Re: Working with secureboot

2025-07-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/17/25 10:02 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2025-07-16 at 13:39 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: My understanding was that it was a new password entry Todd Zullinger's earlier post said: You should already have the key, which is stored at /etc/pki/a

Re: Problem accessing lvm on nvme drive

2025-07-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/15/25 1:22 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/13/25 1:31 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: During boot I get the message block nvme0n1: No UUID available providing old NGUID When I try to mount the lvm I get the message ~# mount /dev/mapper/fedora /sd1 mount: /sd1: fsconfig system call

Re: Problem accessing lvm on nvme drive

2025-07-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/16/25 11:05 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 15 Jul 2025, at 05:51, Robert McBroom via users wrote: ├─nvme0n1p5 │ LVM2_mem LVM2 001 v1gXoi-sKLO-fS0t-oKxo-en1J-7vOu-BH8Hal └─nvme0n1p6 LVM2_mem LVM2 001 lQ45eA-ARYv-JiVX-JRjR-eyHl-NCXO-vkB2m0 Why are there two LVM2 partitions? That is

Re: Working with secureboot

2025-07-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/15/25 4:32 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2025-07-15 at 01:00 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Didn't get very far :~# mokutil --import /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der input password: input password again: Failed to enroll new keys Just in general, and WITHOUT (!) telli

Re: Working with secureboot

2025-07-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/15/25 1:48 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert McBroom via users wrote: Didn't get very far :~# mokutil --import /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der input password: input password again: Failed to enroll new keys What does `mokutil --sb-state` (with root privileges) report? It shoul

Re: Problem accessing lvm on nvme drive

2025-07-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/15/25 8:24 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM Robert McBroom via users wrote: and /dev/nvme0n1p6 while pasting got a line feed in the text LVM2_mem LVM2 001 lQ45eA-ARYv-JiVX-JRjR-eyHl-NCXO-vkB2m0 ~# lvmdiskscan -l WARNING: only

Re: Working with secureboot

2025-07-14 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/14/25 8:18 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert McBroom via users wrote: Need to get my NVIDIA DRIVERS  registered. Gnome tells me they are ready and gives me a code. A window opens telling me to restart and enter the code when prompted. Selecting the button brings up a new window telling me

Re: Problem accessing lvm on nvme drive

2025-07-14 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 7/13/25 5:08 PM, Barry wrote: On 13 Jul 2025, at 21:32, Robert McBroom via users wrote:  During boot I get the message block nvme0n1: No UUID available providing old NGUID When I try to mount the lvm I get the message ~# mount /dev/mapper/fedora /sd1 mount: /sd1: fsconfig system

Working with secureboot

2025-07-14 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Need to get my NVIDIA DRIVERS  registered. Gnome tells me they are ready and gives me a code. A window opens telling me to restart and enter the code when prompted. Selecting the button brings up a new window telling me "mokutil --import" has failed and to re-enter the code. It didn't do anyth

Problem accessing lvm on nvme drive

2025-07-13 Thread Robert McBroom via users
During boot I get the message block nvme0n1: No UUID available providing old NGUID When I try to mount the lvm I get the message ~# mount /dev/mapper/fedora /sd1 mount: /sd1: fsconfig system call failed: /dev/mapper/fedora Can't lookup blockdev.   dmesg(1) may have more information after

Re: using rsync for backups - want to run only if changes from last backup

2025-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/11/25 5:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/11/25 1:59 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: 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

Re: using rsync for backups - want to run only if changes from last backup

2025-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/11/25 11:00 AM, Joe Average wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: ... 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? filtering/investigating the output of rsync's "--dry-run&quo

Re: Random Copy Paste issue ^[[[200~ copied text ~

2025-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/10/25 11:29 PM, Barry wrote: On 10 Jul 2025, at 11:32, Will McDonald wrote: The only time I see this with Gnome Terminal. If you... 1. CTRL-SHIFT-C 2. then CTRL-V 3. then remember it's CTRL-SHIFT-V The preceding CTRL-V does something to the terminal input, I think it's just a litera

using rsync for backups - want to run only if changes from last backup

2025-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I use rsync a lot in crontab to back up directories. with the -ah options I have never had a problem, but recently added -R. Anyway rsync is very good at figuring out if any files on the source has changed only copying those to the destination. But now I am doing source directories with thous

Re: Random Copy Paste issue ^[[[200~ copied text ~

2025-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/10/25 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 ~ appears in you

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-07-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Here I am away for the weekend and I again lost access to USB drives. I tried this and it did not fix things. Oh, well.  But rebooting until I get back tomorrow night. On 6/23/25 8:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, Francis Montagnac wrote: Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025

F41 rsync --include-from=FILE usage

2025-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have a number of directories that I want to rsync to my backup NAS. I tried: /usr/bin/rsync -ahR --password-file=/home/me/rsync.pswd --stats --include-from=/home/me/backup.lst rsync://me@homestor/me/backups/ where /home/me/backup.lst contained /home/me/data/htt/./httnet/ /home/me/data/./exc

secure boot questions

2025-07-02 Thread Robert McBroom via users
With secure boot enabled putting a 3 in the grub boot line to get a command session just gives a black screen. Fom a desktop session the ctrl,alt fn4 sequence just gives the efi heading on a blank screen. Is there a way to get a command session? -- _

lxde desktop problem

2025-06-28 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Trying to change the wallpaper on new f42 lxde session. pcmanfm --set-wallpaper="/usr/share/lxde/wallpapers/lxde_blue.jpg" pops up message window saying error desktop manager is not active Where can the desktop manager be found? -- ___ users mailin

Re: F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

2025-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/27/25 10:35 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: Thing is that google AI did not show the preferred way to edit main.cf which is to use "postconf -e 'line'". Eh, that's A way, not THE ONLY way. I've never used it; it's

Re: F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

2025-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
EOF newaliases And then restart postfix It is this mailing to root that was not working.  add to aliases and cron is happy. other changes are nice, not needed. Then use mutt or similar to process your local mail. On 6/27/25 10:53 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I

F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

2025-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I want to create a simple howto for local mail delivery with postfix. I did a LOT with postfix ~7 years ago, and found many of my notes this morning. Thing is that google AI did not show the preferred way to edit main.cf which is to use "postconf -e 'line'". Surprised?  ;) Wietse Venema did a

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
official backup scheduled for 2:02 tonight. On 6/26/25 9:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 8:34 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. The default is mbox. :) But not in ~/Mailbox

Re: logwatch problems

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
0     Was caused by:     Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.     You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this access. On 6/26/25 9:53 PM, Brian Truter wrote: This looks like SELinux is blocking some things on your system. audit2allow -w -a On Thu, Jun 26, 20

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 8:34 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. The default is mbox. :) But not in ~/Mailbox default is /var/mail/user You mentioned having to change some postfix settings, perhaps sharing

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Just run mutt, then press 'c' and give either Maildir or Mailbox. google has gotten better answering questions, once I figure out what to ask! On 6/26/25 8:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. On 6/26/25 8:02

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. On 6/26/25 8:02 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: ARGH!!! :) now to config mutt to read them... On 6/26/25 7:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 4:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I have been working on

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
ARGH!!!  :) now to config mutt to read them... On 6/26/25 7:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 4:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I have been working on configuring postfix for local delivery. I tired both: mailx -s "Subject" rgm < testit.txt mailx -s "Subj

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 7:51 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 3:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Try mailx for starters? Or does it need more... To get the terms right, you need an MDA or LDA, not an MTA. :-) Something that can do local mail delivery and it seems that there are no

postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have been working on configuring postfix for local delivery. I tired both: mailx -s "Subject" rgm < testit.txt mailx -s "Subject" rgm@localhost < testit.txt /var/log/maillog shows Jun 26 19:36:52 LX140e-3 postfix/pickup[365674]: 73AF7383FD8: uid=1000 from= Jun 26 19:36:52 LX140e-3 postfix/c

Re: logwatch problems

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
logwatch is installed, but not postfix.  How did that happen? What is the default activity for installing logwatch? On 6/26/25 6:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I was thinking of avoiding installing logwatch for this crontab reporting, but it seems I installed it. I see /etc

logwatch problems

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I was thinking of avoiding installing logwatch for this crontab reporting, but it seems I installed it. I see /etc/cron.dayly/0logwatch but in /var/logs/messages I am seeing: ''' Jun 26 03:07:19 LX140e-3 audit[295067]: AVC avc:  denied  { dac_read_search } for  pid=295067 comm="sendmail" capa

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 6:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 6:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 3:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 6:09 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 23:05, Will McDonald wrote:     On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 6:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 3:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 6:09 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 23:05, Will McDonald wrote:     On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert Moskowitz via users     wrote:     I want to get emails

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 6:09 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 23:05, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I want to get emails from my Fedora notebook for crontab activities. First figure out if your MTA is

Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have an Ubuntu server with logwatch installed, so it has all the 'right' postfix setups and I get daily logwatch reports. I also added a cron shutdown as follows: 10 4    * * *   root    /usr/sbin/shutdown And I get a daily email saying the system will shutdown in ~1min. Nice. I want to get

Re: rsync password-file format

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I *AM* running rsyncd on the target server. If I provide: rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/ I get prompted for the password in the /etc/rsyncd.secrets file

rsync password-file format

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I *AM* running rsyncd on the target server. If I provide: rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/ I get prompted for the password in the /etc/rsyncd.secrets file, and it works. I now create a local file ~/rsync.pswd with chmod 440, and run: rsync -ah --password-file=/home

Lost menu bar on konsole

2025-06-23 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Installed a new f42 system on a new computer. When using konsole it has toolbars but the menu bar with the drop down menus is not there. Used it forever and greatly prefer it to the toolbars. Looked for a .conf file that might set things but don't find any in the places I would expect. How can

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 6:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 00:24 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Why don't you give reboot a try? I have s much running that

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, Francis Montagnac wrote: Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:41:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: "all it took" was that reboot. drives are showing again and I can mount them. I that happens again, you may try to unload the related kernel modules (uas usb

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 12:24 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Why don't you give reboot a try? I have s much running that rebooting is a last effort.  It is not trivial to get everything

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
One should ALWAYS do a sync after a dd.  I learned this the hard way... On 6/22/25 10:34 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM Tim via users wrote: Is it no-longer possible to use dd to write an install ISO to a flashdrive, or is there something wrong with the ISO (which p

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: >>> On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: >>>> What does dmesg show? >>> >>>

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 6:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
"all it took" was that reboot. drives are showing again and I can mount them. Now I have to get my work back as it was. On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg show? Too much for me to figure out what to look for

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel? All I was doing was inserting a USB drive, mounting via Xfce desktop option, using Thunar to copy

F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have been moving files between systems via USB drives. It had been going along well, when my system stopped recognizing that I plugged a drive in. ls /dev is not showing anything other than my SSD drive of sda What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? thanks --

Re: Strange problem with chroot

2025-06-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 6/16/25 10:16 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert McBroom via users wrote: From the Fedora 41 installation ~]# ld.so --help [...] Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order:  x86-64-v4  x86-64-v3  x86-64-v2 None of those say "supported, searched" which in

Re: Strange problem with chroot

2025-06-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 6/14/25 6:01 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 14 Jun 2025, at 04:35, Robert McBroom via users wrote: CentOs 9.4 installation is going into kernel panic. Trying to get access to the system from a running Fedora 41 installation. ~]# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sysimage ~]# for dir in /dev /proc /sys

Re: waterfox rpms?

2025-06-13 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 6/13/25 5:19 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 6/13/25 2:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 13:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, It is time for me to upgrade my waterfox and waterfox classic. Problem:  I installed them so long ago I forgot where I got

Strange problem with chroot

2025-06-13 Thread Robert McBroom via users
CentOs 9.4 installation is going into kernel panic. Trying to get access to the system from a running Fedora 41 installation. ~]# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sysimage ~]# for dir in /dev /proc /sys;do mount --bind $dir /mnt/sysimage/$dir;done ~]# chroot /mnt/sysimage Fatal glibc error: CPU does not sup

Re: NVIDIA Again

2025-06-11 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 6/11/25 3:22 AM, Barry wrote: On 9 Jun 2025, at 19:24, Robert McBroom via users wrote:  System has  a Geforce GT710 graphics card. When Fedora was installed it tried to load the 575 series drivers. Fedora does not install nvidia drivers. It was something you would have done. With

NVIDIA Again

2025-06-09 Thread Robert McBroom via users
System has  a Geforce GT710 graphics card. When Fedora was installed it tried to load the 575 series drivers. Was able to force the 470xx driver files which are the ones for the card. Now I'm getting a conflict as update wants to install libnvidia-cfg-3:575.57.08-1.fc41.x86_64 and fails with

Re: shotcut video editor segfaults in Fedora 41 VM

2025-05-31 Thread Robert Nichols via users
On 5/30/25 17:57, Robert Nichols via users wrote: On 5/30/25 10:23, Barry wrote: On 30 May 2025, at 14:14, Robert Nichols via users wrote: Has anybody actually used this program?  Since it fails for me in two different environments, I can't see how. Well, the "Linux po

Re: shotcut video editor segfaults in Fedora 41 VM

2025-05-30 Thread Robert Nichols via users
On 5/30/25 17:57, Robert Nichols via users wrote: Thread 59 "Thread (pooled)" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fe5bbdfe6c0 (LWP 8783)] ___pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=mutex@entry=0x4054c348) ... Looks like I'm not alone. I've

Re: shotcut video editor segfaults in Fedora 41 VM

2025-05-30 Thread Robert Nichols via users
On 5/30/25 10:23, Barry wrote: On 30 May 2025, at 14:14, Robert Nichols via users wrote: ___pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=mutex@entry=0x2aed4278d06f824f) at pthread_mutex_lock.c:80 80 unsigned int type = PTHREAD_MUTEX_TYPE_ELISION (mutex); That mutex address looks bad. Getting a

Re: shotcut video editor segfaults in Fedora 41 VM

2025-05-30 Thread Robert Nichols via users
On 5/18/25 00:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM Robert Nichols via users wrote: I'm trying to use "shotcut", installed in a Fedora 41 virtual machine, to split up some large mp4 files. It can read the files and play the videos just fine, so there is

User setting problem

2025-05-26 Thread Robert McBroom via users
When starting emacs I get the following message :~# (emacs-gtk_x11:52661): dbind-WARNING**: 12:32:07.584: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/at-spi/bus_0: Connection refused What needs to be done to get the permissions correct? user xpq2 gid is 1

Re: Access qcow2 vm file from host problem

2025-05-21 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 5/15/25 9:27 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Have a Fc39 server qemu/kvm virtual machine. Trying to access the filesystem from the host machine.  The following commands--- :~# modprobe nbd max_part=8 :~# qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /var/lib/libvirt/images/Fed39.qcow2 :~# fdisk

shotcut video editor segfaults in Fedora 41 VM

2025-05-17 Thread Robert Nichols via users
I'm trying to use "shotcut", installed in a Fedora 41 virtual machine, to split up some large mp4 files. It can read the files and play the videos just fine, so there is apparently no decoder issue, but any time I try to do anything with the file the process segfaults. Suspecting there might be

Access qcow2 vm file from host problem

2025-05-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Have a Fc39 server qemu/kvm virtual machine. Trying to access the filesystem from the host machine.  The following commands--- :~# modprobe nbd max_part=8 :~# qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /var/lib/libvirt/images/Fed39.qcow2 :~# fdisk /dev/nbd0 -l Disk /dev/nbd0: 60 GiB, 64424509440 bytes, 1258

Re: F42 Server Installer problems

2025-05-12 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 5/12/25 9:02 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space. Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for

F42 Server Installer problems

2025-05-12 Thread Robert McBroom via users
New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space. Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for custom install won't enable. Only the automatic choice. Would typically make three partitions boot,root and home

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/3/25 10:05 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: Today, on attempting resuming after suspending my system before boarding my plane.  My system hung. So I powered cycled, and since I have not done an update in over a

on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Today, on attempting resuming after suspending my system before boarding my plane.  My system hung. So I powered cycled, and since I have not done an update in over a week, instead of logging into my graphical window, I switched to Term2, logged in as root and ran "dnf update". I have done t

Re: Managing dual boot

2025-04-25 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/29/25 12:01 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom composed on 2025-03-28 22:48 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: ... menuentry "Fedora 40 defkernel 3 on P18" { load_video set gfxpayload=keep search --no-floppy --set=root --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt

Curious messages from dnf

2025-04-24 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Get the following at the end of "dnf update" of f41 - >>> Running trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.12-1.fc41.x86_64 >>> Finished trigger-install scriptlet: systemd-0:256.12-1.fc41.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> Failed to connect to user scope bus via machine transport: No medium f

Some kind of loop at the end of "dnf5 update"

2025-04-12 Thread Robert McBroom via users
looping output to window -- [174/174] Removing openvpn-0:2.6.13-1.fc41.x86_64   100% [==] |   1.0   B/s |  92.0   B |  00m00s Running post-transaction scriptlet: kernel-core-0:6.13.10-200.fc41.x86_64 Finished post-transact

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
And I am having no apparent issue operating on battery. I AM going to have to find a plug soon.  And will suspend, then resume while being plugged in. On 4/1/25 9:04 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am at a meeting and resumed on battery.  The system started up and pretty much shut right off

problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

2025-04-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just set up an HP 9125e ink jet.  What a job.  The tools expect dumb networks and it took me hours to figure out how to get things setup. But it is done now.  I got through their Android setup program and got the printer's ethernet working as I want. On my F41 system with Xfce, I have the p

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/2/25 8:35 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM Dave Close wrote: "George N. White III" wrote: Try booting a Live USB -- if that gives graphics you know the hardware is working. Tried that. It doesn't boot. I think the BIOS on this machine requires some keyboard ent

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
crash/reset it will collect a crashdump, and if it does not collect a crashdump then that makes it a lot more likely you have a hardware problem of some sort. The crashdump will contain any dmesg entries that are in the dmesg buffer at the time the machine panics. On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:30

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/1/25 11:10 AM, Germano Massullo wrote: Il 01/04/25 16:22, Robert Moskowitz ha scritto: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-laptops/thinkpad-x140e/downloads/ds038561-bios-update-utility-bootable-cd-for-windows-10-81-8-64-bit-7-32-bit-64-bit

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/1/25 11:03 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 4/1/25 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I find out my firmware ver without rebooting into setup? Is there some Linux tool to

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/1/25 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I find out my firmware ver without rebooting into setup? Is there some Linux tool to report this? dmidecode BIOS Information     Vendor: LENOVO     Version: GSET74WW (2.19

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
, 2025 at 9:05 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am at a meeting and resumed on battery. The system started up and pretty much shut right off. On reboot I saw a message which I found be grepping /var/log/message Apr 1 08:45:51 LX140e-3 kernel: ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC__.HKEY: BCTG evaluated but

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have had this box for a lot of years (back to F32?).  I really should see what the firmware levels are now... On 4/1/25 9:53 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am at a meeting and resumed on battery. The system started up and pretty much

Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am at a meeting and resumed on battery.  The system started up and pretty much shut right off. On reboot I saw a message which I found be grepping /var/log/message Apr  1 08:45:51 LX140e-3 kernel: ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC__.HKEY: BCTG evaluated  but flagged as error Apr  1 08:45:51 LX140e-3

Re: problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

2025-03-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well disabling firewalld did not help, so,... On 3/31/25 11:48 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: Hi Robert, Install root-net-bonjour. dnf install root-net-bonjour Updating and loading repositories: ... Repositories loaded. Failed to resolve the transaction: No match for argument: root-net-bonjour

Re: problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

2025-03-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/31/25 3:32 AM, Will McDonald wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 03:01, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just set up an HP 9125e ink jet. On my F41 system with Xfce, I have the printer showing in Printer Setup and can print to it. But I cannot get HP Device Manager to find the

Managing dual boot

2025-03-28 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/27/25 12:37 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom composed on 2025-03-27 00:02 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Simplest: remove Grub from B, or disable Grub on B. Only one Grub per PC is needed. After each new kernel is installed to B, update Grub on A with os-prober enabled and with

Re: Managing dual boot

2025-03-26 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/23/25 7:36 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Simplest: remove Grub from B, or disable Grub on B. Only one Grub per PC is needed. After each new kernel is installed to B, update Grub on A with os-prober enabled and with GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU="y" in /etc/default/grub. Even that frequent Grub maintenanc

Re: Managing dual boot

2025-03-24 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/23/25 4:46 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Hello, I have a machine with a dual fedora boot on 2 drives (with grub2) I daily maintain one (say A on /dev/sda4), and occasionally the other one (say B on /dev/sdc5). The problem is when I update B, grub is not update properly, i.e., I canno

Re: kernel 6.13.x usb wifi problems

2025-03-24 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/22/25 7:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM Robert McBroom via users wrote: Have two usb wifi adapters using Realtek chips that were noted to be supported in the recent kernels. One is now seen but the other is not. Both show in the list from lsusb Bus

kernel 6.13.x usb wifi problems

2025-03-21 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Have two usb wifi adapters using Realtek chips that were noted to be supported in the recent kernels. One is now seen but the other is not. Both show in the list from lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2T2R DB WLAN Adapter Bus 001 D

Re: Systemd Craziness

2025-03-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/12/25 10:51 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 3/10/25 4:20 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 04:34:35PM -0400, Robert McBroom wrote: On 3/9/25 2:06 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 06:45:24PM +0100, Michal Schorm wrote

Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-03-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
h. I have twice had a failure to resume after suspend, and attributed it to having done a dnf update and gotten a new kernel. If we have a firmware problem in F41 that is fixed in F42, how do we get it back-ported? On 3/16/25 9:26 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Since 42 Beta went Gold, I de

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 9:03 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 00:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Doesn't help being dyslexic and Mr. Malaprop. Malaprompt. :-| That too!! But it was no fun being up on the stage in front of some 500 attendees and my slides say one thing a

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 7:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/12/25 15:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: That doesn't apply in Konsole for one. Don't know if it applies in other terminal emulato

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 3:22 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? For example I have one terminal window with: rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft-ietf-drip-rid/dki-try2$ That is the

Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well that is good to hear. I really like these Lenovos. But I wonder if they support Win11; going to have to check out my one 140e that is running Win10 and figure out what to do come 10's EOL.  Unfortunately I do need one Win box... On 3/12/25 1:32 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: I tried running

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 11:51 AM, Marco wrote: On 12.03.2025 11:17 Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 3/12/25 10:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:48 +0100, Marco wrote: On 12.03.2025 10:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current pa

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
ki-05). I do appreciate your guidance! On 3/12/25 12:03 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Am 12.03.2025 um 11:56:59 Uhr schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I have changed PS1: echo $PS1 [\u \W]$ So that PROMPT_DIRECTORY is not what is displayed: All the other stuff won't too. If that is what you want, you ca

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 11:16 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 10:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? For example I have one terminal window with: rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 10:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:48 +0100, Marco wrote: On 12.03.2025 10:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? That is being controlled by $PS1 in bashrc (or the conf

Re: Systemd Craziness

2025-03-12 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/10/25 4:20 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 04:34:35PM -0400, Robert McBroom wrote: On 3/9/25 2:06 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 06:45:24PM +0100, Michal Schorm wrote: Hi, this seems like a series of standalone issues

Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? For example I have one terminal window with: rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft-ietf-drip-rid/dki-try2$ That is the whole line is taken up with the current directory! I would be happy if

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