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upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?
by home user 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

The upgrade to Fedora-30 is done. This included upgrading Thunderbird to version 68.1. Unfortunately, this also lost all preferences, calendar data, set-up, filters, etc. Fortunately (I hope!), I did back up my ".thunderbird" directory before doing the upgrade. I seriously need my e-mail filters and my calendar (lightning?) data. How do I restore those? thanks, Bill.

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/dev/null is full ???
by ToddAndMargo 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hi All, Fedora 30 x64 Did I typo something here? This happens on more than one stick. # dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress 8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s, 218 MB/s dd: error writing '/dev/dull': No space left on device 2034754+0 records in 2034753+0 records out 8334348288 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.8 GiB) copied, 38.4257 s, 217 MB/s /dev/null is full ??? Huh ??? $ ls -al /dev/null crw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 5 16:04 /dev/null # parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: Samsung Flash Drive (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 64.2GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 65.5kB 64.2GB 64.2GB primary (parted) quit What did I do wrong? Many thanks, -T

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strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers
by Cătălin George Feștilă 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

my Fedora 30 distro has a strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers to a good speed... The hardware : [mythcat@desk ~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z68 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) 03:00.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8892E PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 30) 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) 05:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) The RAM memory [mythcat@desk ~]$ free -mh total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1.6Gi 1.1Gi 277Mi 140Mi 280Mi 242Mi Swap: 3.5Gi 962Mi 2.5Gi This is a screenshot with htop command running firefox: https://pasteboard.co/IAGQJ3o.png

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where is the nasty cache?
by Tom Horsley 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

We shuffled some systems around at work. An NFS server now has a new IP address. On my fedora 30 desktop I see: nslookup <server> shows the new IP address host <server> shows the new IP address ping <server> still pings the OLD address!!! mount /mountpoint apparent still uses the old IP because it times out. I'm not running nscd. I'm not running systemd-resolv. I'm not running dnsmasq or bind as a local cache. I don't have entries in /etc/hosts for the old IP. So where is this "helpful" cache that has the old IP stashed?

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The net.core.netdev_rss_key and insecure settings.
by Cătălin George Feștilă 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

What is net.core.netdev_rss_key? Can be this default setting an insecure issue? You can see it with this command: [root@desk mythcat]# sysctl -a --pattern 'net.core.netdev_rss_key'

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f30 :: ip6tables take 1.463s to load
by Adrian Sevcenco 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi! Does anyone have any idea why there is such situation: [root@localhost ~]# systemd-analyze blame | grep tables 1.463s ip6tables.service 217ms iptables.service This is on a new nvme laptop but the same behavior is present on any other systems that i have (but annoying on the laptop) The overall situation is : [root@localhost ~]# systemd-analyze Startup finished in 2.070s (firmware) + 5.323s (loader) + 837ms (kernel) + 1.218s (initrd) + 2.067s (userspace) = 11.517s graphical.target reached after 1.160s in userspace Does anyone have an idea how can i speed up this? (firewalld usage is not good for me) Thank you!! Adrian

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CUPS forcing single-sided printing
by Tim 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi, I have a LAN using CentOS and Fedora installations (currently its CentOS 7 on the server). At times it insists on doing double-sided printing, and will not let me choose single-side. Erratically the option is either unavailable (the drop down menu is not clickable, and says "not available"); or when the option is responding, my selection is ignored; and some days it works properly. The printer is a HP LaserJet P3015. I get this erratic behaviour on any of the PCs, and it used to do this, too, when the server was previously a Fedora install. Anybody have any clues? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 14:19:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.

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Boot order use the oldest kernel
by Jon Ingason 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, With one of my computers I have problem to set permanent default start order of the kernel. I can change it with "sudo grub2-set-default 0" but when I update the kernel I get oldest kernel as default boot order. How do I make the start order so the latest kernel is default? -- Regards Jon Ingason

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SSH after upgrade
by Mike Chambers 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Upgraded server from Fedora 30 to 31 (updated to present), and ssh into that server works fine as normal user, but no longer lets me login as root. I can login as root from the server machine itself, and can login via su - but just cant' from ssh. Any ideas what changed or got replaced so revert it back? Thanks, Mike

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Can't boot from the harddive
by Jon Ingason 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Hi, I accidentally turn off my computer with the power button. That resulted in corruption of "BIOS start". The motherboard has legacy BIOS. $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda [sudo] lösenord för jonsi: Disk /dev/sda: 2,7 TiB, 3000592982016 byte, 5860533168 sektorer Disk-modell: WDC WD30EZRX-22D Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 4096 byte I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 4096 byte / 4096 byte Disketikettstyp: gpt Diskidentifierare: 0A859753-6B39-4C92-BD5C-9754F2056E45 Enhet Början Slutet Sektorer Storlek Typ /dev/sda1 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS start /dev/sda2 4096 1028095 1024000 500M Linux-filsystem /dev/sda3 1028096 5860532223 5859504128 2,7T Linux LVM I can start the OS from the hard drive with SystemRescueCD. How can I repair BIOS start so I can start directly from the hard drive? -- Regards Jon Ingason

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