Re: Fedora31 install problem -

2019-11-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/31/19 23:43, Tim via users wrote: You could go back to gparted, and remove your partitions, making it a blank drive. . Tim: That is what the Anaconda installerwanted. I created a new "1 TB" partition wit gparted and then it went without any problems.It just popped up the Complete notice

Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-01 Thread Garry Williams
When did this start? garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel Changing password for user ppatel. New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/1/19 9:38 AM, Garry Williams wrote: When did this start? garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel Changing password for user ppatel. Have you changed your sudo settings? Why didn't it ask for your user password? The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine? Sinc

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 09:57:51 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > You don't say what Fedora version you are running. This doesn't happen > for me on F30. I get the warnings about short or otherwise bad > passwords, but it lets it happen anyway. Same here, no restrictions on fedora 30 or 31 (just install

Upgrade F30 to F31

2019-11-01 Thread Clifford Snow
Yesterday I upgraded to F31 after doing a backup. The upgrade was quick and smooth. So of the minor details: I was running Postgresql 11 which as upgraded to 12. PostGIS 3.0 was installed but I still needed to manually run in psql "ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;" and "ALTER EXTENSION postgis_top

What happened to initramfs?

2019-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
While investigating a problem, I decided to look in my initramfs to see what modules it loaded. There ain't anything there any longer! How does this stuff work these days? [root@tomh boot]# cpio -it < initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img . early_cpio kernel kernel/x86 kernel/x86/microcode kernel/

Re: What happened to initramfs?

2019-11-01 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Tom Horsley, 01.11.19, 18:47 CET: > While investigating a problem, I decided to look in > my initramfs to see what modules it loaded. > > There ain't anything there any longer! How does this > stuff work these days? > > [root@tomh boot]# cpio -it < initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img > . > earl

Re: Upgrade F30 to F31

2019-11-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 10:43 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: > Yesterday I upgraded to F31 after doing a backup. The upgrade was > quick and smooth. > > So of the minor details: > [...] > > In F30 I was running a gnome extension Dock or Dash to Dock. (I can't > remember which) Dock remains as an exten

Re: Upgrade F30 to F31

2019-11-01 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 11:18 AM Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > If you installed Dash-to-dock by hand in your own Gnome shell (from the > extensions Website), remove it and install the Fedora package for it: > gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock-67-1.fc31.noarch. > > Matthew Saltzman > Thanks Matthew

Re: too-nearly-full filesystem '/'. (was upgrade problem: space on '/' filesystem.)

2019-11-01 Thread home user
(replying to Ed) > Yes, make life easier on yourself and others.  I doubt > anyone would spend any time on an RFE of this sort. So, > just place this two line script in /etc/cron.weekly > #!/usr/bin/bash > find /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/ -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \; > (etc) On my system, th

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Friday, November 1, 2019 12:57:51 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/1/19 9:38 AM, Garry Williams wrote: > > When did this start? > > > > garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel > > Changing password for user ppatel. > > Have you changed your sudo settings? Why didn't it ask for your > user pa

Re: too-nearly-full filesystem '/'. (was upgrade problem: space on '/' filesystem.) [SOLVED]

2019-11-01 Thread home user
Good afternoon, everyone. After wrestling this for 17 days, here's where things stand: --- -bash.9[~]: du -hx -d1 / 5.4G    /var 4.0K    /system-upgrade-root 4.0K    /srv 17G    /usr 16K    /lost+found 51M    /etc 4.0K    /sysroot 4.0K    /mnt 1.4G    /root 4.0K    /media 238M    /opt

Re: What happened to initramfs?

2019-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:57:43 +0100 Markus Schönhaber wrote: > They're probably still there. I don't know how the initramfs' format may > have changed but > [root@ddt-f30 boot]# lsinitrd initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img > still shows that there's lots of modules in my initramfs. Yep, I see lots

Re: too-nearly-full filesystem '/'. (was upgrade problem: space on '/' filesystem.) [SOLVED]

2019-11-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/1/19 3:03 PM, home user wrote: * I did not forget your suggestion of re-partitioning to shift space from /home and using that for a new /var partition. Currently, I don't think any media I have has space for /home. And doing the re-partitioning would take more help from this list than thi

Re: What happened to initramfs?

2019-11-01 Thread Roger Heflin
they are now putting an early cpio in the intramfs that includes intel/amd firmware that will load before linux. If you want to use cpio to see the 2nd part you will have to use a dd if=initnam bs=512 skip= | zcat | cpio cmd The first part is uncompressed the 2nd part is compressed, the microcode

Re: Fedora31 install problem -

2019-11-01 Thread john . mellor
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 12:06 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 10/31/19 23:43, Tim via users wrote: > > You could go back to gparted, and remove your partitions, making it > > a > > blank drive. > . > Tim: > > That is what the Anaconda installerwanted. I created a new "1 TB" > partition wit gparted a

Re: Fedora31 install problem -

2019-11-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/1/19 5:34 PM, john.mel...@gmail.com wrote: The workaround was simple - just add an EFI boot selection to the BIOS list before all others, and it now boots as expected. As to why the installer chose to install an EFI image when the machine was not configured to use EFI, I have filed a bug o