MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot
by Tim Evans
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only;
all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to
reboot.
Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two
disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre-installed and an empty second HDD. I
DID NOT boot the system in Windows when it arrived. Instead, I popped
in a Fedora 39 Live thumbdrive, hit the BIOS hot key, and booted from
the thumbdrive, then installed F39.
Again, the system has never, ever, booted into Windows. Which means I
have no Bitlocker recovery key, nor any means to access it. Contacting
Microsoft won't do any good, since the system was never registered. (I
will have to try Dell.)
F39 install was successful, and I've been using the system ever since.
Normal grub bootup, offering Fedora kernels, rescue boot, and Windows.
So, getting back to yesterday, I went to reboot the system, and it came
up with the blue MS Bitlocker screen, asking for the Bitlocker Recovery
key. Have never seen this before.
Then, I noted the "skip this drive" button on the Bitlocker screen,
which brought up a second screen, with an alternative devices button.
Clicking this reveals a "Fedora" button. Clicking it brings up the
normal grub boot screen and away we go into Fedora.
Repeating the reboot gets the same results. I have to click through the
Bitlocker screens to get to a Fedora boot.
Not a big, big deal, but this prevents any sort of unattended reboot
from being possible.
Suggestions for restoring the normal boot process, please? Thanks.
6 hours, 32 minutes
Re: Tomcat
by Rahul Sadotra
Hi Michael,
--- Michael Folin <michael.folin(a)donator.se> wrote:
> how do I install Tomcat i fedora?
> can't find it during the installation
>
If you mean during the installation of Fedora Core
itself, then I don't think Tomcat is provided with
Fedora Core (please feel free to correct me if I'm
wrong).
This means you will probably need to download Apache
Jakarta Tomcat (either binaries, or the source which
you'll need to build) and install it.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Rahul
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6 hours, 37 minutes
OT: SFTP with lftp
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
I thought someone here could help me out. I am using lftp to automate
some file copy on Ubuntu 20.04. The originating server is switching to
SFTP and I have about a week for testing. It works fine by default with F40.
On ubuntu it seems by default lftp is not compiled with sftp support as
I didn't get any trace of *libssl*.so using ldd.
I then removed it, compiled a new version with sftp support, checked
with ldd for libssl.so and got it but it is still not working. Any idea
what could be the problem then, or how to further troubleshoot?
Thank you.
Fred
6 hours, 40 minutes
Fedora 40 and Python 3.11 artifacts?
by Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to work around the Selenium packaging problem detailed at
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278096>. When following
c1, I noticed I have Python 3.11 and 3.12 paths:
# ls /usr/lib/python3.1*
python3.11/ python3.12/
This machine has been dnf-system-upgraded multiple times. It is
currently on Fedora 40. Fedora 40 uses Python 3.12. It looks like
Python 3.11 is an old artifact:
# ls /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lvmdbusd
#
I think it is safe to delete the Python 3.11 directory. But I am not a
Python expert.
Is it safe to delete the Python 3.11 directory?
Thanks in advance.
8 hours, 59 minutes
firefox/google problem
by olivares33561
Dear fellow fedora users,
Using firefox latest one,
olivares@fedora:~/Downloads/kerTeX/Documents/Documents/mptmp$ rpm -qa firefox
firefox-126.0-5.fc40.x86_64
I try to login to google account, I get error message:
``
400. That’s an error.
The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.''
I did not get this before, anything I could try to get past this error? It worked before without problems.
Best Regards,
Antonio
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1 day, 4 hours
My Fedora 40 experiences
by Stephen Morris
I used dnf to system-upgrade to F40, which downloaded all the relevant
packages, and then I rebooted through dnf.
The restart updated all the packages and automatically rebooted when it
was finished.
When the grub menu was displayed after the reboot it was obvious that
the upgrade did not update the grub config as there was no entry to boot
off the F40 installed kernel.
I booted to the display manager which I think is still gdm, and the
first thing I noticed there was the "plasma on xorg" selection had been
removed but the "Gnome on xorg" and "Gnome Classic on xorg" were still
there.
I selected the "Plasma" entry and booted into Plasma.
Having loaded Plasma I then went into the system entries menu and went
through all the options again, and it was obvious from this that the
display options I had configured with F39 had been wiped with F40. I
configured the display settings again and set the new HDR option as I
have a HDR monitor.
After the configuration changes I rebuilt the grub menus using
grub2-mkconfig to get a boot entry for the new kernel, and rebooted.
With the reboot from the new kernel, and for that matter any of the
older kernels, I got a message that the nvidia driver was not found and
it was falling back to the nouveau driver, I don't know how as the
nvidia driver was black listed in the grub menus.
From the display manager I loaded Plasma as I did after the first
upgrade boot, and Plasma displayed a black screen and never went any
further, irrespective of how long I left it for, and the only way I
could get out of that state was to use the physical reset button on the
computer.
On reboot, if I selected "Gnome" or "Gnome on Xorg", gnome would start
up quite happily, but logging out and starting Plasma would still hang
the computer.
So rebooting again to the display manager login screen, I used
ctrl+alt+F2 to switch to a terminal login process. Logging into the
terminal the first thing I did was use mokutil to check the uefi status
and it told me that uefi was disabled even though it was enabled in the
bios.
I checked whether the signing key was enrolled and it was, but the
system wasn't using the nvidia driver even though it was installed, and
a reinstall of kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia did nothing to alleviate the
issue.
So I uninstalled the kmod-nvidia module, and did a force re-enroll of
the uefi signed key (potentially with a new key), and then rebooted to
go through the mokutil enrolment required at boot. This did not resolve
the Plasm start issue, so I loaded Gnome.
Once in Gnome I started Firefox Nightly to do some net searches to see
if I could find a solution, and the one thing that did happen at this
point was the boot did not display the "falling back to nouveau"
message, but the start of firefox displayed a message that a gpu
couldn't be found on pci. Looking for a resolution to this I found an
entry about, as part of installed nvidia drivers, to ensure the gpu
firmware was also installed.
So I did a dnf install nvidia-gpu-firmware which was then installed as
it hadn't been already.
After installing the firmware I rebooted and started Plasma, which
successfully started without issues, and when I checked the video driver
it was finally using the nvidia driver.
This was a lot of work to resolve, and is the worst experience I've had
with any fedora system upgrade.
regards,
Steve
1 day, 13 hours
Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end??
by Michael D. Setzer II
Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/share/gir-1.0/GLib-2.0.gir conflicts between attempted
installs of glib2-devel-2.80.2-1.fc40.i686 and
glib2-devel-2.80.2-1.fc40.x86_64
# rpm -qa | grep glib2-devel
glib2-devel-2.78.6-1.fc39.x86_64
glib2-devel-2.78.6-1.fc39.i686
Don't know if other 3 machines had these installed or not?
Thanks for any recommendations??
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2 days
F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"
by Tim Evans
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home
systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output
from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these
messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx'.) External mail is handled
by my hosting provider's server, to which I connect with Thunderbird via
IMAP.
Two of the three systems are handling local mail correctly. One,
however, is failing with:
# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (3 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient-----------
44HBtEsB003461 5910 Fri May 17 07:55 MAILER-DAEMON
(Deferred: Connection refused by
kestrel.mynetworksettings.co)
<root(a)kestrel.tkevans.com>
journalctl reports pretty much the same error message.
This began with the upgrade to F40 yesterday
Haven't dealt with sendmail.cf settings in many, many years, but don't
think there is misconfig there, as all three systems have identical
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf files.
What stands out here is the reference to "kestrel.mynetworksettings.co".
NOTE: ".co" not ".com". Where does this come from, and what do I need to
do to reset it to the actual local domain name?
Thanks.
2 days, 1 hour
Any idea how to solve: upgrade to F40 results in Cisco VPN not
finding required libraries
by Ranjan Maitra
I have Cisco VPN version cisco-secure-client-linux64-5.0.05040 which is what is the current version released by our workplace.
The complete upgrade to Fedora 40 from Fedora 39 appears to have resulted in:
You are missing the required libraries for the authentication method you requested.
whenever I try to use the VPN and basically I can not connect.
Any suggestions as to how to get around this problem?
Many thanks in advance!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
3 days, 13 hours
