Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-03 Thread murph nj
Hi all: I've got an odd problem that I was hoping for some help on. The laptop was previously working fine, I am running F30, updated regularly. I've got an Acer laptop that has been shutting down suddenly. (I suspect a bad battery, working on that.) After a sudden shutdown last night, I now

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-05 Thread murph nj
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM sixpack13 wrote: > > e2fsck is for ext -partitions > AFAIK /boot/efi is fat ! You are correct. I already checked, all the partitions are fine. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
-0400 > murph nj wrote: > > > The power supply was not the problem, it was the battery. All > > subsequent testing has been done plugged into power. It also boots > > just fine from a USB stick with either Mint or Fedora. > > > > There are three kernels available

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:45 AM stan via users wrote: > > > The switch root is changing from the initramfs to the installed OS. If > there is a power problem, it is possible that memory is not working > properly, and disk reads are erronious. Fix the power supply before > you go any further.

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400 > murph nj wrote: > > > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. > > Did that include the boot partition, where the kernels and initramfs' > are? > I had

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:42 PM murph nj wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400 > > murph nj wrote: > > > > > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. > >

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:56 PM Tony Nelson wrote: > > > It dies trying to pivot-root, so add to the kernel command line > > rd.break=pre-pivot > Interesting. I was able to drop to a shell. I took a look at the journal, and it looked like a possible hibernation problem, so I took that out

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-10 Thread murph nj
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:07 PM Tony Nelson wrote: > > Usually, when it all goes wrong just after pivot-root, there is a > problem with the new (real) root. Exactly how it goes wrong is not > useful. I would look hard at whatever is mounted at /sysroot. It > should be what you expect / (root)

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-10 Thread murph nj
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Symbolic links missing on / (/bin->/usr/bin and such). > /bin/bash missing or corrupted. > /lib64/ libraries missing or corrupted. > systemd itself missing, pivot root attempts to run systemd and that > may be what is failing, but you don't

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-14 Thread murph nj
forth and then cd /oldroot and do a "chroot ." > > I would expect the chroot . to fail with some sort of error that may > hint at what is broken. > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 7:15 AM murph nj wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:07 PM T

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-09 Thread murph nj
Tony: Can you give me some insight as to what the boot process does next AFTER that pivot point? The output I'm getting isn't enlightening me, and I'm not quite sure where to look next. I can just reinstall, but I'm trying to learn more about how to recover from errors, instead of taking the

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2020-04-24 Thread murph nj
I just put together a new machine for myself. ASRock B450M Pro 4 (you have to make sure that a firmware update was done on the board for this CPU, early ones were not ready for the newer CPU) Ryzen 7 3700X (I used my existing nVidia 750Ti card, which requires their proprietary drivers.)

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-03 Thread murph nj
You also may be able to use the web interface. I've used it successfully. On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:48 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have a request from the VA to do a video interview rather than the > usual secure text messages. > > "Do you have the ability to do a video appointment (you would

Lenovo reputation.

2021-04-04 Thread murph nj
Richard: (and/or anyone else with strong feelings about Lenovo) I have a question regarding your experience with Lenovo. I have always had a problem with the "Superfish" incident that they had a few years ago. Of course that particular invasive spyware was Windows-only, but what happens if they

LUKS on shutdown.

2021-09-29 Thread murph nj
I'm having an issue shutting down. Fedora 34, just updated to 35, same problem. (It was around in 33 as well, I've been putting up with it.) Somewhere around 1 out of 10 shutdowns, the system goes down to "[ OK ] Reached target System Shutdown", but then, [ *** ] a stop job is running for

LUKS on shutdown.

2021-09-29 Thread murph nj
I'm having an issue shutting down. Fedora 34, just updated to 35, same problem. (It was around in 33 as well, I've been putting up with it.) I know that there is another list for beta versions, but this issue was there in the current version as well. Somewhere around 1 out of every 10

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-04 Thread murph nj
On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:06 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/1/21 18:03, murph nj wrote: > > > > lsof showed nothing that I could see. > > > Nothing, or nothing interesting? I'd expect you to at least see the CWD > of the debug shell. > > Got another opportunit

Re: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.15 2021-11-14 through 2021-11-21

2021-11-16 Thread murph nj
Funny, after I posted this, I found where the email acknowledgements for the tests came in, and then, a flood of badge messages as well. So, problem solved. If someone did something in the background, thanks! On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 4:02 PM murph nj wrote: > Not that the bad

Re: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.15 2021-11-14 through 2021-11-21

2021-11-16 Thread murph nj
Not that the badges are the important part, they are fun, so here's a question. How does one find out if the suite was run correctly? I ran them in the past, both by running it with the .config file with my credentials, as well as putting it in the testday wiki. (I think the 5.10, or maybe

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-02 Thread murph nj
On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:06 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/1/21 18:03, murph nj wrote: > > > > lsof showed nothing that I could see. > > > Nothing, or nothing interesting? I'd expect you to at least see the CWD > of the debug shell. > > The error messa

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-07 Thread murph nj
I got the output of /proc/mounts, lots of logical entries, and "/" Appeared to be the only real partition mounted. (proc, sysfs, none, and many more were there) On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 11:33 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/4/21 19:15, murph nj wrote: > > > > &g

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-05 Thread murph nj
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 11:33 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/4/21 19:15, murph nj wrote: > > > > > > Got another opportunity, redirected lsof /home and lsof /other to > > files, and there was no output. > > > Interesting... Is there an error if you try to

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-01 Thread murph nj
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 8:35 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:13 PM Gordon Messmer > wrote: > > > > On 9/30/21 12:41, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Seems likely to me some service is not quitting properly, preventing / > > > from being unmounted > > > > > > If that were the case,

Re: Anyone have recommendations for using VOIP in fedora?

2023-10-05 Thread murph nj
If you want to make phone calls to regular phones, you need something like a SIP service. (Which I know little about) A more simple alternative, if you look into https://jmp.chat they have a free-software-friendly service that allows phone calls and SMS over XMPP which might prove easier to set

Re: Kernel 5.18 Test Week 2022-06-05 through 2022-06-11

2022-06-06 Thread murph nj
, Jun 6, 2022 at 6:56 AM Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 6:08 PM murph nj wrote: > >> Hey there: >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 4:23 AM Sumantro Mukherjee >> wrote: >> >>> Hey All, >&g

Re: Kernel 5.18 Test Week 2022-06-05 through 2022-06-11

2022-06-03 Thread murph nj
Hey there: On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 4:23 AM Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > Hey All, > > I would like to invite all of you to participate in the Kernel 5.18 > > Needless to say, you will get a badge for participating in all > activities talked about in this email! > > > I don't feel that

Re: Kernel 5.18 Test Week 2022-06-05 through 2022-06-11

2022-06-12 Thread murph nj
2:19 PM Luna Jernberg > wrote: > >> Hey! >> >> Running the tests today (the last day) been having too much to do and not >> feelt the best earlier this and last week >> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 1:28 PM murph nj wrote: >> >>> I did enough that

Re: What is needed to mock build for rhel+epel on Fedora?

2023-03-14 Thread murph nj
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:00 PM Barry Scott > wrote: > >> What do I need to setup to allow mock to build for rhel+epel on Fedora? >> >> I'm getting this error: >> >> $ mock -r rhel+epel-8-x86_64 --print-root >> ERROR: /etc/pki/entitlement is not a directory is subscription-manager >>

Re: More space needed on the / filesystem to upgrade from F37 to F38

2023-04-30 Thread murph nj
The last few upgrades I've done have taken about an hour, and run very successfully. On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 2:33 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/30/2023 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > It does take forever though, and it does download all the rpms > > it needs for the upgrade first, so it needs a

Re: Help needed: disabling system wide the Caps lock key in GNOME/Xwayland

2023-08-02 Thread murph nj
Gnome tweaks has a simple solution to this. Install Tweaks through "Software" or dnf install gnome-tweaks Run Tweaks and go to the "Keyboard and Mouse" section. The 4th option down is an "Additional Layout options" button. There are many things you can remap the CapsLock key to, like Esc, ctrl,

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2024-02-08 Thread murph nj
If you're still not interested in the QEMU/Libvirt route, this news may interest you, might lead to better compatibility. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300317 On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 5:03 PM Sbob wrote: > > All; > > > I am running Fedora39, I have run VMware workstation for years, and

Re: PCI-E to PS2

2024-02-14 Thread murph nj
The system that I built in 2020 has a PS/2 port, and an IBM model M works great on it. I've also had good luck with the Monoproce USB-PS/2 adapters on a variety of systems. On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 9:23 AM Tim via users wrote: > > Tim: > >> I'm kind of surprised someone still has PS/2

Mozilla VPN

2023-12-08 Thread murph nj
I've decided to try a new VPN provider, and figured I'd give Mozilla's offering a go. They have a client for Ubuntu, but nothing for Fedora. I tried installing using the instuctions from this website: https://blog.radwell.codes/2021/12/install-mozilla-vpn-rpm-from-binary-on-fedora/ Seemed like