WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem
by Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone,
I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped
to use for archive files for some digital images.
Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google
searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10
system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried to
connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount
it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I
plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is
plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution to
completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the
drive is plugged in a usb port.
Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives?
Thanks for you help!!!!
Greg Ennis
7 years, 3 months
Re: startx doesn't work in Fedora 25 (fedora)
by Rick Walker
Hi Ed,
> I suppose a little sanity check is in order.
> You wrote "F25 to F25" but that sure isn't correct.
Oops. F23->F25.
> ll /etc/systemd/system/default.target
4 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Oct 24 2011
/etc/systemd/system/default.target ->
/lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target
> ll /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
(...): No such file or directory
> I've heard of issues with people upgrading from earlier versions, say
> F21, when kdm was the default DM and somehow they upgraded and the
> changes were made to point to sddm but sddm itself wasn't installed.
dnf install sddm
Package sddm-0.14.0-6.fc25.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Hi Suomi,
> try: mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig; startx
ls /etc/Xll
total 32
4 applnk/ 4 mwm/ 4 xinit/ 4 xorg.conf.d/
4 fontpath.d/ 4 xdm/ 4 Xmodmap 4 Xresources
I don't have an xorg.conf file.
Some poking around on the web led to:
http://www.systutorials.com/qa/1692/how-to-change-the-display-manager-on-fe
dora-linux
Which suggested
dnf install system-switch-displaymanager system-switch-displaymanager-gnome
Followed by running system-switch-displaymanager. After that I get
ll /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Dec 21 11:40
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service ->
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdm.service
I'll reboot now. If you don't hear back from, then no news is good news.
Thanks!
--
Rick
7 years, 4 months
startx doesn't work in Fedora 25
by Rick Walker
Just updated from F25 to F25. No longer have a working KDE
desktop. I'm configured for graphical boot, but just get a
console. startx just errored out and returned after X11 died.
I cobbled together a simple .xinitrc and am running a very
painful fvwm.
Am I missing something simple? Do I just need to use a different
command to start the desktop in F25?
kind regards,
--
Rick Walker
7 years, 4 months
Auto suspend stopped working on my workstation
by Matthew Saltzman
It happened a few weeks ago, so I don't recall what updates might be
involved, but my workstation used to suspend itself after some minutes
of inactivity. Then after some update (a kernel was involved, I
believe, in case that might matter), it seems to have stopped. Even
auto screen blanking doesn't work now. The settings haven't changed.
How to troubleshoot?
Thx.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
7 years, 4 months
Silly mistake. Now I have two 'default routes'.
by Ron Leach
List, good evening,
I wanted to change a Fedora 24 server's default outgoing route, using
CLI over a local SSH connection. I found the ip command, read the man
page for ip route, and gave the command:
ron # ip route add default via 192.168.0.70 dev enp0s9
The server uses a static IP and its original gateway address was
192.168.0.60. Now I have
ron # ip route show
default via 192.168.0.70 dev enp0s9
default via 192.168.0.60 dev enp0s9 proto static metric 100
[...]
So I have created two 'default' routes. I've misunderstood the man
page, and I thought I'd better ask for some advice before I did any
more damage.
I want to reach the situation where the server has only one default
route, for all traffic, which is to a gateway machine with IP address
192.168.0.70 .
Should I remove both these entries, and then try 'add'ing a new
default route? If so, how ought I remove these entries?
Or is there a better way to correct this mistake?
Grateful for any help,
regards, Ron
7 years, 4 months
ssh X forwarding fails when sshing into F25
by Eric Smith
I have F24 on my laptop (vaio), and F25 on my desktop (p1). Back when both ran F24, I could from the laptop do "ssh -X p1" to get an ssh session with X forwarding. Now that I've upgraded the desktop to F25, when I try to do that, I get the ssh session, but with an error "X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0", and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, whereas before it would be set to "localhost:10.0".
Running the sshd server with debugging shows that the problem is with binding the X11 forwarding ports (6010 and up);
debug3: receive packet: type 98
debug1: server_input_channel_req: channel 0 request x11-req reply 1
debug1: session_by_channel: session 0 channel 0
debug1: session_input_channel_req: session 0 req x11-req
debug3: sock_set_v6only: set socket 9 IPV6_V6ONLY
debug2: bind port 6010: Cannot assign requested address
debug3: sock_set_v6only: set socket 9 IPV6_V6ONLY
debug2: bind port 6011: Cannot assign requested address
...
and so on through port 7009
ifconfig on the desktop shows that I have an inet6 address on the Ethernet interface enp10s0 (which I don't actually want), but no inet6 address on lo. route shows that I have no ipv6 routes.
What do I need to change to get sshd to successfully bind a suitable port (e.g., 6010)?
7 years, 4 months
Re: USB lost after suspend
by Geoffrey Leach
I said:
> After restarting from a suspend, some of my USB-connected devices (MP3 players,
> to be precise) no longer show up in the output from usb-devices (1). This a
> relatively new phenomena. Kernel is 4.8.13-100.fc23.x86_64. Previously, after
> a suspend I would have to reconnect the USB connection to have them visible,
> but that workaround is no longer effective. A re-boot works fine :-(
> Is there a way to restart whatever code is supposed to discover the USB?
Additional info:
A USB mouse is detected and operates normally
A USB hard drive is not detected (dmesg|tail shows nothing)
The MP3 players are formatted as vfat
7 years, 4 months
USB lost after suspend
by Geoffrey Leach
After restarting from a suspend, some of my USB-connected devices (MP3 players, to be precise) no longer show up in the output from usb-devices (1). This a relatively new phenomena. Kernel is 4.8.13-100.fc23.x86_64. Previously, after a suspend I would have to reconnect the USB connection to have them visible, but that workaround is no longer effective. A re-boot works fine :-(
Is there a way to restart whatever code is supposed to discover the USB?
Thanks.
7 years, 4 months
Who broke the gnome video player?
by Richard Shaw
Ok, I never noticed because usually I just want to play one file but I
actually want to create a playlist of videos and after some searching I
figured the Gnome video player could get the job done with a minimal amount
of fuss...
After loading Videos in F24 I see a screen with a handful of videos I've
played before but can find no option to create, much less play, a group of
videos.
I load the help file which references a View-.Sidebar or opening the
sidebar directly, well that doesn't exist and neither does a view option.
WTF?!?!? Who would remove that kind of functionality unnecessarily and why
wasn't the help file updated!?!!??
Am I just missing something simple or did someone totally fubar the gnome
video player making it all but useless?
Thanks,
Richard
7 years, 4 months