Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:01 PM CLOSE Dave wrote: > > I have upgraded three VMware images previously running Fedora 29 to > Fedora 30 using system-upgrade. All the images are running on the same > ESC hardware and, so far as I know, use the same VMware foundation. The > first worked flawlessly. Both the second and third failed in exactly the > same way: they failed to reboot successfully after the upgrade. > > When the reboot occurred, VMware reported a "alloc magic" error > immediately and froze. Not being a VMware expert, I referred the issue > to someone who is and he discovered that the MBR, master boot record, on > the image was corrupt. After installing a new MBR, the system booted and > the upgrade showed no further problems. Not sure what would corrupt it but there is competition for LBA 0, the MBR, in that there's a bootloader portion in the first ~440 bytes and then a partition table from that point until the 512th byte. So whenever something changes a partition or a boot flag (active bit) or bootloader jump code, there's a risk. This was such a well known problem it directly affected GPT. For one, don't use LBA 0. Two, make two copies in two totally different locations. Three, checksum everything. Four, give the bootloader its own home, no sharing. > > While investigating, we were sidetracked by the content of grub.cfg. It > appears that grub no longer includes a section for each possible system > to be booted. Not seeing any, we thought grub.cfg was corrupt also. But > that is apparently not the case. After the MBR fix, the generated > grub.cfg works properly. Normal behavior, new feature. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
F29 to F30 VMware upgrade
I have upgraded three VMware images previously running Fedora 29 to Fedora 30 using system-upgrade. All the images are running on the same ESC hardware and, so far as I know, use the same VMware foundation. The first worked flawlessly. Both the second and third failed in exactly the same way: they failed to reboot successfully after the upgrade. When the reboot occurred, VMware reported a "alloc magic" error immediately and froze. Not being a VMware expert, I referred the issue to someone who is and he discovered that the MBR, master boot record, on the image was corrupt. After installing a new MBR, the system booted and the upgrade showed no further problems. While investigating, we were sidetracked by the content of grub.cfg. It appears that grub no longer includes a section for each possible system to be booted. Not seeing any, we thought grub.cfg was corrupt also. But that is apparently not the case. After the MBR fix, the generated grub.cfg works properly. -- Dave Close ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
alternatives to pnmixer in F30
Hi, I have noticed that pnmixer has been orphaned in F30. What are alternatives that I may use? (I rather liked pnmixer and am sorry to see it go, but would be fine with checking out something else). Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
RPM specfile error with F30
Hi, I have the following specfile which compiled fine in F29 but is not able to find references to standard functions in X11, etc even though the compilation happens without error (outside the rpmbuild environment). So I am wondering if anyone has some suggestions on what has changed/is going wrong. Here is the spec file: $ fpaste thaali.spec Uploading (1.4KiB)... https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/3sHHnOdGoM4YHmdzzJRzgQ And here are the messages that I get when I try to build: $ rpmbuild -bb thaali.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.k76G12 + umask 022 + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf thaali-0.4.2 + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /home/maitra/rpmbuild/SOURCES/thaali-0.4.2.tar.bz2 + /usr/bin/tar -xof - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd thaali-0.4.2 + /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w . + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YvXEwJ + umask 022 + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd thaali-0.4.2 + autoreconf -if + CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' + export CFLAGS + CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' + export CXXFLAGS + FFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules' + export FFLAGS + FCFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules' + export FCFLAGS + LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' + export LDFLAGS + '[' 1 = 1 ']' +++ dirname ./configure ++ find . -name config.guess -o -name config.sub + '[' 1 = 1 ']' + '[' x '!=' 'x-Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' ']' ++ find . -name ltmain.sh + ./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking dependency style of gcc... none checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries , headers checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking that generated files are newer than configure... done configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands + /usr/bin/make -O -j8 /usr/bin/make all-recursive Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory '/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/thaali-0.4.2/src' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions
Re: Kickstart Fedora 30 (aarch64) on Raspberry Pi 3 B+
Thanks Jim, I'll start a thread on the ARM list and reference this discussion. I played around a bit with both virt_install and lorax and they just don't feel as smooth and clean as the traditional PXE way ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
system-upgrade from CIFS-mounted repo?
I have a feeling that when this is resolved I'll be doing a face palm and saying "of course, you idiot!" but I'm not seeing the answer right now. I have a local repo that I maintain using rsync from an official Fedora mirror site. This repo is located on one of my "always-on" servers using a systemd automount in /etc/fstab: worldsys:/install /install nfsrw,x-systemd.automount 0 0 This works great for installing new packages and doing updates, but it does not work for doing dnf system-upgrade. The packages are not copied when the "system-upgrade download" is done because they are already on a locally-available file system, but when the "system-upgrade reboot" is done, the upgrade fails (presumably because the remote file system is not available at the point of the upgrade boot where the upgrade transaction is run, either because the network is not up or the automount is not happening). Is it impossible to do a system-upgrade from a remote-mounted repo (which would defeat much of the purpose of maintaining such a repo), or is there a way to make the network come up and the automount happen at system-upgrade reboot time? I suppose I could set up a web server on the system with the repo so that the download would be forced at system-upgrade download time, but that's a big hammer for a small nail that I would prefer to avoid. Thanks, --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
gnome-terminal-server.service fails with startx
I am trying to run gnome-terminal on openbox started from terminal (multi-user.target) with startx command. GNOME applications that relies on DBus can't communicate or fails to start in the case of gnome-terminal. Starting gnome-terminal tries to pull gnome-terminal-server but that service fails. Code: $ gnome-terminal # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached May 27 13:58:42 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server... May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 gnome-terminal-server[1673]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 gnome-terminal-server[1673]: Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display: May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=10/n/a May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 27 13:58:43 rawhide2 systemd[1027]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server. On the other hand, starting the openbox from GDM works fine for DBus applications so it must be that environment is not set correctly when starting with xinit. dbus.socket and dbus.service are running. I am on Fedora 30. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: comments in pdf
On Wed, 29 May 2019, Ed Greshko wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2019, 21:29 Eddie O'Connor wrote: > Just curious does it require "KDE" bits and pieces to work/run? > > You could just do “dnf install okular“ and see for yourself. It will > give you the option to continue or not. on the commercial side, i paid for qoppa software's "pdf studio" a few years back, i pay the occasional upgrade charge, and have never regretted it. at the time, there was nothing open source that had all the features i was after. https://www.qoppa.com/ rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: comments in pdf
On Wed, May 29, 2019, 21:29 Eddie O'Connor wrote: > Just curious does it require "KDE" bits and pieces to work/run? > >> You could just do “dnf install okular“ and see for yourself. It will give you the option to continue or not. > >> ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: comments in pdf
Just curious does it require "KDE" bits and pieces to work/run? On Wed, May 29, 2019, 2:12 AM Robin Laing wrote: > On 26/05/2019 09:21, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Sun, 26 May 2019 11:29:52 +0200 > > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > >> Would you have a suggestion for a software capable of adding comments > >> in a pdf file? > > > > okular > > > > HTH, :-) > > Marko > > > > > I second the vote for okular. > > I use it. Can add comments, highlight, underline or mark a block. > > You can choose the colours you want to use as well. > > > Robin > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: F30 Grub2-mkconfig and Grub2-install not Working Correctly?
On 28/5/19 3:17 am, ja wrote: On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 19:10 +0200, Tom H wrote: On 23/5/19 9:07 pm, Tom H wrote: I haven't tried it but setting "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false" "/etc/default/grub" _should_ (given the variable's name) allow "grub2-mkconfig" give you an upstream-style "grub.cfg". Thanks Tom, "/etc/default/grub" had a setting of "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" which I changed from "true" to "false" and that enabled the original grub2-mkconfig style menu. So everything is now good. Good. You're welcome. [ But the BLS way is nice too. If you have the time, you should set up a VM and check it out. ] +1 I'd be quite happy to use the BLS methodology if it used the same menu structure as generated by grub2-mkconfig. I've never liked the way grubby produces the menus, and BLS seems to be exactly the same. Other OS menu entries are not required now, as I'm running F30 in a VM under Windows 10 now, with Ubuntu in a 2nd VM instead of tri-booting as I was previously. I actually wanted to run Windows 10 in a VM under Fedora, but Fedora wouldn't install in my hardware raid environment, nor would it install with UEFI active, the live cd hung at a black screen at the point of wanting to display the desktop, and I couldn't get it advance any further. regards, Steve ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: comments in pdf
On 26/05/2019 09:21, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2019 11:29:52 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: Would you have a suggestion for a software capable of adding comments in a pdf file? okular HTH, :-) Marko I second the vote for okular. I use it. Can add comments, highlight, underline or mark a block. You can choose the colours you want to use as well. Robin ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: F30, user sessions fail with: systemd[PID]: PAM failed: Cannot allocate memory
Hi. On Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:58 +0200 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > I add time, from a second textual console as root, to see the "systemd > --user" process reach more than 40 GB of memory before dying. I made a bugzilla for this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1714117 Let's hope ... -- francis ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
