On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM home user via users
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> Uh-oh.
> Here we go again.
> another "overloaded" term in the IT profession?
History, along with possible similar-but-not-quite-the-same terms in
different environments.
> I've been using the term "kernel" loosely and in a general way
On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM home user via users
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> # lsblk
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
> sda 8:00 1.8T 0 disk
> ├─sda1 8:10 600M 0 part /boot/efi
> ├─sda2 8:201G 0 part /boot
> └─sda3 8:30 1.8T 0 part /home
>
On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM home user via users
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>
> I'm trying to determine what partitions, volumes, and sub-volumes my
> old desktop has.
> I'm also trying to determine what top-level directories are in which
> partition/volume/sub-volume. I don't recall what commands to use, but
>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users
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> What is the (range of) sizes (in megabytes) of the current Fedora-42
> workstation kernel?
> How much of a difference does it make whether it's Gnome or KDE?
These are all Fedora 41 with KDE
- laptop 1 - 146M
- laptop 2 - 44M
- laptop 3
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM home user via users
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> What are the advantages of using sub-volumes?
Flexibility
> What are the trade-offs?
"With great power comes great responsibility."
OK - just complexity.
> Are they required or optional?
Totally optional (maybe depending on file sys
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM home user via users
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> When I ordered my desktop, I was told by 2 different salesmen that cases
> are no longer made with 5 1/4 inch slots. So I cannot do a blu-ray
> drive with a SATA interface. I had to order an external drive, and
> everything that I saw
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM home user via users
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> On 9/17/2025 1:27 PM, Go Canes wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM home user via users
> >> A drive is divided into sectors, which are divided into blocks. Am
> I right?
> >
> > Correct, alth
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM home user via users
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> So this [spinning disk] is good even for a full-length, 4K, 120 frames per
> second, at
> least 30 bits per pixel (10 per color primary) video movie with 384 KHz
> surround sound?
I have played 4K video off the laptop drive, but I can'
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM home user via users
wrote:
> Did I get the terminology wrong?
> The "phone modem" is not some gadget that I put a phone receiver on, and
> then dial in and connect via something like "kermit"(?). Maybe I should
> call it a broadband phone-modem? It's an Arris Surf
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM home user via users
wrote:
> A drive is divided into sectors, which are divided into blocks. Am I right?
Correct, although you usually don't care about sectors. In fact, most
modern spinning disk drives *lie* about the number of sectors and
their size. Only the
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM home user via users
wrote:
> Is there a 1-to-1 correspondence between "drive" and "volume". In other
> words, each drive corresponds to one and only volume, and each volume
> corresponds to one and only one drive?
No, there is not. A "volume" is a logical entity,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM home user via users
wrote:
> If a block goes bad in a partition, does that permanently reduce the
> partition's space, or does the operating system (or drive) somehow
> compensate?
Modern disk drives and SSDs usually have extra blocks that are used to
re-map bad b
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM home user via users
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> I think that ideally, long, high resolution videos would be better on
> the NVMe drive, because it's faster. But such files are also a lot
> bigger, and would quickly consume the drive's space. All the other user
> files being on the
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM Tim via users
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> Oh, and this bit (above)... It's hard to predict future needs, and I
> have my doubts about any modern hardware (including drives) lasting 10
> years.
You should expect a drive to fail 10 minutes after the warranty expires.
Sorry for the cy
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM home user via users
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> The new desktop has:
> * 1 TB M.2(?) NVMe(?) drive for the operating system and installed
> applications, and
> * 4 TB spindle drive for personal stuff.
> Assume that I want most things stored uncompressed and unencrypted.
> Assume that
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM home user via users
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> I'll most likely keep this old windows-10 box for emergency fall-back.
Does it need to be Windows? If so, have you checked to see if it can
be upgraded to Windows 11?
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users
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> I was wanting to do dual-boot solely so that I have a fall-back when
> weekly patching or semi-annual upgrading resulted in Fedora being
> minimally usable and with difficulty at that. or when it resulted
> in Fedora being unusable
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users
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> The term "BIOS" seems to be overloaded. It seems to have a broad
> meaning referring to "firmware", "software" that is "built-in" to the
> motherboard (or CPU?). It also seems to have a narrower meaning (for
> desktops) referring to fi
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM Ranjan Maitra via users
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> telnet mailserver portnumber
>
> on both machines.
>
> In the case of the laptop, I get:
>
> Trying IP address...
>
> (hangs)
>
> while in the case of the desktop, I get:
>
> Trying (same) IP address...
> Connected to mailserver
>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM home user via users
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> I've groped around the web, especially the Fedora Docs web site
> ("https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/";). I've not found any
> instructions on how to install on a blank desktop, let alone how to do a
> dual-boot install. What
OG poster has copied disk image, disk image fails to boot or fails to mount.
First question - is it failing to boot - i,.e, dropping you into a
dracut shell - or is it booting, failing, and dropping into the root
shell?
If failing to boot, you need to check *device* UUIDs in the grub.cfg
files in
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM home user via users
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>
>
> On 8/23/2025 1:22 PM, Go Canes wrote:
> > (snip) If I didn't
> > need to support Windows I would have probably gone with a Linux-only
> > solution.]
> such as? What would have been your Linux-onl
On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM ToddAndMargo via users
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> $ tar xjvf
> /home/CDs/Linux/Thunderbird/betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
>
> bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I see that you were able to
On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM home user via users
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> I'm now thinking 3 kinds of back-up:
> * incremental personal data back-ups, keep the 3 most recent, in-house.
> already doing this, but needs improvement.
> * larger semi-annual back-ups, all personal data, keep the 3 most
> recent, in-
On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM home user via users
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> On 8/22/2025 7:50 PM, Go Canes wrote:
[...]
> My hope is that I can get a reader/writer that fits into a "bay" of the
> desktop's case, just as on my old desktop the hard drive is mounted in a
> ca
On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM home user via users
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> Being not an IT professional, this seems complicated to me. I'll dig
> into it, but I'm not optimistic. I need simple.
My 2 cents, FWIW.
As others have said in this thread, for true write-protection (like
floppies provide) you wi
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
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> I have downloaded, over the Internet from IETF, using their rsync
> service for lots of years. I had a small hand in setting this up.
>
> But here I am working with a few servers on my local net, going to my
> local NAS. All L
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
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> rsync -tvz rsync.ietf.org::id-archive/*.txt /home/common/ietf/drafts
So you are rsyncing off the internet? In that case I think your main
option is the suggestion to use rsync with --dry-run, but in that case
if there are new fi
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM Go Canes wrote:
> find /source -xdev -mtime -1
you *might* be able to add "-type d" to only check directory
modification times - I think it would depend on the specifics of the
modification. I.e. if you only change the files modes, I'm not
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
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> But is there some way to evaluate the source and see if any changes have
> occurred since the last rsync (or some time) and only trigger rsync
> accordingly?
find /source -xdev -mtime -1
If no files are listed, nothing has been
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM Will McDonald wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 at 11:00, Michael D. Setzer II via users
> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't been able to figure out what causes this or a solution to fix
>> it other than manually deleting the text.
>
>
> I assume you mean ^[[[200~ copied text ~
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM Go Canes wrote:
>
> I recently updated the BIOS on a new Dell XPS 16 running Fedora 40.
> Prior to the update everything was working fine. After the update,
> grub displays the boot menu and indicates it is booting the default
> entry, then...not
Tim:
> And it can't be mounted.
Were you trying to mount /dev/sdb, or /dev/sdb1 and then /dev/sdb2?
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM Frédéric wrote:
> To solve half of my issues, I was thinking of moving my VM from
> VirtualBox to KVM. Maybe some of you could share their experience:
> - Has anyone done that before?
Yes - I moved a couple of VMs running Windows 10 from VirtualBox to KVM.
> - Is
On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM Frederic Muller wrote:
> Any idea why this is happening? I check the authorized_keys and it's
> there, and it's the same as the /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys and the
> key.pub for that user on my local machine.
Verify the permissions on the relevant files *and* di
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM ToddAndMargo via users
wrote:
> I have an Windows 11 ISO I burned to a 8GB USB
> stick. The burning process removed a bunch of
> hardware silliness.
>
> The stick is only about 5BG used.
>
> Is there a way to make an ISO out of the stick
> and only get the used s
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM Michael Hennebry
wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 May 2025, Go Canes wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 3:05?PM Michael Hennebry
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I downloaded
> >> Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
> >>
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM Michael Hennebry
wrote:
>
> I downloaded
> Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
> and followed directions to check the checksum.
So you should have a good download.
> dd'ed the file to /dev/sdf .
> At the time, that was a USB adapter for an SD card.
Follow t
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> [...]
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> [...]
Unless you are already root that probably should be "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You mentioned that you installed the non-graphical system, then added
> the desktop later. That's why I thought the server one didn't let you
> add desktops during install.
I installed the desktop as part of the Fedora install. Sorry if I led
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> I missed that you were using the netinstall version of the server
> install. I didn't realize there was one. The everything install lets
> you install the graphical desktop as well. Also, at least the
> filesystem defaults are different with
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM George N. White III wrote:
> My Dell systems did something similar. On this one, the EFI Fedora entry
> (Boot0001) had
> been replaced with what is now (after renaming) Boot0003 below. A recent
> BIOS update
> made Boot0003 the default, but I got the system to
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> On 4/11/25 6:45 PM, Go Canes wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM Tim via users
> > wrote:
> >> When I installed Fedora 40 (I think, it's 40), I couldn't get the usual
> >> installation
A thought that occurs to me
The various Fedora boot failures are occurring after grub, but before
any kernel output. Failure loading initrd image? So maybe something
to do with RAM that the BIOS testing isn't detecting, or something to
do with decompressing the image? Either way, why would
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM Tim via users
wrote:
> When I installed Fedora 40 (I think, it's 40), I couldn't get the usual
> installation ISOs to work. I had to use the server spin, I believe it
> used a different bootloading method. I installed a non-graphical
> system, afterwards installin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM Marco Moock wrote:
> I assume it is an UEFI (some vendors still call that BIOS).
Yes, UEFI which Dell still calls BIOS
> Can you reset it to the default settings?
While I didn't list it, this has been tried. More than once.
> Does it support CSM?
I can't find
I recently updated the BIOS on a new Dell XPS 16 running Fedora 40.
Prior to the update everything was working fine. After the update,
grub displays the boot menu and indicates it is booting the default
entry, then...nothing.
I have performed the following tests and/or remedial actions:
- attempt
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM Tim via users
wrote:
> For one like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ob9LHPEaKY you can type
> ob9LHPEaKY into the YouTube search gadget and it will find that clip.
> And for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_qS_3KXBA typing just this
> _qS_3KXBA bit into the sear
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM home user via users
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> The sub-tree I'm searching is loaded with huge binary files along with some
> ".txt" files. The searches take several minutes each. How do I restrict the
> search to ".txt" files? ...
Same as my previous reply, adding .txt to the w
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> On 3/26/25 2:49 PM, Go Canes wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users
> >> wrote:
> >>> I'm trying
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use
> > this:
> >
> > find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null
[...]
> > How do I get this t
Problem appears to have been solved by a UEFI/BIOS upgrade.
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Moving forward, buy an inexpensive Intel NUC when you want an
> inexpensive server. The thing about the NUCs is, Intel provied
> BIOS/UEFI updates. Eventually power problems get fixed in the firmware
> so you don't have to putz around with ke
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM Tim via users
wrote:
> Check for screensavers. You could have one that is crashing.
I don't run any screensavers. Even if I were, lack of lock-up when a
Windows VM is running would suggest a screensaver is not the issue.
Thank you for the suggestion!
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Go Canes wrote:
> > - systemctl entries for sleep, suspend, hibernate have been masked - no
> > change
> I don't use systemd-sleep.conf(5). Instead, I use the follow
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM Barry wrote:
> Check that the power settings are the same on the working and not working
> laptops.
Power settings are as identical as I can make them given differences
in the UEFI BIOS. Power settings within KDE are identical.
> Look in the system journal to se
I have a laptop running F40 Server with KDE, fully updated, that I
have been using without issue. I am in the process of moving to a new
laptop and plan to repurpose the old one. But I am running into an
issue with the old laptop.
If the laptop is idle it locks up after ~25 minutes. "Idle" can
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Johnston-39/Music-du-Jour-163-Victor-Borge-Sometimes-a-musician-is-just-fun-Victor-Borge-1909-2000-I-m-not-entirely-sure?ch=10&oid=204260273&share=1532059d&srid=uMi1o&target_type=post
I'm on Fedora 40 w
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM Stephen Morris
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> [...] dnf check-upgrade seems to me to be new with dnf5
I've been using dnf check-upgrade for years.
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM Dave Close wrote:
>
> # dnf -y install pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
> Updating and loading repositories:
> ...
> Repositories loaded.
> Failed to resolve the transaction:
> No match for argument: pkg3
> You can try to add to command line:
> --skip-unavailable to skip unavailab
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> > If it's genuinely small, it might be trivial to rewrite?
>
> You can find the script at:
>
> https://github.com/zepalmer/script-vdr
>
On line 88 put "r" in front of "'\s" -> "r'\s".
That will at least get it as far as showing the he
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> You can find the script at:
>
> https://github.com/zepalmer/script-vdr
>
> It's quite old but I found it useful with X11. I'm interested in trying
> it under Wayland as a workaround for the broken session restore in
> Plasma. Hopefully
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:43 PM Go Canes wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
> wrote:
> > > If it's genuinely small, it might be trivial to rewrite?
> >
> > You can find the script at:
> >
> > https://github.com/z
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:45 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to convert a small Python-2 script to Python-3.
How small? It might be easy to do by-hand. I.e., if it is aborting
on things like "print 'something'", that just needs to be changed to
"print('something')"
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM Meikel wrote:
> > If the above looks good, try adding a new user and see if you can
> > login as that user.
>
> It is not clear to me how I can do this, as I'm only able to start from
> a live media. If I run something like "useradd" this will add a user on
> the li
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM Stephen Morris
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I having a little difficulty understanding the R+W graph display from
> IOTOP, and what the difference between a graph displayed by dots and graphs
> displayed by a solid block.
> Having said that though, the thrashing of my
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 9:43 AM Meikel wrote:
> Nov 14 01:30:09 meikel-pc unix_chkpwd[1505]: check pass; user unknown
> Nov 14 01:34:49 meikel-pc unix_chkpwd[1522]: check pass; user unknown
> Nov 14 01:34:49 meikel-pc unix_chkpwd[1522]: password check failed for
> user (meikel)
Start with the fun
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> On 11/11/24 1:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > As a side issue, I might be treading on thin ice here, I have never done
> > any of the post-install processes on any version of Fedora. Until I saw
> > references to them in this list when I was
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users
wrote:
> I don't use the server install of Fedora though. I use a
> Live USB. Then I dnf whatever server programs I want.
> That keeps me from having a tons of junk I don't use
> running.
WIth the Server netinstall ISO you can control what
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM Stephen Morris
wrote:
> Looking at my efi environment, I have, gcdia32.efi gcdx64.efi grubia32.efi
> grubx64.efi mmia32.efi mmx64.efi shim.efi shimia32.efi and shimx64.efi. I'm
> not sure where all of these have come from unless it is because I'm running
> an AMD
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 6:11 PM Stephen Morris
wrote:
> On 30/10/24 11:51, Go Canes wrote:
> My output from efibootmgr is below. The boot order specified in the
> output is the boot order specified in my motherboard bios, not the boot
> orders specified in the grub menus.
I
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:16 PM ToddAndMargo via users
wrote:
> Cool command. Thank you!
You're welcome/
> BootCurrent:
You are currently booted using variable Boot
> Boot* fedora/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/
> HD(1,GPT,6e58cd53-8fbd-4b97-bce2-fa7c43e105f3,0x800,0x64000)/\EFI\FEDORA\GRUBX
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 4:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users
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> That is what I did. Did ot work:
>
> # grub2-install /dev/nvme0n1 --force
If you are using UEFI, grub2-install is essentially a no-op (unless
something weird is going on). Here's why
Take a look at the output of "sudo efiboot
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 2:39 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I have some old hardware that needs a refresh. The old machine is
> running Fedora 40 x86_64 fully patched. The new machine is running the
> same on a fresh OS install. I want to get a list of packages I
> manually installed on the old machin
On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 12:03 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I did a little more investigating by running fdisk -l and here is what I
> found on my server install:
>
> Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 400 GiB, 429496729600 bytes, 838860800 sectors
> Disk model: VMware Virtual NVMe Disk
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 9:10 PM ToddAndMargo via users
wrote:
> I am literally looking for "9.4.5" with grep. Grep thinks
> I want the dots to be wild cards. What am I doing wrong?
>
> $ curl -L "https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/"; -o -
> | grep -i '9.4.5'
Option 1 - '-i' m
On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 10:57 AM wrote:
>
> On 9/8/24 10:32 pm, Go Canes wrote:
> > Maybe extract the xml file from e4.saved and use it for the VM?
>
> I do not understand this. Why extract it? I am rather convinced that the
> embedded xml is used on resume,
> and the one
On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM wrote:
> I looked into the saved memory (e4.saved for me) and I see that it contains
> the e4.xml file
> that is usually in /etc/libvirt/qemu/.
>
> Any other ideas?
Maybe extract the xml file from e4.saved and use it for the VM? Just
long enough to get it resumed
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM wrote:
>
> I received no response (well, one me-too) and it may be time to just trash
> the saved file. I'd rather not.
>
> Nobody knows how to get around this problem? Really?
> [...]
> On 13/7/24 3:07 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > Following an upgrade of the host
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 4:21 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> I'd definitely not edit the grub.cfg files directly. They both have a
> commentary saying they are autogenerated. I assume /etc/kernel/cmdline
> is also autogenerated (rpm says it doesn't belong to any package).
The idea is to edit the
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 8:48 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> [grub mounting root from wrong device]
> Not sure what to do other than manually editing the loader entry.
Congrats on progress!
Manually editing files is what I have done when needed. Edit
/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, /boot/grub2/g
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 7:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get:
>
> # grub2-install
> grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist.
> Please specify --target or --directory.
>
> I do have a modinfo.sh for i32, but not for x86_64.
Note the quotes have been re-ordered for clarity
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 6:32 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> # efibootmgr
> BootCurrent: 0001
[...]
> Boot0001* Fedora
> HD(1,GPT,8a303a03-0b91-453a-8555-f9627c261f65,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi424f
> # blkid
[...]
> /dev/
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> I tried disabling the SSD (in the bootable drives list). It made no
> difference.
Just to be clear - did you disable the drive or just remove it from
the bootable list? What we want to do here is prevent the BIOS from
reading from the
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> However none of the UUIDs seen by efibootmgr correspond to anything on
> any of the drives.
Re-read my reply. Both of the efibootmgr variables *do* correspond to
existing UUIDs.
> > Can you disable the SSD in "BIOS"?
> Yes, but the NV
I think quoting levels are getting messed up
> $ efibootmgr
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0001,0002
> Boot0001* Fedora
> HD(1,GPT,8a303a03-0b91-453a-8555-f9627c261f65,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi424f
> Boot0002* Fedora
> HD(1,GPT,e7207d2d-
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 8:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
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> None of those numbers correspond to any of my UUIDs:
[followed by lsblk -fs]
Use "blkid" - it will show the UUID of the device and the PARTUUID of
the partition for all your disks.
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 6:03 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
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> I've cloned my existing SSD onto a new NVMe drive, copying EFI (vfat),
> /boot (ext4) and root+/home (BTRFS with /home subvolume) partitions and
> editing /etc/fstab appropriately.
>
> However I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) I'm p
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM Javier Perez wrote:
> ok, Found something.
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers
>
> Let me try that out.
The top of my /etc/yum.repos.d/virtio-win.repo has:
# virtio-win yum repo
# Details: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers
Sor
[Trimmed a lot of text - this is all regarding teal messages showing
up when booting.]
Last night I was troubleshooting a problem and booted with "norhgb
noquiet", and I see the teal messages (this is on F39). As near as I
can tell the teal messages are just the stdout from the programs
executing
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 6:22 AM Javier Perez wrote:
> I want to virtualize win2k to play a game and I installed the virtualization
> packages
> I was able to create an VM using my old win2k cd no problem.
> Display was 640x480. Moving it to 800x600 gave me a black screen.
If they are available f
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>
> I wonder then if this is an issue due to dnf upgrade? I've used dnf
> upgrade to upgrade my system since at least F35. I wonder if at some
> point there was a syslog file which then became rsyslog and the old
> syslog file was never remov
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 12:10 PM Mike Wright
wrote:
> The manpage is confusing in this regard. It offers this:
>
> -a|--activate y|n|ay
>
> So, is that -a y and -a ay ? Dunno...
I always use "vgchange -a y" to activate and "vgchange -a n" to deactivate.
With an external disk, it may also
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM Frank Bures wrote:
> On 2024-07-02 12:56, Go Canes wrote:
> > Care to explain what you are trying to achieve?
>
> Well, I had boot problems before and I found using grub prompt and manual
> recovery somehow cumbersome. So I thought maybe I could
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:49 AM Frank Bures wrote:
> What I want is to create a USB stick with /boot and /boot/efi fs in such a
> way that it boots an existing F40 installation on a HD.
As I understand things...
- your computer will need to be told to boot off the USB drive -
either a boot option
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC):
> >> Beartooth wrote:
> >>> Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not
> >>> display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also
> >>> gives me a link to Me
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:20 PM Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> I've always set my emacs alternatives to lucid emacs. Today I
> did a big dnf update, rebooted to get new kernel, and then got
> an error when I started emacs about the "pure GTK" version
> not operating correctly under X11 (one of the reasons
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM ToddAndMargo via users
wrote:
> 1) does these really thin laptops have their wifi
> cards soldered in or can they be replace? (I can
> usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.)
That would depend on the specific model. The wi-fi card in a Dell XPS
13 or 17 are n
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:17 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
wrote:
> Thanks!
You're welcome!
> Well, I followed
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/setting-kernel-command-line-arguments-with-fedora-30/
>
> and
>
> # grubby --update-kernel=ALL
> --remove-args="resume=UUID=8e895273-b3ca-465e-b991-b7a
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:31 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
wrote:
>
> Am 09.06.2024 um 20:09 schrieb Go Canes:
> > On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 7:47 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
> > wrote:
> >> What I don't understand: What produced the entry "resume=UUID=8e
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