Trying to kickstart a KVM guest on F36
by Thomas Cameron
I'm trying to kickstart a KVM guest. Historically, I could just start
the guest connected to my bridged network interface, and my PXE server
would hand out a DHCP address and then the tftp server would hand over
the initrd.img and vmlinuz files. After upgrading from F35 to F36, I am
not seeing any traffic from the guest at the PXE server. Has something
changed between F35 and F36? This used to work without any hassle.
I choose to create a new guest. I choose "Manual Install." I choose
Fedora 35 as the OS. I set the memory and vCPUs. I choose my disk size.
I choose to connect to the bridged network (device name is bridge0,
which matches the bridge name on my workstation). I choose "Customize
configuration before install" and then Finish. At the customization
screen, I go to "Boot options" and check the box next to the NIC. I
choose Apply. I choose "Begin installation." The screen comes up, and I
see the guest trying to PXE boot, but I never see any DHCP or tftp
requests on the PXE server. I know the PXE server works, because I can
kickstart guests on a virtualization hypervisor off the PXE server no
problem.
To set up my workstation, I connected to Cockpit and drilled down to
Networking. I chose to create a new bridged device and associated it
with my physical NIC.
I've done this in previous versions of Fedora and not had any problems
with it.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Thomas
1 year, 11 months
Re: Frequent Gnome Software langpacks-core-font-en popping up
by Richard Shaw
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:00 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I was opening a LibreOffice sheets file from another computer and noticed
> the fonts didn't look right. Somehow I figured out I needed a new font file
> and ended up installing langpacks-core-font-en which appears to be a meta
> package.
>
> Now I randomly find Gnome Software open to this package on a regular
> basis. I keep closing it but it keeps coming back.
>
I tried posting with a screenshot but it was too big, replying without the
screenshot.
Thanks,
Richard
1 year, 11 months
Weird issue: Screen savers HAMMERING the CPU
by Thomas Cameron
I've upgraded my distro from F33 to F34, F35, and now F36. Zero issues
all the way through except for one weird one. I run Xfce, and I
installed the xscreensaver* packages. I've always done this, and I
uninstalled the xfce4-screensaver package. I like the plain old
xscreensaver packages.
It's not been a problem before (that I recall), but now all of sudden
several screen savers just hammer the CPU. To the point where I can't
even get the popup screen to enter my password to appear. Or after it
appears, it takes MANY seconds for the password to be checked, and it
seems like it's dropping characters because I am reasonably certain I
typed it correctly, but it hangs and I have to wait til the login screen
pops up again.
Anyone else seeing this? Is the only option to go through and test each
one to see if they cause problems, and disable them?
Thanks!
Thomas
1 year, 11 months
Re: F37 Proposal: Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2
(System-Wide Change proposal)
by Ian Pilcher
On 5/2/22 08:56, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> IMO, there's a rather desperate need to be able to override the system-
> wide policy for individual processes, maybe via some sort of wrapper
> around one of the containerization technologies.
Just FYI, I managed to bang out a proof of concept of a "wrapper" that
runs a program with a different crypto policy. I've successfully used
it to connect to a TLSv1-only HTTP server with both Firefox and curl on
a Fedora 36 system running the DEFAULT crypto policy.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064740#c8
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1 year, 11 months
[Fedora 37] Call for Test Days
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hi Fedora users, developers, and friends!
It's time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 37.
For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused
around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results,
with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers
together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can
run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do
some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it
doesn't have to be code, for instance, we often run Test Days for
l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days .
Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that
the QA group helps you out with organization or any combination of the
two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in fedora-qa pagure - here's
an example https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/624 . For
instructions on hosting a Test Day, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management .
You can see the schedule at https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issues?tags=test+days .
There are many slots open right now. Consider the development
schedule, though, in deciding when you want to run your Test Day - for
some topics you may want to avoid
the time before the Beta release or the time after the feature freeze
or the Final Freeze.
We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want
to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do
something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is
how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday
slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up
Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a
Test Day in a specific time frame due to the development schedule, but
the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another
day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or time frame you'd
like, and we'll figure it out from there.
If you don't want to run your own Test Day, but you are willing to
help with another, feel free to join one or more of already accepted
Test Days:
GNOME Test Day*
i18n Test Day*
Kernel Test Week(s)*
Upgrade Test Day*
IoT Test Week*
Cloud Test Day*
Fedora CoreOS Test Week*
And don't be afraid, there are a lot of more slots available for your
own Test Day!
[*] These are the test days we run generally to make sure everything
is working fine, the dates get announced as we move into the release
cycle.
If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't
hesitate to contact me or any member of the Fedora QA team on test at
lists.fedoraproject.org or in #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks!
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Fedora QE
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1 year, 11 months
Connecting to printer on Windows 10 System
by Robert McBroom
I have a HP Envy 5530 printer on usb connection to a Windows 10 system.
KDE printer settings seems to find it with a smb URI.
smb:///%2F192.168.1.100%2FHPENVY5530
Keeps asking for a user and password but doesn't accept local users or
users on the remote machine.
An attempt to print a test page fails with a CIFS unable to connect
error NT_STATUS_NOT_FOUND. The setting window is not responsive to any
mouse clicks. Other windows systems print with no problems
What am I missing on getting access?
1 year, 11 months
full screen video and Fedora top-bar menu is inaccessible
by lejeczek
Hi guys.
If I play chrome video(youtube) full screen - my setup is
laptop with external monitor - on laptop(and main screen is
external monitor) then top-bar menu is inaccessible -
meaning - it's there but clicking it causes no action.
Exit full screen or, move focus out/away from that full
screen chrome-video and menu is responding again.
Anybody sees that/similar?
f35 did no "suffer" from this misbehavior.
many thanks, L.
1 year, 11 months
Problems with Borg backup on F36
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I updated to F36 a few days ago and everything seemed to go smoothly
until I noticed my regular nightly backups were failing. I use
Borgbackup and the configuration has been stable for a long time with
no problems. The actual backup does seem to succeed, but Borg runs a
post-backup repository check that is now failing, even for backups
taken before the system upgrade.
I've reported this:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?zx=60aw7rldu1gf&pli=1#inbox
poc
1 year, 11 months
Fedora 36 ViurtualBox needs libvpx.so.6
by Terry Polzin
So where does this library come from? It would appear that earlier
versions of VirtualBox used libvpx.so.5 which was part of compat-libvpx5,
there doesn't seem to be a compat-libvpx6 package
1 year, 11 months
Fedora 36: NetworkManager dispatcher: SELinux avc denied after
update
by Dario Lesca
After update to Fedora 36 I have a selinux problem with my personal
NetworkManager dispatcher script
Into logs I get this error:
mag 17 12:56:30 dodo.home.solinos.it audit[160270]: AVC avc: denied { getattr } for pid=160270 comm="nm-dispatcher" path="/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/15-vpn-disp" dev="dm-1" ino=33588281 scontext=system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_dispatcher_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:NetworkManager_exec_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
But if I try set SElinux permission I get this error:
[lesca@dodo Network]$ sudo chcon system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_dispatcher_t:s0 /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/15-vpn-disp
chcon: failed to change context of '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/15-vpn-disp' to 'system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_dispatcher_t:s0': Permission denied
How to I can enable my dispatcher script execution?
Many thanks
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(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 36 Workstation)
1 year, 11 months
