Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
ublic list, AND mentioned that you’ve got ssh open to the world. I imagine your email headers probably also have your IP. Well… Good luck. I can’t take it anymore, this list is a disaster. I’m unsubscribing. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailin

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

2025-04-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
MIME attachments if I do it wrong. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
er, it usually also gives you a public ipv6 address. So you need to be extra careful about it, and not assume that since your comcast gateway put you on a NAT that you are safe. Comcast does block a lot of services with the non-business accounts though. So if you add another gateway, be aware

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-24 Thread Jonathan Billings
/lib/systemd. The package has that file marked as %ghost, it is part of the package but actually supplied by the package. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists

Re: sub for google-authenticator?

2025-04-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
ackaging bugs and send any real bugs on to upstream, rather than try to figure out any packaging bugs themselves. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorap

Re: sub for google-authenticator?

2025-04-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
, testing it, and tracking updates. They should not receive bug reports on issues with how httpd is packaged in Fedora. Perhaps if they were to do all of the above, and you were getting those packages from an Apache Project yum repository, you would expect t

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
e out why it isn’t able to talk to a monitor. Wayland doesn’t have as many useful tools for querying things like monitor settings, so logs are the best place to look. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: RAT program for Fedora?

2025-03-27 Thread Jonathan Billings
emote troubleshooting? Using SSH has a lot of advantages, and can be locked down and limited to certain subnets, and can be set up to use 2FA. Throw in something like Tailscale or some other VPN, and you can limit exposure of the SSH port to the internet. Then, if you absolutely must use a graph

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
operation is read-only, it does produce a lot of I/O operations on a new filesystem. If the problem is fsck corrupting disks, that seems like a pretty major problem and you should file a bug. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Systemd Craziness

2025-03-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
r colon. Look at how the kvm group was done. Read this for more detail: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/group.5.html -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an emai

Re: vnc

2025-02-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
fault but I think Selinux also blocks it by default. Put the pid file in someplace like /run. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
te it is with modern tools and the current structure of that file. The chkrootkit code isn’t in any useful code repository so who knows what is going on there. Hope that helps. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-21 Thread Jonathan Billings
Fedora uses the latest kernels so all fixes come from upstream. I’m sure once bcachefs becomes more stable, we’ll start seeing Fedora use it too. It’s just how a cutting edge distro differs from an enterprise Linux distribution. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
but not as a general computing devices. That isn’t to say you can’t use it that way, I’ve done it for a large part of my career as a desktop Linux sysadmin. But your question is about whether IBM or Red Hat would promote it as a Windows replacement. I suggest Fedora Workstation instead of Wi

Re: No audio for Pixel Buds in Fedora 40

2025-01-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
0-82af-360a5a99cbf3 >> >> Blank page. Hah! >> >> I have no regard for AI (artificial idiots). They're the modern >> version of the Eliza program, with a "they say" database. > > My usual term is Superficial Intelligence. I prefer “synthetic text

Re: Opengl Access

2024-12-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
is is a surprise to you, but a while back Fedora moved every library (as well as a lot of other data) packaged in the standard repos into /usr. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove-- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: qemu/kvm startup

2024-12-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
ibvirtd.socket is enabled and activated. But I believe there’s service can be started/enabled as well, which is what I do since I have some VMs that start on boot. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: new F41 install: is swap partition no longer needed for hibernate?

2024-12-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
ternation. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelin

Re: DNF Upgrade Cleanup Dangling Symlinks

2024-12-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
ecutable in /usr/libexec/foo/, then, yeah it’s broken, but as you have aptly demonstrated, not all dangling symlinks represent something broken. They’re just another way that people abuse filesystem data as a data structure. Deleting dangling symlinks haphazardly is not a solution, you need to

Re: DNF Upgrade Cleanup Dangling Symlinks

2024-12-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 8, 2024, at 16:39, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/12/24 09:34, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Dec 6, 2024, at 22:14, Stephen Morris wrote: What determines that the lock file is valid? In the case of Thunderbird where it creates a lock

Re: starting udev on F41

2024-12-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
n any system running a modern systemd, you’d use: udevadm control --reload … to reload the rules. Read the man page for more details. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to us

Re: DNF Upgrade Cleanup Dangling Symlinks

2024-12-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
othing in the spec that says a symlink must point at a file. I suspect you should rethink using it on $HOME. It’s fine for detecting broken software or in a specific directory. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fe

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
er that, dnf deletes the downloaded package files from the cache, it is no longer needed. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject

Re: mseal?

2024-11-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
re next time. Don’t use generative AI at all to learn, either. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedorap

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-21 Thread Jonathan Billings
repo.But seriously, was there something about these errors or other effects that made you think it was something other than DNS being broken?-- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Systemd-resolved

2024-11-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
ts *just* after anything useful might have been recorded. It’s just systemd noise about the service not failing and how it isn’t restarting it. But I can’t comment further because apparently you don’t “speak nerd” and it would be pointless. -- Jonathan Billings --

Re: DNF Needs Restarting Repository Update

2024-11-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
tadata, even though you just updated a moment ago. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org

Re: Cannot start Sway

2024-11-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
t-sway command by adding this to /etc/sway/environment: SWAY_EXTRA_ARGS=“--unsupported-gpu“ I don’t think you’ll have a good experience using nvidia with sway though, if the developers explicitly make you jump through hoops. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
before. Very rarely is it because some corruption broke it. You should make sure you’ve tested all those possibilities. Also, if you can boot off a live image, you should be able to unlock the volume using cryptsetup or even a graphical tool like GNOME disks. -- Jonat

Re: Strange DNF5 Functionality

2024-11-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
i?id=2315665) so I don’t expect it to ever happen. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Re: dnf-system-upgrade to Fedora 41 is Ok

2024-10-30 Thread Jonathan Billings
st super janky and I try to avoid it. That being said, I’ve built a whole automation project doing something similar with ansible, so I’m a bit of a hypocrite. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: How to install new kernels in grub?

2024-10-29 Thread Jonathan Billings
ence of the directory directs the kernel post-install scripts to install into /boot/efi// instead of /boot. The solution is to just move that directory aside and reinstlal the `kernel-core` package. You should now see them in /boot. -- Jonathan Billings -- _

Re: useradd and userdel ????

2024-10-27 Thread Jonathan Billings
to speed it up, so it cleared it every reboot. Don’t just blindly remove sssd though. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Cod

Re: how to fsck at boot?

2024-10-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
in /dev/mapper/. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/

Re: How to install new kernels in grub?

2024-10-24 Thread Jonathan Billings
hone, speaking to someone who is in a dark room. Neither of us know what piece is being fit. It’s up to you to figure out what’s going on, use your consulting skills to determine the fault, and when to call it and reinstall. -- Jonathan Billings -- _

Re: clean-up of old kernel fragments.

2024-10-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 23, 2024, at 17:56, home user via users wrote: > > On 10/23/24 3:18 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> On Oct 22, 2024, at 20:42, home user via users >>> wrote: >>> >>> (f-40; gnome; stand-alone dual-boot workstation; kernel 6.11.3) >>&g

Re: clean-up of old kernel fragments.

2024-10-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
way, how? (Would using the "rm" command > mess up a database?) > 3. What else (if anything) should I do to complete this clean-up properly? Just to double check, is there a directory in /boot/efi named after your Machine ID (what’s in /etc/machine-id) with kernels and BLSCFG en

Re: why am I still on 39?

2024-10-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
42. https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-41/f-41-key-tasks.html -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedor

Re: why am I still on 39?

2024-10-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
y Unnecessary the dnf system-upgrade does this. > # dnf clean packages <-- optional Not doing anything, you ran it just before! > # dnf system-upgrade -v reboot --debugsolver Will do nothing, since you deleted the packages it downloaded. Y

Re: version numbers - rpmfusion nvidia driver and kernel.

2024-10-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
*like* that about Fedora. I swear this post looks like something someone posted a decade ago. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: urgent major problem after f39 to f40 upgrade.

2024-10-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
ct.org/wiki/Changes/LibuserDeprecation Don’t worry, the “passwd” command is still around. It’s part of the still-maintained “shadow-utils” package. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a

Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

2024-10-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
easier with btrfs since it doesn’t need to use LVM. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org

Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

2024-10-12 Thread Jonathan Billings
ibed in the documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/installation/#_storage_organization This is not a bug and not something related to your virtualization software. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: urgent major problem after f39 to f40 upgrade.

2024-10-12 Thread Jonathan Billings
a regular user. > There are still problems, but we've made an important step forward. > > Thank-you, Samuel. Are you positive you didn’t (at some point) change the default systemd target to multi-user.target, and forgot to switch it back to graphical.t

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
inkpads has a requirement for certain power saving features, so it is a real thing. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: the kernel that is and is not there

2024-10-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
ut I really thought sdubby was a dependency of that package so I’m surprised it wasn’t installed. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: the kernel that is and is not there

2024-10-02 Thread Jonathan Billings
this, uninstall sdubby, delete or move aside the machine ID directory in /boot/efi, and run: dnf reinstall kernel-core (Or figure out the right commands to run from %post, I’m lazy and dnf commands are easy, plus it proves to me that new kernels will end up in the righ

Re: Apache suspend/resume (again)

2024-09-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
d conf.d settings, and httpd can’t resolve those names upon startup, it will fail out. If DNS resolution isn’t working shortly after resume, that might be contributing to the problem. But as I said, without actual errors, my guess is as good as anyone’s. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___

Re: I need grep . help

2024-09-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
diskinfo/files/"; -o - | > grep -i '9.4.5' Use “grep -F” -F, --fixed-strings Interpret PATTERNS as fixed strings, not regular expressions. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@list

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
on the EFI volume or preventing any future attempts at booting from those files. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
install the sdubby package and re-run the kernel-install command, or more simply, reinstall the kernel-core package. Once that's done, it will do the normal GRUB2 boot method of putting files into /boot/ and blscfg entries in /boot/loader/entries/. -- Jonathan Billings --

Re: google-chrome stopped working for me, just showing '+' cursor and will not allow me to click.

2024-08-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
is just one of the many entries in the Desktop file. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraprojec

Re: Cloning a BTRFS filesystem

2024-07-29 Thread Jonathan Billings
s, but I'm not sure if I need to run grub2- > mkconfig as well. The “btrfs-replace” command can be used to do this. I use it in automation to migrate a btrfs filesystem on an unencrypted volume to a luks volume. All on one disk. You do need to manually recreate the efi and boot partit

Re: rkhunter flags /dev/shm/jack* files

2024-07-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
package but not included, this is probably not the right label for this kind of file. Rkhunter complains about anything it finds in /dev/shm. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Error (19) after reboot RHEL9.2 server: Replica has different database generation ID, remote replica may need to be initialized (RUV error

2024-07-17 Thread Jonathan Billings
RHEL, perhaps you can open a case with Red Hat to get help? There is also a 389-users list, although I don’t know if it’s limited to Fedora versions. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org/ -- Jonathan Billings-- ___

Re: Discover not showing updates recently?

2024-07-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 15, 2024, at 07:35, Neal Becker wrote: > >  > I've noticed that recently I'm not seeing Discover notifying me of available > updates. Is there some setting for this? Does ‘sudo dnf update’ return any updates either? What release of Fedora are you using?

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
> I wonder if anyone vets that information? Just check the references: https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html#xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_maximum_age_login_defs -- Jonathan -- ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
some how-to explaining with details how to proceed. I'm not very > good with efi boot system nor secure boot. You have to enroll your own key in the firmware: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Secure%20Boot -- Jonathan Billings--

Re: Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
re interested in something like OpenSCAP security profiles, which Fedora suppets: https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Problems with certifcates, firefox and chrome

2024-07-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
ot supported in the default configuration. Is it possible that whoever issued the cert has created a new one with an algorithm that isn’t rather old and falling out of support? -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapr

Re: issue with f40 installer [2]

2024-07-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
w to get out of this trap? > > Thank you. I think it also wants a /boot partition in this case. It can be ext4. Make sure it is big enough for 3 kernels+initrds, at least 1G. I’ve not really explored the RAID install options so it might be that the type of RAID you chose can’t be mo

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-06 Thread Jonathan Billings
written executable code that would allow remote login (such as dropping a pubkey into a user’s authorized_keys) or by altering an admin’s login environment (replacing their .bashrc). Running web sites out of /home is still possible, they just can’t also write to /home.-- Jonathan

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
ted the bootloader. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ L

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
a non-efi bootloader if you booted via EFI bootloader on installer. That would explain why there’s no EFI volume on your 36 install. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to user

Re: nmcli and system-connections

2024-07-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 3, 2024, at 12:15, Alex wrote: > However, I also have virtual interfaces on eth1:1 and others. What are the > next steps? Interface aliases are pretty much deprecated (see the thread about ifconfig), you’d just assign multiple IPs/prefixes to eth1. -- Jonathan Bi

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
; { > chainloader (hd1)+1 > } > > but changed to this: > > menuentry "Boot from first harddisk" { > chainloader (hd0)+1 > } > > Give it a try and see what happens. That won’t work for UEFI, you’d need to give a path to a UEFI executable on hdX. I believe

Re: crond

2024-06-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
move it from the directory to get it to stop executing a second cron job. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Jonathan Billings
e if it's something inhibiting a shutdown, but that's how you'd check. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jun 19, 2024, at 16:41, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 06/19/2024 02:31 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> So, if you’ve used a rescue disk to boot into Linux, chroot into your OS’s >> disk, and run “passwd” to change a password, or otherwise edit /etc/shadow >> or /etc/passwd

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
If so, then you can manually run a relabel by running “sudo restorecon -R -v /etc”. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: RAID options during install?

2024-06-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
a separate EFI boot entry for each part of the array would get you the closest to redundancy. But it would still only be looking at the fat32 filesystem on each device. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Network install options?

2024-06-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
probably use a kickstart to automate an install, but that’s what I do for my job so it’s my comfort zone. -- Jonathan Billings > On May 31, 2024, at 21:06, Alex wrote: > >  > Hi, > I have a new server with OVH that I'd like to install fedora40 over the > network in some

Re: Trying to get drupal running

2024-05-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
ase describe the actual errors you get, and include the appropriate errors you find in the httpd error_log. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedo

Re: OT: SFTP with lftp

2024-05-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
ing over the SSH port and all access is handled via the SSH’s config. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Re: OT: SFTP with lftp

2024-05-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
e > the problem then, or how to further troubleshoot? > By “SFTP” do you mean FTP over SSL/TLS, or the OpenSSH “sftp” backend which runs over the SSH protocol? Two completely different protocols. I suspect that lftp just calls out to the OpenSSH sftp binary i

Re: statistics on Fedora and RHEL usage

2024-05-12 Thread Jonathan Billings
te results, so I imagine they’ll always have ways to track users and post numbers. -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
s the saved hostname. I’ve never encountered one of these devices, but I’ve heard of windows systems and even phones can do this. Set your preferred hostname either in GNOME Settings (or whatever DE’s settings) or with hostnamectl. -- Jonathan Billings -- _

Re: F40 and breaking file command change

2024-05-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
s the alpha or beta release and is always subscribed to the testing repos. Honestly, when I first looked at the script I figured it was the wget->wget2 update that landed in F40. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: Fedora 40 . Questiun : What is Fedora Castor.i

2024-04-27 Thread Jonathan Billings
” in some form. Perhaps there was an automatic translation error?There was a “castor” package once but it has been abandoned for at least 3 years. (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/castor/commits/rawhide )-- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list

Re: a tool like xte(1) but for Wayland?

2024-04-17 Thread Jonathan Billings
com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool) but they need direct access to /dev/input, which generally need root access (and if every app can read it, it’s just as bad as X). I suspect this is something a GNOME extension would replace, and not by sending key presses but replicating the results. -- Jonathan Billin

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-04-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
ootloaders or partition tables, although it probably doesn’t hurt. I had a kickstart that preserved custom stuff like the krb5 keytab between reloads in the kickstart %pre section, so I didn’t want to just nuke the filesystem. -- Jonathan Billings -- _

Re: Uh-oh...

2024-03-30 Thread Jonathan Billings
who were involved with the discovery and investigation. We should also all thank Andres Freund for his meticulous discovery of the backdoor, without which, we might have ended up with it he backdoor running in production for many distros. -- Jonathan Billings -- _

Re: libvirtd.service start

2024-03-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
last year? Try disabling the timeout with: echo LIBVIRTD_ARGS= > /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd && systemctl restart libvirtd -- Jonathan Billings-- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@list

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
tl;dr story is that the system firmware has some variables that say where to look for EFI volumes, and it launches EFI executables from those volumes. No tiny boot sectors or second stage loaders, just EFI executables on a FAT32 filesystem. -- Jonathan Billings -- __

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

2024-02-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
emote VNC session with the upstream systemd units, but it doesn’t need a listening TCP port assigned to each user. Honestly, I kinda wish the TigerVNC project would just adopt this for their provided units. Maybe they can’t because Windows can’t use UNIX sockets? I wonder if the Windows 10 OpenSSH

Re: Strange message on boot

2024-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Feb 11, 2024, at 12:38, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 2/11/24 10:30, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 10, 2024, at 19:05, Robert McBroom via users wrote: I typically boot in mode 3 to a terminal. Fedora f39 going to lxde as the desktop. Today

Re: Strange message on boot

2024-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
the packagekit-offline-updates.service unit running? That can also perform updates (via PackageKit->dnf) and reboot. Perhaps the login shell was somehow added to the system-update.target? It’s worth looking at the journal at that time to see what was running. This isn’t a completely u

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Jan 12, 2024, at 20:59, Sherman Grunewagen via users > wrote: > > On 11/01/2024 13.48, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 03:36:32PM -0800, Sherman Grunewagen via users >>> wrote: >>> Hello all. >>> >>> Does a

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
or the running kernel. The kernel-headers package is just for compiling userspace programs, and only is updated when there's an API change that affects userspace. I suspect that the "headers" part is coming from the Debian/Ubuntu world, because I thi

Re: Update failed: gstreamer1-plugins-ugly

2023-12-29 Thread Jonathan Billings
kagers and RPMfusion, and delays in packages being released during a period when many people are spending time with their family and not paying attention to packaging drama. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Network problems with f39

2023-12-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
the problem, dbus-broker can’t start due to a permissions problem, possibly related to the SELinux relabel requirement. Pretty much everything uses DBUS for interprocess communication in the systemd world, so a failed dbus-broker would break quite a bit. You might need to run

Re: Log file *detailed* content description

2023-12-12 Thread Jonathan Billings
n I compare it to the various keys on my system? Most likely part of OpenSSH’s documentation. -- Jonathan Billings -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora C

Re: Missing kernel-headers for 6.6.4?

2023-12-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
don’t have a matching ‘kernel-devel’ package for those kernels. That’s where the files are that you use to build a kernel module. The kernel-headers are only necessary for building userland code, and are only updated when there are API changes to warrant a new p

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 24, 2023, at 17:43, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I realize 127.0.0.1 is my computer, > but I'm not clear on how 127.0.053 and 127.0.0.53#53 are used. Systemd’s dns service (systemd-resolved) uses 127.0.0.53, and it’s enabled by default on Fedora, so this is expected.

Re: Why Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Stream is not boot from other Linux district?

2023-11-18 Thread Jonathan Billings
updating-the-secure-boot-revocation-list_managing-monitoring-and-updating-the-kernel>. This is something you’d get as a firmware update, either through fwupd, a windows update (dual-boot) or by manually updating the BIOS/firmware though some out-of-bound

Re: Why Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Stream is not boot from other Linux district?

2023-11-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
enabled, the Fedora shim can’t boot CentOS or RHEL-signed kernels. From what I understand, it’s best to just boot the signed bootloader for each OS rather than try to make one boot them all. -- Jonathan Billings ___ users mailing l

Re: ulimit or files-max?

2023-11-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 13, 2023, at 16:50, Alex wrote:Hi, what is the current way to increase the number of available open files? This is for a mariadb database server I'm trying to configure based on instructions from the database developer to increase the total number of files to 5. I've added the followin

Re: Solution: OVMF 4M-based VMs broken after updating to F39

2023-11-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 10, 2023, at 17:03, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I had an EFI VM that was configured to use > /usr/share/edk2/ovmf-4m/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd as its bootloader in F38. > > The edk2-ovmf package in F39 no longer installs it. This results in an error > message starting any VM that uses OVMF 4M

Re: Power management

2023-11-09 Thread Jonathan Billings
ser > logged in? > > Thanks > I believe you need to set this to disable gdm from suspending: sudo -u gdm dbus-run-session gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0 Ideally you’d drop somethin

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
pp and dependency. I avoid snaps like the plague so I can’t tell you how to clean up space used by snapd. But I’m sure there’s an Ubuntu wiki that’ll help somewhere. -- Jonathan Billings ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

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