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What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing
by Stephen Morris 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

Hi, I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1). Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn't do anything? This functionality is independent of whether the command is issued under sudo or not. 2). When it does list repositories between the two messages, what is it actually doing when the command is not issued under sudo, particularly when issuing the command lists the two updates repositories and then issuing it again immediately after produces nothing between the two messages? regards, Steve

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DNF Upgrade Query
by Stephen Morris 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

Hi, When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository twice. Why is DNF doing that when there is only one repository definition in the .repo file, unlike the standard Fedora .repo files which have 3 repositories defined (not necessarily all active). regards, Steve

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Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion
by Bob Marčan 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:39 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: > > > >> I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought > >> about by the SW installation without real control. Although only for my > >> system, I regularly build a SW package (RPM) for SW, which is not in > >> distribution. Which is actually quite easy. So I always have a clean system > >> and can be very easy to update or delete. However, this is less and less > >> necessary as more SW is available. > > > > My guess is that it's only easy after you have done it a few times. > > This is a matter on which I would really like to be wrong. > Could you point me at directions? > > -- > Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu What guidance do you need? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=writing+rpm+spec+file&t=ffab&atb=v366-1&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fedora+using+mock&t=ffab&atb=v366-1&ia=web Will this be enough? BR, Bob

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F41 installation issue on Framework 16 laptop: stuck keyboard input (solution)
by Sam Varshavchik 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

I've been using a Framework 16 laptop that was originally installed with F40 and updated to F41 (XFCE Spin), without any issues. I just ran into a hillarious installation issue, posting it here in order to feed the search engines. I just received a second Framework 16, so I fed the F41 XFCE spin image to it. After booting it the keyboard responsiveness was horrible. Typed text took 5-10 seconds to be echoed back in the terminal, or in Anaconda. I thought I had a hardware issue, I even took it apart again, and reseated the keyboard connector, no dice. Still lagging. But when I booted to a grub prompt, the keyboard was perfectly normal. I booted back into the live image. Eventually I had a Eureka moment: I have to keep the mouse moving, constantly, in order for I/O processing to occur. I can type ahead, then touch the touchpad, and all the buffered input got echoed back immediately. Some further experimentation I determined that not only keyboard input, but also some display refreshing gets stuck until I manually move the mouse. The kernel that's shipping with the F41 live images is a dud. I ran the Anaconda installer (constantly twiddling the touchpad to keep everything moving), then rebooted (the problem remained), then dnf-update-d. After rebooting into the latest kernel, 6.11.10, everything was working fine.

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Python 2 to 3 conversion
by Patrick O'Callaghan 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

I'm attempting to convert a small Python-2 script to Python-3. Google appears to think that the best approach is something called 2to3, but I can't get it to work. I'm far from being a Python expert, but am at least using a virtual environment: poc@Bree:~$ cd venv poc@Bree:~/venv$ source bin/activate (venv) poc@Bree:~/venv$ type 2to3 2to3 is /home/poc/venv/bin/2to3 (venv) poc@Bree:~/venv$ 2to3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/poc/venv/bin/2to3", line 5, in <module> from cmd_2to3.__main__ import main File "/home/poc/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/cmd_2to3/__main__.py", line 2, in <module> from lib2to3.main import main as l2to3_main ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lib2to3' (venv) poc@Bree:~/venv$ pip install lib2to3 ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement lib2to3 (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for lib2to3 Any thoughts? I find the online documentation on 2to3 (such as it is) remarkably obtuse. poc

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DNF Selinux Upgrade Failure
by Stephen Morris 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

Hi, Doing a sudo dnf upgrade I got the following failure: [ 29/106] Upgrading snapd-selinux-0:2.66.1-0.fc41.noarch 100% | 1.5 KiB/s | 45.4 KiB | 00m30s >>> Running post-install scriptlet: snapd-selinux-0:2.66.1-0.fc41.noarch >>> Finished post-install scriptlet: snapd-selinux-0:2.66.1-0.fc41.noarch >>> Scriptlet output: >>> Failed to resolve typeattributeset statement at /var/lib/selinux/targeted/tmp/modules/200/snappy/cil:223 >>> Failed to resolve AST >>> semodule: Failed! >>> Doing a google search I found an entry https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/selinux-related-errors-when-updating… that indicates this was an issue in F36 where selinux removed some classes and was only an issue where F36 was an upgrade and not a fresh install, and that selinux updates needed to be installed in say F35 to prevent these messages. Given that I got this in F41 which is an upgrade from F40, has a similar defect been introduced in Selinux in F41? During the same dnf upgrade process I also got the following errors at the end, what log files is it referring to, or has anybody else received these messages and understands what they are? [106/106] Removing gnome-initial-setup-0:47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 100% | 2.0 B/s | 108.0 B | 00m52s >>> Running trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.8-1.fc41.x86_64c41.x86_64h >>> Finished trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.8-1.fc41.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> Failed to start jobs: Failed to enqueue some jobs, see logs for details: Invalid argument >>> >>> Running trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet: systemd-0:256.8-1.fc41.x86_64c41.x86_64h >>> Finished trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet: systemd-0:256.8-1.fc41.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> Failed to start jobs: Failed to enqueue some jobs, see logs for details: Invalid argument >>> regards, Steve

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Kernel 6.12 Test Week Invitation
by Sumantro Mukherjee 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

Hey All, I would like to invite all of you to participate in the Kernel 6.12 Test week is happening from 2024-12-01 to 2024-12-08. It's fairly simple, head over to the wiki [0] and read in detail about the test week and simply run the test case mentioned in[1] and enter your results. As usual, the Fedora QA team will hangout at #fedora-test-day(a)libera.chat for questions and discussion. [0]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2024-12-01_Kernel_6.12_Test_Week [1]https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/205 -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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IOTOP Display Query
by Stephen Morris 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

HI, When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird really starting that many threads? Also when I run IOTOP I get a display in the middle of the screen that says "task_delayacct is OFF press Ctrl-T to toggle". If I press ctrl-t to toggle it on it stop displaying the item consuming the most I/O at the top of the display, and if I toggle it back off it goes back to showing the biggest I/O consumer at the top. What is task_delayacct and what is IOTOP doing with it? regards, Steve

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security issue?
by home user 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

(f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome) A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following warning from "chkrootkit": - - - - - - bash.1[~]: chkrootkit ROOTDIR is `/' Checking `amd'... not found [snip] Checking `bindshell'... not infected Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for ps command chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed chkdirs: nothing detected Checking `rexedcs'... not found [snip] Checking `OSX_RSPLUG'... not tested bash.2[~]: - - - - - - Leading and trailing lines are merely context. "rkhunter" gives no warnings. What's going on with that lkm warning?

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systemd configuration with service configuration check
by polakovi＠niif.hu 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

Hi, Novice question: A service that can be run under systemd is given. On the one hand, it is possible to check the configuration before starting, e.g. "sshd -t". I would like a systemd configuration file that contains the configuration check. For this, the '[Service] ExecStartPre=' directive seems appropriate. However, I would like this to work when releasing a 'systemctl restart sshd.service'. My problem is this: Since, as far as I know, under systemd the restart is actually a stop and a start call issued consecutively, stop *stops* the service, and start is shocked to find that the service cannot be started due to a misconfiguration if someone edits the configuration as recklessly as I do. This would make restarting less trouble because the system will *work* with the old configuration. If I also adopt systemd's ExecStop feature, I feel like I'm pretty much going into a stinging forest. Can this task be solved? If systemd had ExecStop[Pre,Post] and/or config test, life might be simpler. Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, István

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