Upgrading to Fedora 38: more comments
by John Pilkington
My recent posts were about 'just in case' precautions before a system
upgrade. I now appear to have a working upgraded system. It wasn't
trouble-free and I didn't use the live workstation download.
The system uses the rpmfusion nvidia 470xx video drivers, which build
modules locally via akmods. Booting the F38 system with the
kernel-6.5.6-200.fc38 did not complete, but kernel-6.5.6-100.fc37 seemed
fine.
Eventually, running the F37 kernel, I "sudo dnf reinstall"ed all the
rpmfusion 470xx packages *and* the kernel*6.5.6-200.fc38 packages and
waited for the jobs to complete. Booting to F38 seems ok now. The
problems were similar to, but worse than, those seen in earlier
upgrades. There's a related bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011120
John P
7 months
Screen brightness not restored
by andreas.fournier＠runbox.com
So I have laptop with Fedora 38 and the problem I have is that the
screen brightness is not restored to its previous level after it has
been locked.
I have it set so that the screen dims after a few minutes, if I then
touch the keyboard the brightness goes back to its previous level. If
I'm away longer the screen locks and I have to enter my password to
unlock. Then the screen remains dimmed and I have to press just once
either the key for more brightness or less brightness for the screen to
regain its previous brightness.
Not the biggest problem in the world but any way to solve it?
7 months
Scanner works!
by Tom Horsley
In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners
compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function
device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300
and was shocked and amazed when it just worked out of the box.
P.S. The epson isn't quite as bad as HP forbidding you from using
the scanner if it is out of ink, but it finally decayed to the
point that it decided there were errors with the ink cartridges,
and nothing would allow it to use the scanner after that.
7 months
Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions
by John Pilkington
I have done several system upgrades in the past. This time I thought I
would take the suggested precautions and download the workstation .iso
On trying to verify the download, using
https://fedoraproject.org/en/workstation/download/
I got a report that "17 lines are improperly formatted". So I worried
and did it again. Same result.
This is BZ 733561, opened in 2011 and NOTABUG. Isn't it time that this
was mentioned in the 'helpful' warning suggestion?
John P
7 months
vnc/remmina
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I can connect to a remote machine (fedora 38) via vnc or remmina (ssh or vnc)
but I just have black screen.
Here is my ~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
gnome-session --session=gnome-classic &
I also tried both
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
but same behavior.
What did I miss?
Thank.
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Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
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7 months
Getting grub working on a LiveUSB
by Joe Zeff
I've downloaded and verified an .iso for F38 with Xfce, used dd to write
it to a new flash drive and tried to boot it on my laptop with a brand
new blank hard drive. All I get is a grub prompt. I've tried to follow
the instructions at
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/classic-sysadmin-how-to-rescue-...
but what they describe doesn't match what's on that flash drive, and I
can't make heads or tails of it. Does anybody have a pointer to getting
a live system to boot when it doesn't Just Work?
7 months
Configuring a new laptop
by Geoffrey Leach
Features, options ... how to choose :-)?
Is there a list of known-to-be-supported hardware: CPU, graphics ...??
Stupid question, right?
Thanks
7 months
vnc
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I am trying to use remmina
nmap -v -n -Pn -p5900-5910 localhost
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-10-11 23:58 CEST
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 23:58
Scanning localhost (127.0.0.1) [11 ports]
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 23:58, 0.01s elapsed (11 total ports)
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.000013s latency).
Other addresses for localhost (not scanned): ::1
PORT STATE SERVICE
5900/tcp closed vnc
5901/tcp closed vnc-1
5902/tcp closed vnc-2
5903/tcp closed vnc-3
5904/tcp closed ag-swim
5905/tcp closed asmgcs
5906/tcp closed rpas-c2
5907/tcp closed dsd
5908/tcp closed ipsma
5909/tcp closed agma
5910/tcp closed cm
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.04 seconds
Raw packets sent: 11 (484B) | Rcvd: 22 (924B)
The ports are closed. Should not I open them?
If yes how?
When I do
vncviewer -via pdupre@themachine :1
I get
Thu Oct 12 00:00:02 2023
Parameters: Failed to read line 18 in file
/home/pdupre/.vnc/default.tigervnc: Unknown parameter
Parameters: Failed to read line 19 in file
/home/pdupre/.vnc/default.tigervnc: Unknown parameter
main: FullScreenAllMonitors is deprecated, set FullScreenMode to 'all'
instead
pdupre@themachine's password:
The connection was dropped by the server beforethe session could be established
nmap -v -n -Pn -p5900-5906 themachine
Host discovery disabled (-Pn). All addresses will be marked 'up' and scan times may be slower.
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-10-12 00:03 CEST
Initiating Connect Scan at 00:03
Scanning themachine (xxx.yyy.ttt.rrr) [7 ports]
Completed Connect Scan at 00:03, 3.00s elapsed (7 total ports)
Nmap scan report for themachine ()
Host is up.
PORT STATE SERVICE
5900/tcp closed vnc
5901/tcp closed vnc-1
5902/tcp closed vnc-2
5903/tcp closed vnc-3
5904/tcp closed ag-swim
5905/tcp closed asmgcs
5906/tcp closed rpas-c2
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.03 seconds
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
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7 months, 1 week
firewall-config
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
firewall-config works fine locally, but if I make a ssh -X on the machine,
even in sudo, I get
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
xclock run fine.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
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7 months, 1 week
configure a network of 2 computers
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I wish to set up a network of 2 computers.
What is the recipes?
Thank
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
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7 months, 1 week
