how to use amd-pstate - ?
by lejeczek
Hi guys.
Does anybody use 'amd-pstate' and if yes could share a howto
on how to have Fedora use that driver?
many thanks, L.
7 months
cupsd spamming the journal
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm getting this in the journal (repeats once per second):
Sep 01 11:02:05 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:02:04 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:02:03 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:02:02 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:02:01 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:02:00 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:01:59 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:01:58 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:01:57 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:01:56 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Sep 01 11:01:55 Bree cupsd[1156]: Expiring subscriptions...
Any thoughts?
poc
7 months
SATA optical drives
by David Fletcher
I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of months.
Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's
even seen a dual layer disk :'(
SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA
optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to
buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable?
Is anybody already running them with Fedora?
Thanks for any advice/experiences.
Dave F
10 months
where to submit a bug against "xv"?
by home user
"xv" does not handle "webp" images. I do not see "xv" in the Redhat bugzilla menu of components. Where do I submit a bug against xv?
10 months, 1 week
Desktop scaling on 3 different Thinkpad X1
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
At each new Fedora release I have 3 thinkpads to 'upgrade'. In fact I do
fresh installs for those and have a list of steps to perfom so I don't
forget anything (list which I maintain and update at each release as
things do change over time).
Desktop scaling is always tricky and this time I only get it to work on
1 of those 3 Thinkpads. They are 3rd, 6th and 8th generation ones.
Currently it only works on the 8th gen one.
I type this:
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
On 3rd gen I can only do 100% and 200% and on 6th gen I cannot even do
200% as it says there is some HW limitation message preventing to change
anything.
Any advice on how to troubleshoot the issue would be very welcome.
Thank you very much.
Fred
10 months, 2 weeks
Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37
by John Pilkington
After dnf upgrade today, abrtd.service failed to start, with dependency
failures for abrt: ccoredumpctl, kernelpanic detection and kernel log
watcher.
Booting the previous kernel also hung for 10s of seconds but seems ok.
6.2.15-200.fc37
systemctl reboot hangs for 5 minutes with akmods, presumably from
rpmfusion for nvidia, before entering the reboot.
10 months, 3 weeks
OT question about let's encrypt
by Tim
Hi,
After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was wondering
if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider
was emailing me over and over:
---- begin paste ----
⛔ example.com (checked on May 30, 2023 at 12:25:12 PM UTC)
There is no recorded error on the system for “www.example.com”. This
might mean that this domain failed DCV (Domain Control Validation) when
the system requested the new certificate, but the domain has since
passed DCV.
---- end paste ----
And a whole pile more identical ones for each sub-domain.
Essentially it's an "error, no error" message. i.e. Something *may*
have gone wrong before, or may not. But nothing is wrong, now.
Utterly pointless, nothing I can do about it (one of those cpanel
controlled turnkey webservices run by people who don't have to know
what they're doing), no useful information for me to do something about
it, and by the time you've seen it crying "wolf!" umpteen times you
ignore it and won't notice an actual error message, later on.
--
uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.90.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 4 15:21:22 UTC 2023 x86_64
Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.
10 months, 3 weeks
Fedora USB live: not lively.
by home user
While preparing to upgrade to Fedora-37 (planned for mid-April), I noticed that my emergency tools are seriously out of date. Those are memtest, Fedora live, and rescue. memtest was dealt with in a thread earlier this month. Now I'm trying to update my Fedora live USB stick to Fedora-36. I used Fedora Media Writer to do that. I saw no hint of trouble while using that. But when I try to boot up from the stick (USB-3, if that matters), I get varying bad results. Two tries failed to complete the boot. One try appeared to succeed, but I couldn't launch any applications. The applications I tried were Firefox, a terminal, and I don't recall the other. The last application launch attempt locked up the workstation.
This workstation is 10 years old. It uses bios. I've attached a PNG screen capture of what Files says is on the stick at the top level. I do not have a cell phone or camera to capture the boot screen when the boot fails.
Main question:
How do I make a Fedora-36 USB live stick that really works?
Secondary question:
I can't find a tool on my workstation to check the stick. Disks, GSmartControl, and Disk Usage Analyzer don't do that, How can I check the stick itself? I actually tried 2 sticks for the Fedora Media Writer. They both failed when trying to boot.
10 months, 3 weeks
/boot problem.
by home user
(f37 stand-alone dual-boot workstation)
During this afternoon's patching (via dnf), a warning GUI popped up saying /boot is full. It offered me the option to move /boot files to trash, but no option to delete anything. I tried moving the rescue file to trash, but the GUI said it couldn't. After the dnf patching finished, I removed the rescue file via the rm command. But when I rebooted, the rescue option was still in the grub menu.
I'm comfortable using rm in regular hard drive areas like /home. But I'm neither a trained nor a professional sys.admin. I'm seriously uneasy about simply rm-ing files in /boot. What should I clear out of /boot, and what's the best-practice way?
Please tell me what specific information you need to help me so I can provide it.
thanks,
Bill.
10 months, 3 weeks
