $ver2func = Ver2Func->new( $gsl_conf->{gsl_version} );
The same version of perl-Math-GSL compiled fine with fc30.
(same version of cpanspec)
Now the gsl version is 2.6 (2.4 before)
Do I need to recompile gsl ?
===========================================================================
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
===========================================================================
3 years, 10 months
Aplay problem -
by Bob Goodwin
I found this script in a list on my computer, ran it and found I had no
way to stop it. What shuts it off?
while [ 1 <> 0 ]
do
aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
done
Bob
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3 years, 10 months
