How to find out which wifi card
by Robert Moskowitz
I am working on my non-working wifi now. The last critical item (I hope).
Just installing the broadcom-wl rpm got the card recognized, and I am
seeing SSIDs, but cannot connect. Perhaps some setting needed.
So I figure to start I need to know what card F30 thinks I have. Win10's
driver for this unit is BCMWL63a.
I can't find my old notes on how to list information about the card itself.
thanks
1 year, 8 months
Mostly OT: recommendations for simple personal static website
generator (Fedora 30)
by Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends,
After over 20 years, I am having to create a new personal website. I looked around a little and feel that I would like to have a static website. So, I was wondering about possible recommendations available on Fedora 30 (ideal) but otherwise that would be easy to get started on. I found something called getnicola.org but I was wondering if there are other more preferred options.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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1 year, 8 months
Finding some ../../lib/ symbolic links in /lib?
by Michael D. Setzer II
Had just done an installation of Fedora 30 i386 in a Virtual Box after an
upgrade from fedora 28 on another one failed after the upgrade seemed to
run fine, but reboot ended with a grub minimal prompt that showed nothing.
Restored the backup for the fedora 28, and it works fine, and the new fedora
30 seems fine, but in having to rebuild the missing stuff noticed the ../../lib
links. Since there are /lib directory is already at the top, the ../.. doesn't do
anything, but it just weird. Link the link is from something like, /usr/lib, and
then tries to link to ../../lib to be correct.
Have the build working ok, but was a lot of extra work with the failed dnf
upgrade.
Thanks.
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1 year, 8 months
Upgrade from F29 to F30 fails to boot
by Chris Kottaridis
I have a machine that I have been upgrading since F25. All of them went
smoothly from F25-F29.
I did the upgrade from F29 to F30 yesterday and it seemed to go OK till
the boot after installing everything.
I guess the naming I am using for my root partition is confusing the
upgrade, although it has not changed since all the previous upgrades
that worked fine. From the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg the F29 boot options
show that my LVM root partition ends with roota:
linux16 /vmlinuz-5.1.18-200.fc29.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-roota ro
rd.lvm.lv=fedora/roota rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8
This works in F29 and all the previous upgrades have worked fine.
However, for F30 after the installation when it tries to reboot it
complains that it can't find roota so it can't mount root and goes into
a very minimal mode. I mounted the /boot partition in this restricted
mode to look around.
The new F30 kernel wants to install a 5.1.19 kernel, but there is no
line for that version in grub.cfg, although it shows up as the first
option during boot.
I noticed a file called grubenv that has this line:
kernelopts=root=/dev/mapper/fedora-roota ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root
rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet
Notice it has roota for the root variable, but not roota for the
rd.lvm.lv value.
I added an "a" to the rd.lvm.lv value in grubenv and tried a reboot and
it rebooted the 5.1.19 kernel just fine and came up as F30.
I am confused why this upgrade didn't add the "a" to the rd.lvm.lv value
but always did in the previous upgrades?
Also, I am not sure that the upgrade is fully complete as there is still
no entry in grub.cfg for the 5.1.19 kernel.
How do I get the 5.1.19 entry into the grub.cfg file?
This machine is a test machine for the a production machine. It is
configured the same way as the production machine. I apply patches on
this machine first then the production machine. Likewise for upgrades. I
would like to not have to do any hack like this if there is something
that can be done that will result in a smooth upgrade on the production
machine. This machine is a VM and I took an image of it prior to the
upgrade attempt. I have no problem reinstalling the image prior to the
upgrade and trying it again if there is a way to get a clean upgrade.
My overriding concern is that this is something I will continue to run
into on future upgrades.
Thanks
Chris K
1 year, 8 months
Enlarging the swap partition
by Robert Moskowitz
I erred in setting up my F30 system. Since the notebook has 4GB memory,
the install set up swap of 4GB.
This is not enough. I have two options. Add more memory (which will
take more electrons to support), or enlarge swap. Of course more
swapping even to an SSD will probably use more electrons (this is about
battery life).
So the question for now is can I shrink partition 4-5 (why did the
install do it this way?) and expand swap, or is this just too risky and
just go with more memory.
thanks
# parted /dev/sda
(parted) print all
Model: ATA WDC WDBNCE5000PN (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB primary ext4 boot
2 1075MB 4576MB 3501MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 4576MB 79.7GB 75.2GB primary ext4
4 79.7GB 500GB 420GB extended
5 79.7GB 500GB 420GB logical ext4
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 69G 19G 47G 29% /
/dev/sda1 976M 222M 688M 25% /boot
/dev/sda5 385G 224G 142G 62% /home
1 year, 8 months
Evolution crashing
by Robin Lee
Hi
I wonder if just for me that Evolution crashes most of the time I try
to close it?
I usually start Evolution right away after logging in and then have it
running until it is time to apply software updates. I usually do that
twice a week. More than half of time closing Evolution crashes the
whole Gnome desktop. Quite annoying. Sometimes it closes gracefully.
Is it just me?
Cheers
Robin
1 year, 8 months
Samba broken pipe -
by Bob Goodwin
.
This morning I am unable to ssh into the samba server. I get an error:
"client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe" although I am still able to
access the server files on another connection. Has something changed
recently limiting me to one connection at a time? Or perhaps another
problem?
Bob
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1 year, 8 months
Equalizer for pulseaudio
by SternData
I just did a clean install of F30 on this system and am trying to get
things back to work.
I've got pulseeffects installed because the install of
pulseaudio-equalizer fails
$ sudo dnf install pulseaudio-equalizer
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides ladspa-swh-plugins needed by
pulseaudio-equalizer-2.7-21.fc29.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
This is what's available searching on ladspa
========================== Summary Matched: ladspa
============================
lv2-swh-plugins.x86_64 : LV2 ports of LADSPA swh plugins
zam-plugins.x86_64 : A collection of LV2/LADSPA/JACK audio plugins
zam-plugins.x86_64 : A collection of LV2/LADSPA/JACK audio plugins
jack-rack.x86_64 : Stereo LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API
lv2-zam-plugins.x86_64 : A collection of LV2/LADSPA/JACK audio plugins. LV2
: version
lv2-zam-plugins.x86_64 : A collection of LV2/LADSPA/JACK audio plugins. LV2
: version
liblrdf.i686 : Library for manipulating RDF files describing LADSPA plugins
liblrdf.x86_64 : Library for manipulating RDF files describing LADSPA
plugins
liblrdf-devel.i686 : Library for manipulating RDF files describing LADSPA
: plugins
liblrdf-devel.x86_64 : Library for manipulating RDF files describing LADSPA
: plugins
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1 year, 8 months
Graphic tablets recommendations?
by S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
Hi!
I am looking for drawing / graphic tablets that works well with
Linux, specifically Fedora, and not expensive. So far I am
looking into some models:
- Parblo A640
- GAOMON S620
- VEIKK S640
- XP-Pen StarG640
- Huion H640P
Any thought?
Thanks!
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1 year, 8 months
Suspend Failure xhci_hcd Device
by Dr. Zenzic
I'm running F30 on a Thinkpad A485 with a Ryzen R5 2500U but having
trouble suspending the device. I know it's an issue with the USB 3 hub
(xhci device 0000:06:00.4) as seen from dmesg below. The device is
failing to suspend for some reason. After this message there are
warnings about irq_startup associated with this same device so that may
be the issue.
> [ 86.338687] PM: suspend entry (deep)
> [ 86.338688] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> [ 86.348213] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.002
> seconds) done.
> [ 86.350854] OOM killer disabled.
> [ 86.350855] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001
> seconds) done.
> [ 86.352112] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend
> to debug)
> [ 86.352615] wlp2s0: deauthenticating from MACADDRESS by local
> choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
> [ 86.352655] thinkpad_acpi: acpi_evalf(GTRW, dd, ...) failed:
> AE_NOT_FOUND
> [ 86.352656] thinkpad_acpi: Cannot read adaptive keyboard mode.
> [ 86.594743] xhci_hcd 0000:06:00.4: WARN: xHC CMD_RUN timeout
> [ 86.609822] PM: suspend_common(): xhci_pci_suspend+0x0/0xd0 returns
> -110
> [ 86.609826] PM: pci_pm_suspend(): hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x30 returns -110
> [ 86.609832] PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x120
> returns -110
> [ 86.609835] PM: Device 0000:06:00.4 failed to suspend async: error -110
I've tried disabling wakeup from the specified device in
/proc/acpi/wakeup. This has allowed me to enter suspend correctly once
but doesn't work consistently.
> GPP0 S3 *enabled pci:0000:00:01.1
> GPP1 S3 *disabled pci:0000:00:01.2
> GPP2 S3 *enabled pci:0000:00:01.3
> GPP3 S3 *enabled pci:0000:00:01.4
> GPP4 S3 *disabled
> L850 S3 *disabled
> GPP5 S3 *enabled pci:0000:00:01.6
> GPP6 S3 *disabled
> GP17 S3 *enabled pci:0000:00:08.1
> XHC0 S3 *disabled pci:0000:06:00.3
> XHC1 S3 *disabled pci:0000:06:00.4
> GP18 S3 *enabled pci:0000:00:08.2
> LID S3 *enabled platform:PNP0C0D:00
> SLPB S3 *enabled platform:PNP0C0E:00
Searching on Google I've only found information from kernel lists about
needed usb3 slow suspend enabled but that appeared resolved on the
kernel side or adding SUSPEND_MODULE="xhci_hcd" to no avail.
Has anyone experienced this issue before or know where I should be
looking further? Perhaps suspend just isn't working correctly with this
Thinkpad model on the current kernel?
The full dmesg is attached if that is helpful.
Regards.
1 year, 8 months