Firefox and H264
by Frank Elsner
Hello,
the firefox of the Fedora Live system doesn't play videos which require a H.264 handler.
How to enable playing of H.264 videos? Without that I can't install.
And is the Fedora Workstation release better?
Kind regards,
Frank Elsner
4 years, 5 months
mismatch in hdf packages prevent upgrade from F30->F31
by Jouk Jansen
Hi All,
When performing an upgrade from F30 to F31 on one of my machines the upgrade
process tries to install (yes an install not an upgrade) the packages
hdf.x86-64 and hdf.i686. This fails due to a mismatch in these packages of
/usr/bin/h4cc and /usr/bin/h4fc.
Does anyone has an idea which other package recently got a dependence on hdf
and triggers this problem? If I know I may can remove the i686 version from
my system.
Regards
Jouk
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4 years, 5 months
GRUB and nonstandard EFI partitions
by Kad Zayar
Hello, this is the first time I participate in a mailing list.
Today I attempted installing Fedora Workstation on a friend's computer
and there were some peculiar quirks to the process.
- Anaconda-installer asked me for a 2MB boot partition
- the resulting install had no /sys/firmware/efi.
Fedora was supposed to share the machine with an existing Windows10
install thru UEFI not BIOS.
Turns out, his EFI partition is on /dev/sda2, while /dev/sda1 is some ms
recovery system bloat.
This makes scripts like os-prober unhappy (according to logs) and makes
the system believe it's MBR because the fiilelsystem format of assumed
/dev/sda1 does not match. We discovered this when we realised that
Windows won't show as a grub entry no matter what.
Now I could alter the partition table with sfdisk(8), to make /dev/sda1
point at the EFI partition, but I'm hoping you guys know a less hacky
way (with grub itself maybe).
altering Windows partitions is not something he's comfortable with,
while reinstalling Fedora is not a problem (he still hasn't made it his
own).
Thanks!
4 years, 5 months
how to fix error systemd-modules-load
by Cătălin George Feștilă
this is the error on dmesg
[ 15.063818] systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
[ 15.064239] systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
I try to restart it but I got this:
[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl restart systemd-modules-load
Job for systemd-modules-load.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
The journalctl -xe come with this:
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Nov 09 16:04:02 desk systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- The unit systemd-modules-load.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 16:04:02 desk systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
-- Subject: A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has finished with a failure.
--
-- The job identifier is 2647 and the job result is failed.
Nov 09 16:04:16 desk systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
-- Subject: A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 2651.
Nov 09 16:04:16 desk systemd-modules-load[5606]: Failed to lookup module alias 'fuse': Function not implemented
Nov 09 16:04:16 desk systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit systemd-modules-load.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
4 years, 5 months
grub2 always defaults to old kernel despite correct configuration
by Not Random
Hello,
I've had a confusing problem with grub2 for some time now. I'm now running Fedora 31, but ever since upgrading to to Fedora 30 grub has always defaulted to selecting the 3rd entry. This means that unless I stop it, Grub will always boot my oldest installed kernel.
* My system is dual boot with Windows 8.1, which grub detects perfectly. (This means there are 5 entries; 3 kernel, 1 memtest and 1 Windows)
* I've tried moving all the grub configuration files aside and reinstalling the package, but nothing changes. Tried grub2-mkconfig etc but nothing changes.
* I've had multiple kernel updates during this time but nothing changes.
* Grubby seems to thing the default kernel is selected...but grub never boots it:
# grubby --grub2 --default-kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
# rpm -q kernel
kernel-5.2.18-200.fc30.x86_64
kernel-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64
kernel-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
I've tried searching for solutions, but cannot find anything like this problem - most articles address choosing a permanent kernel entry - I want Fedora to go back to selecting the newest kernel by default, like it did in Fedora 29 and previous versions.
Can anyone tell me where to investigate please?
Thanks!
Frustrated
4 years, 5 months
Fedora 30 workstation keeps crashing...
by linux guy
My Fedora 30 workstation keeps freezing up. Can't open another session or
reboot via the keyboard. Only thing it responds to is a hard reset.
I've been using it for 3 years with no issues.
Ideas ?
How do I troubleshoot it ?
LG
$ uname -a
Linux Brix 5.3.8-200.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 29 14:46:22 UTC 2019 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 1.15.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0
Qt Version: 5.12.5
Hardware i7-5775R with 16 GB of RAM.
4 years, 5 months
VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom
I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora
firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site.
That site will be the place I present services to the world;
httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers"
and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net;
if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the
colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address,
and I am not opening any inbound ports.
There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive
are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html )
and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that
one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have
simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth,
and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the
main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail.
Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is
there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to
break with FC1 or FC2?
Keith
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Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
4 years, 5 months
Named GeoIP just got large
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
# ls -al /var/named/chroot/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 62899374 Oct 8 12:07
/var/named/chroot/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb
Just got ~20 times larger. Can I delete it and start over?
Many thanks,
-T
4 years, 5 months
libunique - CORRECTION
by Bob Goodwin
In an attempt to install a Fedora 30 Notecase Pro rpm in °fedora 31 I
find that it requires "libunique-1.0.so" and I was unable to find that
with dnf.
dnf whatprovides libunique gives no matches found.
Where should I look for"libunique-1.0.so" an rpm?
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
4 years, 5 months
off topic!! -- sysAdmin questions/issues.
by bruce
Hi.
Doing a project that will end in a live web/mobile app with live
customers/data/etc. I'm going to need remote sysAdmin functionality to
pull this off. I realize I could "stumble" my way through, but given
that the project will impact users, I don't want to screw this up.
So, I'm looking to get input from the list on what a sysAdmin resource
should be able to do for each part of the process. I've posted to
fiverr/freelancer but I'm interested in what you guys might say as
well.
The overall project has 3 components:
Development Server:
-needs to allow a couple of devs to access server to check in/out code
to develop code
-manage users, ssh access
Test Server:
-allow users to upload code to test web apps
-test "live" web apps
-manage users, ssh access
Production Server:
-allow users to upload code for live web apps
-run "live" web apps
-manage users, ssh access
-log files
-security/etc..
Basically, I'm going to need to figure out what a "sysAdmin" should do
or each of the above systems. (and then find someone to help do this
in the short term!!)
And no, the project can't afford a real sysAdmin -- we're not google!!!
Thoughts/Comments would be useful.
thanks guys
ps, I've got an initial list of things that I started, but thought it
would be better to start with a blank slate.
4 years, 5 months