Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-04-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2024-04-30 10:58 AM, John Pilkington wrote: (fedoraforum) has a suggestion of trimming the journalctl log, but neither that nor any other space-clearing actions that I have tried has made any difference. Have you made snapshots of your system volume, or installed any applications that mig

Re: Function Key becomes permanently pressed after a couple of minutes after boot (temporary fix: reboot)

2023-12-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
You may have pressed Fn+Esc together, which activates Fn lock. https://community.frame.work/t/swap-function-multimedia-keys-by-default/12856/10 -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.

Re: Thunderbird 115 FC 38

2023-09-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-09-23 10:45, steven stern wrote: I see that Thunderbird 115.2 is in koji, but it looks like it has not been build for Fedora 38. Is that coming? https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=39 https://i.imgur.com/bKEMxjt.png I would probably ask that question in this BZ

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-03-15 10:40, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: The Fedora memtest86+-5.31 is broken and they have been informed of how to get the newer 6.10 version to work, but have done nothing. I don't think that's fair to the maintainers.  There hasn't been a memory test application (neither

Re: is root realy root ?

2023-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-01-21 15:37, Jeffrey Walton wrote: chown: changing ownership of '/root/.cache/doc': Operation not permitted It sounds like selinux. If the problem were SELinux, the system would report "permission denied" and not "operation not permitted".  You can verify this with a little bit of

Re: kernel bug? listening on same port with IPv4 and IPv6

2023-01-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-01-08 08:14, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: and see the difference in behavior.  When using "all", the second round (IPv4) says that bind returns 1 unexpectedly, and the port is also unexpected.  When using "localhost", both IPv6 and IPv4 succeed and listen to the same port, but using two di

Re: kernel bug? listening on same port with IPv4 and IPv6

2023-01-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-01-06 06:17, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: I have a program that is supposed to listen to the same port on both IPv4 and IPv6 sockets.  In the past, what it did, was basically: create new socket for IPv6, set option IPV6_V6ONLY to off, bind, listen; then create a new socket for IPv4, and also

Re: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux?

2022-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2022-12-06 04:55, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: From the above quotes, I thought that Meta/Facebook servers are using Fedora Linux, or at least Linux servers. As far as I know, the answer is "No".  Their production platform is based on CentOS Stream. https://www.youtube.com/wat

Re: Runing Android apps?

2022-07-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/1/22 00:13, Frederic Muller wrote: I was wondering if there was any simpler way to run just 1 'single' android app on F36? Note that the app uses BT to gather one external device information, in case that matters. There's ongoing work to bring waydroid to Fedora: https://bugzilla.red

Re: auto unlock encrypted disks using clevis/tang works for ext4 but not btrfs?

2022-06-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/10/22 11:29, Barry Scott wrote: What logs do I need to collect? I'd start by looking at "journalctl -b0" You might be able to find clevis information in there. Another interesting item might be to run "ls -l /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img > initramfs-$(hostname)" and to diff the two r

Re: Problems with Borg backup on F36

2022-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/20/22 14:15, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Thanks, but it's a desktop and the issue appears to be related to the latest version of Borg. The check errors happen across all of my existing backups, not just one. As a result of deduplication, it's expected that all (or most) of your backups wi

Re: Problems with Borg backup on F36

2022-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/16/22 08:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I updated to F36 a few days ago and everything seemed to go smoothly until I noticed my regular nightly backups were failing. I use Borgbackup and the configuration has been stable for a long time with no problems. The actual backup does seem to succee

Re: SSH hangs when including command to execute

2022-05-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/7/22 12:45, C Linus Hicks wrote: the remote machines are derivitives of RHEL 6,7,8 You may be running in to a known issue (BZ#1972266), if ForwardX11 is set in ssh_config on the client and X11Forwarding yes is set in sshd_config on the remote host. Check the server for /etc/profile.d/

Re: to wayland or not?

2022-04-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Wayland desktop sessions run Xwayland, which is an X11 server that displays to a wayland display, for compatibility with applications that don't natively support wayland. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: ssh resolving with systemd.resolved

2022-04-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/24/22 10:00, Michael Hennebry wrote: What would a systemd evangelist suggest as a minimal workaround? systemctl disable systemd-resolved && systemctl stop systemd-resolved rm /etc/resolv.conf systemctl restart NetworkManager As documented in the original change proposal: https://fedorapr

Re: ssh infested by systemd.resolved

2022-04-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/17/22 12:26, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I don't see where it's picking this up. The only thing I can think of is nsswitch.conf, but the "hosts" entry there is identical to what's on another, un-upgraded system. Maybe remove the "resolve" entry from the hosts line: $ rpm -qf /lib64/libnss_r

Re: glibc hwcaps and clear linux vs fedora

2022-04-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/11/22 02:01, old sixpack13 wrote: how sick must one (=> @poc) be to repeatingly kick users asking for help against their head ? This is not being courteous. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: glibc hwcaps and clear linux vs fedora

2022-04-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/9/22 14:41, Reon Beon via users wrote: This is petty much the only thing that keep people running Clear Linux over Fedora, no? It would promote more meaningful discussion if you provided more context for your question.  If you mean, is that the only reason that Clear Linux performs bet

Re: glibc hwcaps and clear linux vs fedora

2022-04-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
I would like to ask everyone involved in this thread to observe the mailing list guidelines and be courteous to each other: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Be_Courteous ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: WSL

2022-04-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/5/22 00:14, Patrick Dupre wrote:, Does somebody have experience with fedora and WSL? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install It's reasonably straightforward to install an unpackaged distribution, you just need a tarball of the distribution.  And lots of those are available

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
If I'm reading this thread correctly, your original setup was as follows: - - 108.90.204.76/24 -> gw: 108.90.204.1 / arris BGW210-700 \ - 192.168.1.254/24 (Blackhole-ATT WiFi network) - 108.220.213.126/29 - 108.220.213.121/29 -> gw: 108.220.213.126 / netgear nighthawk \ - 10.0.0.1/24 -

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/4/22 00:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you connect the Nighthawk to the BGW210 using one of the LAN ports on the Nighthawk, everything would be on the 192.168.1.x subnet and you could use the same SSID on both devices.  You would need to disable the DHCP server on the Nighthawk and most likely

Re: Fedora Laptop?

2022-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/14/22 14:47, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 05:21:36PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: I also have 2 firmware updates which don't seem to install. I’ve seen this happen if you have the AMT disabled in the BIOS. You can’t install the BIOS firmware updates without it. Also ne

Re: If venv is a reality can I build a program python wit it for more security ?

2022-02-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/24/22 02:33, Dorian ROSSE wrote: If venv is a reality can I build a program python wit it for more security ? No, venv won't give you any additional security if a python module has malicious code. If you don't fully trust a python module but you want to run it anyway, consider buildin

Re: does i am able to build a python program for rpm using '''python setup.py bdist_rpm''' with dependency python in virtual using '''python3 -m pip install --user env venv '''

2022-02-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/22/22 03:01, Dorian ROSSE wrote: Can I create with this line of command : '''python3 -m pip install env venv ''' then the other line of command, The package generated by bdist_rpm should be the same regardless of whether or not you install the package in a venv. Consider using the "py

Re: does i am able to build a python program for rpm using '''python setup.py bdist_rpm''' with dependency python in virtual using '''python3 -m pip install --user env venv '''

2022-02-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/20/22 01:39, Dorian ROSSE wrote: does i am able to build a python program for rpm using '''python setup.py bdist_rpm''' with dependency python in virtual using '''python3 -m pip install --user env venv ''', I think those two things are mostly unrelated.  The rpm created by bdist_rpm wil

Re: Kernel crash every day at 6:30am

2022-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/12/22 14:59, Alex wrote: Here's a bit of the kernel message from dmesg [ cut here ] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 633983 at kernel/exit.c:739 do_exit+0x37/0xa90 general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xcc2a8cfcb62a56a1: [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 63398

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 11:19, John Mellor wrote: SSDs have no appreciable seek time and have much faster read rates that spinning rust.  Depending upon how much onboard RAM cache they provide (some even provide no cache), you may also see considerably better burst write speed, although sustained write spee

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 08:35, Thomas Cameron wrote: RAID0 is great for increasing throughput, but it is the most risky RAID configuration possible. I would never run /home on RAID0 unless I was doing something like two drives in RAID0 but doing nightly backups to a third drive in case my RAID0 volume broke

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 08:11, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: TL;DR are there particular workloads that suffer from having to access a RAID0 array? If uptime is excluded as a factor, then I'm not aware of any. I've currently got my /home partition in a BTRFS RAID0 array with two 1 TB mechanical drives, and I'm

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 12:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: How can I have it running every Saturday ? Change the "last run date" in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly. (For reference: This is indicated by the "FILES" section of the anacron(8) man page.) ___ users mailing

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

2022-02-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/8/22 04:56, Peter Boy wrote: The quote describes a situation which has gone for more of a decade now. Since we have LVM (when got that part of the Linux kernel? kernel 2.6? 2004 or so? Don’t know exactly), no one would partition a hard disk along file system subdirectories. You create logi

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

2022-02-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/7/22 14:12, jdow wrote: Ah, fix it so that when the system logs run away you can also destroy user data that has not been written yet. That's... not really how POSIX works.  And most logs on Fedora should be in the journal at this point, has a maximum size. Gd planning. Why bothe

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

2022-02-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/6/22 08:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: so why are / and /home the same device? To the question of "why," I'd think the answer is in the discussion held in the devel@ mailing list linked below. Generally, sharing the storage pool in order to avoid running out of space in one location when the

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/31/22 06:27, Ed Greshko wrote: I needed no such change to my F35's host file for it to function properly.  Probably will never find out why yours did. Probably because the server configuration was modified.  Robert reported: > On the server: > [plugh-3g ~]# cat /sys/module/nfsd/paramete

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/29/22 20:36, Robert Nichols wrote: If I could find any way to set the client's domain name, I would. Nothing I try has any effect on the domain name. When I try to set a FQDN with hostnamectl, then "hostnamectl" (with no arguments) shows that FQDN as the static hostname, but "hostname --fq

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/29/22 17:20, Ed Greshko wrote: In the initial posting by Robert he wrote: "I have no nfs-idmapd service running" Right, but on recent kernels, the client doesn't use rpc.idmapd, it uses "nfsidmap".  The fact that rpc.idmapd isn't running doesn't really tell us anything. "all users a

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/28/22 23:32, Ed Greshko wrote: But I do have nfs-idmapd.service with "Domain = localdomain" in its configuration file. If I change that to "Domain = local" and restart nfs-idmapd.service I do get [root@fedora ~]# nfsidmap -d local But everything works no matter what the setting https

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/28/22 06:08, Robert Nichols wrote: Where does Fedora get its domain name? When I type "hostname --fqdn" I get "hostname: Name or service not known". The CentOS 8 VM apparently gets its domain name from the /etc/hostname file, which contains "cent9-vm.local". This does not appear to work in

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/25/22 08:35, Robert Nichols wrote: In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are of the form: "name '@local' does not map into domain

Re: Fedora 35 and Intel Iris XE Graphics

2022-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/12/22 12:04, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/12/22 10:33, Sbob wrote: Does anyone know if Fedora 35 works well with the Intel Iris XE Graphics? I have a Dell XPS 13 9310 with Iris XE.  Initially, there were problems, mostly observed as the screen not updating some regions.  I worked around

Re: SSL Level?

2022-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/22/22 12:18, a...@clueserver.org wrote: The script for ssl in nmap does not deal with ssl v3. At this point, if you see anything less than TLS 1.2, you should treat it as a bug. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: SSL Level?

2022-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/22/22 12:13, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Is there a way to get one of those fancy tool in nmap to tell me the "level" (version) of SSL and/or TLS that a web site is using? You're on the right track, and if you'd done a web search for "nmap scan tls", you'd probably have found a useful

Re: Fedora 35 and Intel Iris XE Graphics

2022-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/12/22 10:33, Sbob wrote: Does anyone know if Fedora 35 works well with the Intel Iris XE Graphics? I have a Dell XPS 13 9310 with Iris XE.  Initially, there were problems, mostly observed as the screen not updating some regions.  I worked around that by adding "i915.enable_psr=0" to the

Re: movie screen shot?

2022-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/2/22 23:32, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I need to send a tech support guy a movie of what is happening and what I am doing with their program. Is there a way to make a movie of an area on my screen? https://opensource.com/article/19/8/record-screencasts-gnome3 If recording the entire

Re: The definitive guide to replacing a disk in raid1?

2021-12-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/24/21 14:29, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 24Dec2021 12:09, Gordon Messmer wrote: Additionally, it should be performed *after* adding the replacement disk to the RAID set, not before. Is that true? My (blurry) mental model for this issue is that the boot block isn't in the area maint

Re: The definitive guide to replacing a disk in raid1?

2021-12-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/24/21 06:38, cen wrote: # remove raid metadata mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdd1 Assuming the new disk hasn't been used, that step is probably unnecessary. # install bootloader on new disk grub2-install /dev/sdd1 That looks wrong, it should probably be 'grub2-install /dev/sdd'.  A

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/4/21 19:15, murph nj wrote: Got another opportunity, redirected lsof /home and lsof /other to files, and there was no output. Interesting... Is there an error if you try to unmount those yourself? I did get output from systemctl-list-jobs (edited lightly) JOB  UNIT                

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-12-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/1/21 18:03, murph nj wrote: lsof showed nothing that I could see. Nothing, or nothing interesting?  I'd expect you to at least see the CWD of the debug shell. The stop job rotates between four mounted volumes, and the lvm2-monitor.service. In the past, I've seen lvm2-monitor beh

Re: disk full

2021-11-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:06 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > 631500 /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-LU5PD1 > 6326584 /var/tmp This seems like a really good place to start cleaning up. You'e got 6GB used in /var/tmp, much of which might be failed flatpak installs? https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/111

Re: Message threading on this list

2021-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/25/21 13:46, John Pilkington wrote: Thank you for that link.  I hadn't been aware of that possibility.  But I was really thinking of the Hyperkitty display, which appears as the archive default.  Having a too-large local mailbox I don't often use it, and its multiple endpoints seemed le

Re: Message threading on this list

2021-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/23/21 14:06, John Pilkington wrote: I'm used to reading messages in order of time of arrival.  Threaded display in Thunderbird, or the presentation of the archive by Hyperkitty, doesn't do this Right... Hyperkitty also shows messages in threaded mode, where replies are grouped in the l

Re: F35: Default audio output device

2021-11-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/16/21 15:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, anyone knows how to set the permanent default output device? A search for "pipewire set persistent default" brings up a few discussions suggesting that pipewire *should* save the default across sessions, but that was broken in 0.3.33, and then fi

Re: crontab -e now invokes nano! ARGH!!!

2021-11-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/16/21 10:18, Robert Moskowitz wrote: F35 change from F32; may have occurred earlier. Change in Fedora 33: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault VI was sooo easy to use.   Now I have to learn nano? No, now new users don't have to learn to use vim.  You can set what

Re: nothing provides libcrypto.so.10()(64bit) needed by viber-16.1.0.37-2.x86_64

2021-11-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
P.S.: The reason that package isn't included any more is given as the last commit message to the package repo, "Retired due to security issues and general obsolescence."  Beware that an application that uses OpenSSL 1.0 relies on unmaintained software that may have security vulnerabilities th

Re: nothing provides libcrypto.so.10()(64bit) needed by viber-16.1.0.37-2.x86_64

2021-11-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/9/21 01:40, Frederic Muller wrote: Viber desktop user here and it seems I can't install the latest version as I'm getting this message: nothing provides libcrypto.so.10()(64bit) needed by viber-16.1.0.37-2.x86_64 soversion 10 was provided by OpenSSL 1.0, according to https://src.fedor

Re: F35 GNOME screen blank doesn't work properly, what component to file under?

2021-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/7/21 17:48, Andre Robatino wrote: I wasn't expecting that to work, but oddly enough it seems to, since I got several incoming emails while away and the display was still off. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks. Good.  Seems like a usable workaround, though a lock screen notification *shou

Re: F35 GNOME screen blank doesn't work properly, what component to file under?

2021-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/7/21 09:15, Andre Robatino wrote: But if the screen is already blank, any notification from any application (Thunderbird email, hexchat alert, dnfdragora updates) causes the display to turn back on What happens if you open the "Notifications" settings panel and turn off "lock screen no

Re: Does the program llvm break all the hardware or only some of it ?

2021-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/22/21 09:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Problem Report. PR stands for "pull request", which is terminology that comes from the use of git.  When someone suggests that you send a PR, they're suggesting that you check out the git repo, make the changes you think are appropriate, commit

Re: capabilities of softwares on fedora vs on developper's platform

2021-10-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/20/21 19:08, Gordon Messmer wrote: It looks like Blender has a build time option to dynamically load (i.e., dlopen) the cuda library As far as I can tell, the CUDA libraries must be present in the build environment in order to build that support: Though I could be wrong... there

Re: capabilities of softwares on fedora vs on developper's platform

2021-10-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/20/21 08:32, Richard Shaw wrote: As Ed and Patrick point out, the difference is probably CUDA. The CUDA client libraries are not licensed appropriately for redistribution, therefore they are not packaged in Fedora.  And since they aren't packaged, they aren't available

Re: capabilities of softwares on fedora vs on developper's platform

2021-10-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/20/21 01:26, François Patte wrote: Why this difference? As Ed and Patrick point out, the difference is probably CUDA. The CUDA client libraries are not licensed appropriately for redistribution, therefore they are not packaged in Fedora.  And since they aren't packaged, they aren't av

Re: OT: managed switch recommendations

2021-10-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/18/21 03:33, Frederic Muller wrote: Was looking for something safe and reliable, 8 or 16 ports, managed For SOHO installations, I like HPE OfficeConnect 1820 switches (J9979A). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: I need help getting a web page with curl

2021-10-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
... somewhat amusing, you and I have had almost exactly this conversation before: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TH2MUWDQHD2T7ZAAOA75K3AYO5W2ZECF/ ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: I need help getting a web page with curl

2021-10-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/12/21 02:13, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I wrote a program to go out to web pages and check revisions on about 70 programs that I support at my customer sites. Well, I have a couple of questions...  The commands and output that you posted earlier pulled some text from a commit messag

Re: I need help getting a web page with curl

2021-10-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/11/21 18:02, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: This simulates what I came up with in my actual code: $ curl --silent 'https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/spice-nsis/-/commits/master' | raku -ne 'my Str $x=slurp(); $x~~s/.*? "rebase on " //; $x~~s/ ("") .* //; print "$x\n";' 0.164

Re: I need help getting a web page with curl

2021-10-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 5:43 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Any way to get git to show me the revision > without downloading the turkey? Yes, use the API: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/commits.html The Project ID is listed on the project page (67, in this case): https://gitlab.freedesktop.o

Re: What CPU for qemu-kvm and Windows 11

2021-10-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/7/21 05:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That's not possible, because QEMU doesn't emulate the CPU.  The host CPU that you report to the guest VM. In fact QEMU can emulate the CPU, I thought it was clear that we were discussing qemu in the context of KVM, since it was in the subject, and

Re: What CPU for qemu-kvm and Windows 11

2021-10-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/5/21 12:16, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: My host's cpu is not supported.   I was hoping for a fake CPU (there are about 20 of them to choose from) would do the trick. That's not possible, because QEMU doesn't emulate the CPU.  The host CPU must support all of the instructions that wou

Re: Mat: how do I an a fourth menu?

2021-10-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/4/21 00:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I have three menus on my launcher: Applications, Places, System. How do I create a fourth menu? As far as I know: you would need to define a new extension.  The simplest one that I'm aware of is the Places extension, so that's probably a goo

Re: LUKS on shutdown.

2021-09-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/30/21 12:41, Chris Murphy wrote: Seems likely to me some service is not quitting properly, preventing / from being unmounted If that were the case, there might be information about an exit failure in the log.  On the next boot, "journalctl -b -1" might have useful info. I also wonder i

Re: premature umount

2021-08-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/25/21 9:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You could add a "sync" after the copy and before the "umount". https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSync We're getting into myths and legends territory.  Running sync before umount isn't harmful, but umount will flush any dirty buffe

Re: Learning ipv6 quirks

2021-06-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/22/21 11:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: [root@meimei ~]#  nmap -sS -6 -p 2049 2001:b030:112f:2::53 Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-06-23 14:47 CST Nmap scan report for 2001:b030:112f:2::53 Host is up (0.00018s latency). PORT STATE  SERVICE 2049/tcp closed nfs Means the firewa

Re: Learning ipv6 quirks

2021-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/22/21 8:55 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 6/21/21 11:41 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 6/21/21 6:17 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: @RobertPC ~]# mount -v -t nfs [fd2e:cb3b:f005::ec1]:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/mcstuffy /mnt/mcstuffy mount.nfs: timeout set for Mon Jun 21 06:42:25 2021

Re: Learning ipv6 quirks

2021-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/21 6:17 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: @RobertPC ~]# mount -v -t nfs [fd2e:cb3b:f005::ec1]:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/mcstuffy /mnt/mcstuffy mount.nfs: timeout set for Mon Jun 21 06:42:25 2021 mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'vers=4.2,addr=fd2e:cb3b:f005::ec1,clientaddr=fd2e:cb3b:f005::ec1

Re: upgrading to fedora 34

2021-05-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/20/21 6:49 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: (using the shutdown -r now  -to reboot after sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=33  ) but after I give the last command : I got the error  message : : \Error: system is not ready for upgrade There is a bug report that suggests that the

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/20/21 3:18 AM, Tim via users wrote: 1. Me, who has a webserver, mailserver, whatever, and wants it to keep on running without having to continually tinker with it manually. A well managed rolling-release system may succeed there. Cool, but neither Fedora nor CentOS Stream are rolling rel

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/19/21 9:58 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: The CentOS developers seem to be moving to a new workalike called Rocky Linux: Rocky Linux was created by a former CentOS developer (one of the founders).  However, I'm not aware of any current developers moving to other rebuilds.  Those developers are

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/19/21 11:29 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote: Those who want CentOS are a different type of user than Fedora. They have production machines for which LTS stability is far more important than latest'n'greatest. THAT is dropped--you're likely to have to do a big-bang refresh on CentOS now every 30-60 da

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/19/21 10:50 AM, John Mellor wrote: They didn't drop it at all.  They changed from a fixed release schedule to a rolling release.  As a potential dev environment, this is a huge improvement.  RedHat and CentOS tend to be running ancient versions of tools and apps in the name of stability -

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/19/21 10:08 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: They dropped "releases".   What it is now appears to be a continuous stream of rolling updates with no defined 7.9 release, just a stream. They didn't drop releases entirely, just minor releases.  And that's good, because minor releases in CentOS were

Re: Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)

2021-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/4/21 10:32 AM, lejeczek via users wrote: Moreover, it never crossed my mind that me sharing my experience and expressing my opinion would be taken as a call for help. This is, specifically, a support forum.  It is a place to ask for help.  Every message is sent to "Community support for

Re: Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink

2021-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/4/21 8:58 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: RIght now 3 (I hoped) Dell, the coming back one is a HP. 1 Dell 24" 2560x1440 @ 60Hz 1 Dell 22" 1680x1050 @ 60Hz 1 Dell 17" 1280x1024 @... I think 60Hz but it's not connected for now The HP coming back is a HD monitor, 23" and there 1920 x1080, I think

Re: Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink

2021-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/4/21 8:06 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: do you know of a better system to get 3 external monitors connected to a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3rd gen What resolution and refresh rate are the 3 monitors? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink

2021-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/3/21 10:39 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: I enclosed all the steps in that paste here https://paste.centos.org/view/bf947c35 . The full make.log  is at "the bottom" of the page (starts line 124). Great.  That log has information about the actual failures, starting on line 143.  Searching f

Re: Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink

2021-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/3/21 12:03 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Thank you for all those detailed information. I did install evdi through the repos suggested by Jonathan, with no success though. The package you started with had both the DKMS evdi kernel module and other support, so adding the package from rpmsp

Re: Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)

2021-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/3/21 2:00 AM, lejeczek via users wrote: I'm experiencing sleep/resume issue with my Lenovo two laptops, same problem my friend sees, only he did file a support request to Lenovo. Which models?  And what is the problem? A friend of mine just purchased a Thinkpad Nano, and it's consuming

Re: Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)

2021-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/3/21 10:48 AM, lejeczek via users wrote: I've seen, I think many remember too, with Dell, them too a few years ago announced they would start to offer Ubuntu and we know how it ended, I think with one single model sold with Ubuntu. There are currently at least six laptop models and at

Re: Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink

2021-04-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/2/21 3:47 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: It turns out that video through USB is not part of the standards and thus proprietary. Just a point of clarification: video (DisplayPort) over USB *is* a part of the USB standard.  You have a non-standard dock. DisplayLink (not DisplayPort) is bas

Re: Inhibit sleep from systemd service

2021-03-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/24/21 11:17 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: This is pretty cool -- I'm thinking of something similar, as my new workstation system is a little too power-hungry to make me feel good about leaving on all the time. Do you have a blog post or repo with your complete solution? I keep this in a priva

Re: Inhibit sleep from systemd service

2021-03-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/21/21 11:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: So, does your backup process work when called from crontab entry? Yes, it does, and that's part of what confused me.  However -- and this is rather embarrassing -- the real problem was a missing environment variable in the script when the process was ru

Inhibit sleep from systemd service

2021-03-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
I'd like to inhibit suspend while backups run on my laptop.  I'm scheduling those backups with a systemd timer[1] and service[2]. I've read that the default polkit policy only permits inhibiting suspend from within a login session, so I've also tried to add rules to allow the root user to inhib

Re: New kernel errors after last update, Fedora 33

2021-02-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/18/21 8:38 AM, Jerome Lille wrote: But as I said the nfs shares seem to work fine, I can read and write to files on them. Yep, everything will look fine until an application on your client tries to lock a file, and then it will hang forever. Locking files during editing is pretty common

Re: cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/15/21 5:58 PM, S Bob wrote: I disabled SELINUX on the new laptops (dont need it here) and everything works I don't believe there's any mechanism by which SELinux can result in ping indicating "destination host unreachable." Can you reproduce the problem by turning SELinux back on?  If

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/13/21 11:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: 548 hours is not an old drive. It shouldn't have any write errors. But as a drive ages there might be some and they should be handled transparently and not affect any other operation. Something is definitely wrong that there are write errors followed by re

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/13/21 12:36 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I am fully open to the fact that there may be something wrong with my HDD. But it is difficult to believe that, since this laptop is from 2016 and I had been using Windows 10 on it for a long time and saw no problems. None that you know of.  Windo

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/11/21 11:02 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: something wrong with my HDD but the guys on the mailing list told me I did not have to worry. https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/smartmontools-support/2020-November/000560.html https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/smartmontools-support/2020-Nove

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/9/21 11:49 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: https://askubuntu.com/a/391178/628460 Will the above work in telling me if I have ECC RAM ? It should: # lshw -C memory ...   *-memory    description: System Memory    physical id: 27    slot: System board or motherboard    size: 32

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/9/21 9:09 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I mean, this is the reason I keep complaining that BTRFS is not stable enough. ... So is this a problem of my machine/firmware or a problem in BTRFS itself ? Since I haven't seen it asked yet: Does this system have ECC RAM? I don't want to shortcut

Clevis LUKS bind tpm2 for multiple disks

2020-12-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
https://blog.dowhile0.org/2017/10/18/automatic-luks-volumes-unlocking-using-a-tpm2-chip/ The use of clevis to bind a LUKS volume to a TPM2 device isn't very well documented, but a few articles and blogs provide working examples for a single LUKS volume: "clevis luks bind -d /dev/sda3 tpm2 '{"

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