Xfce 4.14?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Fedora 29
Xfce 4.13
I have a customer interested in me putting Fedora 29
on a laptop.
Problem: Xfce 4.13 is too buggy to release on the general
public. Me, I am loyal and know how to cope with the bugs,
but a typical user, I would not wish that on them.
Is 4.14 anywhere near?
If not, is there a way to lock Fedora 29 into Xfce 4.12?
If not, I guess Mate would be the closest alternative.
I could always go with gnome, but it has a bad case of
the weirds.
Many thanks,
-T
5 years, 1 month
smartmontools issue
by Eyal Lebedinsky
fedora 28 up-to-date.
I have a new array, not yet commissioned, and one disk now complains
Device: /dev/sde [SAT], FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
and the reason, I understand, is this
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate PO---K 001 001 001 NOW 0
My issue is that the disk works fine and never had any errors reported.
Also, smartmontools db does not include this disk
ST12000NM0007-2A1101
and
update-smart-drivedb
is failing with
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h.error.raw: *** BAD signature ***
I know that some disks report funny numbers and smartmontools needs to know which
one to trust. I see a relevant ticket from 2018-06-15....
https://www.smartmontools.org/attachment/ticket/1042/smartctl-SEAGATE-ST1...
And I see that smartmontools has other issues with these disks:
Write SCT (Get) Feature Control Command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
Wt Cache Reorder: Unknown (SCT Feature Control command failed)
I ran some short and long smart tests but all failed immediately.
SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed: unknown failure 90% 250 0
# 2 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 90% 247 0
# 3 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 90% 247 0
# 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 17 -
The other (identical) disks in the array report
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate PO---K 100 100 001 - 0
I can request a replacement, but want to ensure that this is not just a smart software issue which
may pop up again on another disk.
Should we have smartmontools v7.0 (released end of last year) by now? It includes this disk.
As I mentioned, the array is not yet commissioned and I can afford to fiddle with it for a while.
TIA
--
Eyal at Home (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
5 years, 1 month
Brave and Flash?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
FC 29 X64 (not 32)
I have a web site that requires the flash plugin. Anyone
know how to get Flash to work in Brave? Pepper Flash?
-T
5 years, 1 month
systemd triggers a shutdown or a reboot every few minutes. Not.
by Sam Varshavchik
According to /var/log/messages, systemd thinks the system is going down for
a shutdown or reboot:
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Basic System.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Sockets.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Closed Multimedia System.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Closed D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Timers.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Paths.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Reached target Shutdown.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Starting Exit the Session…
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Received SIGRTMIN+24 from PID 52890
(kill).
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 0.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory
/run/user/0…
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/
0.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 0.
That was completely made up:
[root@monster ~]# w
08:42:33 up 1 day, 23:30, 1 user, load average: 0.54, 0.53, 0.37
greping /var/log/messages, this is spammed every few minutes:
Apr 8 08:10:12 monster systemd[52274]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:13:12 monster systemd[52316]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:15:16 monster systemd[52372]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:18:12 monster systemd[52420]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:23:12 monster systemd[52486]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:25:16 monster systemd[52530]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:28:12 monster systemd[52598]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:33:12 monster systemd[52764]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:35:16 monster systemd[52808]: Stopped target Default.
Apr 8 08:38:12 monster systemd[52873]: Stopped target Default.
What in blazes is it doing?
5 years, 1 month
qemu goes to 100%?
by Tom Horsley
Here's a weird one I just noticed: I've been using a
Windows 10 virtual machine to run my tax software.
I've got it displayed in virt-viewer and all is
well, then I close the virt-viewer window and
leave the KVM running. About 5 minutes later I
see a cpu suddenly pegged at 100%. I run top and see
that qemu is the culprit. I start virt-viewer
again, and it goes back to normal.
Anyone else seen this? Why would nobody looking at
it make it go crazy I wonder?
5 years, 1 month
Need a statement on Fedora's purpose
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I just had a vendor tell me they do not support Fedora Server
because the the developers of Fedora had stated that it is not
a stable release and is used only as a testing ground for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). And as such, they only supported
RHEL and Cent OS.
Huh ??????
Fedora is more stable in my experience that RHEL ever was. When
I was running Scientific Linux (clone of RHEL of CentOS) I
almost went INSANE!
Is there a statement from the Fedora developers somewhere that
I could send this vendor to straighten him out?
Many thanks,
-T
5 years, 1 month
Remote Assistance
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I subscribe to Go To Assist, but they are dragging their ever
living feet on supporting Linux. (And I complain bitterly to
them about it on a frequently basis.)
Do you guys know of a remote assistance package that will
work on Fedora? The target customer will be logging into
hot spots, so there will be no port forwarding on routers
allowed.
-T
5 years, 1 month
upgrade f27 to f29 : repositories in archive, how to update
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! I am trying to upgrade my long overdue f27 to f29 (to prepare for
f30 :)) but i have problems with :
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
I already updated my system by pointing the baseurls to the archive
but then if i try
dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=29
--setopt='module_platform_id=platform:f29'
i get this 'failed to synchronize' no matter what link i use ...
Is there a way to workaround this?
Thank you!
Adrian
5 years, 2 months
sane : how to remove old scanners ?
by sean darcy
On fedora 29 , sane-backends 1.0.27.
scanimage -L shows a number of scanners that are no longer connected,
and haven't been used in years.
In what file is this info stored ? Couldn't find any reference under
/etc/sane.d.
Is there a way to remove the old scanners from the command line ?
sean
5 years, 2 months
docker-io removed from epel RHEL6
by Brando Mota
hi!
I can not install the docker-io package in RHEL 6.10 x86_64 because this package is removed from repo epel.
how to find this package in epel again?
thanks.
5 years, 2 months
