Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:44 AM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > On 29/08/2023 21.14, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > > Fedora 38 > > > > My rescue kernel is FC30. > > > > How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? > > > > # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue > > > > > > And my search

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:16 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Possible ways, are if the /boot was not mounted when a prior kernel > removal was done, or if something else was mounted over boot when that > kernel removal was done. Not removing the last kernel during dnf-sysytem-upgrade is by design.

Re: Requesting a new package in Fedora

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:26 AM Jerry James wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:23 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > But I feel crummy because Fedora carries a library I help maintain, > > and someone else does the packaging. I feel like we've pushed our work > > onto s

Re: Requesting a new package in Fedora

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:59 AM Jerry James wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 2:24 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Is there a process that covers a user requesting a package? > > Here's the problem: who is going to act on such a request? Packagers > typically wor

Cross-check of /proc/cpuinfo

Hi Everyone, I purchased an HP Envy 17T during Amazon Prime. The machine is spec'd with a Intel Core i7-13700H: 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, 20 threads total. and

Re: Scanner works!

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 9:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > > In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners > compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function > device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300 > and was shocked and amazed when it

Re: Cross-check of /proc/cpuinfo

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 4:15 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Did the vendor/amazon fix the mistake you had with your laptop > appearing to be the wrong cpu? Yes. Jeff ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

libvirt/KVM/QEMU and Secure Boot

Hi Everyone, I recently started using libvirt/KVM/QEMU. In the past I used VirtualBox. When using VirtualBox I turned off Secure Boot because I did not want to manage signing of tainted modules. My question is, are libvirt/KVM/QEMU modules signed out-of-the-box? Or, can I enable Secure Boot

Re: libvirt/KVM/QEMU and Secure Boot

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 6:27 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 18:22 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I recently started using libvirt/KVM/QEMU. In the past I used > > VirtualBox. When using VirtualBox I turned off Secure B

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:12 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > My firefox on F38 freezes a lot. > I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot. > At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open. > I closed several windows. > Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped, >

Re: way off topic...

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 6:36 AM bruce wrote: > > please.. no flames.. > > we all know.. the list is FEDORA only... (got it... ) no flames.. > (this is a last resort!) > > However, doing a test of a digitalocean installation/install of ubuntu > "23.10". The goal is to get a running Apache

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:53 AM Paul Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:46 PM Paul Smith wrote: > > > > While running > > > > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 > > > > to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: > > > > Error Summary - > > Disk Requirements: At

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2023, at 12:06, Paul Smith wrote: > > > > Thanks, Peter: > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev >

Fedora 39 released

Hi Everyone, Fedora 39 was released today. Instructions for the upgrade are located at . Jeff ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: nvme as user?

On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 9:49 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 10/29/23 05:19, Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-10-29 at 04:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >> I am trying to get around the password issue so I > >> can just do a libnotify popup when I log into my > >> desktop

Re: nvme as user?

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 4:36 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 10/30/23 05:06, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > You can't do it in a wrapper script because you can't setuid on scripts. > But you can enable sudo for a single script. > (this was the intended way to use sudo, as

Re: iPad file backup?

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:12 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 08:21 -0700, Doug Herr wrote: > > That reminds me that my last router had the option to plug in a stick > > or drive via usb and present that to the LAN as a shared storage > > option. > > Mine have that, too. While

Re: kworker consumes 100% CPU on degraded RAID6

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 5:59 PM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > Fully updated F28. > > I had to send one (of 7) member disk for RMA. > I notice that the system is very non responsive. 'top' shows > > PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > 1365697 root

Re: startx equivalent for Wayland

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 1:04 AM Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 21:12 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > > I detest a graphical login and insist on running in multi-user mode > > (old runlevel 3). To start an X11 session after login, I can use the > > startx command. But I haven't found an

Re: sendmail

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am 30.09.2023 um 23:22 schrieb Patrick Dupre: > > Hello, > > > > It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. > > > > Now I get > > > > systemctl start sendmail.service > > Job for sendmail.service failed because

Re: Anyone know of any cards or accessories that allow a desktop to make calls on a cellular network?

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 9:37 AM George N. White III wrote: > > When I retired and moved to a different town I had to get a new landline > number. It gets a constant stream of debt collector calls, so clearly the > previous person assigned the number was a deadbeat.. Nah, the previous person was

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 10:12 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. > On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. > When I tell the installer to install, > it claims it cannot find a hard drive. Grrr. What cannot find your home

Re: Anyone using 5G as their internet access method?

On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM stan via users wrote: > > I recently received an offer from T-mobile to use their 5G network as > my main internet access. It was contingent on a contract for phone > with them, but the price and speed for internet was competitive. Has > anyone done this using

Requesting a new package in Fedora

Hi Everyone, I'd like to submit a request to have a package added to Fedora. Some documentation is provided at . The page describes how a Contributor can provide a new package. The problem is, I don't see a process

Re: docker and iptables

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 3:40 AM jdow wrote: > > On 20231019 19:15:47, David King wrote: > > On 10/19/23 21:53, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2023, at 10:05, Alex wrote: > > I'm using docker on fedora38 and can't figure out how to prevent port 8080 > from being available to the outside

Re: Wireshark and serial ports

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 5:21 PM Steve Underwood wrote: > > Has anyone used wireshark while using USB serial ports with Fedora 37? > As soon as I start wireshark the communication on my serial ports > breaks. Thinking this might be something to do with wireshark scanning > for available

Re: Wireshark and serial ports

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 6:20 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 5:21 PM Steve Underwood wrote: > > > > Has anyone used wireshark while using USB serial ports with Fedora 37? > > As soon as I start wireshark the communication on my serial ports > &g

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Fedora 38 > > When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, > most are not Fedora 38: > > Sorry for the flash. I could not turn it > to turn off > > https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png > > The extra kernels are from Fedora 37 and

Re: /usr/lib/modules cleanup?

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 9:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Fedora 38 > > I got stuff all the way back to fc31. > > Can I delete all the non fc38 directories? Removing old kernels leaves artifacts in /lib/modules, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185410 Jeff

Re: /usr/lib/modules cleanup?

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:29 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2023 at 18:37, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > [...] > > > > Fedora 38 > > > > I got stuff all the way back to fc31. > > > > Can I delete all the non fc38 directories? > > Can't say sure, but what I have done on

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 8:06 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Fedora 38 > > My rescue kernel is FC30. > > How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? > > # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue > $ grep -IR dracut_rescue_image /usr/lib/dracut

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:15 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Paul Smith wrote: > > > >> # df -h > >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >> devtmpfs 4.0M

Re: fc38 in fc39?

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:41 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > One of my Fedora machines I just upgraded from fc38 > to fc39 still have a ton of fc38 stuff in it. Is > that normal? > > `uname -a` and `cat /etc/redhat-release` all say I > am on fc39. > > But when I go to do a `dnf upgrade` I

Re: screwed up fonts or something

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 1:43 AM Peter Boy wrote: > > Am 09.11.2023 um 02:46 schrieb ToddAndMargo via users > : > > Fedora 38 > > Getting ready to upgrade my main computer to FC39, I did hte following > commands > > # rpm --rebuilddb > # rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest > # dnf --enablerepo=* update

Linux for Seniors (was: Is AnyDesk any good?)

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 5:58 PM Neal Becker wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 3:22 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>[...] >> > Any third party selling time on their rust server? >> >> The people that make it: https://rustdesk.com/pricing.html > > I have a similar problem. My wife's mother is developing

Re: FC39 Upgrade failure - Kernel not in grub

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:26 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 11:39 +, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > > On 13 Nov 2023, at 11:01, Patrick O'Callaghan > > > wrote: > > > > > > AFAIK it's Discourse, not Discuss (or Discord). I say this only > > > because > > > the official

Re: Upgraded from 35 to 36, and noticed that VirtualBox wasn't working with 6.0.15, but would with 6.0.14?

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 7:30 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Appears there is kmod-VirtualBox-6.0.14-200.fc36.x86_64-7.0.4-1.fc36.x86_64 > but not a version for 6.0.15 yet? > Gave message the vboxdrv wasn't loaded, but ran the commands it said, but > guess without the package, it

Re: Upgrade to F37 didn't start

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:54 AM Andreas Fournier wrote: > > I thought it would be time to give Fedora 37 a test, so in Gnome > Software I initiated the upgrade. It downloaded a lot of stuff and when > that was done I pressed on the 'Restart & Upgrade' button. Then I got a > popup that I had

Re: fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:18 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > Brand new lenovo x1 carbon. > > Today the "discover" sw update app suggest fw updates. I went ahead with > them. Now wifi isn't working properly. At boot, I get a hang on > Job NetworkManager-wait-online.service/start running Sorry to

Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with Windows 10, but doen't show windows as boot option??

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote: > [...] > > Older Dell systems had a sticker with the Windows license key. You > > can use "sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM" to extract a > > license key that is embedded

Re: time for a new lenovo 12" notebook

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 7:12 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-01-03 at 07:07 +, Barry wrote: > > > > > On 2 Jan 2023, at 22:31, Patrick O'Callaghan > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 21:40 +, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Please don't post in

Re: Weird selinux message

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:16 AM Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > SELinux is preventing gdb from read access on the chr_file pcmC0D0p. > > What would call debug on boot sequence? More information may be found in /var/log/audit/audit.log. `sealert -l "*"` might also provide more information. I

Re: Weird selinux message

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:43 PM Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > ... > There is nothing in audit.log referring to any of the files or processes in > the alerts. > > I've run the relabel command several times and the alerts are still there. > ... > Raw Audit Messages > type=AVC

Re: chrome hangs

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:26 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 13:34 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > So, no joy. Chrome help suggests closing other apps, and then (the > > ultimate windows fix) reboot. That's given me trouble in the past, > > but I'll try anything :-) > >

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:53 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2022, at 15:55, Joe Zeff wrote: > > Command not found, and dnf can't find it either. I should mention that for > > various reasons this box is still running F 25, although I'm planning to > > reinstall with 37 very soon. >

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 5:18 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 12/09/2022 02:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Yes, this. > > Do you know why I haven't upgraded before this? If not, you're not in a > position to decide when or if I upgrade. The reasons are your own. But it's irre

Re: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:56 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Subject: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux? > > Good day from Singapore, > > I have just come across this article. > > Article: Fedora's FESCo Rejects The Idea Of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" > As Default Compiler

Re: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:04 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2022, at 08:27, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I often recommend Fedora Server anytime I see folks using RHEL or > > CentOS. I don't understand why organizations run that antique software > > that is

Re: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 11:46 PM Tim wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-12-06 at 19:30 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The keyword is "known". Developers don't work on 5 or 10 year old > > software. Existing bugs don't get uncovered and fixed. They don't > > become &qu

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:14 AM Barry wrote: > > On 14 Dec 2022, at 15:49, Tim via users > > wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 16:11 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> I used to use bind, but it became impossible to configure when > >> they started enforcing DNS encryption, > > ... > > Likewise, I

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:49 AM Tim via users wrote: > > Likewise, I use Apache rather than some other half-baked HTTP server. > Though, unfortunately, my hosting provider has decided they're now > going to use LightSpeed, which isn't Apache-compatible in the areas > that I want (not to mention

Re: 127.0.0.53 question

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:31 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > I am use to seeing 127.0.0.1, but now I am seeing > things like 127.0.0.53. > > This is used with my caching named server on > port 53. > > So I figured that the last digit was the (local) > port. > > So I tried CUPS: 127.0.0.631.

Re: 127.0.0.53 question

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 12:27 AM Tim via users wrote: > [...] > Both are valid addresses. > > 127.0.0.631 is *unlikely* to be in use, but is valid. Huh? Citation, please. Jeff ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Fedora 37: How to rename and set a custom Network interface Name with NetworkManager and nmcli

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:48 AM Dario Lesca wrote: > > I have two network device named ens192 and ens224 > > 2: ens192: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group > default qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:0c:29:e6:6d:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 3: ens224: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN > group default qlen

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:26 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Contacted them, since web site seemed to only have > option to upgrade firmware using a windows program? > Got a reply that that is currently the case, and only option > would be to install windows on machine, or remove

Re: I HAVE NOY USE FEDOREA AT ALL

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:30 PM Mike Wright wrote: > [...] > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Or, from a GUI, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/ . But I've got a feeling this person is just trolling the list. Jeff

Re: FC37 corked my passive FTP, nf_conntrack_helper vanished

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:24 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > [...] > I have tried googling this. I get tons of hits > but nothing specific to FC37. The latest Fedora docs are at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/system-administrators-guide/ . > Just noticed that I can not

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 3:20 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 12/10/22 01:06, Tim via users wrote: > > Tim: > >>> Are you supposed to remember which epson printer is which without any > >>> clues? Are they both going to get the same name? Will they self- > >>> modify one of their names? Will they

Re: FC37 corked my passive FTP, nf_conntrack_helper vanished

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 5:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 12/20/22 11:18, Barry Scott wrote: > > [...] > > I found this comment "But keep in mind this is considered a security > > vulnerability - that's why newer kernels changed the default value of > > nf_conntrack_helper to false." on

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:06 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > [...] > Just for Information. I did get a response from WD that > was a little concerning.. Some messages had mentioned > perhaps hooking the disk to a windows machine and > doing the updates, but the WD respone mentioned

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:47 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > >> Just for Information. I did get a response from WD that >> was a little concerning.. Some messages had mentioned >> perhaps hooking the disk to a windows machine and >> doing the updates, but the WD respone mentioned that >> they could not

Re: How do I identify a bluetooth device in bluetooth add device?

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:14 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-12-12 at 17:53 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Because bluetooth is the most persnickety unreliable temperamental protocol > > ever invented? > > Bluetooth: noun, worse than WiFi Good one.

Re: Something keeps creating Events.json in my home directory

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 9:12 AM Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > > Something keeps creating a file, Events.json, in my home directory. It > only ever contains an empty JSON array, but if I remove the file, > something just creates it again. Has anyone seen this before? What > program could be behind

Re: Backup data from Firefox

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:04 AM Andreas Fournier wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 09:57 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > > > > On 2022-11-29 09:41, Andreas Fournier wrote: > > > I'm wondering what would be best practice in how to backup the user > > > data from Firefox on a Fedora desktop? I'm

Re: spam through Hyperkitty

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 5:33 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 06:38 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > Well, so much for the notion that web forums are better at stopping > > spam than mailing lists... > > > > I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now. > > Reported

Re: startx fails

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 11:56 AM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > suspend failed to do its thing, so I powered-down. dropping me into the startup correctly, but no X. Running startx as root gave me a display. > However, running startx as a normal user, fails. > > So, I have the startx log, but its

VirtualBox and Fedora 37

Hi Everyone, I'm hoping someone has a contact at VirtualBox or Oracle and can nudge someone to have VirtualBox updated for Feedora 37. * https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora If someone has a contact, please ping them. Thanks in advance.

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 1:10 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I was a little premature in saying thins started working. It seems to > be very hit and miss. Wireshark shows many dns requests as refused, but > then they start to work for a while and then start failing again. > > If I run dig cnn.com

Re: It's a brick :-<(

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 3:09 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I find myself in need of a bootable rescue disk that provides (at least) disk > diagnostics and disk wipe programs. (I have a F36 thumb - I assume that it > has neither) > Referrals would be greatly appreciated. I don't think Fedora

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

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 > Errors during downloading metadata for repository

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

Hi Jamie, On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jamie Fargen wrote: > > Fedora has long supported virtualization with libvirt and kvm, there > is a suitable gui interface via virt-manager to make it easier for > mere mortals to manage VMs, Images, etc. What are the considerations > in using these

Re: cron.weekly

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 3:08 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I would like to run cron.weekly from a line command immediately. > How can I do it ? https://gprivate.com/632ow Jeff ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: is root realy root ?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 6:32 PM old sixpack13 wrote: > > on F37: > > ls -lR /root/.cache > /root/.cache: > total 0 > dr-x--. 2 root root 0 1. Jan 1970 doc > > /root/.cache/doc: > total 0 > dr-x--. 2 root root 0 1. Jan 1970 by-app > > /root/.cache/doc/by-app: > total 0 > > rm -rfv

Re: is root realy root ?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 6:49 PM old sixpack13 wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 6:32 PM old sixpack13 > wrote: > > > > It sounds like selinux. Under selinux, root is just another account to > > be contained. > > > > ls -alZ > > > > will show you the selinux context. > > > > ls -lRZ

Re: is root realy root ?

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 3:23 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 2023-01-21 15:37, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> chown: changing ownership of '/root/.cache/doc': Operation not permitted > >> > > It sounds like selinux. > > If the problem were SELinux, the sy

Re: What is wrong with my dnf exclude for wine?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 12:55 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > What is wrong with my wine dnf excludes? > > # grep -i wine /etc/dnf/dnf.conf > excludepkgs=wine* > excludepkgs=wine-* > > dnf still tried to upgrade wine > > > And wine 8 IS EVEN WORSE THAN WINE 7 > > Wine 8.0.1 cannot

Re: Fedora 37 qemu/kvm Centos 8 virtual machine Problem

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:36 AM Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > Installed CentOS-STREAM 8 ON A QEMU/KVM virtual machine. Initially the > reboot went only to a blank display. Editing the grub menu to give a > terminal boot was successful. > > Succeeded to get a graphical screen with xinit

Re: where to submit a bug against "xv"?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:17 PM home user wrote: > > "xv" does not handle "webp" images. I do not see "xv" in the Redhat bugzilla > menu of components. Where do I submit a bug against xv? Since the program is shareware, I doubt you will find it in a distro's Bugzilla. This looks like as

Re: systemd-oomd insanely aggressive with non-DE logins

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:38 AM Andre Robatino wrote: > > I have 3 machines with clean F37 installs. One of the F37 machines has 4GB of > RAM, and I maintain it as a backup and normally only log in via ssh and do > dnf updates via command line. In the last few weeks this has become extremely >

Re: Recently sound does not play as root

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:11 AM Felix Miata wrote: > > If the superuser can't do something, how can a mere mortal user be expected > to do > same? When the superuser determines *everything* works as expected is time > enough > to create the first regular user. This can actually happen under

Re: Recently sound does not play as root

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:38 AM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > [...] > > There used to be an environment variable that pointed to the pulseaudio > > socket, but that seems to have changed (at least in F37). Check that the > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable is set. It wasn't when I tested going through

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:48 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 09:17 -0600, home user wrote: > > How do I determine the answer to Richard's first question? > [...] > "The easiest way to find out if you are running UEFI or BIOS is to look > for a folder /sys/firmware/efi. The folder

Re: CentOS8 VM

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 1:48 AM Peter Boy wrote: > > > Am 25.02.2023 um 05:33 schrieb Robert McBroom via users > > : > > > > Installed CentOS8 on a VM from > > > > CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso > > > > Trying to update it gives > > > > Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' > >

Re: Fedora (37) i686 32-bit virt-p2v ?

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 1:58 PM Franta Hanzlik via users wrote: > > I want to virtualize any old i686 Windows XP 32-bit physical PC on F37. > Result from building virt-p2v boot disk: > > # virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sde --arch i686 > virt-p2v-make-disk: cannot find

Re: software or hardware raid?

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:02 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I would like to RAID two of my disks, and I was wondering if the > recommendation is to do software or hardware RAID? Also see "A Journal for MD/RAID5", https://lwn.net/Articles/665299/ and "ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?",

Re: software or hardware raid?

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:54 AM Roger Heflin wrote: >[...] > > If you read about normal UPSes they are not normally designed to run > 100% duty cycle (ie on battery for days, or fixing up a low voltage > for days). So if you run yours at say 40% load it will probably > survive under the higher

Re: clang compile error with latest kernel

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:18 PM Chung Chung wrote: > > Hi, I am wondering if anyone has successfully compiled latest kernel using > clang, I have not tried to build a kernel with Clang. However the LLVM devs have done it in the past. Also see https://docs.kernel.org/kbuild/llvm.html . There

Re: clang compile error with latest kernel

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 1:02 PM Barry wrote: > > > On 16 Feb 2023, at 17:18, Chung Chung wrote: > > > > Hi, I am wondering if anyone has successfully compiled latest kernel using > > clang, I have been having problem with it for the last few month, > > and here is the error that I have: > > > >

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:19 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot > files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log, no > error message. If you overwrote files like /etc/password, /etc/shadow and

Re: Speech to text software in a Fedora Linux environment

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 6:16 PM Max Pyziur wrote: > > Is there any speech-to-text software usable in a Fedora Linux environment? I've used CMU's Sphinx suite on Ubuntu and Fedora. I've used PocketSphinx on RaspberryPi's. My experience with Sphinx is, a lot of Type II errors. That is, it does

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 3:02 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Tue Feb28'23 01:56:08PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:43 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > > I am trying to install Fedora on to a new machine that has 0.5 TB RAM. > > > Hard drives are 256 GB for / and friends, and 2

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:30 PM Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while > I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen > anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a

Re: Enabling Apache HTTP/2 => Too many open files error

Hi Rich, > [although it's way more > complicated than it needs to be, why isn't HTTP/2 the default out of > the box?] HTTP/2 is insecure out-of-the-box. Remember CRIME and BREACH? The protocol requires compression, and compression is a known attack vector. From the abstract of RFC 7450: This

Re: Encryption for internet storage

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:06 PM Bill C wrote: > > I do som uploading to online storage providers but I concerned about > security. Does anyone who does this use any particular type of security or > encryption. There are different schemes used, depending on the storage provider. You would need

Re: Surprise! Fedora Linux 38 is here!

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 4:47 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 4/18/23 07:00, Matthew Miller wrote: > > or, of course, just upgrade your already-installed systems, which > > shouldn't take much longer than brewing and enjoying a nice cup of > > coffee. Enjoy! > > > Ha! Are you forgetting

Re: Encryption for internet storage

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM Bill C wrote: > > I thought about putting everything on an encrypted ext4 filesystem. Maybe > compressing it and uploading. Kind of a complicated way to do it, but might > work. Perhaps you can setup a SAN locally, and backup to your own SAN. For backup

Re: Certbot error - SOLVED (?)

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 5:14 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 14:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 4/23/23 14:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I had a look at /var/log/httpd/error_log and found this: > > > > > > httpd: could not open error log file > > >

Re: Python cSHAKE hash function for Fedora?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:41 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > [...] > Not only does it list cSHAKE, but KMAC (which I use elsewhere) but > KangarooTwelve (go Team Keccek!), but not ASCON (just selected by NIST > for LWC). > > It definitely gets me started. > > Down the road, I will need x25519. And

Re: Fedora 38 Upgrade From Fedora 36

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:18 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > [...] > Actually, I went F34 -> F38 last night, without any issue. Just added a > --nogpgcheck. > > So, I have this circa 2009 Dell Precision T7710 and the HDD died. I put in an > old SSD and brought it back. However, for some reason, it

Re: Certbot error

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 6:12 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-04-22 at 14:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > As Patrick said, using port 443 would be a circular dependency. There > > is no "testing" of the cert, this is for providing the cert. > > Ah... I thought it was for checking and

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