UEFI and BROKEN Parameter Issue : Ref. Fedora-31
by Bimal Kumar
Dear Madam / Sir,
Just to share about the issue I faced while Fedora 31 / 32 installation and
dual boot with Windows-10.
I purchased a new Dell Laptop (Vostro-3580, i5, 8th Gen.) which has
Windows-10 preinstalled, but I wanted to make it dual boot. The system was
UEFI hence trying to dual Boot - Fedora-31 and Windows-10.
For all my Earlier Dell laptops, and all versions of Fedora, I had a great
and smooth experience of dual boot / single boot experience with the Legacy
BIOS.
But now I purchased a new Dell-Vostro-3580, which has ONLY UEFI firmware to
boot the laptop and this is the actual Problem, while another issue was
that it gives me error and unable to boot into the rescue mode from the
grub menu options.
I had installed Fedora-31 for almost 20 times (one time Fedora-32 also)
including various options of remaking USB installation media through
unetbootin/rufus etc. then also troubleshooting and reinstalling grub
through rescue mode(using live usb pen drive) chroot... but all remains the
temporary solutions.
This compelled me to read the installation of Fedora-31.... and I found
this ....
"" Fedora does not support UEFI booting for 32-bit x86 systems. Only BIOS
boot is supported on these systems.
Also note that Fedora only fully supports version 2.2 of the UEFI
specification. Hardware that supports version 2.3 or later will boot and
work normally, but the additional functionality defined by these later
specifications will not be available. The UEFI specifications are available
from https://www.uefi.org/specs/agreement/."" found at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/install...
The problem I faced, was UEFI (above laptop came with version 1.4) does not
remember the partition/location of the boot file of Fedora only, while the
grub loads and very well boots into Windows-10 through the option from the
grub menu and HANGS if I opt for Fedora-31 from the grub option menu.
Finally after a lot of experiments and reading I found that UPGRADE the
UEFI firmware reading somewhere on the net and voila.. now all is fixed !!
Though it was very very UNFORTUNATE that Dell provided(on Dell website) the
upgrade for this new(for me atleast) laptop with a UEFI version - 1.9
(11.03.2020). Just to mention that POOR RESPONSE from Dell Customer Service
and NO EMAIL ID available to send email to them !!!
The other issue I found was the rescue mode is giving me ERROR, and to
address it finally I found that the file rescue in /boot/loader/entry is
missing the correct parameter, hence I appended "/boot" and it worked.
Just thought to share with you people in case someone could get benefitted
from my experiences :
1)Dell should have PROVIDED SUPPORT for older UEFI, or leagcy BIOS or Dell
People(Worst People and POOREST CUSTOMER SUPPORT) had provided the latest
UEFI firmware(latest is *Version 2.8*, and approved in March 2019 by UEFI).
2) Fedora people may correct the parameter setting for RESCUE boot. For
ready reference I am providing the content of the rescue file before and
after the correction.
[root@localhost entries]# pwd
/boot/loader/entries
[root@localhost entries]# ls
4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf
4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf.ORG
4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64.conf
[root@localhost entries]# cat
4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf.ORG
title Fedora (0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d) 31 (Thirty One)
version 0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
linux /vmlinuz-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
initrd /initramfs-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d.img
options $kernelopts
grub_users $grub_users
grub_arg --unrestricted
grub_class kernel
[root@localhost entries]# cat 4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf
title Fedora (0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d) 31 (Thirty One)
version 0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
linux /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
initrd /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d.img
options $kernelopts
grub_users $grub_users
grub_arg --unrestricted
grub_class kernel
regards,
Bimal Kumar
3 years, 10 months
Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers
whose needed plugin in the past
by Zdenek Dohnal
Hi Tomasz,
thank you for testing!
Unfortunately, IMO hpcups still loads the plugin... I checked the code
and hpcups doesn't look into models.dat - it loads the plugin either
way, entry in models.dat seems to be checked only during print queue
installation :( .
I have the same experience with scanning on my HP laserjet m1536... it
actually just loads older plugin anyway...
So it wouldn't work on machines were no previous plugin installed.
I'll revert the upstream change and report it.
On 6/16/20 5:11 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:21:35PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>> There isn't a sucg list, but basically you can check git log at
>> https://github.com/zdohnal/hplip .
> Thanks,
>
> So I have HP M1132 MFT 2 and it basically works wi 3.20.6 and WITHOUT
> plugin. yay!!
>
> It's not troublefree, yet:
> 1) after installing 3.20.6, priting did not work
> cze 16 15:28:27 mother.pipebreaker.pl hpcups[1425079]: common/utils.c 177: validate_plugin_version() Plugin version[3.20.5] mismatch with HPLIP version[3.20.6]
> cze 16 15:28:27 mother.pipebreaker.pl hpcups[1425079]: common/utils.c 210: Plugin version is not matching
>
> 2) I've removed hplip.state file, this caused another error:
> cze 16 15:44:55 mother.pipebreaker.pl hpcups[1430487]: common/utils.c 116: unable to open /var/lib/hp/hplip.state: No such file or directory
> cze 16 15:44:55 mother.pipebreaker.pl hpcups[1430487]: common/utils.c 166: validate_plugin_version() Failed to get Plugin version from [/var/lib/hp/hplip.state]
> cze 16 15:44:55 mother.pipebreaker.pl hpcups[1430487]: common/utils.c 210: Plugin version is not matching
>
> 3) finally, I've edited /var/lib/hp/hplip.state changing version, now it contains:
> --
> [plugin]
> installed = 0
> eula = 1
> version = 3.20.6
> --
>
> And printing works. What's interesting, the value of installed= seem
> irrelevant.
>
> (above is on Fedora 31)
>
--
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
3 years, 10 months
More boot questions
by Robert McBroom
Copied my fedora 29 system to an SSD partition. Booting takes me to
Grub-rescue>
SuperGrub2 2.04s1 finds the system and boots it but it is read only.??
Knoppix reads and writes to the system with no problem. Used Knoppix to
fix /etc/fstab and grub.cfg. I think grub-install is needed from fedora
but have to be able to write to the drive.
3 years, 10 months
Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers
whose needed plugin in the past
by Zdenek Dohnal
There isn't a sucg list, but basically you can check git log at
https://github.com/zdohnal/hplip .
On 6/16/20 3:14 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm HPLIP maintainer in Fedora and I would like to ask *the users which
>> have HP printers which needed their HP plugin to test the scratch build*
>> of new hplip.
>>
>> HPLIP released a new version 3.20.6, where most models, which previously
>> required HP plugin, were set to do not require plugin anymore.
> Is there a list of printers not requiring plugin anymore?
> Downloading this plugin was the most cumbersome. In line with
> Murphys's laws, I was noticing hplip was upgraded, and thus requiring
> re-downloading plugin, when I had to print/scan something urgently.
>
>
--
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
3 years, 10 months
systemctl status distccd
by Michael J. Baars
Hi,
Since it's awfully quiet on the initscripts-devel mailing list.
Best regards,
Mischa.
3 years, 10 months
No DNF updating again today -
by Bob Goodwin
It looks like my best hope is for FC33beta to arrive soon, need to check
on that.
Today I tried "clean all" still the same error message. The only thing
that comes to mind is that I added SeaMonkey via dnf. I would not
expect a problem due to that, but maybe? It is more reliable for opening
a web page I visit often.
Any suggestions how to fix appreciated, Bob
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 4.8 MB/s | 130 MB 00:27
Delta RPMs reduced 132.2 MB of updates to 129.9 MB (1.1% saved)
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful
transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row
failed: database disk image is malformed
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
3 years, 10 months
F32 - Firefox keeps crashing today
by Robert Moskowitz
5 times so far today. Crash reports sent off to mozilla, but still 5 times?
Nothing in Messages, only the start of Firefox:
Jun 14 10:05:12 lx140e rtkit-daemon[756]: Successfully made thread 15573
of process 15478 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at
priority 10.
Jun 14 10:12:14 lx140e rtkit-daemon[756]: Successfully made thread 16113
of process 15699 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at
priority 10.
Jun 14 10:25:02 lx140e rtkit-daemon[756]: Successfully made thread 16394
of process 16302 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at
priority 10.
Jun 14 12:40:16 lx140e rtkit-daemon[756]: Successfully made thread 18379
of process 18289 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at
priority 10.
Jun 14 13:45:21 lx140e rtkit-daemon[756]: Successfully made thread 19777
of process 19688 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at
priority 10.
I am current on updates (no updates it seems for the past couple
days?). I did update Friday and rebooted at that time (after ~3 weeks
without rebooting).
Anyone else seeing this or stable Firefox? I have ~18 windows of
Firefox open across 3 (of 5) workspaces. Multiple tabs open in each
from 2 - ~15 tabs depending.
3 years, 10 months
