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A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

by Francisco Tissera

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Weird boot problems.

by GianPiero Puccioni

Hi, I have a problem with an old rack unit I use in a cluster. We had a problem with the HD and had to change it and reinstall. It was done by someone new to the job (I am locked and doing everything remotely) and he had a problem with the configuration as it seems that this unit HD HAS to be configured as RAID and F33 didn't see it at first. I am not sure what he did try, only thing he said is that it stopped at boot and he had to comment a line in fstab, but the result is that the unit starts in weird way. The situation is this (skipping some lines): # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk └─sda2 8:2 0 930.5G 0 part ├─fedora_node06-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm / ├─fedora_node06-swap 253:1 0 4G 0 lvm [SWAP] └─fedora_node06-home 253:2 0 876.5G 0 lvm /home #fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk identifier: 0x6ccdd7fd Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 2099199 2097152 1G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2099200 1953523711 1951424512 930.5G 8e Linux LVM #ls -l /dev/sd* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Feb 2 01:00 /dev/sda brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 Feb 2 01:00 /dev/sda2 # cat /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/fedora_node06-root / xfs defaults 0 0 #UUID=f365a320-f3d7-4c07-8bfb-f0164b9ce8c0 /boot xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/fedora_node06-home /home xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/fedora_node06-swap none swap defaults 0 0 # ls -l /boot total 0 So as I understand it sda1 is bootable and contains the kernel, linux start from there and then finds (how?) and mounts / and /home but not /boot which is empty. I would have changed the line in fstab with /dev/sda1 but it doesn't exist (!). dmesg has this: [ 4.369576] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 4.384096] sda: sda1 sda2 so it is there and seen but why the block device is not created? Copying the content of (sda1)boot into /boot and reinstalling grub could probably work but how? Any advice? Thanks, GiP

3 years, 2 months

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Formatting second hard disk

by Paul Smith

Dear All, I have got a second hard disk on my desktop computer, which I would like to format. My machine runs Fedora 33, and I would like to ask you what format to adopt: the new Btrfs is advisable? Moreover, could you please direct me to some documentation on how to format the hard disk? Using GParted? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Grub peculiarities

by Frank McCormick

I run several distros on my SSD (/dev/sda) including Debian Bullseye, and Fedora 33. When Grub is installed in Debian, the startup cfg file generated by Debian lists the kernel versions in reverse order, with the rescue kernel first. Fedora lists the kernels in all versions properly. Several months ago I filed a bug on the Debian bug tracker but nothing was ever done about the problem. My question is this: If Fedora can list everything properly, what is the difference between how Grub is setup on Fedora and how it's setup on Debian. Is there something in the config files which determines what order kernels are listed in ?

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USB SSD disk speed question

by Frederic Muller

Hi! I bought a rather cheap but not so cheap 1TB SSD drive advertised at rw speeds of 450MB/s. I have 2 thinkpads, one X1 3rd gen and one X1 6th gen. Now here is what happened: 1. On 3rd gen laptop with F32 I tested (and made a full backup) : 45MB/s (NTFS) 2. I installed a the "brand new" F33, restored my backup and...: 85MB/s (NTFS) 3. Since I was a tad late updating I told myself let's do it on the 6th Gen too. Did a full backup on F32 at : ~400MB/s!!! (NTFS and ext4 - did several backups) 4. I installed a fresh new F33 and the restore speed was then... 50MB/s :-( (ext4) 5. I just restested the disk on the 3rd gen laptop and I am now (ext4) at 45MB/s (I also just upgrade my BIOS to its latest version for this test). So I was wondering if there was any logical explanations and things I could do to ensure I use the disk at its maximum speed. Thank you. Fred

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Re: skype

by Ed Greshko

Putting this back on the Fedora List.... On 03/03/2021 00:12, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Finally, I have > Name Options > fedora system,oci > flathub system > flatpak search skype > Name Description Application ID Version Branch Remotes > Sky… Call and message skype users, w… com.skype.Client 8.69.0.77 stable flathub > Fra… Messenger for the desktop ….meetfranz.Franz 5.5.0 stable flathub > I am not sure about what to do with that. I'm not a flatpak user. But.... https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html Suggests if you're using the the command line you'd then do.... flatpak install Skype flatpak run com.skype.Client There is also https://developer.fedoraproject.org/deployment/flatpak/flatpak-usage.html and https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-flatpak/ -- People who believe they don't make mistakes have already made one.

3 years, 2 months

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[Test Day] Fedora 34 Audio 2021-03-03

by Sumantro Mukherjee

Hey All, PulseAudio deamon has been a default in Fedora for a really long time. As a part of the Fedora 34 changeset, PipeWire has been set to default[0] which will route all audio from PulseAudio and JACK to the PipeWire Audio daemon by default. This is a very crucial change and will require significant amount of testing. During pandemic, almost all for us connect via different video meeting platforms which makes this test day more and more important. As a part of this test day[1], we will have designed a variety of Audio Test scenarios keeping in mind our general users. The test cases can be found here[3] and the users can respond with their testing results in the appropriate column. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2021-03-03_Audio_Test_Day [2] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/103 -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED

3 years, 2 months

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RE: skype

by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl

Sorry, you'll have to wait till 2098 -----Original Message----- From: Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:22 PM To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> Subject: Re: skype On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 01:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Someone said that Microsoft will fix it "soon". It's 2021, they still never got Win98 working properly... -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 3 15:06:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

3 years, 2 months

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skype

by Patrick Dupre

Hello, When I try to update skype to version 8.69.0.77-1.x86_64.rpm I get: Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides libatomic1 needed by skypeforlinux-8.69.0.77-1.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) dnf install libatomic1 Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:15 ago on Tue 02 Mar 2021 09:33:24 AM CET. No match for argument: libatomic1 Error: Unable to find a match: libatomic1 What is the option ? Thanks =========================================================================== 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 ===========================================================================

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Using a Windoze application

by Geoffrey Leach

I have a Windows 10 application on a USB stick. I need to run it occasionally on a laptop that does not have Windows, but does have fedora 32. I could, of course, install Windows, fiddle the partitions, then install Fedora. Lots of work for something that would be used occasionally. To say nothing of the annoying rebooting. Any suggestions on a better approach would be appreciated. Thanks.

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