K3B calls for --no-sandbox but rejects this switch

2024-08-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm trying to burn a DVD of a Live Fedora Workstation (latest one). I try to run k3b as root but it complains about --no-sandbox needed to run as root but then rejects this switch. I reinstalled k3b'*' but get the same results. This system is at Fedora 41 with all the "latest" package upgra

Re: Error in POSTIN scriptlet for dbus-common rpm

2023-12-17 Thread George R Goffe via test
ers' exit 0 On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 10:11:56 PM PST, Osama Albahrani wrote: Hi George, I can try on my end, what steps should I take? Could you provide more details on how to reproduce the bug? Best, Osama On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 11:58 PM George R Goffe via test

Error in POSTIN scriptlet for dbus-common rpm

2023-12-12 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I keep seeing this "bug" across multiple fedora 40 Fedora netinst iso images. Am I doing something wrong? "current" image is  Fedora-Workstation-Live-osb-Rawhide-20231212.n.0.x86_64.iso Best regards, George -- ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.

Re: Access a Virtual disk without the VM running

2023-10-16 Thread George R Goffe via test
-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 2023-10-14 15:04, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Ideally, I would mount the VDI on the host and just copy the file. Is > there a way to do this easily? https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/tip-open-virtualbox-vdi-file-using-libg

Access a Virtual disk without the VM running

2023-10-14 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm having some problems installing the latest Fedora iso images for the past week or so (Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20231014.n.0.iso) under VirtualBox... I keep getting fatal error messages "Error in POSTIN for rpm pkg dbus-common" and then the install fails. I have captured

Re: Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-11 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Thanks to all who responded to this pr. I checked the VBox config UI and disabled the efi activation. This RESOLVED the problem. Best regards and STAY SAFE! George... On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 08:31:31 PM PDT, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2023, at 11:25 PM,

Re: Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, This is a VirutalBox/Fedora system.. Hm. I'm wondering what's chanced and where. It's curious though. Where is the Firmware in a Virtual Machine? :-) I can safely say that I've never typed this string "/boot/efi". This almost feels like something is now being enforced or some border

Re: Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Thanks for responding. Here's the desired partition scheme: /boot / swap /var /opt /usr /export/home On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 08:07:22 PM PDT, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2023, at 9:04 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I&#x

Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm having trouble creating a partition scheme that I have been using it seems like forever.  It's not working now with the "latest" spin iso image (/isos/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-202310 10.n.0.iso). I keep getting this popup error message (enclosed). It looks like anaconda

rc.local fails

2023-04-13 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, To get rc.local running you used to be able to put the file in /etc/rc.d and then reboot.  This has worked for quite some time but does not any more. This situation has been happening now for several months. Am I missing something? Any/all help/hints/tips/suggestions would be appreciate

What to do after a system crash during dnf upgrade

2023-01-28 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Running dnf upgrade during periods of system instability seems to leave the system in an unknown state. How does one recover from this situation? Best regards, George... ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Unexpected system freeze

2022-11-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, System is FC38: Current kernel is: kernel-6.1.0-0.rc5.20221118git84368d882b96.43.fc38.x86_64 I just experienced an unexpected system freeze about an hour or so ago. /var/log/messages contains oom killer messages. Are "we" still having oom problems? Is there a docs location that can prov

dnf processing causes oom-kill

2022-10-28 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I've been seeing this problem for a few days now. I start a "normal" dnf upgrade that fails to complete because something in dnf or perhaps a script that triggers an oom-kill event. I have seen this in a VM host (8G swap) and in a VM guest (2G swap)... both FC38. I wrote a bug on the bug

Re: System hang during boot and dracut-pre-mount-hooks processing

2022-10-23 Thread George R Goffe via test
s kind of error should get a lot more attention than it does currently. I appreciate your help and your time so THANKS for that. Best regards and STAY SAFE! George... On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 08:01:24 AM PDT, stan wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:51:07 + (UTC) George R Gof

Re: System hang during boot and dracut-pre-mount-hooks processing

2022-10-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
Stan, Thanks for responding to this request for help. Here's my"ls -n" results. The 5.18 kernels all work and the 6.1 kernel fails. The size doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't libraries missing though. The smaller 5.18 initramfs file was created by my manual invocation of dracut to bui

System hang during boot and dracut-pre-mount-hooks processing

2022-10-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I just installed a current kernel (6.1.0-0.rc1.20221018gitbb1a1146467a.16). This kernel will not boot. It appears to hang near the execution of dracut-pre-mount processing. This process seems to be looking for a disk by uuid but it NEVER completes. I let it go for over an hour but the syste

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
Thanks Chris, I have a "smartctl -l /dev/sda" running now. I'll read over your writing below... If I have questions or problems, I'll ask... otherwise, I'll report what happens. Thanks! George... On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 7:41 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: &

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
quot; Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain On Sun, Aug 21, 2022, at 11:02 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I started getting i/o error messages accessing this filesystem so I > rebooted the system. This might have been the wrong thing to do. This > subsequent boot

mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I started getting i/o error messages accessing this filesystem so I rebooted the system. This might have been the wrong thing to do. This subsequent boot went to maintenance mode due the filesystem's path being in /etc/fstab. I need some help with this please. Here is what mount says: mou

Re: Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too.

2022-07-14 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Thanks to those who responded! Sam, Dan, Adam, Sergio... The problem has been resolved. I removed all but the kernel-headers package and paused there to run vboxconfig. I got lucky so I stopped... Otherwise I would have done the suggested "dnf distro-sync kernel-headers" command. I experie

Re: Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too. (Samuel Sieb)

2022-07-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
2:50:17 PM PDT, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 15:34 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Sam, > > Thanks for responding to this plea for help... It's appreciated. > > As expected, all kernel packages would have been successful... EXCEPT > for the kerne

Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too. (Samuel Sieb)

2022-07-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Sam, Thanks for responding to this plea for help... It's appreciated. As expected, all kernel packages would have been successful... EXCEPT for the kernel-headers package... 503 packages affected. Sigh. What are your thoughts? Best regards, George... Sam wrote, "Try uninstalling each one sep

Re: Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too.

2022-07-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
s, George... On Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 02:59:54 AM PDT, Dan Horák wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:28:07 + (UTC) George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble with dnf and the 5.19 kernel. > > I have tried to exclude the 5.19 kernel on this system (FC3

Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too.

2022-07-09 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm having trouble with dnf and the 5.19 kernel. I have tried to exclude the 5.19 kernel on this system (FC37) because 1) Virtual box doesn't seem to support it yet, 2) the system gets stuck during boot and the boot will NOT succeed (It seems to be running a list of UUIDs). The problem: s

Problems with the perl part of the rawhide repository

2022-06-15 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, Am I doing something wrong? When I run "dnf upgrade" I get multiple pages of error messages relating to per. There are over 3000 packages pending upgrade due to perl related problems. Best regards and stay safe! George... ___ test mailing list

Re: bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037703

2022-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Basto > wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 00:09 +, George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could I get someone from this list to take a peek at the above > > named > > bug report please? I'm STILL seeing this issue with the "latest" &g

re: bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037703

2022-01-25 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Could I get someone from this list to take a peek at the above named bug report please? I'm STILL seeing this issue with the "latest" Fedora upgrade. The extra text does NOT appear in the dmesg output. Could it be something with console support in VirtualBox? Best regards and STAY SAFE! G

Re: A question about cmake please? (Samuel Sieb)

2021-06-18 Thread George R Goffe via test
_pos <= size()' failed. Aborted (core dumped) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:37:06 -0700 From: Samuel Sieb Subject: Re: A question about cmake please? To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <2209344d-4f3b-f40b-a299-5e758a8d0...@sieb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-

A question about cmake please?

2021-06-17 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I've been having trouble with cmake for some time now. I'm trying to get cmake to report it's version string. --version, -version, /V all produce a core file. I'm having that village idiot feeling again, am I doing something wrong? Here is part of the man page below. Best regards, and STAY

attempting to upgrade apitrace on fc35 system gives error messages

2021-05-31 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, It seems like I've been seeing this set of error messages for several weeks. I'm running an otherwise up to date FC35 (x86_64) system. Can I provide information related to this system and apitrace"*"? Best regards, George... Running transaction check Error: transaction check vs depsol

Gdb doesn't recognize .zst file types

2021-05-13 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, I'm trying to use cmake but it corefiles. Now I'm trying to see where the error comes from with gdb but gdb (latest f35) doesn't appear to recognize the .zst file type. Are these two problems bugs? Best regards, George... cmake --version creates a .zst core file... gdb cmake  core.c

Heads up: no characters visible on console in Rawhide - bug in kbd-2.4.0-3.fc35 (Adam Williamson)

2021-04-26 Thread George R Goffe via test
Adam, I just rebooted my fc35 (x86_64) system after installing this rpm and it's dependency kbd-misc-2.4.0-2.fc34.noarch.rpm. I'm running this system with nomodeset present in the boot command line. During a typical boot the messages spew out and then there's a very short pause when a font siz

tty broken after "latest" upgrade

2021-04-25 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I ran a system upgrade late last night and at reboot noticed a major problem with tty (possibly). I run this system with the multi-user target active, which means I get a text based invitation to login and have to start X manually. This is NOT a new change. Instead of seeing text "printed

The final solution to the on-screen keyboard.

2021-04-16 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I ended up installing caribou and then running caribou-preferences and assigning an activation key stroke to a key I never use (num lock in my case). Thanks, George... ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

grub2-mkconfig produces multiple boot entries in grub2 boot menu.

2021-04-09 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I wrote this problem as a bug, Bug ID: 1945821, a few days ago. Has anyone else seen this? Best regards, George... ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: on-screen keyboard problems

2021-03-26 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, On a swag I went to fedoracore for kde and searched for "on-screen keyboard". I found several entries. One pointed me to a writeup at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtvirtualkeyboard-deployment-guide.html. I found an environment variable mentioned, "QT_VIRTUALKEYBOARD_DESKTOP_DISABLE". I experimen

on-screen keyboard problems

2021-03-26 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Firefox and LibreOffice, my main apps, are having troubles for the past 3 weeks or so. For some reason this virtual keyboard started appearing. I thought it was Firefox (esr, released, nightly) and failed to eliminate it's appearance. It makes FF completely useless. I just started doing som

Re: Is the Fedora 35 repo having troubles?

2021-03-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
-- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:01:58 -0700 From: Adam Williamson Subject: Re: Is the Fedora 35 repo having troubles? To: George R Goffe , For testing and quality     assurance      of Fedora releases Message-ID:     <02bc8cd62478d1758cc9b08539a864b348585b36.ca...@fedoraproject.org> Co

Is the Fedora 35 repo having troubles?

2021-03-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I've been getting these messages for a couple of days now. Is the repo having troubles? Best regards, George... /usr/bin/dnf --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --allowerasing --best --setopt=zchunk=0 --exclude=*kernel* --exclude=environment-modules* --exclude=Lmod upgrade Fedora raw

Re: I found the root cause of the dnf I/O errors and it's embarrassed.

2021-03-16 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, For some reason I did a "which sqlinte3" and discovered that my tool chain contained a version fron 2013. OMG! I'm so embarrassed. Please accept my apologies for wasting your time with this problem. Best regards, George... -- Chris Murphy __

Re: test Digest, Vol 205, Issue 83

2021-03-14 Thread George R Goffe via test
13 Mar 2021 21:07:30 -0700 From: Chris Murphy Subject: Re: Is there a procedure to rebuild     /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite?  (Chris Murphy) To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases     Message-ID:     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 8

Re: Is there a procedure to rebuild /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite? (Chris Murphy)

2021-03-13 Thread George R Goffe via test
--- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:20:19 -0700 From: Chris Murphy Subject: Re: Is there a procedure to rebuild     /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite? To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases     Message-ID:     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 1

Is there a procedure to rebuild /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite?

2021-03-12 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Trying to upgrade this system with "dnf upgrade" gives messages: /usr/bin/dnf --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --allowerasing --best --setopt=zchunk=0 --exclude=*kernel* --exclude=environment-modules* --exclude=Lmod upgrade Fedora rawhide openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, The only other difference I can think of is that sdb the "first" time was acquired by the kernel after booting. Again, the SIIG docking station. The system "noticed" the device and udev "fixed" things up so the drive is usable. The "second" time, sdb was already powered up. I could powe

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, No message appeared but the message came out at the beginning of btrfs-convert. I could convert again if that would help. dmesg for "this" boot enclosed: Regards, George... On Saturday, March 6, 2021, 1:36:13 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: fdisk says: Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB,

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Scrub is still running. When it's done, I'll reboot a couple of times. sdb is in a SIIG 3.0 USB 2x docking station. Could it be NOT passing some device commands? I have sent a query to the developer(s) of smartmontools just in case. Regards, George.. On Saturday, March 6, 2021, 1:36

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
fc35-bash 5.1 ~# btrfs inspect-internal dump-super  /dev/sda8 | grep bytes total_bytes 1777055391744 bytes_used  1771772448768 dev_item.total_bytes    1777055391744 dev_item.bytes_used 1777053872128 fc35-bash 5.1 ~# btrfs inspect-internal dump-super  /dev/sdb1 | grep byt

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Started scrub on sdb1 now... lots of errors. see below. On Saturday, March 6, 2021, 12:31:02 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 10:07 AM George R Goffe wrote: > > Chris, > > I'm trying to re-create the "beyond end of disk" problem. I have nowhere near > enough ext

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, I'm trying to re-create the "beyond end of disk" problem. I have nowhere near enough extra space to hold the image and tar file you've asked for AND, there's too much personal information for me for me to feel comfortable posting it publicly. I'm converting a smaller drive now and see a

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Here's the information you requested. I'm wondering just how this happened. One of the messages refers to "beyond end of device". I'm alarmed. Regards, George... [ 2017.474378] BTRFS info (device sda8): scrub: started on devid 1 [ 2101.646773] BTRFS warning (device sda8): checksum erro

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
or on dev loop0, logical block 0, async page read On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 1:48:52 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:34 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:16 PM George R Goffe via test > wrote: > > > > fc35-bash 5.1

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:16 PM George R Goffe via test > wrote: > > > > fc35-bash 5.1 ~# mount -t ext4 -o loop,ro /ext2_saved/image /ext4 > > mount: /ext4: can't read superblock on /dev/loop0. > > Hmm. That's unexpected though. I'm going to try it in

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Thanks for responding. I'm pretty sure it was after conversion. George... On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 1:27:12 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:16 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I have converted a large ext4 filesyste

Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have converted a large ext4 filesystem to btrfs and by accident deleted an important users home directory. Reading btrfs doc seems to imply that the directory can be recovered without reverting the filesystem to ext4. What I've read seems to be telling me to mount the subvolume ext2_saved

Re: test Digest, Vol 203, Issue 100

2021-01-27 Thread George R Goffe via test
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:01:51 -0800 From: Samuel Sieb Subject: Re: console for qemu VM running fc34 x86_64 Rawhide To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <4a51f870-926a-e45f-8a08-656be49ee...@sieb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 1/26/21 10:53 PM, George R Goffe

Re: test Digest, Vol 203, Issue 98

2021-01-26 Thread George R Goffe via test
Subject: Re: console for qemu VM running fc34 x86_64 Rawhide To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <857fefa8-daa0-2dc3-695c-eb9cf7d76...@sieb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 1/26/21 4:03 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > I'm having some trouble

console for qemu VM running fc34 x86_64 Rawhide

2021-01-26 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, I'm having some trouble with qemu and it's console for the vm. This was working fine and then along came the later versions of the 5.10 kernels. The "new" behavior makes a console that is about 75% bigger than the physical monitor. It's effectively unusable. I'm not saying it's the kern

Re: Trying to rename enp5s0 to eth0 fails (Felix Miata)

2020-12-28 Thread George R Goffe via test
--- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 14:39:22 -0500 From: Felix Miata Subject: Re: Trying to rename enp5s0 to eth0 fails To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 George R Goffe via test composed on 2020-12-26 17:39 (UTC): > I don'

Re: Trying to rename enp5s0 to eth0 fails (Felix Miata)

2020-12-26 Thread George R Goffe via test
o eth0 fails To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 George R Goffe via test composed on 2020-12-25 01:32 (UTC): > I have been using this process to rename the NIC of a system: > 1) add net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in >

Trying to rename enp5s0 to eth0 fails

2020-12-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have been using this process to rename the NIC of a system: 1) add net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub 2) grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg 3) copy this file to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-rename-to-eth0.rules     contents: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add

Re: FC 34, broken glibc

2020-12-11 Thread George R Goffe via test
Howdy, I thought of a solution that didn't require a re-installation. There's a handy command in /bin named rpm2cpio. I fed the glibc rpms to this program and passed the stream to cpio.  Out popped several directories that were stored into by the rpm command except that these dirs went to the c

Re: FC 34, broken glibc

2020-12-11 Thread George R Goffe via test
0, 2020 at 08:55:11PM +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Thanks VERY MUCH to everyone who helped with this. And thanks for undertaking the adventure of running Rawhide. :) We're looking at turning on some of the gating infrastructure we have in place but dormant to make it a little

Re: FC 34, broken glibc

2020-12-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Adam, Removing fprintd did the trick! I'll have to do a "distro-sync" to get the glibc stuff cleaned up. Thanks VERY MUCH to everyone who helped with this. Best regards, George... On Thursday, December 10, 2020, 12:48:43 PM PST, George R Goffe wrote: Adam, I did all the glibc stuf

Re: FC 34, broken glibc

2020-12-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Adam, I did all the glibc stuff you wrote about but that didn't solve the problem. I have removed fprintd and will try again... and report here... Thanks, George... On Thursday, December 10, 2020, 11:23:00 AM PST, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 19:04 +, George R

Re: FC 34, broken glibc

2020-12-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Adam, Thanks for your help. I'm downloading now. Will report results "here" asap. Best regards, George... On Thursday, December 10, 2020, 11:23:00 AM PST, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 19:04 +, George R Goffe wrote: > Adam, > > Where do "we" get the downgrade ver

FC 34, broken glibc

2020-12-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Adam, Where do "we" get the downgrade version of glibc? I'm "live" with FC31 on my now sadly broken FC34 rawhide system. Best regards, George... On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 8:04:23 PM PST, test-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: ___ tes

Unable to login to FC34 x86_64 system.

2020-12-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I just upgraded this system after running "dnf upgrade". At the invitation to login screen I type in any userid and hit enter. I get a message about "corefile" and "segfault" and "glib_2" which QUICKLY disappears. In single user mode I'm looking around but don't see anything obvious. There

Re: test Digest, Vol 200, Issue 122

2020-10-29 Thread George R Goffe via test
0 From: Michael Schwendt Subject: Re: Is anyone else having trouble with bugzilla.redhat.com? To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <20201027193830.3761b0c7@unknown.intranet.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:09:27 + (UTC), George R Goffe via

Is anyone else having trouble with bugzilla.redhat.com?

2020-10-27 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have had no traffic from the RedHat bugzilla site since 7 Oct. I have submitted a contact email (bug report?) with no response other than "try this" suggestions. Is the site broken? Have I missed something or am I doing something wrong? Best regards, George... __

Questions about btrfs and fsck and fstab...

2020-09-20 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have 2 VMs with ALL btrfs file systems AND a native (host) /opt of type btrfs. I'm playing with compression in one of the VMs... I have run, in a VM, btrfs-convert and the other commands recommended by the man page for this command. It all looks good. It's not clear just what the "right"

Re: making a /boot partition into fs-type btrfs gives "unrecognizable file system" message from grub2

2020-09-07 Thread George R Goffe via test
rror if it happens again. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Again, thanks for ALL your help. George... On Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 2:48:55 PM PDT, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:42 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm playing around w

making a /boot partition into fs-type btrfs gives "unrecognizable file system" message from grub2

2020-09-02 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm playing around with FC34 ina VM and have backed up /boot; put a btrfs fs on the partition; restored from the backup, updated fstab but grub2 still goes into rescue mode. This tells me that there's something I don't know which is entirely possible. Could it be a missing driver in the ini

Is there a recommended qemu mailing list?

2020-08-18 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Sorry to bother you with this (wrong group for this question?). Is there a recommended qemu mailing list? I did a "systemctl status libvirtd" and got back the following: I'm not sure it's a bug or a UFU (User Foul Up). Please help. Best regards, George... ● libvirtd.service - Virtualiza

Re: Error message from dnf about problems with fedora-cisco-openh264

2020-08-17 Thread George R Goffe via test
Adam, Cool. Thanks for responding. George... On Monday, August 17, 2020, 10:49:53 AM PDT, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 17:40 +, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > Recently "we" switched to FC 34. I have upgraded my system several >

Error message from dnf about problems with fedora-cisco-openh264

2020-08-17 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Recently "we" switched to FC 34. I have upgraded my system several times but each time I do so I get the enclosed messages. Is this a known problem? THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP! Best regards, George... /usr/bin/dnf --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --allowerasing --best --setopt=zc

btrfs missing/broken from anaconda install dialogues

2020-08-13 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I was reading about filesystems in Linux, specifically RedHat systems, and there was a lot about btrfs and how good it is. With this in mind, I tried to install my favorite Fedora Core system (Currently FC33) uner QEMU, but saw in the custom partitioning part of the dialogues that btrfs w

Re: Tools that count Load values are reporting HUGE numbers.

2020-07-14 Thread George R Goffe via test
n, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:17 PM George R Goffe via test > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running an uptodate Fedora Core 33 x86_64 system on a laptop. Processes > > are reporting HUGE numbers for load values. Top, htop, xosview and the new > > xosview pro

Tools that count Load values are reporting HUGE numbers.

2020-07-13 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm running an uptodate Fedora Core 33 x86_64 system on a laptop. Processes are reporting HUGE numbers for load values. Top, htop, xosview and the new xosview programs are affected. the ps command seems to report correctly though. For example: Top reports: top - 19:15:21 up 10:40, 16 users

Fw: fonts used by virt-manager display as tiny boxes with a number in each

2020-04-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
+0000, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to manage some VMs with virt-manager but where the text > was supposed to be, tiny boxes appeared with a number in each. There > are at least two bug reports on this but I thought I'd ask about this > here.

Re: fonts used by virt-manager display as tiny boxes with a number in each

2020-04-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
29 AM PDT, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 13:12 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to manage some VMs with virt-manager but where the text > was supposed to be, tiny boxes appeared with a number in each. There > are at least two bug r

Re: fonts used by virt-manager display as tiny boxes with a number in each (Adam Williamson)

2020-04-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
boxes with a     number in each To: George R Goffe , For testing and quality     assurance      of Fedora releases Message-ID:     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 13:12 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to manage some VM

Re: fonts used by virt-manager display as tiny boxes with a number in each

2020-04-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
egards, George... On Monday, April 6, 2020, 8:48:29 AM PDT, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 13:12 +, George R Goffe via test wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to manage some VMs with virt-manager but where the text > was supposed to be, tiny boxes appeared with a

fonts used by virt-manager display as tiny boxes with a number in each

2020-04-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I was trying to manage some VMs with virt-manager but where the text was supposed to be, tiny boxes appeared with a number in each. There are at least two bug reports on this but I thought I'd ask about this here. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821269 and https://bugzilla.red

A question about the blkid problem reported earlier.

2020-03-30 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, Sorry to bother you with this but I seem to have lost the root cause of the problem and it's resolution. Can anyone give me those details please? Best regards, George... ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

latest FC33 iso image will NOT boot

2020-03-10 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I just tried to boot this image "https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20200309.n.1.iso"; in a VM and the boot froze... around "reached target Basic System". After a while dracut appeared to time

Re: Problems with blkid hanging

2020-03-04 Thread George R Goffe via test
27;d file containing the output of a dmesg -k command. echo 'w' > /proc/sysrq-trigger worked GREAT! Regards, George... ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:22:32 -0800 From: Samuel Sieb Subject: Re: Problems with blkid hanging To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-

Re: Problems with blkid hanging

2020-03-04 Thread George R Goffe via test
blkid hanging To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 2/25/20 9:13 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > I don't see anything in the journal or in the output of "smartctl -a > /dev/sda3". > > Would you like to see th

Re: Problems with blkid hanging. (Samuel Sieb)

2020-02-25 Thread George R Goffe via test
s.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <81ab38ed-9728-18fa-7740-1ee46101f...@sieb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 2/25/20 2:17 AM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > /dev/sda3 8390656   33556479   25165824   12G 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > that offset in the

Re: Problems with blkid hanging. (Samuel Sieb)

2020-02-25 Thread George R Goffe via test
  = 4 415 261523 close(6) = 0 416 261523 close(5) = 0 417 261523 lseek(4, 12884836352, SEEK_SET Any thoughts? Regards, George... -- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:23:20 -0800 From: Samuel Sieb Subject: Re: Problems wi

Re: Problems with blkid hanging.

2020-02-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
d -u filesystem -o export -- /dev/sda3 Currently the VM is up and running on the new kernel without a swap partition. Where to go from here? Best regards, George... On Monday, February 24, 2020, 3:45:55 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 1:02 PM George R Goffe via tes

Re: Problems with blkid hanging.

2020-02-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
race -xvf blkid" trace file if that would help. Thanks again for your response. George... (still wondering what to do) };-) On Monday, February 24, 2020, 1:38:25 PM PST, stan wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:02:08 + (UTC) George R Goffe via test wrote: > I have done "strac

Problems with blkid hanging.

2020-02-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, A few weeks ago I wrote a bug against the blkid command, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi. I am still having trouble with blkid, this time it's in a VM (VirtualBox) while upgrading from FC32 to FC33. blkid is at the util-linux-2.35.1-4.fc32.x86_64 level running on kernel 5.6.0-0.r

Re: Strange message from dnf when trying to execute "dnf distro-sync".

2020-02-24 Thread George R Goffe via test
#x27;kernel*'" instead as there might be something weird with it getting parsed.  Le sam. 22 févr. 2020 à 04:37, George R Goffe via test a écrit : > Adam, > > Thanks for your response. > > I'm not sure what you mean about "More context might help.". Here

Re: Strange message from dnf when trying to execute "dnf distro-sync".

2020-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
86_64 requires kernel-uname-r = 5.6.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc32.x86_64, but none of the providers can be installed - conflicting requests (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) On Thursday, February 20, 2020, 8:16:49 AM PST, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2020-

Strange message from dnf when trying to execute "dnf distro-sync".

2020-02-19 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, This message looks wrong to me. Of course there could be something I don't understand. :-) Notice the text after "requires" below. Is there a syntax error in the "requires" part of the pkg? Regards, George... dnf distro-sync Last metadata expiration check: 0:25:21 ago on Wed 19 Feb 2020

Re: booting .iso image from fedoraproject.org

2020-02-17 Thread George R Goffe via test
2/16/20 10:22 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > I've switched to FC33 here and am seeing the same problems except that I've > noticed that it's on TTY1 ONLY. It's like the signals from the keyboard to > the tty are mixed up. TTY2-6 appear to be working correctly. WT

Re: booting .iso image from fedoraproject.org

2020-02-17 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Breaking news maybe... When I started having trouble this time with tty1 I switched to tty2... all is cool. I just had a brain storm... and thought I'd try strace on the agetty for tty1. It worked! I don't know what to do with the file. Got any ideas? Anyone interested? Best regards,

Re: booting .iso image from fedoraproject.org

2020-02-16 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, I've switched to FC33 here and am seeing the same problems except that I've noticed that it's on TTY1 ONLY. It's like the signals from the keyboard to the tty are mixed up. TTY2-6 appear to be working correctly. WTF over?  Current Kernel: 5.6.0-0.rc1.git2.1.fc33.x86_64 Previous kernel:

Re: booting .iso image from fedoraproject.org

2020-02-15 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, This is EXACTLY what I'm seeing. I updated my system last night. There were a bunch of F33 pkgs... and gpg keys are out of sync now. SIgh... It seems that all the kernels I have are exhibiting this problem except for 5.6.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc32.x86_64. Current kernels are: kernel-5.5.0-0.r

booting .iso image from fedoraproject.org

2020-02-15 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have just downloaded https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20200214.n.1.iso and proceeded to boot in a VM. It seems that the boot procedure has changed some. Yes? I booted several times

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