"dnf upgrade" crashing machine
by George Avrunin
Fedora 31, fully upgraded (I think...) Summary: twice in the last
three days (since getting kernel 5.6.6, though I have no idea if that's
related), this machine has hung completely after running "sudo dnf
upgrade" while logged in over ssh. It becomes completely unresponsive to
the network and to the keyboard, mouse, etc., I go to it to reboot. I've
had to use the power button. The only strange things I see in the logs are
long strings of null characters (that show as ^@) in the dnf.log when the
dnf transactions crash the machine.
Here are more details. This is a Dell Precision T1700 that is my university
office workstation as well as a IMAP server and web server for my use.
Since we're working remotely and discouraged from going on campus, I
hadn't been to the office since March 16, but in addition to reading and
sending mail, I've been putting stuff on my course web pages, etc., as
well as doing regular "sudo dnf upgrade" runs.
I got kernel 5.6.6 on Saturday, April 25. On Sunday, I did a dnf upgrade
on my home machine, which is almost identically configured to the one in
my office. That upgraded some git stuff, python3, samba, webkit2gtk3,
etc., a total of 24 packages. That went fine, so I logged into my office
machine and did dnf upgrade there. It offered pretty much the same list
of packages, I say "y" and did work in another virtual desktop for a
while. Then I got an error message saying claws-mail couldn't connect to
the account on my office machine. It was dead to the network--I logged in
on another machine in our department network and still couldn't connect to
my office one. Eventually, I went to campus. The machine was
unresponsive and I had to push the power button to get it to fully shut
down. It then rebooted apparently normally, and ran fine. I didn't have
time then to investigate very carefully, but I didn't see anything in the
journalctl output that indicated what the problem was--there was just a
complete gap in entries from the dnf transaction to when I rebooted.
The next day (yesterday) dnf upgrade worked normally and upgraded 6
packages: darktable, libmwaw, libstaroffice, libwps, openvpn, and
python3-click-7.1.1-1.fc31.noarch.
Today, I did an upgrade on the home machine again, successfully, and then
on the office machine. It offered to upgrade akmods-wireguard, which I
realized I should have removed (since wireguard is in the 5.6 kernel).
So I removed it and then did the upgrade. dnf wanted to upgrade
google-chrome-stable, kde-print-manager and kde-print-manager-libs,
libappindicator, libappindicator-gtk3, libuv, some net-snmp stuff, and
python[23]-beautifulsoup4, all of which had been upgraded successfully on
the home machine. I said yes and it did some deltarpm stuff, downloaded a
couple of things, and then apparently froze completely, just like the last
time.
Again, I had to go in to the office and use the power button to shutdown
and restart. But now it seems ok and the rpms that it was supposedly
upgrading do seem to have been upgraded--they're at the same versions as
on my home machine.
I don't see anything very strange in any of the logs. Both times, the
basic journalctl output just stops and doesn't start again until I reboot.
However, in the dnf.log file after both of the bad upgrade transactions
started, there are long strings of null characters (150 or so). These
don't show up in the dnf.log on the home machine that has upgraded fine.
I've run fsck and rpm -V. There's plenty of disk space available in all
partitions.
I don't have any idea what's going on and it's very inconvenient (not to
mention strongly discouraged by the powers that be) to have to keep going
on campus to restart the machine. So I'd be very grateful for suggests
about how to figure this out, or at least stop it from happening again.
Thanks.
George
4 years
Switching desktops on Fedora 32
by Alan
Seems the GDM option to switch desktops has been removed on Fedora 32.
switchdesk no longer works either.
How do you switch desktops on Fedora 32? It has become non-obvious.
4 years
gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0 Build Errors
by Thomas Dineen
GentlePeople:
I am trying to build gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0 out of the box.
The directions require the use of meson and ninja, my first
experience with both!
I am on a Fedora 30 X86 Host, and I want to cross compile to i686
for Windows.
I am using the cross tools provided by the Fedora distribution
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.
The i686-w64-mingw32 cross compiler dose work on Hello.c, independant of
meson's
opinion shown below.
The Error Messages, Cross File, and Error Log File are presented below:
Q1) Why dose meson say "Is cross compiler: False."?
Q2) Why dose the sanity check fail?
Q3) Please show me the correct Cross File for Cross Compiling to i686
Windows
and X86 Windows. I am suffering from google whiplash from internet searching
issue and multiple opinions.
Q4) Why meson why not configure make?
;
; The Project
;
F30-VM% pwd
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0
meson _build . --cross-file ./i686_Cross_File --prefix
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw --libdir
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib --bindir
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin --includedir
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include
The Meson build system
Version: 0.52.0
Source dir: /home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0
Build dir: /home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build
Build type: cross build
Project name: gdk-pixbuf
Project version: 2.40.0
C compiler for the build machine: cc (gcc 9.3.1 "cc (GCC) 9.3.1 20200408
(Red Hat 9.3.1-2)")
C linker for the build machine: GNU ld.bfd 2.31.1-37
000b:fixme:winediag:__wine_start_process Wine Staging 5.0 is a testing
version containing experimental patches.
000b:fixme:winediag:__wine_start_process Please mention your exact
version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
002b:err:module:__wine_process_init
L"Z:\\home\\tdineen\\gdk-pixbuf-2\\gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0\\_build\\meson-private\\sanitycheckc_cross.exe"
not supported on this system
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Executables created by c compiler
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc are not runnable.
A full log can be found at
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
F30-VM%
;
; Cross File
;
more i686_Cross_File
[host_machine]
system = 'windows'
cpu_family = 'x86'
cpu = 'i686'
endian = 'little'
[properties]
c_args = []
c_link_args = []
[binaries]
c = '/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc'
cpp = '/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++'
ar = '/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ar'
strip = '/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-strip'
pkgconfig = '/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-pkg-config'
windres = '/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres'
exe_wrapper = 'wine'
;
; Error Log:
;
vi
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
Build started at 2020-04-28T13:16:40.677565
Main binary: /usr/bin/python3
Build Options: -Dprefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
-Dbindir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin
-Dincludedir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include
-Dlibdir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib '--cross-file
./i686_Cross_File'
Python system: Linux
The Meson build system
Version: 0.52.0
Source dir: /home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0
Build dir: /home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build
Build type: cross build
Project name: gdk-pixbuf
Project version: 2.40.0
No CFLAGS in the environment, not changing global flags.
No LDFLAGS in the environment, not changing global flags.
No CPPFLAGS in the environment, not changing global flags.
Sanity testing C compiler: cc
Is cross compiler: False.
Sanity check compiler command line: cc
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.c
-o
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.exe
-pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
Sanity check compile stdout:
-----
Sanity check compile stderr:
-----
Running test binary command:
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.exe
C compiler for the build machine: cc (gcc 9.3.1 "cc (GCC) 9.3.1 20200408
(Red Hat 9.3.1-2)")
C linker for the build machine: GNU ld.bfd 2.31.1-37
Sanity testing C compiler: /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
Is cross compiler: True.
Sanity check compiler command line: /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.c
-o
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc_cross.exe
-pipe
Sanity check compile stdout:
-----
Sanity check compile stderr:
-----
Running test binary command: /usr/bin/wine
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc_cross.exe
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Executables created by c compiler
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc are not runnable.
38,1 Bot
-----
Sanity check compile stderr:
-----
Running test binary command: /usr/bin/wine
/home/tdineen/gdk-pixbuf-2/gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0/_build/meson-private/sanitycheckc_cross.exe
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Executables created by c compiler
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc are not runnable.
38,1 Bot
4 years
Files: folder and file names not visible since upgrade to f31.
by home user
(f31, gnome)
Starting with the upgrade to f31 earlier this month. "Files" (Nautilus) no longer displays names of folders and files. I have made a screen capture available here:
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hh_G48m8bm-XWwMIR3mA_jJp9CJ75SvC/view?us...".
I have done 2 weekly patches since the upgrade; the problem persists. I've checked the man page, and the web page referenced by the man page. No clues. I've checked the preferences; there is nothing there that would affect this. I've checked the "Help". Nothing relevant. I've checked the instructions for upgrading to f31; nothing relevant.
How did upgrading to f31 break this, and how do I make the folder/file names visible?
4 years
Tip: dhcp lease file under Fedora32
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Tip: by default the dhcp leases file does not exist under
Fedora32. You have to create it firs, then it gets uses
-T
My notes:
DHCP Client leases file:
The file does not exist by default.
# New to Fedora 32. Set up a leases file if it does not exist:
if [ -n /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient.lease]; then
touch /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient.lease;
# release DHCP address
dhclient -r
# renew DHCP address
dhclient
fi
4 years
dnf list color bad
by Beartooth
I'm running F31 Mate.
Today all of a sudden on all four machines on my desk, the list
that dnf gives me of what it proposes to do is an unreadable chartreuse
color. Could this be something I've done?? How do I fix it?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
4 years
BIND test builds
by Petr Menšík
Hello Fedora users,
I have prepared BIND 9.16 builds on COPR [1]. It can be used to install
more recent version of bind onto supported Fedora, or CentOS 8. It is
technology preview, some derived version should land in Fedora Rawhide
and Fedora 33. I would like to ask opinions on that builds. And receive
some testing, before it would replace current 9.11 Extended Support Version.
I would not recommend it for production use yet, but would like to have
some testing on it. If you would like to give it a try, please report
possible issues here or directly to me. It is not official build and its
issues do not belong to Red Hat Bugzilla.
I have made also development version 9.17 builds[2] for even more brave
users. Consider it very experimental and with low maintenance priority.
But it seems it works.
Enable that repository by instructions, then use just:
dnf install bind
Any test reports would be welcome.
Regards,
Petr
1. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pemensik/bind-9.16/
2. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pemensik/bind-9.17/
--
Petr Menšík
PGP: DFCF908DB7C87E8E529925BC4931CA5B6C9FC5CB
4 years
