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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4 years, 6 months
copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my
Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem:
- I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names
- if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a
location where the page listed is full (no blank space inside it), it seems
that I cannot paste: the right mouse click doesn't offer the paste option.
In these cases I temporarily switch to what should be "icon view" and in
this case I always have some blank space because of how items are displayed.
I select a blank space and then right-mouse --> paste
Then I come back to list view...
Is this a sort of bug or what?
Based on this link
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-copy.html.en
I should have "paste" option in menu, but it doesn't happen, see screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1ZPYPJ5B8IRDA6T_LL5AfbCD2YFAy6_/view?us...
NOTE: keyboard shortcut ctrl+c and ctrl+v works, though
Thanks in advance.
Gianluca
4 years, 9 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,
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5 years, 5 months
Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
After the last system update in F28 Network Manager is not
retaining the wifi password entered into its security tab. When I enter
the password and select apply then 'OK' to exit network manager, when I
get back in the password is gone. Is anyone else seeing this issue or
have any tips on how to rectify this issue?
regards,
Steve
5 years, 6 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
4.17.x kernels cause "nvme0: controller is down" on MacBook Air
by Lonni J Friedman
Ever since Fedora(27) released a 4.17.x kernel, my MacBook Air (7,1)
is no longer able to boot at all. It hangs when trying to use the
NVMe disk controller:
nvme nvme0: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0x3, PCI_STATUS=0x810
and the entire boot process eventually times out completely. If I
return to using the last 4.16.x kernel (4.16.14-200.fc27.x86_64), then
the problem does *not* reproduce, and everything boots normally.
i opened a bug for this problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1601196
however, I'm surprised that no one else has run into this issue. Any
ideas or suggestions?
thanks!
5 years, 7 months
OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so would like to copy the contents (which are around 3.7 TB) to the second.
What is the fastest way to copy the contents of the first drive to the second? I was using rsync, but is there a better way?
Many thanks in advance for any advice,
Ranjan
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5 years, 8 months
VNC alternatives
by Robert Moskowitz
It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than
gnome. Definitely not Xfce that I use. The work around is nasty:
Connect via SSH and run vncserver from the command line. But probably
can do it better via SCREEN and just forget about that screen session...
So it is time to look at the alternatives. I know they are out there
and have been talked about on this list, but my search foo is weak (as
always). So can I have a bit of help in figuring out what to replace my
decades-old connection to VNC?
thanks
5 years, 8 months