Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:15:51 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Okay guys how do I uninstall a kernel ? First you have to boot into an older kernel. Then you might want to look for all rpms with 5.7.10-201 in the name and remove them all since they broke kernels up into multiple packages for some

Re: Where are the microcode updates for Crosstalk in F32 ?

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 4:59 AM George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 18:59, Sreyan Chakravarty > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:06 AM George N. White III >> wrote: >> >>> In general, the earlier the mitigations are applied, the harder it is to >>> exploit the bugs,

Re: DNF, Rpmfusion -

On 2020-07-26 11:13, Jerry James wrote: It means that rpmfusion is running ahead. They pushed vlc to stable before the Fedora libebml-1.4.0-1.fc32 and libmatroska-1.6.0-1 updates went stable: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-c5e96618e7 It should clear up soon, once the

Re: Xbox 360 controller on Fedora 32

On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 15:11 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 12:19 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > does not work due to Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities > > I'm completely unfamiliar with Python. But, has anyone made a 2 to 3 > scripting converter? > > I would have thought

Re: Where are the microcode updates for Crosstalk in F32 ?

On 7/1/20 4:05 AM, George N. White III wrote: RedHat and other linux distros track Intel's efforts.  Some of the mitigations require changes to the kernel.  I'm sure many of the discussions around which mitigations and CPU's get priority are not public, but you can certainly open an issue at:

Re: DNF, Rpmfusion -

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:01:04 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I guess this means > rpmfusion is running behind, or does it imply something else? I update > first thing each morning and such an explanation seems unusual: I usually just give things a few days to get back in sync. Tends to happen

Re: Where are the microcode updates for Crosstalk in F32 ?

On 7/1/20 4:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I'm guessing and thinking that since the microcode comes directly from Intel not much will happen. Well I have opened an issue on Bugzilla and Github: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860693

Re: Where are the microcode updates for Crosstalk in F32 ?

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:16 PM Fred Erickson wrote: > Here is another link mentioning FreeDOS for updating bios: > https://pingtool.org/bootable-dos-iso-bios-upgrade/ Didn't work since HP does make MS-DOS executables. I guess this is only for Dell. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

Re: Where are the microcode updates for Crosstalk in F32 ?

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 5:12 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:16 PM Fred Erickson > wrote: > >> Here is another link mentioning FreeDOS for updating bios: >> https://pingtool.org/bootable-dos-iso-bios-upgrade/ > > > Didn't work since HP doesn't make MS-DOS

DNF, Rpmfusion -

I guess this means rpmfusion is running behind, or does it imply something else? I update first thing each morning and such an explanation seems unusual: [root@WS1 bobg]# dnf update Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:18 ago on Sun Jul 26 06:05:27 2020. Dependencies resolved.  Problem 1:

Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs. It can't even initialize my swap file: Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Failed with result 'exit-code'.   6 Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap /fedora.swap.  

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 12:47, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs. > If you are using ext4, look for the "swapfile has holes " message. There is a kernel bug, but two proposed fixes, one

Re: DNF, Rpmfusion -

On 2020-07-26 11:09, Tom Horsley wrote: I usually just give things a few days to get back in sync. Tends to happen eventually. I got the same error yesterday. . Yes I thought the same except it seems unusual to get such a lengthy explanation of  it not updating? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni,

Re: DNF, Rpmfusion -

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:01 AM Bob Goodwin wrote: > I guess this means > rpmfusion is running behind, or does it imply something else? I update > first thing each morning and such an explanation seems unusual: It means that rpmfusion is running ahead. They pushed vlc to stable before the

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

Okay guys how do I uninstall a kernel ? sudo dnf remove kernel-5.7.10-201.fc32.x86_64 does absolutely nothing. I can even boot from the removed kernel after the removal. How do I remove a kernel for good ? I want it gone from the GRUB boot menu too. On 7/26/20 9:17 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:18 PM George N. White III wrote: > > Maybe you shouldn't be using Fedora. >> > Thanks I will take that under advisement. > The bug was reported in May, so "some time" might translate to "real soon > now". > Was it reported in Fedora or the kernel-mailing lists ?

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:46 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:15:51 +0530 > Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > Okay guys how do I uninstall a kernel ? > > First you have to boot into an older kernel. > Then you might want to look for all rpms with > 5.7.10-201 in the name and remove

Re: SPDIF sound in F32

On 7/26/20 1:37 PM, Greg Woods wrote: After wrestling all day with an ASUS Xonar SE card (with accompanying Googling), I now believe that this card cannot be made to work in Linux. Stereo output through the green line out port works fine, but SPDIF does not. "lspci" actually claims this thing

Re: SPDIF sound in F32

On 7/26/20 2:38 PM, Greg Woods wrote: [mythtv@seveneves ~]$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SoundCard [Xonar SoundCard], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]   Subdevices: 0/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SoundCard [Xonar SoundCard], device 1: USB Audio [USB

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

On 2020-07-27 05:37, Jerry James wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 3:25 PM Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: >> Ok. I have tried this, with no avail. It was set to Never Activate and I >> set it to Always activate. I have installed the Fedora package for H264. >> I am a bit baffled by this. Specially

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On 7/26/20 10:45 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: First you have to boot into an older kernel. Then you might want to look for all rpms with 5.7.10-201 in the name and remove them all since they broke kernels up into multiple packages for some reason. That should also get it out of the boot menu, but

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:26:05 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Running the following command I get the output: > > $ dnf list installed kernel-* | grep -i 5.7 > > kernel-core.x86_64 5.7.10-201.fc32 > kernel-devel.x86_64 5.7.10-201.fc32 > kernel-headers.x86_64 5.7.10-200.fc32 >

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

On 7/26/20 2:23 PM, Jerry James wrote: The repo is enabled by default starting in Fedora 32, but the Firefox plugin is not. If you want to use it, open the Firefox menu and choose "Add-ons". Choose the "Plugins" tab. You'll see the OpenH264 Video Codec plugin, but it is disabled. Select it

Re: vlc update

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 3:30 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > I have a small issue with the last fedora update: See this thread from a few hours ago: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZCDCPYXRC5R2ATXAJDKOZGOBDAVWMHM5/ -- Jerry James

Re: gnome control center wifi madness

On 7/26/20 5:10 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: If I bring up the gnome control center wifi page, it always says "no adapter detected". Read the rest of the message. You've turned the adapter off, so it's effectively not there. ___ users mailing list --

Re: SPDIF sound in F32

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 4:31 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > It could possibly be one of these. The output from "aplay -L" would be > useful. Also, "pactl list cards" and "amixer -c0 scontrols". > The card is an ASUS Xonar SE I also found alsa.opensrc.org that has some helpful stuff, especially

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 1:11 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > Actually, there's openh264 available in Fedora (by default?) for use in > Firefox to play h264 videos. The repo is enabled by default starting in Fedora 32, but the Firefox plugin is not. If you want to use it, open the Firefox menu and

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On 7/26/20 8:47 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs. A "lot" of bugs? It can't even initialize my swap file: How did you create that swap file? ___ users mailing list --

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 16:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/26/20 8:47 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs. > > A "lot" of bugs? > > > It can't even initialize my swap file: > > How did you create that swap file? > If it is the bug

vlc update

Hello, I have a small issue with the last fedora update: Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package vlc-core-1:3.0.11-4.fc32.x86_64 - nothing provides libebml.so.5()(64bit) needed by vlc-core-1:3.0.11-7.fc32.x86_64 - nothing provides libmatroska.so.7()(64bit) needed

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

On 7/26/20 10:42 AM, stan via users wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:34:55 -0600 Jerry James wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 7:07 AM Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: Am I missing the Flash Player? What am I missing here? Do you have ffmpeg installed? It is not available from Fedora for license

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On 7/26/20 9:48 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 12:47, Sreyan Chakravarty > wrote: I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs. If you are using ext4, look for the "swapfile has holes

SPDIF sound in F32

After wrestling all day with an ASUS Xonar SE card (with accompanying Googling), I now believe that this card cannot be made to work in Linux. Stereo output through the green line out port works fine, but SPDIF does not. "lspci" actually claims this thing is a USB controller, although as I

Re: 5G Telecom Engineer

On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 19:57 +, ravi fieldengineer wrote: > The fifth time of cell improvement has finally begun to hit the Global > Telecom Marketplace and will in a brief timeframe be kept up by a scramble of > the world's most striking remote behemoths like AT, Verizon, Lenovo, Nokia, >

Re: SPDIF sound in F32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 17:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/26/20 1:37 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > After wrestling all day with an ASUS Xonar SE card (with accompanying > > Googling), I now believe that this card cannot be made to work in Linux. > > Stereo output through the green line out port works

Re: 5G Telecom Engineer

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 19:57 +, ravi fieldengineer wrote: > > The fifth time of cell improvement has finally begun to hit the Global > Telecom Marketplace and will in a brief timeframe be kept up by a scramble > of the world's most

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:34:55 -0600 Jerry James wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 7:07 AM Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > Am I missing the Flash Player? What am I missing here? > > Do you have ffmpeg installed? It is not available from Fedora for > license reasons, but you can get it from

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On 7/26/20 11:19 PM, stan via users wrote: dnf will not let you remove a running kernel, so you will have to reboot, hit space or F2 or ... while booting to bring up the grub menu. Then, select the 5.6 kernel you want to run, and boot it. Now, run dnf remove [list of kernel packages found

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > How do I remove a specific version of a package using DNF ? Refer to the "SPECIFYING PACKAGES" section in the dnf man page. It explains the syntax options you can use to specify a , which is used by many dnf commands, like dnf remove. While there, the remove-n,

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On 7/26/20 10:56 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Yeah, I have removed the a kernel component via: sudo dnf remove kernel-*5.7.10-201.fc32.x86_64 And it did remove something but it did not remove the kernel as it is still present on the GRUB menu and is bootable. You didn't give the output

gnome control center wifi madness

If I bring up the gnome control center wifi page, it always says "no adapter detected". If I turn on wifi, it shows me a list of SSIDs to connect to, and I can connect. If there is no adapter detected, what am I talking to? :-). ___ users mailing list

Spam removal (was: Re: $spam_subject)

George N. White III wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >> On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 19:57 +, ravi fieldengineer wrote: [Snipped spam content, it's bad enough they got it on the list once. I also changed the subject. If that breaks anyone's threading -- you

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:50:07 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Is there a way to remove the kernel ? Run rpm -qa | grep -i kernel\* | less In the resulting list, you will see all installed packages associated with kernel-5.7*, the kernel that you want to remove. dnf will not let you remove a

5G Telecom Engineer

The fifth time of cell improvement has finally begun to hit the Global Telecom Marketplace and will in a brief timeframe be kept up by a scramble of the world's most striking remote behemoths like AT, Verizon, Lenovo, Nokia, etc. Considering, 5G Telecom Engineers

resume from suspend to RAM not working properly with / on btrfs

Hi, TL,DR: I have problems with resuming from suspend to RAM on my new Ryzen computer. I have only seen this happen if I put root onto a btrfs subvolume, not on ext4. The proprietary nvidia driver seems to be one additional factor, but I have also seen this with the nvidia driver removed.

Re: Steam erroneously marked as "Installed" in Gnome Software

On 7/12/20 1:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: Failing that rpmdb --rebuilddb Yup that did the trick. Thanks so much for your help. -- Regards, Sreyan ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: SPDIF sound in F32

Thanks for answering. On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 2:49 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > More details about what "doesn't work" means would be helpful. Do you > see a SPDIF option in the sound output settings? > In "pavucontrol", it actually does have a listing for the Xonar Sound Card, but only the

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 3:25 PM Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > Ok. I have tried this, with no avail. It was set to Never Activate and I > set it to Always activate. I have installed the Fedora package for H264. > I am a bit baffled by this. Specially because it only started happening > with my

Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

On 7/26/20 2:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/26/20 8:47 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs. A "lot" of bugs? It can't even initialize my swap file: I too experienced the "swap file has holes" issue after I upgraded F32 to the 5.7

Re: SPDIF sound in F32

On 7/26/20 6:40 PM, Greg Woods wrote: iec958:CARD=SoundCard,DEV=0     Xonar SoundCard, USB Audio     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output iec958:CARD=SoundCard,DEV=1     Xonar SoundCard, USB Audio #1     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output There appear to be two outputs for some reason.

Re: Xbox 360 controller on Fedora 32

On 2020-07-26 13:41, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 12:19 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: >> does not work due to Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities > I'm completely unfamiliar with Python. But, has anyone made a 2 to 3 > scripting converter? > > I would have thought there'd be a need for

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

I installed Fedora 32 workstation, and didn't find VLC player, like I don't know *linuxOS that after installing didn't have VLC... I use add-ons like htmal5 player, youtube enhenser & play on VLC, but I always use same settings I Firefox, like clear "after I close delete cookies... and I have

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

I installed Fedora 32 workstation, and didn't find VLC player, like I don't know *linuxOS that after installing didn't have VLC... I use add-ons like htmal5 player, youtube enhenser & play on VLC, but I always use same settings I Firefox, like clear "after I close delete cookies..." and I have

Re: Xbox 360 controller on Fedora 32

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:19:15 -0600 Greg Woods : > I attempted to download and compile xboxdrv, but it does not work due > to Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities, and it doesn't look like any > work has been done on xboxdrv in quite some time. If I try to make > it, I get this: > > > root@snowcrash