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Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail
by Charles Dennett 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to me. Also logwatch had failed to run. I quickly checked logwatch first by manually running the logwatch service and it complained that /usr/sbin/sendmail did not exist. In fact, sendmail was not even installed. The system uses postfix. Honestly, I don't recall if it was installed previously or not. I got new hardware last summer and did a fresh install of Fedora 39 then and upgraded to 40, 41 and now 42. In the following -> indicates a symlink. Checking my Fedora 41 backups, I see the following chain /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix (which is an executable file) I do not know what package owns /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix unless someone can tell me how to tell rpm to use a different rpm database than the default one. Under Fedora 42/ there was no /usr/sbin/sendmail. However, there was a /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix that was a symlink to /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix. I then installed sendmail. I tested logwatch again and it failed with the same error about a missing /usr/sbin/sendmail. I uninstalledd sendmail. This time logwatch worked because /usr/sbin/sendmail existed. The removal of sendmail left behind the following chain of symlinks: /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -> /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix Apparently, removing sendmail left behind /usr/sbin/sendmail pointing to (eventually) /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix. /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix is owned by the postfix package. /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix is not owned by any package. Probably created by the install/remove script for sendmail. After all this in order to get cron to email output I just had to restart the crond service so it could see that /usr/sbin/sendmail now existed. Charlie

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wifi-bluetooth card recommendation
by Terry Polzin 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card? What hoops did you have to jump through to get it to work? Thanks in advance,

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Update to Fedora 42 fails in gnome-software
by Matthew Saltzman 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Most of my machines seem to be working fine, but I have one critical one where I have the notification for Fedora 42 in the gnome-software updates window, but when I click the Download button, the progress bar shows up to about 4% and then quits with no error message and reverts to showing the Download button. I know I can use the dnf system-upgrade path, but I’d like to troubleshoot this in case there’s an issue that could bite me in the future. Updates to my current Fedora 41 have worked flawlessly up to this point. Any suggestions appreciated. * Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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F40 -> F42?
by Neal Becker 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 using sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot This machine is a bit slow (not a lot of memory) so I didn't hang around to watch, but about 10 min later it's running again, and still on F40. Any suggestions? Any ideas how to see the logs related to what happened? Thanks, Neal

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sealert?
by ToddAndMargo 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Hi All, Fedora 41 setroubleshoot-server-3.3.35-4.fc41.x86_64 Any of you guys having problems getting /usr/bin/sealert -b to open? Any way to get this info from the command line? Many thanks, -T

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mounting usb disks
by Paolo Galtieri 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Folks, under F40 when I login after booting my system all my externally attached usb drives are mounted. Today I upgraded that system to F41 and now only a subset of the drives are mounted. Here is what I see in the log for one of the drives: Apr 16 16:23:47 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Synchronizing SCSI cache Apr 16 16:23:47 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Apr 16 16:23:47 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com systemd-homed[1657]: block device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/0000:37:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.4/4-1.4:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdk/sdk1 has been removed. Apr 16 16:23:47 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com systemd-homed[1657]: block device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/0000:37:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.4/4-1.4:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdk/sdk2 has been removed. Apr 16 16:23:47 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com systemd-homed[1657]: block device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/0000:37:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.4/4-1.4:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sdk has been removed. Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: usb 4-1.4: new SuperSpeed USB device number 22 using xhci_hcd Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: usb 4-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=2032, bcdDevice= 0.03 Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: usb 4-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: usb 4-1.4: Product: Expansion HDD Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: usb 4-1.4: Manufacturer: Seagate Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: usb 4-1.4: SerialNumber: 00000000NAC6MWLH Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: scsi host11: uas Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Expansion HDD 0003 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Apr 16 16:23:54 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0 Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Spinning up disk... Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: ...ready Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] 23437770751 512-byte logical blocks: (12.0 TB/10.9 TiB) Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Write Protect is off Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sdk: sdk1 sdk2 Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdk] Attached SCSI disk Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com mtp-probe[157451]: checking bus 4, device 22: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/0000:37:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.4" Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com audit: BPF prog-id=1331 op=UNLOAD Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com boltd[1914]: probing: started [1000] *Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com mtp-probe[157451]: bus: 4, device: 22 was not an MTP devic*e Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com boltd[1914]: probing: timeout, done: [2985252] (2000000) Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com mtp-probe[157465]: checking bus 4, device 22: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/0000:37:00.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.4" Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]: fprintd.service: Deactivated successfully. *Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com mtp-probe[157465]: bus: 4, device: 22 was not an MTP device* Apr 16 16:24:11 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com boltd[1914]: probing: started [1000] Note that it recognized the drive, bu then it never mounted it and note the comment in bold. when I run lsusb I get Bus 004 Device 022: ID 0bc2:2032 Seagate RSS LLC Expansion HDD If I run fdisk -l it shows the drive /dev/sdk1 40 409639 409600 200M EFI System /dev/sdk2 411648 23437768703 23437357056 10.9T Microsoft basic data I have not been able to figure out the options to mount the drive manually. Any help is appreciated. Paolo

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Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups?
by ToddAndMargo 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Hi All, Anything in this guys Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups recommendations you would NOT do? I noticed he wisely left of the accursed `dnf autoremove`. Never never never ever do that again! https://ostechnix.com/upgrade-to-fedora-linux-42-from-fedora-41/#Fedora_Pos… Many thanks, -T

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[OT] bash help
by Mike Wright 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Hey Gurus, I'm trying to write a bash script. There are 4 arrays: base10 base16 base62 base70. I want to match an array based on two digits provided by argument $1. e.g. getArray 70 would select base70 I've looked at substitutions, and {parameter,bash,brace} expansions. This substitution look possible ${foo/%from/to} (replace suffix) but that led me nowhere. This looks like it should be *so easy*, Amy takers? Mike Wright btw. this is a great bash cheatsheet https://devhints.io/bash

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mariadb-admin flush logs?
by Alex 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi, I'm using fedora40 with mariadb and noticed my logs are being rotated, but not flushed to start logging to the new file. This is the bottom of /etc/logrotate.d/mariadb: # After each rotation, run this custom script to flush the logs. Note that # this assumes that the mariadb-admin command has database access, which it # has thanks to the default use of Unix socket authentication for the 'mysql' # (or root on Debian) account used everywhere since MariaDB 10.4. postrotate if test -x /usr/bin/mariadb-admin then /usr/bin/mariadb-admin $EXTRAPARAM --local flush-error-log \ flush-engine-log flush-general-log flush-slow-log fi endscript However, when I run that command manually as root or the mysql user, it fails with access denied. $ /usr/bin/mariadb-admin --local flush-error-log flush-engine-log flush-general-log flush-slow-log /usr/bin/mariadb-admin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'mysql'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' Where is access supposed to be provided securely for this? Do you know what privileges I should enable to allow the mysql user to flush the logs without privileges?

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Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!
by Sam Varshavchik 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Matthew Miller via devel-announce writes: > If you run into any trouble, or just have > questions, you can find help at: > > * https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ This made me curious. Does anyone happen to know if the equivalent of this E- mailed announcement (that must've been broadcasted to the various Fedora forums, such as ask.fedoraproject.org) – I'm genuinely curious if the web- based versions of this announcement informs the reader about the fedora- users mailing list for additional help, assistance, and community support? Well, let's see. I see this announcement on ask.fedoraproject.org. It's a link to https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/ – splendid. Let's hop over there… Let’s talk over at Fedora Discussion. which is a circular link back to ask.fedoraproject.org So, it looks like the answer to the question I asked is "no".

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