Create bootable disk with fedora - but not using live-CD
by Barry Scott
I want to create a bootable USB stick that runs fedora.
I do not want to create a Live-CD USB stick because live-CD
fails to boot on my main PC. And no one seems to know how to
fix this. By using a read-write USB stick I can add in debug
code to the boot process and try to findout what is hanging
the boot process.
What my google-fu is failed to do is figure out how to find
instruction on how to do this with getting live-CD instructions.
I'm guessing that I should be able to use anaconda or dnf to get
the heavy lifting done.
Does anyone know what the steps I need to follow are?
Barry
3 years, 8 months
cron is failing to run for selinux context, but everything looks
fine
by stan
Recently, I've noticed that some jobs that are started by dwatch,
aren't starting. If I start them manually, they start fine. dwatch is
in cron.d, and should be running every 5 minutes, but no cron jobs are
running. I see the following in journalctl,
Jul 28 10:07:08 localhost.localdomain crond[1192]: (root) FAILED (loading cron table)
Jul 28 10:07:08 localhost.localdomain crond[1192]: ((null)) No SELinux security context (/etc/crontab)
but when I check the security context, it seems fine to me.
-rw-r--r--. 1 0 0 system_u:object_r:system_cron_spool_t:s0 451 Jul 24 2019 /etc/crontab
Before I open a bugzilla, I wanted to check if anyone has an
explanation for this, and a fix.
3 years, 8 months
Curious Mystery Of Killed Process
by Thomas Dineen
Gentle People:
I have a question about "The Curious Mystery Of Killed Process At 4:56 AM"?
For some while now I have been developing a optimization application, which
depending on the machine may run for several days.
The development process has played out over a month or more of
testing, finding many bugs
including several Segmentation Fault Crashes, which are usually found
and fixed
with the help of GDB.
Now I have a new one: After running for several days the application
terminates,
and prints "Killed" in the shell window. Now know this did not likely
occur via the
keyboard because of physical security. Can a process kill itself? Is
this simply caused
by a bug which must be chased down? Could this be caused by a shortage
of resources?
Memory? Threads? Is there a limit on the number of threads?
I am running GCC 4.4.7 on CentOS 7.0
Thank You for any thoughts.
Thomas Dineen
3 years, 8 months
Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32
by Sreyan Chakravarty
I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs.
It can't even initialize my swap file:
Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap:
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
6 Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate
swap /fedora.swap.
7 Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Dependency failed
for Swap.
8 Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: swap.target: Job
swap.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
9 Jul 26 21:01:12 localhost.HPNotebook swapon[994]: swapon:
/fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument
10 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook swapon[1084]: swapon:
/fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument
11 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap:
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
12 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate
swap /fedora.swap.
13 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Dependency failed
for Swap.
14 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: swap.target: Job
swap.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
15 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook swapon[1093]: swapon:
/fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument
16 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap:
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
17 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate
swap /fedora.swap.
18 Jul 26 21:01:26 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Dependency failed
for Swap.
This doesn't happen in 5.6
There are a slew of other problems.
A log file can be found here:
https://pastebin.com/iL9Yd5cj
I really am too tired to file a bug since nothing really gets fixed.
What I want to do is uninstall the 5.7 kernel.
If I uninstall the kernel will running an older kernel cause problems
during system upgrade ?
--
Regards,
Sreyan
3 years, 8 months
Fonts "forgotten" on boot (changes to font cache)
by Christopher St. Louis
I've been dealing with this absolutely bizarre issue for a few weeks now where
installed fonts seem to be "forgotten" on boot. My desktop is a combination of
tiling window manager (i3) and status bar (polybar), and when I start up my
computer I find that the compact bitmap font (curie, manually installed) that
the status bar is supposed to use has been replaced by a much larger and uglier
font.
After digging around to see if either of the above programs were the cause of
it (some change made to the status bar's configuration when updating the
program, etc.), I discovered that apparently the font I assigned to the status
bar was no longer part of the system font cache--"fc-list | grep curie" returns
nothing. The bizarre part is, the font files are still in their directory in
/usr/share/fonts/, and running "sudo fc-cache -fv" results in the fonts both
appearing on my status bar and showing up when I run "fc-list."
But this has become a regular issue as I said for several weeks--it took some
time to recognize this as a persistent issue and not just some accidental
consequence of me mucking around somewhere that I shouldn't have. If I had to
try and be more specific I'd say the problem has existed since kernel 5.7 was
released in F32 (not saying I think it's kernel-related, but that's the only
milestone I can think of to date this problem).
I know very little about how fonts work in Linux in general and am hoping
someone could shed some light on why this may be happening. In my limited
understanding, it seems like something is happening to my font cache at
shutdown/startup that is causing at least some fonts to be excluded even though
they are still installed in the system font directory. I'm assuming some other
program/process is making some sort of change to the font cache, but as this is
the system and not user font directory, wouldn't said program/process need to
have elevated permissions to make these changes? How would I even begin trying
to track down what's responsible for this issue?
Thank you in advance.
3 years, 8 months
touchpad driver - F32
by Geoffrey Leach
Touchpad stopped working with version 32 (perhaps earlier?) At one
point there was an X.org configuration required, but that appears to
have become irrelevant. Is there a FAQ?
3 years, 8 months
SATA3 _A1, SATA3_ 2, etc. -
by Bob Goodwin
There are four SATA data connectors on a new main board. Usually I just
plug in to them as convenient disregarding the numeric designations. Is
there a proper order in which to connect two or three drives and what is
it. Neither the board manual or my google searching have been any help.
The connectors are labeled:
SATA3 _A1 SATA3_1 SATA3 _A2 SATA3_ 2
Can someone tell me what order to use them in or if it matters? They are
labeled so it would seem there certainly must be a reason ...
*
Bob*
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3 years, 8 months
Relating to Rawhide
by David
If you are not interested in Rawhide basics, please hit
the delete button now. This post is aimed at people
who may not know what Rawhide really is, or how it
gets updated, etc.
The link below is a Dropbox link, showing a list of
packages installed on my computer.
https://paper.dropbox.com/published/Status-of-my-Rawhide-Workstation-inst...
My Rawhide computer has been performing nominally, ( without hiccups )
since I installed the unofficial iso.
This list shows that some of the packages come from Anaconda. I assume,
( feel free to correct
me ), that those packages have not changed, since I did the install.
Right ??
Also note there are two different suffixes in the filenames "fc32," and
"fc33." Obviously, fc33 are the packages that have
been updated and re-labeled to show they are going to be in the upcoming
Version 33 of Fedora. What those suffixes actually
do in the server, meaning as to what repo they are in, I will let someone
else explain all that. I assume those packages with fc32 suffix are
identical to what you have if you are using fc32 Workstation. For
example, the package "bash" is apparently fc32.
As you can see, most of the important packages are updated in someway and
have the fc33 suffix. Meaning lots of hardwork has
been done by people. Thank you to those volunteers, etc.
Note that there is one package "fc31," that being "trousers."
As you can see, the kernel is the latest rc7 available. Since 5.7.0
will go stable in a few days, I assume that the next kernel I
get will be 5.8.0.rc0.git### or something like that, or at least that will
be the kernel on my install, in about two weeks. Feel free to correct
me.
Unfortunately, I have had little access to my computer in the past month,
due to not having a stable place to reside, and that will
likely be the case for me this summer.
I am looking forward to reading about how Fedora performs on the upcoming
Raspberry Pi 4, with 8 GB of RAM.
Another sad note, is that due to my financial situation, I had to downgrade
to a less expensive phone service provider, and in doing
so I ended up with a refurbished iPhone. I have never used an iPhone
before, and now I am doing most of my internet needs on
the iPhone. Actually, I am just using the hotspot on it, and still
doing most of my stuff on my old Android Alcatel 3V.
Cheers,
David Locklear
Novice Rawhide user
P.S. I would like to give a shout out to my buddy, Flannigan. In all
my 25 plus years of using the internet, he is the
first person I have bumped into on the internet, that we knew from other
hobbies, other than Linux. I will let him explain that
if he wants.
3 years, 8 months
second call for enlightenment...
by Jack Craig
hi all,
my new hp elitedesktop loaded w F32 is randomly freezing.
not finding log errors, what is the community's debug guidance??
tia, jackc
3 years, 8 months
video in Firefox not streaming
by Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello,
I am sorry to ask this here but am wondering why the last couple of
times I have installed Fedora 32 workstation, video playback in Firefox
is not working out of the box for some sites. So I can play videos on
youtube, but for example, trying to play a video in cnn.com ("something
went wrong during native playback") does not work, or playing some video
from Twitter("media could not be played") does not work either.
Am I missing the Flash Player? What am I missing here?
thank you,
3 years, 8 months