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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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
4 years, 6 months
Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
by Sudhir Khanger
Hello,
I get *Failed to start Load Kernel Modules* during the boot.
Everytime Kernel is updated VirtualBox modules fail I have to reboot into
the new Kernel, run the following commands and then it starts working.
$ sudo akmods --force
$ sudo dracut -v -f
$ sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Then everything starts working again and the boot error goes away. You can
found the background of the issue in the link below.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254340
My question is how can I automate this task.
5 years, 4 months
ACPI errors (was: f24 boot fails; need help).
by William
Good evening,
One of the problems reported in the log file "rdsosreport.txt" generated
by the failed boots discussed in the "f24 boot fails; need help" topic
was a set of "ACPI" errors. Here are the relevant lines (with added
line numbers) from that log file (the first and last lines are just for
context):
----------
862 [ 1.218683] coyote kernel: ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps
(SStatus 113 SControl 300)
863 [ 1.218927] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace
lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359)
864 [ 1.219196] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT1._GTF] (Node ffff92ef8e0db488), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20160930/psparse-543)
865 [ 1.219856] coyote kernel: ata2.00: ATA-8:
ST2000DM001-1CH164, CC24, max UDMA/133
866 [ 1.220017] coyote kernel: ata2.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi
16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
867 [ 1.220812] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace
lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359)
868 [ 1.221100] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT1._GTF] (Node ffff92ef8e0db488), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20160930/psparse-543)
869 [ 1.221620] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace
lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359)
870 [ 1.221909] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node ffff92ef8e0dbac8), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20160930/psparse-543)
871 [ 1.222200] coyote kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST BD-RE
BH14NS40, 1.00, max UDMA/100
872 [ 1.222374] coyote kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
873 [ 1.222582] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace
lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359)
874 [ 1.222908] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node ffff92ef8e0db348), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20160930/psparse-543)
875 [ 1.222919] coyote kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access
ATA ST2000DM001-1CH1 CC24 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
876 [ 1.223466] coyote kernel: ata4.00: ATAPI: PIONEER BD-RW
BDR-208M, 1.10, max UDMA/100
877 [ 1.226360] coyote kernel: ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0
SControl 300)
878 [ 1.226407] coyote kernel: ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0
SControl 300)
879 [ 1.226501] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace
lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359)
880 [ 1.226507] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node ffff92ef8e0dbac8), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20160930/psparse-543)
881 [ 1.226519] coyote kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100
882 [ 1.227197] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace
lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359)
883 [ 1.227204] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node ffff92ef8e0db348), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20160930/psparse-543)
884 [ 1.227217] coyote kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
----------
What is this all about? Is this a real problem or a false alarm? How
do I fix it?
thanks,
Bill.
5 years, 5 months
Install on Zotac Zbox CI327?
by wwp
Hello there,
(after a looong time not using Fedora, just back to it!)
I've tried installing Fedora on a Zotac Zbox CI327 (Intel Celeron
N3450 inside) but this happens to fail. I've tried F25 but it has
not the right kernel to make it (I've read about 4.10 minimum), then
tried F26-Alpha-1.7 Live and Rawhide-20170518 Live but none could
reach the graphical login. They both boot, some steps take a lot of
time and I end up in a state I don't understand but which is not
friendly ;-).
Here's a link to a rdsosreport.txt file generated using Rawhide, I must
admit that I don't know what to do now..
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/iRx8d~7Luk2TC3bsaDuuT15M1UNdIGYhyRL...
BTW, I could install and run a Ubuntu 17.10 daily
(artful-desktop-amd64-20170519.iso) - wow it starts up pretty quickly -
and that gave me hope!
Any hint or experience w/ such hardware?
Regards,
--
wwp
5 years, 5 months
How to turn on networking from rescue boot
by vendor@billoblog.com
So... I did a "sudo dnf upgrade" and things seemed to do well.
However, when I rebooted, it hangs on bootup with the statment "Holding
until bootup processes complete" or something like that -- I'm doing
this from memory. I tried with a couple of older kernels, but they also
hung.
I assume that this is some transient thing associated with the upgrade.
Over the years, I've had glitches appear on an upgrade and disappear on
the next upgrade. Accordingly, I'd like to boot into rescue mode and
see if I can upgrade again.
However, I've forgotten how to turn on wifi networking from rescue mode.
Can anybody point me to a tutorial?
Thanks,
billo
5 years, 7 months
SSH private keys?
by Jeffrey Ross
At one point Fedora had something (keyring?) that would allow me to
unlock my SSH private keys and it would keep the unlocked key available
so I could ssh without having to unlock my key every time. I typically
run a simple "terminal" window and then "ssh <hostname>" since my key is
not retained unlocked I'm prompted for a password.
Fast forward to today, the system had been reinstalled (new hardware,
new disks, etc) and I no longer have that ability. I'm currently runn
Fedora 28 and the desktop is "Gnome", I'm sure it is just a matter of
installing/configuring/running the correct application.... but which one?
Thanks, Jeff
5 years, 9 months
language choose menu in slick greeter
by Franta Hanzlík
I just install F28/i686/MATE desktop, and it's login screen has not
menu for language selection. And instead of lightdm-gtk there is slick
greeter.
Know anyone, when it is possible to configure slick for language
selection? Or I should rather switch back to lightdm-gtk?
Thanks, Franta
--
I hope the Fedora will have a better init and no binary logs
5 years, 10 months
Makemkv Incompatible with mmdtsdec
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
With the sudo dnf upgrade I have just done I received the following
messages, which I'm not sure what to do about.
Problem: package makemkv-1.12.2-2.fc27.x86_64 obsoletes mmdtsdec <
1.12.2-2.fc27 provided by mmdtsdec-1.12.0-1.fc27.i686
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
mmdtsdec-1.12.0-1.fc27.i686
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
makemkv-1.12.0-1.fc27.x86_64
regards,
Steve
5 years, 11 months
Live ISO image creation
by Jozsef K
Hi,
I have a question about live ISO image creation. What I would like to achieve is to install exfat-utils and fuse-exfat while I am in live environment and then to create a new ISO image file which would be the same as the one I booted but with addition of those two packages.
Is that possible?
Best,
Jozsef K.
http://racunar.h1n.ru
5 years, 11 months