Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

boot /dev/nvme0n1p3 2101248 419428351 417327104  199G Linux filesystem So how do I access that 400 GB partition after I boot my server? Paolo On 10/12/24 18:22, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Oct 12, 2024, at 20:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,  this is an issue that has me frustrated.  I crea

Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

ote: > On Oct 12, 2024, at 20:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > Folks, > this is an issue that has me frustrated. I created a VM under VMware and > VirtualBox and allocated 400GB as the disk size. I installed the F40 > server iso on the VM, and it showed the disk size as 400

Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

33348   1% /run/user/1000 Paolo On 10/12/24 17:30, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/12/24 5:17 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,   this is an issue that has me frustrated.  I created a VM under VMware and VirtualBox and allocated 400GB as the disk size.  I installed the F40 server iso on the VM, a

Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

Folks,  this is an issue that has me frustrated.  I created a VM under VMware and VirtualBox and allocated 400GB as the disk size.  I installed the F40 server iso on the VM, and it showed the disk size as 400GB, and the install went fine.  However, when I booted the VM and looked at the disk s

Re: Strange issues

today's updates it all works :-) Paolo On 9/16/24 23:50, Barry Scott wrote: On 17 Sep 2024, at 01:26, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, recently I've run in to 2 issues that I don't know how to solve. I have a local dns server on my network. This has always worked and I'

Strange issues

Folks,  recently I've run in to 2 issues that I don't know how to solve. I have a local dns server on my network.  This has always worked and I've made no changes since July. Last week dns lookups from one of the systems on my network worked fine.  Now they all fail. dig truckin results in

Re: Strange laptop behavior #2

I did and everything worked.  But my apcupsd.conf file has NOLOGON disabled so the file should never have been created, or at least so I thought. Paolo On 8/25/24 11:36, Garry T. Williams wrote: On Friday, August 23, 2024 5:53:53 PM EDT Paolo Galtieri wrote: I previously sent a message

Re: Strange laptop behavior #2

e UPS battery apcupsd will initiate a system shutdown. This is great for one of my systems but not for the laptop which can run without mains. Paolo On 8/23/24 22:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/23/24 2:53 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,   I previously sent a message regarding my laptop powerin

Strange laptop behavior #2

Folks, I previously sent a message regarding my laptop powering off unexpectedly. Here is an update. Power came back on, but I cannot login to my laptop. When I try to login to the mate gui it replies with power failure and authentication failure. If I enter ctrl-alt-F1, login as root I can lo

Unexpected laptop behavior

I normally run my laptop on AC power. I also have it plugged into a UPS. Today the power went out. The power applet on the mate desktop reported I had 7298 hours of laptop run time and 5 minutes of UPS. The laptop then powered itself off. Can someone tell me what I might have have misconfigured

Re: logrotate service failing

4, at 01:20, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Actually I have both running. That will not work. Only one must be running. Just to check; are you using syslog because systemd journal is not covering your use-case? If journal is sufficient then remove both the syslog daemons.

Re: logrotate service failing

Actually I have both running. Paolo On 7/20/24 16:37, Todd Zullinger wrote: Paolo Galtieri wrote: It's interesting that both packages are available on F39. Is there a reason to have both?  And if only one should be installed which? It's not really different than having multiple we

Re: logrotate service failing

It's interesting that both packages are available on F39. Is there a reason to have both?  And if only one should be installed which? Paolo On 7/20/24 14:27, Todd Zullinger wrote: Go Canes wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: I wonder then if this is an issue d

Re: no sound on bluetooth headphones

I'm running F39 and I can't get any Bluetooth devices to work.  Bluetooth speakers used to work, but now neither speakers nor headphones work.  They do work with Android phone and tablet. Paolo On 7/18/24 13:32, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Using bluetooth on Fedora 40/xcfe4 for the first time Head

Re: logrotate service failing

t, 20 Jul 2024 12:05:10 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: A little investigation showed the following in /etc/logrotate.d rsyslog:/var/log/messages syslog:/var/log/messages I don't have a syslog file in my /etc/logrotate.d, only rsyslog. I'm running fedora 40 and logrotate seem

logrotate service failing

I have updated my system using dnf upgrade for several releases.  I am currently running F39.  Today I was looking at my running services and noticed that the logrotate.service is failing to start due to the following error: Jul 20 11:49:41 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com logrotate[307129]:

Re: Fedora 40 virtual machine

disk. Paolo On 4/23/24 11:01, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/23/24 11:44, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous instance of anaconda has crashed. I may have to try several times before

Fedora 40 virtual machine

I tried to create a Fedora 40 virtual machine under VMware version 17.0.2.  The ISO image boots up fine, but when I double click on the "Install to drive" It will often fail withe the following error: Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file already exists. Anaconda

Re: F37 update

I did do it as root otherwise it most likely wouldn't have uninstalled anything due to permissions. Paolo On 12/25/22 21:29, Slade Watkins via users wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 11:30 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: It was VMworkstation Pro 16.1 and it was uninstalled doing vmware-unista

Re: F37 update

It was VMworkstation Pro 16.1 and it was uninstalled doing vmware-unistall -u vmware-workstation Paolo On 12/25/22 08:07, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 11:18 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,    I got the following error during an update to F37 Cloning into

F37 update

Folks,   I got the following error during an update to F37 Cloning into 'vmware-host-modules'... fatal: Remote branch workstation- not found in upstream origin /etc/kernel/install.d/99-vmmodules.install: line 20: cd: vmware-host-modules: No such file or directory make: *** No targets specified

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

ary and secondary dns servers. Paolo On 11/27/22 07:55, Jeffrey Walton wrote: 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 0

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

n 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 'adobe-linux-x86_64&#x

Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

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 'adobe-linux-x86_64':   - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://

Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

If you're willing to spend the money there are companies that can try to recover the data from the drive. If it's just the controller it may cost around $300 if it requires more work to recover the data it may cost you around $2000. I have used one company quite a few years ago and they were able

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

: On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 12:32:14AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/22 16:46, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:27:02AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there any way to actually suspend a laptop when the lid is closed regardless of any external devices? Might be a result of

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:27:02AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there any way to actually suspend a laptop when the lid is closed regardless of any external devices? Might be a result of your /etc/systemd/logind.conf Default in that file seems to be: HandleLidSwitchDocked=i

Re: maybe OT

The host OS is also F34. On 3/20/22 08:14, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 19:47, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I'm having issues with a VM. It would be useful to mention the host OS.  From the name, I guess your VM is running Fedora 34. The VM was originally cr

maybe OT

I'm having issues with a VM. The VM was originally created under VMware and has worked fine for a while.  Today when I booted it up instead of seeing the usual MATE login screen I get a login prompt: f34-01-vm: no matter what I enter, root or pgaltieri as login it never asks for password an

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

nnected to the laptop via HDMI cable. Paolo On 3/17/22 11:48, Barry wrote: On 17 Mar 2022, at 15:27, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, I have 2 laptops, one running F31 the other F34. When I close the lid on the F31 system it suspends as it is supposed to. I can ping the system and I get n

Re: suspend on lid closed doesn't work

I guess this bug also applies to MATE, because I don't run Gnome.  I wonder how many other desktops this problem applies to. Paolo On 3/17/22 15:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/17/22 08:27, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there any way to actually suspend a laptop when the lid is closed regardle

suspend on lid closed doesn't work

Folks,   I have 2 laptops, one running F31 the other F34.  When I close the lid on the F31 system it suspends as it is supposed to.  I can ping the system and I get no response.  On the F34 system I close the lid and the system continues running.  I can still login to the system from the exter

Re: dns lookup behavior

On 2/21/22 15:56, Jamie Fargen wrote: dig 172.16.96.20 Do you mean dig -x 172.16.96.20 dig 1.1.1.1 doesn't return the host name: dig -x 172.16.96.20 returns ; <<>> DiG 9.16.24-RH <<>> -x 172.16.96.20 ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Re: dns lookup behavior

On 2/21/22 14:09, Jamie Fargen wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM Barry wrote: > On 21 Feb 2022, at 20:15, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > Folks, >  I have 3 Linux systems, one running F31 and 2 running F34.  On one of the F34 systems I have a loca

dns lookup behavior

Folks,  I have 3 Linux systems, one running F31 and 2 running F34.  On one of the F34 systems I have a local DNS server running.  This has worked fine in the past, but now I'm seeing strangeness on the 2 F34 systems. I added a host to the DNS server for normal lookup and reverse lookup.  On t

exfat vs fuseblk

I have several external disk drives from the same vendor.  According to the vendor recent drives are formatted exfat while prior ones where formatted ntfs.  According to what I find on the web file system type fuseblk should work for both exfat and nfts. I have a new 12TB drive and when I plug

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

The system is x86_64 and I'm using brtfs.  So that clears that up: findmnt --notruncate / TARGET SOURCE   FSTYPE OPTIONS /  /dev/nvme0n1p10[/root00]     btrfs rw,relatime,seclabel,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=276,subvol=/root00 findmnt --notruncate /home TARGET SOURCE

why are / and /home the same filesystem?

Folks,   today I ran into a strange problem.  Both the root file system and the /home filesystem showed 100% usage: df -l Filesystem  1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4096 0  4096   0% /dev tmpfs    32793004 0  32793004   0% /dev

pluma and ISO-8859 text

When I use caja, or any file browser, to read a text file that is encoded in ISO-8859 it uses pluma to read the file.  Pluma, however, fails with this message: pluma has not been able to detect the character encoding. Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. Select a characte

graphics support on f34

Folks,   I recently reported an issue with booting recent kernels.  All kernels after 5.14.18 fail with "Input not supported" being displayed on the monitor.  Originally it was suggested that it might be the KVM switch I use to connect my systems.  Today I removed the switch and directly conne

Re: several issues with f34

I have disabled chronyd.  The main problem is the graphical.target vs multi-user.target.  ntpd only starts in multi-user.target. Paolo On 12/5/21 13:59, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/12/2021 01:48, Paolo Galtieri wrote: systemctl status ntpd ○ ntpd.service - Network Time Service Loaded

Re: several issues with f34

It turned out chronyd was also enabled, but marked as dead. ○ chronyd.service - NTP client/server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2021-12-05 09:47:14 PST; 23h ago    Docs: man:chronyd(8)   

Re: several issues with f34

Here's the output: systemctl cat ntpd.service # /usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service [Unit] Description=Network Time Service Documentation=man:ntpd(8) Wants=network.target ConditionCapability=CAP_SYS_TIME After=network.target nss-lookup.target Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service [Service] Type=f

Re: several issues with f34

Here's the output: [pgaltieri@truckin ~]$ systemctl get-default graphical.target [pgaltieri@truckin ~]$ find /etc/systemd/system -name chronyd.service -ls   4195823  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   39 Apr 25 2019 /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/chronyd.service -> /usr/l

Re: several issues with f34

ote: On 05/12/2021 00:27, Paolo Galtieri wrote: This isn't true.  I stopped ntpd, stopped the wifi connection and restarted ntpd and ntpd started fine with no wifi connection.  It should only need a network connection to synchronize the time. That is why I asked you to provide the output of

Re: several issues with f34

This isn't true.  I stopped ntpd, stopped the wifi connection and restarted ntpd and ntpd started fine with no wifi connection.  It should only need a network connection to synchronize the time. Paolo On 12/3/21 10:15, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/3/21 11:05 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Next

Re: several issues with f34

The "Input not supported" error occurs on the active connection. But what has changed recently to introduce this problem since booting on older kernels does not exhibit it? Paolo On 12/4/21 05:54, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:16:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: So, you have a common k

several issues with f34

Folks,   I have 2 systems running F34.  These 2 systems connect to a common monitor via a keyboard-video-mouse switch. First issue. One of these systems, when I boot any of the 3 most recent kernels, when it gets to multi user mode displays "Input not supported" but works fine when I boot ker

Re: module loading problem

s it tries to load them and fails due to the modules not being signed.  I don't know why vboxconfig doesn't check to see if the modules already exist before trying to build them. Paolo On 8/9/21 6:11 AM, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 09:34:36 -0700 Paolo Galtieri w

module loading problem

Folks,   I'm having an issue with loading kernel modules after a kernel update.  Specifically I'm having an issue with loading virtual box kernel modules.  After an update I sign the modules according to the information listed here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f33/system-admini

file associations for OVF files

I recently ran into an issue with files with .ovf extension.  The issue is that VMware Workstation will not import files that end in .ovf.  A file that ends in .ovf shows up as follows of Fedora 34: file *.ovf returns XML 1.0 document, ASCII text What's interesting is that if you have Virtual

zabbix server/agent on F34

I installed F34 in a VM and installed the zabbix server and agent.  I have updated the system to the latest.  When I run the zabbix server and agent I get a lot of SELinux alerts. SELinux is preventing zabbix_agentd from getattr access on the fifo_file /run/initctl   Source Context system_u:s

can't upgrade from fedora 31 to Fedora 32

Folks,   I was trying to upgrade my Fedora 31 system to F32, but it failed due to conflicts.  Here's the output: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=32 Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you wan

Re: can't find wireless

Folks,   I finally found the resolution to F33 not finding my wireless. I found it on an Ubuntu list https://askubuntu.com/questions/1083369/ubuntu-18-04-cannot-recognized-intel-wireless-ac-9260 In short the issue is with Windows 10.  Under the setup for what the power buttons do it has the "

Re: can't find wireless

On 2/19/21 10:38 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: Do an ethtool -i ethtool -i enp0s20f0u1u4 driver: r8152 version: v1.11.11 firmware-version: rtl8153a-4 v2 02/07/20 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: usb-:00:14.0-1.4 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-regi

Re: can't find wireless

33 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 02:54:19PM -0800, Paolo Galtieri wrote: So the appropriate wireless driver is loaded, however ifconfig shows the following devices: Instead of using the 'ifconfig' tool, try running 'ip link show'. Perhaps the interface is

can't find wireless

I have a Dell XPS 15 9500 laptop.  I've already listed other issues with this laptop running Fedora 33. Here's a new one :( lspic -k shows the following: 0:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi     Subsystem: Rivet Networks Device 1651     Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Re: Fedora 33 and HDMI KVM switch

river must exist for the dongle.  The dongle is a RayCue USB to HDMI. Paolo On 2/8/21 8:58 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Samuel Sieb | On 2/6/21 5:44 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: | >  I'm having an issue running Fedora 33 and an external monitor connected to | > an HDMI KVM swit

Fedora 33 and HDMI KVM switch

Folks,  I'm having an issue running Fedora 33 and an external monitor connected to an HDMI KVM switch.  Here is the way it's connected: Laptop thunderbolt 3 connector -> 4 port USB c to USB 3.0 hub -> USB to HDMI adapter -> HDMI KVM switch. The mouse and keyboard work, however Fedora 33 does

Re: Key was rejected by service

with issues booting Windows. Paolo On 2/3/21 10:36 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 2/3/21 2:33 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: vmmon: Loading of unsigned module is rejected This looks like you're booting off UEFI in "secure mode" where kernel and its modules need to be signed. Try di

Key was rejected by service

Folks,  I have installed vmware on Fedora 33.  It does not start due to the following error: modprobe vmmon modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmmon': Key was rejected by service modprobe vmnet modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmnet': Key was rejected by service dmesg shows vmmon: Loadin

why no glade module for python 3?

Folks,   for years I've been using sbackup for doing my backups.  I've tried others and none come close to being as easy to use as sbackup.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any further development occurring on it. It was written originally to work with python2 and I have managed to get

Re: Windows 10 + F33 + SSD + RAID

Folks,   I tried the process described in the article and it worked for me.  I can now boot up into Windows and Linux without issues. Thank you very much for the pointer. Paolo On 1/29/21 7:44 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:25 PM Kevin Becker

Windows 10 + F33 + SSD + RAID

Folks,   I have a new dell laptop.  I tried to install Fedora 33 on it, but it failed to find any disks.  I searched the internet and discovered that if my BIOS has RAID enabled F33 is unable to find any drives.  I disabled RAID and enable AHCI and was then able to install and boot F33.  I the

Re: (root) FAILED (loading cron table)

Yes that looks like the same problem.  I did an update yesterday and there was no selinux update, but there was one today.  This fixed my problem. Paolo On 10/1/20 12:56 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:53:00AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, since August 13 my

(root) FAILED (loading cron table)

Folks, since August 13 my backups have failed to run due the following errors: Oct  1 11:10:01 terrapin CROND[110219]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bro/bin/zeekctl cron) Oct  1 11:12:01 terrapin crond[1565]: ((null)) No SELinux security context (/etc/crontab) Oct  1 11:12:01 terrapin crond[1565]: (r

Re: Python2 package build

rsions of python. Paolo On 8/13/20 11:18 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 13.08.20 um 18:51 schrieb Paolo Galtieri: Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32.  sbackup is the python2 application I use to do daily backups. The source packages I rebuilt a

Re: Python2 package build

s use rpmbuild to build the binary packages from the source RPMs. Paolo On 8/13/20 11:18 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 13.08.20 um 18:51 schrieb Paolo Galtieri: Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32.  sbackup is the python2 application I use to do

Python2 package build

Folks,   an issue has come up recently that I don't understand.  This problem applies to both F31 and F32. Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32.  sbackup is the python2 application I use to do daily backups. The source packages I rebuilt are

python3 and gnome packages

Folks,   about a week ago I posted an email regarding bindings to libgnome, but I never did see the post on the list, just one person's response.  The issue is that the program I use for doing backups, sbackup, fails with python 3.  The 2 main failures are in regard to the following: import g

python 3 bindings for libgnome

Folks,   I have an issue that has cropped up in F31 and F32 and I hope someone can help me. I have been using sbackup for years to do backups on my system. It has worked great up to and including F30.  This program is a python2 program.  The issue though has to do with bindings to libgnome. 

Re: No visible mouse pointer

e not this issue with two other laptops and one desktop workstation (all Dells). HTH, but it would be nice to get this resolved more holistically. Ranjan On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:25:59 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: I have successfully upgraded one system to F31, however, it still exhibits the same

Re: Upgrading to f31

belong to a distupgrade repository   - cmake-fedora-2.9.3-4.fc30.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) Paolo On 12/30/19 10:59 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/30/19 7:47 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Using --allowerasing

No visible mouse pointer

I have successfully upgraded one system to F31, however, it still exhibits the same problem it has had under F30, namely no visible mouse pointer.  The mouse does work since I have configured my MATE desktop to display the mouse pointer location when I press the ctrl key.  This only works once

Re: Upgrading to f31

, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, ?? I was trying to upgrade one of my systems to f31 by running: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=31 but the attempt fails with: Error: ??Problem: package cmake-fedora-2.9.3-5.fc31.noarch requires packagedb-cli, but none of the

Upgrading to f31

Folks,   I was trying to upgrade one of my systems to f31 by running: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=31 but the attempt fails with: Error:  Problem: package cmake-fedora-2.9.3-5.fc31.noarch requires packagedb-cli, but none of the providers can be installe

importing photos from camera

Folks,   I am having an issue with importing photos from my Nikon D90 under F30. Under F29 when I right click on the camera icon on the desktop and look at the "Open With Other Application" there was an entry for "Open With gThumb Photo Import Tool".  This option is missing from F30.  So I dec

Re: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

7:31 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I ran rfkill list: 0: dell-rbtn: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes I then tried running sudo rfkill unblock wlan and then rfkill list: 0: dell-rbtn: Wireless LAN Soft bl

Re: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes It still shows that it's hard blocked. Paolo On 10/28/19 9:16 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:04:28 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: Any idea what I can do to get around this

WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

Folks,   several months ago I was getting the following error: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch forcing a reboot to get my wifi back.  Then the problem went away, but now it's back.  Every time I close the lid of my laptop and then reopen it several minutes later the wifi is dead and requ

ccache on f30

Folks,   I installed the ccache package on F30.  Doing a rpm -ql on the package show a long list of files that are part of the package, but if I do ls -l  /usr/lib64/ccache/ it shows total 576 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 193392 Jan 31 07:23 cc -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 193392 Jan 31 07:23 gcc -rwxr

Re: sound device initialization?

Have you tried using pavucontrol? I have an issue with sound on my laptop with the MATE desktop and an external monitor.  Often when I login to the laptop I'll have no sound and the mate_volume_applet doesn't change the volume. Using pavucontrol I determined that the problem was the monitor pl

Re: external USB drives

:-) Paolo On 7/3/19 3:42 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,   I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following

external USB drives

Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 0. I have 2 8TB drives

mariadb vs community-mysql on F30

Folks I have an issue with mariadb and community-mysql.  I installed mysql-workbench.  When I run it it shows a conflict between it and the running mysql server, namely mysql-workbench is version 8.0.16 and mariadb is 10.3.12.  So I decided to remove mariadb, i.e. I did: yum remove mariadb-com

WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch

Folks,   on both June 2 and June 4 I have seen the following message in the logs: Jun  4 13:35:53 terrapin NetworkManager[1529]: [1559680553.5293] manager: rfkill: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch Until I shutdown my system and reboot I cannot connect to my WiFi network. Has anyone else

Can't use MATE desktop with F29

Folks,   I upgraded one of my F28 systems to F29.  I installed th Gnome Classic and MATE desktops.  When the system boots up and I login using the MATE desktop the screen is completely garbled.  A message appears saying something like "required virtual size does not fit", however it goes away

Re: Can't play video dvd

19 7:32 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:46:44 +0100, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I tried totem and mplayer and both fail. I tried vlc and it displayed a bunch of messages and crashed with a segmentation fault.  Here are the messages: VLC media player 3.0.6 Vetinari (rev

Re: Can't play video dvd

failed in src/ifo_read.c:1672 *** *** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].vob_id > 0 *** *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in src/ifo_read.c:1672 *** *** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].vob_id > 0 *** *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in src/ifo_read.c:1672 *** *** for c_adt->cell_adr_tabl

Can't play video dvd

Folks,   I recently purchased the DVD "Free Solo".  When I try to play it on my Fedora 28 system it fails.  I get the following error "An error occurred The movie could not be read".  I did some web searching and I found that someone also encountered this error and that I needed to install lib

Can't boot kernel-4.19.6-200.fc28.x86_64

Folks,   this morning I rebooted one of my systems.  The system ended up dropping into emergency mode.  I ran journalctl -xb to see why it failed to boot and I saw the following errors: Dec 11 08:02:46 terrapin kernel: kvmgt: Unknown symbol gfn_to_memslot (err -2) Dec 11 08:02:46 terrapin ker

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I have 2 systems running F28, one is a laptop the other a desktop.  I rebooted both onto 4.19.2 last week. On the laptop I'm having some strange issues. 1)  When I rebooted the laptop this morning it failed to boot and dropped into emergency mode.  Looking at the logs I see at lot of these me

Re: strange problem

Chrome was working fine on this system yesterday.  The upgrade went fine, so I'm really stumped as to why it has stopped working. Paolo On 11/11/18 2:47 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:03:31 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: What I don't understand about this problem is why

Re: strange problem

What I don't understand about this problem is why it affects only one system.  Chrome on my other system works fine as does chrome on my android tablet. Paolo On 11/11/18 12:12 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:06 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: I encountered a strange problem

Re: SElinux error

The issue is normally the SElinux alert gives me the name of the process causing the problem, not a long string of characters. Paolo On 11/11/18 12:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/11/2018 12:28 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,    I got the fllowing SElinux error today: SELinux is preventing

SElinux error

Folks,   I got the fllowing SElinux error today: SELinux is preventing 72733A6D61696E20513A526567 from using the dac_override capability. Anyone know what this refers to? Thanks, Paolo ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

strange problem

I encountered a strange problem today I'm wondering if someone can explain what's going on. Here's the problem, I have 2 systems running F28, one system was upgraded from F27 two days ago, the other upgraded yesterday. Both systems were working fine yesterday.  Today the second system will not

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I have F27 running on a couple of systems.  On one of them I have encountered the following 2 issues. 1) System crashes with "System not configured for semaphores". This error results in the system halting.  It has occurred several times over the last few months. 2) I have a Linksys AE1200 w

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Folks,   I tried to upgrade a system to F29 this AM.  The upgrade failed with the following error: Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed 31 Oct 2018 09:27:12 AM PDT. Error:  Problem: problem with installed package pycryptopp-0.6.0.120656932814151052564863480392819966882104540895

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I was in the process of rebooting my system after doing an update and got the following: error: unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon dracut Warning: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 1088: /sbin/rdsosreport: No such file or directory You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt"

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