Re: F40 Live image boot failure

Samuel Sieb writes: On 5/3/24 17:26, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: error: ../../grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c:531:invalid buffer alignment -1112264040 error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:258:you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue... Although

Re: F40 Live image boot failure

Samuel Sieb writes: error: ../../grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c:531:invalid buffer alignment -1112264040 error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:258:you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue... Although my plans are to use dnf system-upgrade, this looks like a

Re: F40 Live image boot failure

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 5/3/24 15:42, Sam Varshavchik wrote: With all the talk of Wayland, I followed up on the idea of downloading an F40 Live image and seeing if it boots on my existing hardware. Well, it did boot on two out of three laptops that are currently running F39

F40 Live image boot failure

With all the talk of Wayland, I followed up on the idea of downloading an F40 Live image and seeing if it boots on my existing hardware. Well, it did boot on two out of three laptops that are currently running F39. On a 2013-era Thinkpad W520 it immediately fails with a: error:

Re: Live USB extra space

ToddAndMargo via users writes: Hi All, I "Finally" have a customer interested in Fedora. I talked him into letting me spin a Live USB flash drive for him to play with before we jump ahead. Question: Is there a way to use the extra space on the drive to install a few more programs for him to

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:01:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg vulnerabilities as an excuse for dumping the Xorg/X11 system as a whole. I don't see much value is discussing the validity of those excuses. It is what it is. They don't want to work

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

George N. White III writes: I definitely know what I'll be missing with Wayland, though. There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented.  The latter may not get much attention if they aren't considered important by large enterprises.  Colleagues in

What's up with debuginfod?

Can anyone vouch for having a reliable, established, experience with debuginfod? My 'make check' runs valgrind a bunch of times. Right now, each invocation is sitting and doing nothing for about ten minutes, before it apparently times out downloading something from

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

Barry writes: The problem is no one is maintaining the X11 code. All the people that used to work on X11 moved on to wayland after it became very clear that X11’s design was preventing implementation of features that end users wanted. So if you stick on X11 you will be running code that is

Re: [correction] The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

Suse Shi writes: »from my exprience, fedora xfce spin is a good choice for old hardware, and I'm using fedora+xfce for desktop 10yrs+. The XFCE spin is also a pretty good choice for new hardware, too. pgpyIKEJnGyB2.pgp Description: PGP signature --

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

Jeffrey Walton writes: Wayland is still pretty immature when compared to X11. It would be nice if Wayland was more mature before we are forced to switch to it.  The question on everyone's mind is: well, here's a video card that works fine with X. It's 5-10 years old, one of mine is even

Re: Which keys did I hit?

Sjoerd Mullender via users writes: On 12/04/2024 10.11, Sam Varshavchik wrote: My fingers had a mind of their own and apparently hit some combination of keys that had a very weird result. I'm using an XFCE desktop. And, apparently, it became, maybe, fourty or so virtual pixels wider

Which keys did I hit?

My fingers had a mind of their own and apparently hit some combination of keys that had a very weird result. I'm using an XFCE desktop. And, apparently, it became, maybe, fourty or so virtual pixels wider. Of course, the monitor still has the same number of pixels, so what was happening is

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

Tim via users writes: "The service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service invokes systemd- networkd-wait-online without any options. Thus, it waits for all managed interfaces to be configured or failed, and for at least one to be online." Could it be that you have some additional interfaces

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

- networkd-wait-online did nothing at all, for me, whatsoever, except to delay other units from starting for a couple of minutes. On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:20 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Samuel Sieb writes: > > > I have a similar problem where the wait-online service s

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

Samuel Sieb writes: I have a similar problem where the wait-online service suddenly started taking a very long time and then failing. My system that used to boot in a few seconds now takes over a minute. So I have two questions. What is it waiting for? My main ethernet card gets an

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

Tim via users writes: On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 22:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Everything comes up normally. Network connectivity on this box is normal. > Originally I was looking into why it took a long time for keepalived to come > up on this box and grab its virtual IP ad

systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

I've been made aware that it takes two minutes for systemd-networkd-wait- online.service to spin its wheels, before giving up with a squeal: Apr 09 22:03:30 shorty.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Starting systemd-networkd-wait-online.service - Wait for Network to be Configured… Apr 09 22:05:30

Re: F40: mock fails with (some) explicit paths in BuildRequires:

Todd Zullinger writes: > So, can anyone tell me why %{_includedir}/ltdl.h, which is > /usr/include/ltdl.h, got rejected by mock+dnf5, but %{__make}, which is > /usr/bin/make was just peachy? Using file or directory paths in requires is only allowed for /usr/bin /usr/sbin, and /etc, per the

F40: mock fails with (some) explicit paths in BuildRequires:

I cannot mock-rebuild packages that have /some/ BuildRequires: with explicit file dependencies, for F40. I have no idea why just /some/ of them are rejected. I'm using mock to rebuild SRPMS in an F40 chroot, and it fails thusly: Updating and loading repositories: updates

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

Dave Ihnat writes: But with the talk of using HP AiOs, I had to pipe up. I have advised all my clients to no longer buy HP printers of any type, including the AiOs, and will personally never buy another HP printer until and unless they back off their current policies and practices. I believe

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

Patrick O'Callaghan writes: My Brother all-in-one units (I've had two) have never done that. Also, I can get third-party toner cartridges for very reasonable prices. Did you get that unit after crossing your fingers, and hoping that it works, or did you verify compatibility somehow. I tried

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

Stephen Morris writes: resynced all RAID partitions, I ran grub2-install and I'm fairly certain there was a definitive change in grub's behavior, afterwards. Originally three periods were initially shown, for a few seconds, before the grub menu opened. I have a recollection that the

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update.  From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev

How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. But: [root@jack ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda

Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

Which scanner/copier does everyone use, that works out of the box with Xsane? Printing would be nice but I already have an HP that does the job for me. pgpxrfExOehoA.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ___ users mailing list --

Re: dmesg suddenly fails when run as normal user on FC39

Ron Flory via users writes: »Hi-  does not happen on FC38, or any prior RedHat/Fedora version since forever. Sounds like this has landed: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/U2XA6J5BGPKMS54YM7DTOI4QHUXQTARI/ pgpHS0_YMt3pr.pgp Description:

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

Samuel Sieb writes: On 2/24/24 08:52, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Sam Varshavchik writes: But something is still broken. I went through the motions, set session=xfce, but then something is still broken with systemd. systemctl start vncserver@: 1 results in: Feb 24 11:30:33 monster.email

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

Samuel Sieb writes: On 2/24/24 07:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I'm not sure when Fedora switched to the current tigervnc systemd-based configuration, but: I've been using tigervnc to log in to an Ubuntu box, and it was simple to set up tigervnc on Ubuntu for remote access. I just tried

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

Michael D. Setzer II via users writes: As I stated. I've found Turbo VNC seems to work very well. At my home, I've got a notebook, and use it to vnc into 6 other Fedora 39 machines, and two windows machines in house. I hear you. I'm not married to tigervnc, just not sure if trying to get

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

francis.montag...@inria.fr writes: Hi. On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:52:40 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > But something is still broken. I went through the motions, set session=xfce, > ... and that was because even xfce is not going to work. The reason was > dumped into ~/.vnc/*log: &

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

Sam Varshavchik writes: Michael D. Setzer II via users writes: On 24 Feb 2024 at 10:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > That's a no-go for me. My Fedora system is configured to automatically log > into a graphical desktop. This won't work for me, then. Not sure on the latest version of ti

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

Michael D. Setzer II via users writes: On 24 Feb 2024 at 10:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > That's a no-go for me. My Fedora system is configured to automatically log > into a graphical desktop. This won't work for me, then. Not sure on the latest version of tigervnc on Fedora, for a w

tigervnc server configuration limitation

I'm not sure when Fedora switched to the current tigervnc systemd-based configuration, but: I've been using tigervnc to log in to an Ubuntu box, and it was simple to set up tigervnc on Ubuntu for remote access. I just tried the same on Fedora and was informed that launching vncserver was

Re: Copy broken in recent Firefox?

Patrick O'Callaghan writes: Works for me. Firefox on KDE (X11), F39. It turned out to be xfce4-terminal, and not Firefox. There was a recent xfce4-terminal rpm update. … and another update just landed, with a helpful "Fix clipboard handling" changelog… pgptrybcI_RRz.pgp Description:

Copy broken in recent Firefox?

Is it just me, or is everyone else no longer able to highlight any multi- line chunk of code in Firefox, copy, then paste it somewhere else? I did some experiments. I can highlight a portion of a line, and that can be pasted in another window. Highlight anything more than a line, nothing gets

Re: github cloning from cmdline

bruce writes: It appears that the "ssh -vT g...@github.com" cmd seems to always request a "passphrase" even though the ssh key was created without a passphrase. That's because you don't ssh to github. Once the key is set up, and added to your github profile, "git clone" clones the

Re: sudo problem on restore from archive

Robert McBroom via users writes: On a system restore from a tar archive sudo won't work. Says /usr/bin/sudo  needs to be owned by 0 with the suid bit set. Root owns the file and is 0. Looking at a working system directory list shows   -rwsr-xr-x.  1 root root   57456 Aug 16 20:00 su  

Solution: OVMF 4M-based VMs broken after updating to F39

I had an EFI VM that was configured to use /usr/share/edk2/ovmf-4m/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd as its bootloader in F38. The edk2-ovmf package in F39 no longer installs it. This results in an error message starting any VM that uses OVMF 4M images. The /usr/share/edk2/ovmf-4m directory no longer

Re: libvirtd.service won't start

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 7/9/23 04:21, Sam Varshavchik wrote: ToddAndMargo via users writes: Okay, after erasing all the 9005's, redoing the following https://www.libvirt.org/daemons.html#switching-to-modular-daemons and rebooting, all my VM stuff is running perfectly again

Re: libvirtd.service won't start

ToddAndMargo via users writes: Okay, after erasing all the 9005's, redoing the following https://www.libvirt.org/daemons.html#switching-to-modular-daemons and rebooting, all my VM stuff is running perfectly again. Thank you all for the help! Upstream documentation, like that, isn't really

Re: libvirtd.service won't start

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 7/8/23 18:38, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 7/8/23 17:26, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, ToddAndMargo said: # rpm -qa libvirt-libs libvirt-libs-9.0.0-3.fc38.x86_64 Removing and reinstalling both libvirt-daemon and libvirt-libs did not change the

Re: libvirtd.service won't start

ToddAndMargo via users writes: Starting libvirtd directly gives: # /usr/sbin/libvirtd & [1] 10957 /usr/sbin/libvirtd: /lib64/libvirt.so.0: version `LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_9.0.0' not found (required by /usr/sbin/libvirtd) And I can not find what provide it: # dnf whatprovides LIBVIRT_PRIVATE

Re: ide editor??

bruce writes: Hi. Curious to know what IDE/editors you guys use for developing code (and why if you care to expound). Are there any you prefer for linux vs windows? There's only one true editor for developers: emacs Everything else is a pale imitation of emacs' awesomeness.

Re: exslt.org domain name expired

Mike Wright writes: On 5/11/23 05:25, Sam Varshavchik wrote: If anyone here knows anyone associated with exslt.org, home of xml and xpath extensions, used in xsltproc and others, kindly let them know that their domain has expired. Hi Sam, Both exslt.org and fourthought.com (which handles

exslt.org domain name expired

If anyone here knows anyone associated with exslt.org, home of xml and xpath extensions, used in xsltproc and others, kindly let them know that their domain has expired. pgp4ml3YmHnL6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ users mailing list --

Keeping ssh sessions alive

I switched wifi routers. The new model, a Linksys WRT3200ACM kills my idle SSH sessions. I have /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/01-local.conf that has a "ClientAliveInterval" setting. With my previous router setting ClientAliveInterval to 60 seconds was enough to keep it from killing my idle SSH

Re: F38/Xfce restoring apps on login

Robert Moskowitz writes: What do I set so that the apps I had running the last login are autorestarted? That is the behavior I am use to, but I can't figure out what is different that on this new F38, I start up on login with nothing running. When you go to Applications > Logout and get

Re: grubby --set-default LOLs at me

Stephen Morris writes: And at boot/reboot, GRUB had to be configured to read the default variable to see which menu item to boot. I lack the perseverance to read through the conglomeration of GRUB menu files to see what it does these days. From a google check for the default grub kernel boots

Re: grubby --set-default LOLs at me

Tom Horsley writes: On Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:40:18 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > But at boot the grub menu still highlights the most recently installed > kernel, and that's what boots by default. If you can stand looking through the scripts that are used to build the grub.cfg (I think th

grubby --set-default LOLs at me

Can anyone try using grubby --set-default to change the default boot kernel to something other than the most recently-installed kernel, successfully? It tells me that it obeys my request, and grubby --info=DEFAULT shows that the default boot kernel is what I specified. But at boot the grub

Re: 127.0.0.53 question

ToddAndMargo via users writes: All this silliness started as of Fedora Core 37. There were no issues with 36. How certain are you that you had systemd-resolved installed in 36, and it didn't get pulled in during the upgrade to 37? This particular rpm package has a tendency to get pulled

Re: Named keeps dying on me

ToddAndMargo via users writes: # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.53 options edns0 trust-ad search . Ummm. This is not bind. This is, most likely, systemd-resolved. pgpjBPesEYtnH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ users mailing list --

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

Tim via users writes: Tim: >> Previously, yours was: >> >> hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname >> >> Which first tries the hosts file, then mdns, then aborts if nothing >> found (I believe, going by the comments in the rest of the fil

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

Tim via users writes: Previously, yours was: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname Which first tries the hosts file, then mdns, then aborts if nothing found (I believe, going by the comments in the rest of the file). The My read of nsswitch.conf's man page is that

Re: Upgrade from the ISO?

ToddAndMargo via users writes: Hi All, Is tehre a way to upgrade FC36 --> FC37 using the iso? Nope. Upgrade support in the installer was done away with many releases ago. The only working path is dnf system-upgrade. If there are multiple machines to upgrade there are ways to avoid having

Re: Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

Doug H. writes: On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, at 4:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > This seems to be /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga That might be configured via: /etc/pulse/default.pa Mine has: load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga load-module mod

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

Tim via users writes: On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 16:15 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I suppose you could search for likely sounding file names for the > sample that's played. > > e.g. locate sounds|grep usr > > Look through the results and play the likely candidates. Then if you > find it, delete

Re: Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

Dave Ulrick writes: On 11/25/22 2:34 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I have a sneaky suspicion that XFCE inherited this from Gnome. There must be a Gnome configuration knob for this, if you're running the Gnome desktop; but this is not configurable in XFCE. You get this annoying drip sounds

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

Sam Varshavchik writes: This is something that appears to be a new feature. In xfce4-terminal's settings' "Advanced" tab I found an "Audible Bell" that shuts this off. But ^G in emacs was still yapping away. I finally found "System Sounds" in audio m

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

stan via users writes: On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 07:18:33 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After updating to F37, the new XFCE desktop appears to have > implemented the screen beep/bell function. The default beep/bell > audio is quite annoying, does anyone know where the setting for tha

F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

After updating to F37, the new XFCE desktop appears to have implemented the screen beep/bell function. The default beep/bell audio is quite annoying, does anyone know where the setting for that is, I can't find it. I tried doing xset b off But it's still barking at me. pgpwTeBwDmbtY.pgp

F37 broke netupstools

After updating F37 nut is unhappy, spewing this every couple of seconds: Nov 21 06:48:28 monster.email-scan.com nut-server[1735]: Can't connect to UPS [nutdev1] (usbhid-ups-nutdev1): No such file or directory Interestingly enough, the XFCE desktop's panel has a widget that shows the UPS

Re: problem with sudo

Geoffrey Leach writes: any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo) Perhaps if you try to actually describe what your problem is, someone might be able to figure it out for you. But merely stating that you have some kind of a "problem with sudo" is not very

Re: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

Samuel Sieb writes: This is the problem. The server either doesn't like the SPF policy or the received message fails the SPF policy. Maybe the mailing list admins will have to add gmx.net to the list of hidden senders. I run very stringent SPF checks, and to my knowledge I have no issues

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

Wolfgang Pfeiffer writes: On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:44:20PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I understand that the explanation for the migration away from mailing lists is that maintaining the mailing lists is a hassle and takes up too much resources. I'm suspicious of the veracity

Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

Samuel Sieb writes: On 10/24/22 21:26, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/24/22 21:09, Slade Watkins via users wrote: On 10/24/22 11:38 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Is there a way to tape a native Windows hard drive and port it to qemu-kvm? Hm. Did a bit of digging... this is all I

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

Patrick O'Callaghan writes: It appears that the gnome.org is hosted by RedHat, which is a member of the Gnome Foundation. That being the case, I would like to know if there is any danger (I use the word advisedly) of this list and others in the Fedora ecosphere suffering the same fate. Maybe

Re: latest kernel for Fedora 35?

Sbob writes: I think I tried this awhile back and found that KVM VM's only work with wired network connections on the host and not wifi, is this still true? News to me, and the VM running Windows 10, on this laptop. pgpltk28icyoT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ed2k-ovmf missing "4M version"

Patrick O'Callaghan writes: I'm no expert either, but by coincidence I fired up a Win10 VM yesterday for the first time in several months and (after taking ages to update itself) it worked without problems. Is this issue only appearing with new VM installations? Currently the problem is

ed2k-ovmf missing "4M version"

It seems that Win10 guest VMs are now choking after Microsoft did …something to reject the current OVMF firmware. This entire discussion, pretty much, is way over my head: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/discussions/3221 As best as I can make things out: There is an alternative OVMF

Re: Using kernel 5.19.8 does not boot

George N. White III writes: « HTML content follows » On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 8:57 PM Roger Heflin rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote: Someone also reported nosound after 5.19.8 so it sounds like a lot of the modules either weren't built (at all or correct)

Re: Using kernel 5.19.8 does not boot

dwoody...@rdwoodyard.com writes: I am attaching a screen shot to show part of the boot process... I have searched google the fedora sights with no results. I have been using 5.18.10 Anybody have any ideas? This will likely be a waste of time, but, presuming that your previous kernel does

Re: FYI: Microsoft broke secureboot in qemu-based VMs

Fernando Cassia writes: https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile>https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile I am not a lawyer, but I'm sure lawyers can have a field day with the above statement. Specially if your machine - real or virtual - stops booting after a revocation list update.  I defy

FYI: Microsoft broke secureboot in qemu-based VMs

It is possible to run qemu VMs that emulate EFI and secureboot well enough for Windows to boot. This is still true, technically. Windows will boot. But it will not update reliably anymore. Microsoft broke it, ostensibly for "security reasons". Microsoft released a Windows update that will

Re: I am trying to build a custom kernel rpm and need help.

Sharpened Blade via users writes: I have a few custom (out-of-tree) drivers and patches, and I want to add them to a rpm package for the kernel, how can I do that. The drivers have to go in the staging folder, but they dont seem to get built by the spec file. Correct. The mere presence of

Re: Firefox issue

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 8/7/22 06:53, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Tim via users writes: Loading:  https://esupport.gigabyte.com/ Brings up:  https://esupport.gigabyte.com/Login/Index?ReturnUrl=%2f As an aside, I've written off Gigabyte as damaged goods. Their tech support refuses

Re: Firefox issue

Tim via users writes: Loading: https://esupport.gigabyte.com/ Brings up: https://esupport.gigabyte.com/Login/Index?ReturnUrl=%2f As an aside, I've written off Gigabyte as damaged goods. Their tech support refuses to give you support if you tell them you're running Linux on their

Re: qemu crashes kernel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64

Patrick O'Callaghan writes: On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 13:20 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > > On 19/07/2022 14.39, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > > > On 19/07/2022 07.42, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > Am I the only one lucky enough to have kernel-5.18.11- > &

Re: qemu crashes kernel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 7/18/22 14:42, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Am I the only one lucky enough to have kernel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 crash reliably, on particular hardware, after starting a VM in virt-manager? At least I think it's a crash. One second after a VM start it's brick

qemu crashes kernel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64

Am I the only one lucky enough to have kernel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 crash reliably, on particular hardware, after starting a VM in virt-manager? At least I think it's a crash. One second after a VM start it's brick-city. Display frozen, no response from the network. I've got nothing: after

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

Sbob writes: All; I am frustrated with VMware, I am running Fedora35 and it refuses to compile since kernel 5.17.14-200.fc35.x86_64 so I am stuck running a kernel 3+ updates behind. At this point I have to exclude the kernel from any updates so the only kernel that VMware works with

Re: can't reach internet.

home user writes: Another question... It took multiple minutes for dnf, Firefox, and Thunderbird to decide to give up on connecting. What is a reasonable time that should be allowed, and how do I permanently customize those for that time? Connection timeouts are determined by some

Re: Adding /29 netblock to existing system

Alex writes: « HTML content follows » Hi, I have a fedora36 system with a single static IP. I'd now like to add a /29 to it. Ideally, I'd like to create a bridge and associate all IPs with that. It used to be that I could edit the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but I know I

Re: F36: removing systemd-resolved breaks chrony

Petr Menšík writes: Symlinks obviously ends with non-expected SELinux contexts. I think this is actually a bug in SELinux policy for Network Manager. Because target file has wrong selinux context. $ ls -Z /run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf system_u:object_r:NetworkManager_var_run_t:s0

Re: f36 - kernel update breaks resolv.conf

Tom Horsley writes: On Tue, 31 May 2022 18:38:54 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > It keeps finding its way back on my systems, even after I uninstalled it Uninstalling is probably hopeless. I don't bother with uninstalling things like that, but disabling and masking them seems to work w

Re: f36 - kernel update breaks resolv.conf

Roger Heflin writes: « HTML content follows » once you update the file to be a good one, then do this: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf  (that sets the immutable bit that disallows rename, write, delete). That should prevent anything from overwriting the file.  If you need to change the

F36: removing systemd-resolved breaks chrony

It seems that uninstalling systemd-resolved and repointing /etc/resolv.conf ends up breaking chrony: type=AVC msg=audit(1653741361.179:318): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=856 comm="chronyd" path="/run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf" dev="tmpfs" ino=1525

Re: I found the biggest improvement and the biggest disappointment in F36

Barry writes: > The biggest frustration is openssl 3. Once again there are backwards- incompatible API changes, with little if none documentation, or direction. I wasted half of my weekend trying to figure out WTF needs to be done to make stuff work again. This time, it's not even a

I found the biggest improvement and the biggest disappointment in F36

It is that a Qemu VM with a 1280x960 display is now exactly one pixel row shorter, vertically, after adding up all of the window title bars and the panel on the XFCE desktop. It fits exactly on my 1920x1080 monitor. I no longer have to do a "Resize to VM" every time I start it, to get rid of

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

Tom Horsley writes: On Tue, 17 May 2022 20:46:02 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Yes, and yes. And the lock-ups occur when the system is idle overnight and > does absolutely nothing whatsoever. That's the sort of thing that would make me want to run "journalctl -l -f" on a

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

Thomas Dineen writes: « HTML content follows » Gentlemen: Its not just the heat sink, consider also the heat sink fan? is it big enough? That thing is a monster. is it working properly, at full Speed? Also do you have case fans? Again working properly? Yes, and yes. And the lock-ups

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 5/17/22 04:57, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Plus the monster heat sink I strapped on the 16 core CPU Not to ask too stupid a question, but did you remember the thermal grease? xsensors will tell you. Not only did I remember it, but when ordering all the parts

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

ToddAndMargo via users writes: HAve yo tried turning off all teh "sleep" and "suspend" features and set everything to always on. Also, do you have a UPS power supply? Is your VCR blinking? Yes, the whole thing's on a UPS. I adjusted all the appropriate sleep and suspend settings. Its

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 5/17/22 03:13, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I keep the system doing nothing, and it freezes up randomly every 3-10 days. On Windows machines, if fans are frozen and not cooling properly, you turn your back to them for a bit, then turn back, touch the keyboard

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 5/17/22 03:13, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ryzen 3950X CPU I have found that AMD processors' only reason for existence is to keep Intel's prices down. It is not that AMD can't make a good CPU, it is because they are expected to be cheaper and so everything else

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 5/17/22 03:13, Sam Varshavchik wrote: ToddAndMargo via users writes: Are all your fans working?  Frozen fans on video cards are a YUGE cause of freeze ups. It's a brand new Radeon 7750 card. I have not closely inspected its tiny fan, but everything's

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

ToddAndMargo via users writes: Are all your fans working? Frozen fans on video cards are a YUGE cause of freeze ups. It's a brand new Radeon 7750 card. I have not closely inspected its tiny fan, but everything's quiet on that front. The system hangs when it's idle, pretty much overnight.

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