Re: Fedora 40 virtual machine

2024-04-23 Thread Paolo Galtieri
. Paolo On 4/23/24 11:01, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/23/24 11:44, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous instance of anaconda has crashed. I may have to try several times before I can

Fedora 40 virtual machine

2024-04-23 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I tried to create a Fedora 40 virtual machine under VMware version 17.0.2.  The ISO image boots up fine, but when I double click on the "Install to drive" It will often fail withe the following error: Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file already exists. Anaconda

Re: F37 update

2022-12-25 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I did do it as root otherwise it most likely wouldn't have uninstalled anything due to permissions. Paolo On 12/25/22 21:29, Slade Watkins via users wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 11:30 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: It was VMworkstation Pro 16.1 and it was uninstalled doing vmware-unistall -u

Re: F37 update

2022-12-25 Thread Paolo Galtieri
It was VMworkstation Pro 16.1 and it was uninstalled doing vmware-unistall -u vmware-workstation Paolo On 12/25/22 08:07, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 11:18 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,    I got the following error during an update to F37 Cloning

F37 update

2022-12-25 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I got the following error during an update to F37 Cloning into 'vmware-host-modules'... fatal: Remote branch workstation- not found in upstream origin /etc/kernel/install.d/99-vmmodules.install: line 20: cd: vmware-host-modules: No such file or directory make: *** No targets specified

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

2022-11-27 Thread Paolo Galtieri
condary dns servers. Paolo On 11/27/22 07:55, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:45 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: I just upgraded from fedora 36 to 37. There were no errors reported but after the update I get: dnf list all Adobe Systems Incorporated 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00 Error

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

2022-11-27 Thread Paolo Galtieri
, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:45 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: I just upgraded from fedora 36 to 37. There were no errors reported but after the update I get: dnf list all Adobe Systems Incorporated 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'adobe-linux-x86_64': - Curl

Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

2022-11-27 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I just upgraded from fedora 36 to 37.  There were no errors reported but after the update I get: dnf list all Adobe Systems Incorporated 0.0  B/s |   0  B 00:00 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'adobe-linux-x86_64':   - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for

Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

2022-11-05 Thread Paolo Galtieri
If you're willing to spend the money there are companies that can try to recover the data from the drive. If it's just the controller it may cost around $300 if it requires more work to recover the data it may cost you around $2000. I have used one company quite a few years ago and they were

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

2022-03-21 Thread Paolo Galtieri
: On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 12:32:14AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/22 16:46, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:27:02AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there any way to actually suspend a laptop when the lid is closed regardless of any external devices? Might be a result

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

2022-03-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
: On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:27:02AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there any way to actually suspend a laptop when the lid is closed regardless of any external devices? Might be a result of your /etc/systemd/logind.conf Default in that file seems to be: HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore Have you

Re: maybe OT

2022-03-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
The host OS is also F34. On 3/20/22 08:14, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 19:47, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I'm having issues with a VM. It would be useful to mention the host OS.  From the name, I guess your VM is running Fedora 34. The VM was originally created

maybe OT

2022-03-18 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I'm having issues with a VM. The VM was originally created under VMware and has worked fine for a while.  Today when I booted it up instead of seeing the usual MATE login screen I get a login prompt: f34-01-vm: no matter what I enter, root or pgaltieri as login it never asks for password

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

2022-03-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
to the laptop via HDMI cable. Paolo On 3/17/22 11:48, Barry wrote: On 17 Mar 2022, at 15:27, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, I have 2 laptops, one running F31 the other F34. When I close the lid on the F31 system it suspends as it is supposed to. I can ping the system and I get no response

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

2022-03-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I guess this bug also applies to MATE, because I don't run Gnome.  I wonder how many other desktops this problem applies to. Paolo On 3/17/22 15:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/17/22 08:27, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there any way to actually suspend a laptop when the lid is closed regardless

suspend on lid closed doesn't work

2022-03-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I have 2 laptops, one running F31 the other F34.  When I close the lid on the F31 system it suspends as it is supposed to.  I can ping the system and I get no response.  On the F34 system I close the lid and the system continues running.  I can still login to the system from the

Re: dns lookup behavior

2022-02-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 2/21/22 15:56, Jamie Fargen wrote: dig 172.16.96.20 Do you mean dig -x 172.16.96.20 dig 1.1.1.1 doesn't return the host name: dig -x 172.16.96.20 returns ; <<>> DiG 9.16.24-RH <<>> -x 172.16.96.20 ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Re: dns lookup behavior

2022-02-21 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 2/21/22 14:09, Jamie Fargen wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM Barry wrote: > On 21 Feb 2022, at 20:15, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > Folks, >  I have 3 Linux systems, one running F31 and 2 running F34.  On one of the F34 systems I have a loca

dns lookup behavior

2022-02-21 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I have 3 Linux systems, one running F31 and 2 running F34.  On one of the F34 systems I have a local DNS server running.  This has worked fine in the past, but now I'm seeing strangeness on the 2 F34 systems. I added a host to the DNS server for normal lookup and reverse lookup.  On

exfat vs fuseblk

2022-02-14 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have several external disk drives from the same vendor.  According to the vendor recent drives are formatted exfat while prior ones where formatted ntfs.  According to what I find on the web file system type fuseblk should work for both exfat and nfts. I have a new 12TB drive and when I plug

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
The system is x86_64 and I'm using brtfs.  So that clears that up: findmnt --notruncate / TARGET SOURCE   FSTYPE OPTIONS /  /dev/nvme0n1p10[/root00]     btrfs rw,relatime,seclabel,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=276,subvol=/root00 findmnt --notruncate /home TARGET SOURCE

why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   today I ran into a strange problem.  Both the root file system and the /home filesystem showed 100% usage: df -l Filesystem  1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4096 0  4096   0% /dev tmpfs    32793004 0  32793004   0%

pluma and ISO-8859 text

2021-12-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
When I use caja, or any file browser, to read a text file that is encoded in ISO-8859 it uses pluma to read the file.  Pluma, however, fails with this message: pluma has not been able to detect the character encoding. Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. Select a

graphics support on f34

2021-12-21 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I recently reported an issue with booting recent kernels.  All kernels after 5.14.18 fail with "Input not supported" being displayed on the monitor.  Originally it was suggested that it might be the KVM switch I use to connect my systems.  Today I removed the switch and directly

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have disabled chronyd.  The main problem is the graphical.target vs multi-user.target.  ntpd only starts in multi-user.target. Paolo On 12/5/21 13:59, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/12/2021 01:48, Paolo Galtieri wrote: systemctl status ntpd ○ ntpd.service - Network Time Service Loaded

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
It turned out chronyd was also enabled, but marked as dead. ○ chronyd.service - NTP client/server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2021-12-05 09:47:14 PST; 23h ago    Docs: man:chronyd(8)   

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Here's the output: systemctl cat ntpd.service # /usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service [Unit] Description=Network Time Service Documentation=man:ntpd(8) Wants=network.target ConditionCapability=CAP_SYS_TIME After=network.target nss-lookup.target Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service [Service]

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Here's the output: [pgaltieri@truckin ~]$ systemctl get-default graphical.target [pgaltieri@truckin ~]$ find /etc/systemd/system -name chronyd.service -ls   4195823  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   39 Apr 25 2019 /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/chronyd.service ->

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-05 Thread Paolo Galtieri
5/12/2021 00:27, Paolo Galtieri wrote: This isn't true.  I stopped ntpd, stopped the wifi connection and restarted ntpd and ntpd started fine with no wifi connection.  It should only need a network connection to synchronize the time. That is why I asked you to provide the output of systemctl stat

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-04 Thread Paolo Galtieri
This isn't true.  I stopped ntpd, stopped the wifi connection and restarted ntpd and ntpd started fine with no wifi connection.  It should only need a network connection to synchronize the time. Paolo On 12/3/21 10:15, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/3/21 11:05 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Next issue

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-04 Thread Paolo Galtieri
The "Input not supported" error occurs on the active connection. But what has changed recently to introduce this problem since booting on older kernels does not exhibit it? Paolo On 12/4/21 05:54, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:16:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: So, you have a common

several issues with f34

2021-12-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I have 2 systems running F34.  These 2 systems connect to a common monitor via a keyboard-video-mouse switch. First issue. One of these systems, when I boot any of the 3 most recent kernels, when it gets to multi user mode displays "Input not supported" but works fine when I boot

Re: module loading problem

2021-08-09 Thread Paolo Galtieri
to load them and fails due to the modules not being signed.  I don't know why vboxconfig doesn't check to see if the modules already exist before trying to build them. Paolo On 8/9/21 6:11 AM, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 09:34:36 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: I even tried

module loading problem

2021-08-08 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I'm having an issue with loading kernel modules after a kernel update.  Specifically I'm having an issue with loading virtual box kernel modules.  After an update I sign the modules according to the information listed here

file associations for OVF files

2021-05-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I recently ran into an issue with files with .ovf extension.  The issue is that VMware Workstation will not import files that end in .ovf.  A file that ends in .ovf shows up as follows of Fedora 34: file *.ovf returns XML 1.0 document, ASCII text What's interesting is that if you have

zabbix server/agent on F34

2021-04-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I installed F34 in a VM and installed the zabbix server and agent.  I have updated the system to the latest.  When I run the zabbix server and agent I get a lot of SELinux alerts. SELinux is preventing zabbix_agentd from getattr access on the fifo_file /run/initctl   Source Context

can't upgrade from fedora 31 to Fedora 32

2021-03-01 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I was trying to upgrade my Fedora 31 system to F32, but it failed due to conflicts.  Here's the output: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=32 Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you

Re: can't find wireless

2021-02-19 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I finally found the resolution to F33 not finding my wireless. I found it on an Ubuntu list https://askubuntu.com/questions/1083369/ubuntu-18-04-cannot-recognized-intel-wireless-ac-9260 In short the issue is with Windows 10.  Under the setup for what the power buttons do it has the

Re: can't find wireless

2021-02-19 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 2/19/21 10:38 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: Do an ethtool -i ethtool -i enp0s20f0u1u4 driver: r8152 version: v1.11.11 firmware-version: rtl8153a-4 v2 02/07/20 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: usb-:00:14.0-1.4 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no

Re: can't find wireless

2021-02-18 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Billings wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 02:54:19PM -0800, Paolo Galtieri wrote: So the appropriate wireless driver is loaded, however ifconfig shows the following devices: Instead of using the 'ifconfig' tool, try running 'ip link show'. Perhaps the interface is just down. Also, many Dells have

can't find wireless

2021-02-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have a Dell XPS 15 9500 laptop.  I've already listed other issues with this laptop running Fedora 33. Here's a new one :( lspic -k shows the following: 0:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi     Subsystem: Rivet Networks Device 1651     Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Re: Fedora 33 and HDMI KVM switch

2021-02-09 Thread Paolo Galtieri
must exist for the dongle.  The dongle is a RayCue USB to HDMI. Paolo On 2/8/21 8:58 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Samuel Sieb | On 2/6/21 5:44 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: | >  I'm having an issue running Fedora 33 and an external monitor connected to | > an HDMI KVM switch.

Fedora 33 and HDMI KVM switch

2021-02-06 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I'm having an issue running Fedora 33 and an external monitor connected to an HDMI KVM switch.  Here is the way it's connected: Laptop thunderbolt 3 connector -> 4 port USB c to USB 3.0 hub -> USB to HDMI adapter -> HDMI KVM switch. The mouse and keyboard work, however Fedora 33

Re: Key was rejected by service

2021-02-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
with issues booting Windows. Paolo On 2/3/21 10:36 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 2/3/21 2:33 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: vmmon: Loading of unsigned module is rejected This looks like you're booting off UEFI in "secure mode" where kernel and its modules need to be signed. Try disabling &q

Key was rejected by service

2021-02-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I have installed vmware on Fedora 33.  It does not start due to the following error: modprobe vmmon modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmmon': Key was rejected by service modprobe vmnet modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmnet': Key was rejected by service dmesg shows vmmon:

why no glade module for python 3?

2021-02-01 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   for years I've been using sbackup for doing my backups.  I've tried others and none come close to being as easy to use as sbackup.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any further development occurring on it. It was written originally to work with python2 and I have managed to get

Re: Windows 10 + F33 + SSD + RAID

2021-01-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I tried the process described in the article and it worked for me.  I can now boot up into Windows and Linux without issues. Thank you very much for the pointer. Paolo On 1/29/21 7:44 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:25 PM Kevin Becker

Windows 10 + F33 + SSD + RAID

2021-01-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I have a new dell laptop.  I tried to install Fedora 33 on it, but it failed to find any disks.  I searched the internet and discovered that if my BIOS has RAID enabled F33 is unable to find any drives.  I disabled RAID and enable AHCI and was then able to install and boot F33.  I

Re: (root) FAILED (loading cron table)

2020-10-01 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Yes that looks like the same problem.  I did an update yesterday and there was no selinux update, but there was one today.  This fixed my problem. Paolo On 10/1/20 12:56 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:53:00AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, since August 13 my

(root) FAILED (loading cron table)

2020-10-01 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks, since August 13 my backups have failed to run due the following errors: Oct  1 11:10:01 terrapin CROND[110219]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bro/bin/zeekctl cron) Oct  1 11:12:01 terrapin crond[1565]: ((null)) No SELinux security context (/etc/crontab) Oct  1 11:12:01 terrapin crond[1565]:

Re: Python2 package build

2020-08-13 Thread Paolo Galtieri
python. Paolo On 8/13/20 11:18 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 13.08.20 um 18:51 schrieb Paolo Galtieri: Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32.  sbackup is the python2 application I use to do daily backups. The source packages I rebuilt are   gno

Re: Python2 package build

2020-08-13 Thread Paolo Galtieri
rpmbuild to build the binary packages from the source RPMs. Paolo On 8/13/20 11:18 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 13.08.20 um 18:51 schrieb Paolo Galtieri: Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32.  sbackup is the python2 application I use to do daily

Python2 package build

2020-08-13 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   an issue has come up recently that I don't understand.  This problem applies to both F31 and F32. Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32.  sbackup is the python2 application I use to do daily backups. The source packages I rebuilt

python3 and gnome packages

2020-05-04 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   about a week ago I posted an email regarding bindings to libgnome, but I never did see the post on the list, just one person's response.  The issue is that the program I use for doing backups, sbackup, fails with python 3.  The 2 main failures are in regard to the following: import

python 3 bindings for libgnome

2020-04-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I have an issue that has cropped up in F31 and F32 and I hope someone can help me. I have been using sbackup for years to do backups on my system. It has worked great up to and including F30.  This program is a python2 program.  The issue though has to do with bindings to libgnome. 

Re: No visible mouse pointer

2019-12-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
not this issue with two other laptops and one desktop workstation (all Dells). HTH, but it would be nice to get this resolved more holistically. Ranjan On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:25:59 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: I have successfully upgraded one system to F31, however, it still exhibits the same problem

Re: Upgrading to f31

2019-12-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
not belong to a distupgrade repository   - cmake-fedora-2.9.3-4.fc30.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) Paolo On 12/30/19 10:59 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/30/19 7:47 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Using --allowerasing instead

No visible mouse pointer

2019-12-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have successfully upgraded one system to F31, however, it still exhibits the same problem it has had under F30, namely no visible mouse pointer.  The mouse does work since I have configured my MATE desktop to display the mouse pointer location when I press the ctrl key.  This only works once

Re: Upgrading to f31

2019-12-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, ?? I was trying to upgrade one of my systems to f31 by running: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=31 but the attempt fails with: Error: ??Problem: package cmake-fedora-2.9.3-5.fc31.noarch requires packagedb-cli, but none

Upgrading to f31

2019-12-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I was trying to upgrade one of my systems to f31 by running: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=31 but the attempt fails with: Error:  Problem: package cmake-fedora-2.9.3-5.fc31.noarch requires packagedb-cli, but none of the providers can be

importing photos from camera

2019-11-13 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I am having an issue with importing photos from my Nikon D90 under F30. Under F29 when I right click on the camera icon on the desktop and look at the "Open With Other Application" there was an entry for "Open With gThumb Photo Import Tool".  This option is missing from F30.  So I

Re: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

2019-10-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I ran rfkill list: 0: dell-rbtn: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes I then tried running sudo rfkill unblock wlan and then rfkill list: 0: dell-rbtn: Wireless LAN Soft blocked

Re: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

2019-10-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes It still shows that it's hard blocked. Paolo On 10/28/19 9:16 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:04:28 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: Any idea what I can do to get around this issue

WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

2019-10-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   several months ago I was getting the following error: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch forcing a reboot to get my wifi back.  Then the problem went away, but now it's back.  Every time I close the lid of my laptop and then reopen it several minutes later the wifi is dead and

ccache on f30

2019-07-31 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I installed the ccache package on F30.  Doing a rpm -ql on the package show a long list of files that are part of the package, but if I do ls -l  /usr/lib64/ccache/ it shows total 576 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 193392 Jan 31 07:23 cc -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 193392 Jan 31 07:23 gcc

Re: sound device initialization?

2019-07-04 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Have you tried using pavucontrol? I have an issue with sound on my laptop with the MATE desktop and an external monitor.  Often when I login to the laptop I'll have no sound and the mate_volume_applet doesn't change the volume. Using pavucontrol I determined that the problem was the monitor

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
:-) Paolo On 7/3/19 3:42 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,   I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following

external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 0. I have 2 8TB drives

mariadb vs community-mysql on F30

2019-06-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks I have an issue with mariadb and community-mysql.  I installed mysql-workbench.  When I run it it shows a conflict between it and the running mysql server, namely mysql-workbench is version 8.0.16 and mariadb is 10.3.12.  So I decided to remove mariadb, i.e. I did: yum remove

WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

2019-06-05 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   on both June 2 and June 4 I have seen the following message in the logs: Jun  4 13:35:53 terrapin NetworkManager[1529]: [1559680553.5293] manager: rfkill: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch Until I shutdown my system and reboot I cannot connect to my WiFi network. Has anyone

Can't use MATE desktop with F29

2019-03-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I upgraded one of my F28 systems to F29.  I installed th Gnome Classic and MATE desktops.  When the system boots up and I login using the MATE desktop the screen is completely garbled.  A message appears saying something like "required virtual size does not fit", however it goes away

Re: Can't play video dvd

2019-03-15 Thread Paolo Galtieri
32 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:46:44 +0100, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I tried totem and mplayer and both fail. I tried vlc and it displayed a bunch of messages and crashed with a segmentation fault.  Here are the messages: VLC media player 3.0.6 Vetinari (revision

Re: Can't play video dvd

2019-03-14 Thread Paolo Galtieri
fo_read.c:1672 *** *** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].vob_id > 0 *** *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in src/ifo_read.c:1672 *** *** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].vob_id > 0 *** *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in src/ifo_read.c:1672 *** *** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].vob_id >

Can't play video dvd

2019-03-14 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I recently purchased the DVD "Free Solo".  When I try to play it on my Fedora 28 system it fails.  I get the following error "An error occurred The movie could not be read".  I did some web searching and I found that someone also encountered this error and that I needed to install

Can't boot kernel-4.19.6-200.fc28.x86_64

2018-12-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   this morning I rebooted one of my systems.  The system ended up dropping into emergency mode.  I ran journalctl -xb to see why it failed to boot and I saw the following errors: Dec 11 08:02:46 terrapin kernel: kvmgt: Unknown symbol gfn_to_memslot (err -2) Dec 11 08:02:46 terrapin

strange issues on F28

2018-11-25 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have 2 systems running F28, one is a laptop the other a desktop.  I rebooted both onto 4.19.2 last week. On the laptop I'm having some strange issues. 1)  When I rebooted the laptop this morning it failed to boot and dropped into emergency mode.  Looking at the logs I see at lot of these

Re: strange problem

2018-11-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Chrome was working fine on this system yesterday.  The upgrade went fine, so I'm really stumped as to why it has stopped working. Paolo On 11/11/18 2:47 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:03:31 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: What I don't understand about this problem is why it affects

Re: strange problem

2018-11-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
What I don't understand about this problem is why it affects only one system.  Chrome on my other system works fine as does chrome on my android tablet. Paolo On 11/11/18 12:12 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:06 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: I encountered a strange problem today

Re: SElinux error

2018-11-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
The issue is normally the SElinux alert gives me the name of the process causing the problem, not a long string of characters. Paolo On 11/11/18 12:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/11/2018 12:28 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,    I got the fllowing SElinux error today: SELinux is preventing

SElinux error

2018-11-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I got the fllowing SElinux error today: SELinux is preventing 72733A6D61696E20513A526567 from using the dac_override capability. Anyone know what this refers to? Thanks, Paolo ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

strange problem

2018-11-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I encountered a strange problem today I'm wondering if someone can explain what's going on. Here's the problem, I have 2 systems running F28, one system was upgraded from F27 two days ago, the other upgraded yesterday. Both systems were working fine yesterday.  Today the second system will

issues with F27

2018-11-05 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have F27 running on a couple of systems.  On one of them I have encountered the following 2 issues. 1) System crashes with "System not configured for semaphores". This error results in the system halting.  It has occurred several times over the last few months. 2) I have a Linksys AE1200

Upgrade to f29

2018-10-31 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I tried to upgrade a system to F29 this AM.  The upgrade failed with the following error: Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed 31 Oct 2018 09:27:12 AM PDT. Error:  Problem: problem with installed package

strange error on shutdown

2018-07-24 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I was in the process of rebooting my system after doing an update and got the following: error: unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon dracut Warning: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 1088: /sbin/rdsosreport: No such file or directory You might want to save

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I don't know if this is related to the problem, but my system crashed over night again.  However, the last thing I saw while running tail -f /var/log/messages was the following: Jul 16 05:09:23 terrapin kernel: [ cut here ] Jul 16 05:09:23 terrapin kernel: kernel BUG at

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-15 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I never saw this problem with 4.17.4.  Since I upgraded to 4.17.5 I've seen it happen 3 times.  In all the cases as far as I can tell the system was idle.  I wasn't even in front of the computer when it happened.  I have 2 systems running 4.17.5 and the problem has occurred on only one of

Mate + F28

2018-06-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   shortly after F28 was released I upgraded one of my systems to F28 using fedup.  Since that day, despite all the updates I have installed, I still cannot run the MATE desktop on that system. Before the upgrade, when the system ran F27, I ran MATE without any problems.  Now as soon as

Re: libesmtp-devel

2018-06-09 Thread Paolo Galtieri
/2018 03:19 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Hi, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I run the bro network security monitor.  Due to recent changes in openssl the bro monitor will no longer compile with openssl 1.1 only with openssl 1.0.  As a result I had to uninstall openssl-devel and install the compat-openssl10

libesmtp-devel

2018-06-09 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I run the bro network security monitor.  Due to recent changes in openssl the bro monitor will no longer compile with openssl 1.1 only with openssl 1.0.  As a result I had to uninstall openssl-devel and install the compat-openssl10-devel package.  As part of the removal of

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address. I checked /dev/tty does exist. Any ideas? Paolo On 05/17/2018 10:38 AM, stan wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2018 08:39:24 -0700 Paolo Galtieri<pgalti...@gmail.com> wrote: on my F27 system with MATE desktop.  First issue is that when I tried to

Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   yesterday afternoon I started having some strange things occurring on my F27 system with MATE desktop.  First issue is that when I tried to logout it didn't, even though it prompted for logout.  What's interesting is that the "System" pulldown menu was missing the "Shutdown" option

Re: kernel not configured for semaphores

2018-05-12 Thread Paolo Galtieri
CONFIG_SND_SST_IPC_ACPI=m # CONFIG_INTEL_PMC_IPC is not set CONFIG_INTEL_PUNIT_IPC=m Paolo On 05/10/2018 10:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/10/2018 07:57 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Kernel not configured for semaphores (System V IPC). Not using udev synchronization code. Halting. Since I have

Re: kernel not configured for semaphores

2018-05-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
214d3a974ba7461ea2faec5efd479db5 -rw---. 1 root root 22694159 May  7 09:53 initramfs-4.16.6-202.fc27.x86_64.img drwx--. 6 root root 1024 May  7 09:53 grub2 Paolo On 05/10/2018 10:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/10/2018 07:57 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Kernel not configured for semaphores (System V IPC

kernel not configured for semaphores

2018-05-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   twice now in the last 2 days when I have sat in front of my PC I have found the following message on the screen: Kernel not configured for semaphores (System V IPC). Not using udev synchronization code. Halting. Since I have not modified my kernel from what I downloaded when I did

cheese and webcam

2018-01-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Since upgrading to F27 my logitech web cam no longer works. Here are the errors I see uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26). Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC control 4 on unit 1: -110 (exp. 4). I used cheese but it shows nothing useful.  It displays a snapshut of my

Re: dnf upgrade to F26

2017-08-27 Thread Paolo Galtieri
In my case the system I tried to update is a laptop and I don't have an external monitor attached. Paolo On 08/26/2017 10:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/27/2017 12:54 PM, jarmo wrote: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 17:32:40 -0700 Paolo Galtieri <pgalti...@gmail.com> kirjoitti: and here is where

dnf upgrade to F26

2017-08-26 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I tried to upgrade one of my systems to F26 according to the documentation at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade I did the download and everything went fine. I then did sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot and here is where things went weird, there was no output at all on the

several issues with F25

2017-08-26 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Over the last week I have observed several problems with how F25 runs on my laptop. Issue 1: The system does not suspend on lid closed. I have an external monitor attached to it and I can continue working on the system despite the lid being closed. When I run gnome-tweak-tool and indicates

Re: Issue with thunderbird

2017-05-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
late 2016 to the present, and is now downloading current email. Not a real solution, but I'll live with it. Paolo On 05/16/2017 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/16/17 00:47, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I've been using thunderbird as my email client for a long time and I've seldom had any issues

Issue with thunderbird

2017-05-15 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks, I've been using thunderbird as my email client for a long time and I've seldom had any issues with it, but now I'm having a strange problem and I'm not sure where to go for help. The issue is I use thunderbird as my email client for 3 email accounts. Thunderbird downloads my email

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