Chattering Keyboard?
by Tim Evans
$ uname -a
Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 3
17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Looks like I have a chattering keyboard. Idle terminal looks like
someone's repeatedly hitting <ENTER>. Ditto on virtual terminal.
keystrokes being duplicated in graphical apps like Thunderbird. Pace of
the extra stuff seems random. Sometimes it goes 20-30 seconds; others,
just a few seconds.
Don't see any journalctl ofutput of interest. Other than going out to
find a new keyboard, other suggestions welcome. Thanks............
1 year, 2 months
'mutt' issues
by Slade Watkins
Hi all,
I've been wanting to switch from Thunderbird to 'mutt' when dealing with
emails for some time, but unfortunately, I've had numerous issues getting mutt
to actually load my inbox or any folders. I've tried getting it to cache them,
since I only get a small number of new ones each time, but it hasn't respected
the cache either.
At this rate, I've just gone back to Thunderbird even though it has its own
issues I wanted to get away from.
I feel like I might be doing something wrong here. Several Linux kernel
contributors are able to use this without issue, so I'm willing to bet it
might be user error.
Anyone here have any ideas? I'm open to suggestions!
Thanks,
-- Slade
1 year, 2 months
shortcoming of cockpit ?
by old sixpack13
I playing around with F37 Server, Cockpit, btrfs mirror under vbox:
created a mirror with:
mkfs.btrfs -L MyMirror -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
fetched the UUID with:
btrfs fi show
setup the /etc/fstab:
UUID=<MyMirror's-uuid> /home/DATA btrfs device=/dev/sdb, device=/dev/sdc,compress=zstd:1 0 0
or
UUID=<my-uuid-here> /home/DATA btrfs compress=zstd:1 0 0
rebooted
when I look at cockpit's "Storage" I see both disks are mounted, but also at the most right side a exclamation mark for /dev/sdc.
clicking down to the /dev/sdc:
=> "The filesystem is not mounted"
=> "Inconstistent filesystem mount"
=> "The filesystem is currently not mounted but will be mounted on the next boot"
Is it a shortcoming of cockpit ?
cause no hints in dmesg and the mirror is usable e.g. fillable via smbshare and both disk do have the same fill level.
1 year, 2 months
locale screwup
by Tim
Here's a weird one: After a bunch of updates yesterday my system has
changed from Australian locale to American.
How do you even change that post-installation? I see no tool for it.
--
NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list.
The following system info data is generated fresh for each post:
uname -rsvp
Linux 6.1.14-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Feb 26 00:31:11
UTC 2023 x86_64
1 year, 2 months
Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters
by Robert McBroom
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a
while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success.
Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a
generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get
the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu
[AC1200 Techkey]
1 year, 2 months
DNF upgrade. Not sure what's up here.
by Scott Beamer
Greetings.
I just ran "sudo dnf upgrade", and among the items that flew by, was this:
[...]
Cleanup : gtk-update-icon-cache-3.24.36-1.fc37.x86_64
41/42
Cleanup : gnome-software-43.4-1.fc37.x86_64
42/42
Running scriptlet: systemd-resolved-251.13-3.fc37.x86_64
42/42
Running scriptlet: gnome-software-43.4-1.fc37.x86_64
42/42
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references path below legacy
directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → /run/sddm; please update
the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
Verifying : cups-1:2.4.2-10.fc37.x86_64
1/42
Verifying : cups-1:2.4.2-5.fc37.x86_64
[...]
So what exactly does "/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references
path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm →
/run/sddm; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly."
mean, and how do I fix it?
TIA
Scott
1 year, 2 months
Did install of Fedora 37 on 128G USB Flash, but then wouldn't show as boot? Until resized EFI System?
by Michael D. Setzer II
Have a Acer Predator Helios 500 that is having startup issues with the Windows
11 it has. Can get it to but from Fedora 37 install ISO, but reboots put it back to
start. Had a 128G flash, so wanted to install on it for testing.
Install seemed to go fine, had it use standard partitions and had it automatically
create. After complete, the Acer would not show the flash as a boot option??
For some reason the default setup had created the EFI System as 600M with
Fat32. On one of my other Fedora machines used gparted to resize it to 63M
and that converted it to Fat16? Then the 128G usb would show up as a boot
option, and seems to work fine.
Questions:
1. Why did the default setup create a 600M partition for EFI Sytem?
2. Not sure if the large size was too large for the Acer or what??
The info on flash that now is working. Just has a whole of the extra space
between the end of current sdb1 and start of sdb2.
sfdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 118.5 GiB, 127238406144 bytes, 248512512 sectors
Disk model: USB 3.0 FD
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B3A26560-321A-4CF0-A9F9-7030EFA868DD
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 131071 129024 63M EFI System
/dev/sdb2 1230848 3327999 2097152 1G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb3 3328000 150128639 146800640 70G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb4 150128640 248510463 98381824 46.9G Linux filesystem
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Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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1 year, 3 months
Fedora 37 installer only sees 1 of 3 4TB drives on NVMe card
by Ranjan Maitra
Hello,
I have 3 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD part number CT4000P3PSSD8 on my card. However, the Fedora installer only sees one of these three SSDs. I tried looking at them using nvme list and only see one (and two separate 256 GB SSDs). I looked into the case, and all three 4 TB drives are there, with lights blinking. I am sorry not to give more relevant info right now (I do not know what to give), but the machine shipped by Dell (the 4 TB drives were purchased separately) is Precision 7920 Tower XCTO Base (it came with the 2 256 GB SSDs).
Many thanks, and best wishes,
Ranjan
1 year, 3 months