upgrade failed
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
On a multiboot machine,
1) on machine a) the upgrade to fc36 works, except the uname remains incorrect
2) on machine b), I made (also from fc34 to fc36)
dnf upgrade --refresh
dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --allowerasing
Every things seems OK
dnf system-upgrade reboot
The upgrade starts
List of upgrade to do
test
check
It says that it is going to take a while
But the upgrade ends by a reboot, without upgrade.
no packages fc36 installed.
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --allowerasing
provided:
No match for group package "reiserfs-utils"
No match for group package "qgnomeplatform"
No match for group package "xorg-x11-drv-armsoc"
..................
pgrading Groups:
Anaconda tools
base-x
Container Management
Firefox Web Browser
Guest Desktop Agents
LibreOffice
Common NetworkManager Submodules
Printing Support
Fedora Workstation product core
x86 Baremetal Tools
GNOME Desktop Environment
Multimedia
Core
Fonts
Hardware Support
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 343 Packages
Upgrade 6734 Packages
Remove 35 Packages
Downgrade 3 Packages
Total size: 7.6 G
DNF will only download packages, install gpg keys, and check the transaction.
Is this ok [y/N]: y
.......
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Complete!
Transaction saved to /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/system-upgrade-transaction.json.
Download complete! Use 'dnf system-upgrade reboot' to start the upgrade.
To remove cached metadata and transaction use 'dnf system-upgrade clean'
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Do I need to remove/downgrade the packages manually?
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A
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1 year, 10 months
Num Lock
by c. marlow
Fedora 36
XFCE 4.16
Dell Optiplex 980
I am needing to know how do I get my numlock to automatically turn on
when X loads and the log in screen comes up?
I have Numlockx installed, but the numlock does not come on after x
loads.
I had it set in the DELL bios for numlock to be on at boot, but after X
loads, when you go to hit a number on the 10 key all you hear is an
internal beep from the computer. I have to toggle the numlock off and
back on then punch the numbers in for my password.
Have it set this way was fine for all the other DE's i've used... MATE
and Gnome... But not for XFCE for some reason.
--
===============
Thanks,
Chris
Please send all off list messages to: chris(a)cwm030.com
1 year, 10 months
gnome: display of battery charge as a percent
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
On a notebook, gnome displays the state of the battery at the right end of
the top bar of the screen.
I find that a percentage of full charge is a clearer way to present this
data.
It used to be an option in the gnome Tweaks tool, under "top bar". This
seems to be gone in Fedora 36. You can get use this shell command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true
This seems like useful functionality.
- why not make it the default?
- why remove it from tweaks?
- why make it so hard to discover?
I understand that gnome folks like to simplify things, but surely "tweaks"
is a great place to stuff useful options that are not important enough to
put in the main (simple) settings mechanism.
1 year, 10 months
Fedora 36 XFCE
by c. marlow
Hi,
Fresh install of Fedora 36 XFCE SPIN.
I can walk away from my computer and come back after the screen blanks
off and move my mouse and the lock screen will say:
"YOUR CAPSLOCK IS ON" on the screen locker..... But I never use the CL
( Caps Lock)
What could be randomly activating the caps lock when I move the mouse?
Is it Fedora doing it?
The computer does not power down and go into standby. The tower is
always running.
Dell Optiplex980.
Logitech wireless keyboard K520
Thanks,
Chris
1 year, 10 months
firewalld problems
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I updated from Fedora 34 to 36 on my gateway machine.
Computers on the LAN could no longer access the POP3 server.
Somehow some service settings got lost.
What else got lost in the transition?
NAT/forwarding no longer works. This didn't matter because there is a
second gateway with a much faster internet connection. Except it
mattered today because Rogers Communications internet and phone
service went out, across their service area in Canada. When I tried
to use the gateway with F36, it would not work.
Just as a simple example, from the LAN
ping external-site
generated a "Packet filtered" response returned by the gateway.
On the other hand this worked fine:
ping gw-LAN-address
and so did
ping gw-public-address
This looks like a problem with forwarding.
googling got me this:
<https://www.it-hure.de/2021/12/firewalld-fedora-34-35-masquerade-between-...>
It proposed this:
firewall-cmd --permanent --new-policy policy_int_to_ext
firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --add-ingress-zone public
firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --add-egress-zone external
firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --set-priority 100
firewall-cmd --permanent --policy policy_int_to_ext --set-target ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=external --add-masquerade
systemctl restart firewalld
firewall-cmd --info-policy policy_int_to_ext
I tried this (replacing "public" with the right zone for my setup).
This isn't quite working. tcpdumping the gateways external port, I
can see the ICMP Echo Request makes it out and an ICMP Echo Reply
comes back, but it never make it into the LAN.
Ditto for ssh.
Can anyone see what I've missed?
Where can I see "policy" stuff in the firewall GUI? I haven't found
it.
Another oddity. After I did the proposed firewall changes listed
above, I dumped the netfilter rules "nft -l" and compared them with
the previous dump. There seemed to be a certain amount of
refactoring: there were separate functions for virbr0. Why?
I no longer have confidence in the migrated firewall config.
Is there a way to start over, as if this were a fresh installation of
Fedora 36.
I think the "policy" feature is just what I need for other problems, so it
is great to see this addition. It seems too sparsely documented for me to
completely understand it. Boy is "policly" an overused term in
networking.
1 year, 10 months
Dual booting
by Michael Hennebry
I recently acquired a
Refurbished: Grade A Dell OptiPlex GX980 Tower PC, Intel Core I3-550 3.2Ghz, 8G
DDR3, 1T HDD, DVD, VGA, WiFi, Bluetooth ...
I can boot it from a live Centos 7 disk.
According to W10, the HDD is partitioned as follows:
System: 350 MB
C: 930.44 GB
recovery: 750 MB
I think that I would want to dual-boot it (Windows/Fedora)
in case I ever need Windows for something.
I have set up dual booting before,
but it has been a long time.
Ideally it would be a triple boot:
one for Windows, one that I just installed
and one that I've been using lately.
Mostly what I remember about the process is that getting the information
from various distant places in the galaxy was a bit of a chore.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
-- someeecards
1 year, 10 months
Fusioninventory packages
by Federico Alaimo
Hello all,
I wanted to know if epel 9 will bring fusion inventory agent packages (as done in epel7 and 8) and if yes, when that is expected to happen.
Thanks!!
1 year, 11 months
akmods issue
by Neal Becker
Speaking of nvidia and akmods, I just had an issue this morning. On my
server I'm using nvidia proprietary driver from rpmfusion. Apparently it
was updated (automatically) last night and when I tried to run experiments
on the gpu this morning I got the dreaded version mismatch between the
kernel driver and cuda library (or something).
I tried rebooting but that didn't fix the issue.
I tried running akmods manually but it didn't find anything to build. The
man page for akmods was unhelpful, and looking in /lib/modules wasn't
useful because you can't see the version numbers on the modules to see that
everything is updated.
Finally I tried rebooting a 2nd time on the theory that the akmod got run
and the driver built on the first reboot, but too late - the old driver had
already loaded.
Surprise, that worked. So what's going on? It looks like akmod is run too
late and 2 reboots are needed to get the new driver built and loaded?
I checked
sudo systemctl status akmods
● akmods.service - Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/akmods.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Wed 2022-07-06 07:32:31 EDT; 28min ago
Process: 1166 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/akmods --from-init (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1166 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CPU: 215ms
Jul 06 07:32:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Starting Builds and install new kmods
from akmod packages...
Jul 06 07:32:31 nbecker8 akmods[1166]: Checking kmods exist for
5.18.9-100.fc35.x86_64[ OK ]
Jul 06 07:32:31 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Finished Builds and install new kmods
from akmod packages.
Any ideas?
1 year, 11 months
Akmod Built Nvidia Module Tainting the Kernel at Boot Time
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I believe I am using akmod to build the nvidia kernel module when
the kernel version changes and that built module is tainting the kernel
because of missing signature or keys, which I am assuming are secure
boot keys, but I also followed some instructions I found on the net to
get nvidia keys into secure boot when I first installed the nvidia
modules. I don't know whether I was getting the following messages at
that time or not, as I found these when I was looking for something else.
Is the issue with the following messages that the secure boot keys
have to be rebuilt every time the nvidia modules are updated?
Just as a follow on from this, I've read that nvidia have open
sourced their linux drivers, how long will it take for those to be
incorporated into the distribution to remove the requirement for the Rpm
Fusion versions?
[ 13.973631] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 13.973636] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 13.978637] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or
required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 13.988926] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major
device number 511
[ 13.989619] nvidia0000:09:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes:
olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[ 14.040430] NVRM: loading NVIDIAUNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 510.68.02
Wed Apr 20 21:10:34 UTC 2022
[ 14.677665] caller _nv000651rm+0x1ad/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple
BARs
[ 14.928567] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module
nvidia, inheriting taint.
regards,
Steve
1 year, 11 months