restoring the screen/apps/menus on powering back up
by bruce
Hi.
Wondering if there's a solution/process to being able to restore a
laptop to the state it had prior to powering down.
I run Gnome. Say I have multiple workspaces. Each workspace has a
number of "term" windows, and some gedit processes. The Gedit
processes might be running/editing different files.
Is there a way to power down, and power back up, and to be able to
have the same workspace/layout with all the terms/apps running as
before?
Thanks
2 years, 7 months
A question about /bin/startplasma-x11
by George R Goffe
Hi,
I have been away from plasma for a while and see some changes of course. One is plaguing me though... namely, how does one manually save a session. It used to be in the settings but I can't seem to find it now.
Could someone please point me to where I should look?
Best regards and STAY SAFE,
George...
2 years, 7 months
Enabling TPM emulation for Qemu Win10 guests
by Sam Varshavchik
If you're running a qemu VM with a Windows 10 guest (in F34) and you
successfully enabled TPM emulation, I'd like to compare notes with you.
I used virt-manager to enable TPM 2.0, both TIS and CRB types:
<tpm model="tpm-tis">
<backend type="emulator" version="2.0"/>
<alias name="tpm0"/>
</tpm>
and
<tpm model="tpm-crb">
<backend type="emulator" version="2.0"/>
<alias name="tpm0"/>
</tpm>
My fully activated/licensed Windows 10 VM (21H1) refuses to recognize TPM.
"Security Processor Troubleshooting" reports:
"Your device does not support this feature."
I've read multiple reports that this should work, so I must be missing
something. Looking at a working qemu configuration in /etc/libvirt/qemu is
the only thing I can think of.
2 years, 7 months
Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??
by Michael D. Setzer II
I've found 6 web sites so far that had instructions on
setting up a UEFI USB flash to boot, but all have failed.
Some actually create a UEFI Flash that my test usb is
seen as being a UEFI flash, but the boot fails?
The last one I fully documented the steps from page, but
the resulting flash doesn't even show up as an UEFI
Flash. Probable due to the failure of the grub2-install
option??
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI
platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
So, it seems it worked on some system before, but fails
with Fedora 33 at least?? Don't want to create a UEFI
Secure Boot, but just a UEFI Boot??
#https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-multiboot-usb-with-linux
parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel msdos
parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 1MiB 551Mib
parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 esp on
parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 boot on
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1
parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 551Mib 100%
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2
mkdir /media/{efi,data}
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/efi
mount /dev/sdb2 /media/data
# Installing legacy grub2
grub2-install \
--target=i386-pc \
--recheck \
--boot-directory="/media/data/boot" /dev/sdb
# Installing grub for efi
grub2-install \
--target=x86_64-efi \
--recheck \
--force \
--removable \
--efi-directory="/media/efi" \
--boot-directory="/media/data/boot"
## grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI
platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
mkdir /media/data/boot/iso
chown 1000:1000 /media/data/boot/iso
cd /media/data/boot/iso/
cp /home/msetzerii/g4l0.60alpha/g4l-v0.60.iso .
cd /media/data/boot/grub2
#create grub.cfg with these lines.
#menuentry "G4L" {
# isofile="/boot/iso/g4l-v0.60.iso"
# loopback loop "${isofile}"
# linux (loop)/isolinux/bz5x13.14 iso-scan/filename="${isofile}"
root=/dev/ram0
# initrd (loop)/isolinux/ramdisk.lzma
#}
Have just got had email chat with Clonezilla developer to see what
they have done. Seems they gave up on trying to make a UEFI
boot, and have created a live-cd boot of a distro to get around
issue.
Seems going from boot loaders link syslinux, grub4dos, and
regular grub2 with a 10M kernel and 30M ramdisk.
With Fedora, it would require the 2G live CD image, and then the
downloading of a number of packages that are not included on the
live-cd. So, 40M to 2000+M and a bunch of steps.
Does anyone know of a process to make a UEFI USB Boot that
actual works using Fedora??
Very Frustrated...
2 years, 7 months
Re: Problem with the dovecot-fts-xapian package.
by Bob Marcan
On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:36:46 +0100
Joan Moreau <jom(a)grosjo.net> wrote:
> This is where I am for now :
>
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=34417
>
> Probably, I should wait for Fedora batch programs to push that into main rep
>
> On 2021-09-12 11:18, Joan Moreau wrote:
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I am trying to achieve that.
> >
> > But do you know the process of pushing an update as a maintainer, in > fedore repositories ?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > On 2021-09-12 11:02, Bob Marcan wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:45:35 +0100
> > Joan Moreau <jom(a)grosjo.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for notice.
> >
> > What is the process to rebuild the package with recent dovecot, as > (instead of existing 1.4.12-1) ?
> > There are no (yet) 1.4.12-2 in updates-testing or > updates-testing-modular repository.
> > Should i'll wait for update?
> > BR, Bob
Got the new version and there is no more API mismatch.
It's not so important for me, since i'm retired and i'm running this on my home computer.
But i think it needs more support from te dovecot group.
There a lot file protection issues nad lack of documentation on dovecot side.
BR, Bob
2 years, 7 months
Problem with the dovecot-fts-xapian package.
by Bob Marcan
Problem with the dovecot-fts-xapian package.
Fedora 34 with latest updates.
dovecot-2.3.16-1.fc34.x86_64
dovecot-fts-xapian-1.4.12-1.fc34.x86_64
[root@smicro conf.d]# systemctl restart dovecot
[root@smicro conf.d]# doveadm index -A \*
Fatal: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib21_fts_xapian_plugin.so: Module is for different ABI version 2.3.ABIv15(2.3.15) (we have 2.3.ABIv16(2.3.16))
BR, Bob
2 years, 7 months
Problem reporting / Mate-Screensaver crash / Packagekit crach.
by Ger van Dijck
To all,
When I activate the screesaver I get the message : Mate-Screensaver quit
unexpectedly : Application crash, Packagekit idem : Application crash .
When this happens ( after a delay of 5 minutes ) I get a blue screen and
have to turn off the system by force , so hardware OFF.
When I want to do a Problem Reporting I get the message :
https://retrace.fedoraproject.org does not excist (server error 404) .
Question : What now ?
Regards ,
Ger van Dijck.
2 years, 7 months
networked sound via pipewire
by Greg Woods
Is this actually possible right now? Pipewire is under rapid development
which means the documentation out there on it rapidly becomes dated, so
I've been poking around for the past hour but haven't found anything that
would help me do what I want.
What I want to do is have some of my virtual machines send their output
over the network to my desktop. Not having audio from the VMs is limiting
what I can do with them. Can this be done with pipewire as it stands now?
Is it documented anywhere?
Thanks,
--Greg
2 years, 7 months
Using locate github
by Robert Moskowitz
I have a F32 system I am using with github. Yes, I know updating is
overdue....
Github has switched to person access tokens since the last time I used
it. I created my https PAT but can't seem to get the git command to use
it. It just uses my GIt ID and password which now gets rejected.
Any recommendation (other than updating to F34!) to get my "git push
origin" command to work?
It seems that there is a github-cli in beta, but does not seem to be an
option here.
thanks
2 years, 7 months
Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??
by Samuel Sieb
So the error message is "initramfs unpacking failed: no cpio magic". I
I guess you will need to repack your initramfs to be compatible with the
Fedora kernel.
Are you aware that there are various tools included with Fedora to help
you create live boot images?
2 years, 7 months