Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

Hi, I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa) OS in production environment. I have enabled both epel in /etc/yum.repos.d directory There is a proxy server setup in the network. I have whitelisted the below wildcard URLs as listed as per epel repo. https://*.fedoraproject.org *#

Re: multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 11:18 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > I strongly dislike the make-it-look-like Windows thinking that goes on I right with you on that. I escaped a few years of Windows hell to Linux, because I wanted something better. I get the impression some people just choose it because they

Re: EFI and fedora

Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: > On 9/25/2023 4:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > >Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: > >... > >There's no magic reserved space outside partitions that is used for > >booting anymore. The firmware finds the device, reads the partition > >table to find the

Re: EFI and fedora

On 9/25/2023 4:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: ... There's no magic reserved space outside partitions that is used for booting anymore. The firmware finds the device, reads the partition table to find the correct partition, mounts that partition and reads the

Re: Partition Type

On 9/25/23 03:47, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 12:30 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: On 9/24/23 01:22, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type > /dev/sdc1       1919950958 2464388050  544437093 259

Re: EFI and fedora

Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: >     In the days of mbr bios we could save the 512 of the HDD sector. > Now is all this gone with UEFI? Is the bootsector of the partition, > 512 to 1024 or so bytes no longer valid? IS there specific locations > that uefi files are stored in binary of the

EFI and fedora

    In the days of mbr bios we could save the 512 of the HDD sector. Now is all this gone with UEFI? Is the bootsector of the partition, 512 to 1024 or so bytes no longer valid? IS there specific locations that uefi files are stored in binary of the drive? Or, is that all gone now and we are ju

Re: Thunderbird 115 FC 38

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, September 24th, 2023 at 06:36, stan via users wrote: > If you aren't going to update to F39 when it is released (it's in > beta), then you could download the src.rpm and build it locally if you > ar

Re: multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

On 2023-09-25 09:39, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 2:34 AM Dave Close wrote: I wrote: > I detest a graphical login and insist on running in multi-user mode > (old runlevel 3). To start an X11 session after login, I can use the > startx command. But I haven'

Hung Virtual Machine

Power outage dropped my f38 system while a virtual Rawhide system was running. On restart the virtual machine is paused and none of the virt-manager shutdown, reset or delete work. It wasn't supposed to come up on a host restart. What can be done to clear the lock? Error resetting domain: Ti

Re: multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 2:34 AM Dave Close wrote: > I wrote: > > > I detest a graphical login and insist on running in multi-user mode > > (old runlevel 3). To start an X11 session after login, I can use the > > startx command. But I haven't found an equivalent command to start a > > Wayland sess

Re: multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 22:33 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > The principal advantage is that I get to see what the system is doing > during boot and login. I strongly dislike any interface that tries > to make things "simple" by hiding what it does. I don't trust things > that are hidden from view. I de

Re: multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 22:33 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > The principal advantage is that I get to see what the system is doing > during boot and login. I strongly dislike any interface that tries > to make things "simple" by hiding what it does. I don't trust things > that are hidden from view. AFAI

Re: Partition Type

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 12:30 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/24/23 01:22, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Is there a way to mount these partitions? > > > > Disk /dev/sdc: 3.83 MiB, 4014080 bytes, 7840 sectors > > Disk model: Mass Storage > > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > > Sector size (logical/p

Re: Current Stable Fedora Version?

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 7:55 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > I am currently on F38, but the other day when I was searching for > how to do something (which I've forgotten what it was) I found > instructions for F39 and F40. So I'm now curious as to what is the > current stable version of Fe

Fedora CoreOS 39 Test Week starts today!

Hey All! During the week of September 9-25 2023, the Fedora 39 CoreOS Test Week will be happening. The test week is an opportunity for the community to test FCOS based on Fedora 39 content before it is released as part of the `testing` and `stable` streams. As part of the Test Week, we'll host a