Fedora (37) i686 32-bit virt-p2v ?
by Franta Hanzlik
Hi,
I want to virtualize any old i686 Windows XP 32-bit physical PC on F37.
Result from building virt-p2v boot disk:
# virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sde --arch i686
virt-p2v-make-disk: cannot find /usr/lib64/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.i686.xz
You used the '--arch' option, so it’s likely that you will need to build
a virt-p2v.i686 binary yourself.
See p2v-building(1) section BUILDING i686 32 BIT VIRT-P2V for help.
It seems as virt-p2v.i686.xz blob isn't in Fedora (nor 'p2v-building'
man page, but it can be found easily).
What now? I see two possibilities:
1) it is somewhere on Fedora, but not in core repos
2) I have to build it myself - but have no idea about optimal way.
'p2v-building' man page recommends 32-bit chroot (without details),
or (on Fedora) use 'mock' - but it seems it is not there anymore.
Has anyone done this? What optimal way would you recommend?
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TIA, Franta Hanzlik
1 year, 2 months
recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I am trying to install Fedora on to a new machine that has 0.5 TB RAM. Hard drives are 256 GB for / and friends, and 2 TB for /home partition. In the past, it used to be suggested that swap be twice that of RAM: this later changed to the same amount, and now it is very unclear (to me) because I have not tracked the latest recommendations. Anyway, what would you suggest? The machine is a Dell Precision 7920 with 28 cores/56 threads.
Many thanks for any suggestions, and best wishes,
Ranjan
1 year, 2 months
kdeconnectd error
by Jon LaBadie
I'm getting a ton of these error messages but have
been unable to find information about them.
kdeconnectd[4717]: kdeconnect.core: \
Too many remembered identities,\
ignoring "1c85aaeceba8c226" received via UDP
Ideas to correct the problem and stop the error msgs?
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Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com
1 year, 2 months
How to create a Fedora 37 image for AWS
by Thomas Cameron
Hey, all! I work for AWS, and I put together a quick HOWTO on setting up
a Fedora 37 instance using KVM, and then converting it to a format that
can be used to create a new EC2 instance on AWS. Note that this is a
personal project, is not endorsed by AWS, and was not produced by AWS.
It’s just me.
https://camerontech.com/fedora-aws/
I am not a web guy, I just did a super basic HTML page using Seahorse.
It’s literally something I threw together, and I am sure I missed some
things, but I hope that it is helpful for anyone who wants to build
their own image. I know there are a bunch of images already out there in
the community, but I wanted to document how to do it for yourself.
I hope you find it helpful!
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Thomas
1 year, 2 months
Shift+PrintScreen gone with F36?
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
Something I use almost daily and.. nothing happens now. Is there a
replacement shortcut or a way to enable it back?
Thank you.
Fred
1 year, 2 months
Taking better advantage of BTRFS
by John Mellor
Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes
anyway.
We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora.
However, there has been almost nothing done to take advantage of its
capabilities. This leads to some obvious questions about future work:
1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is
no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for
years now.
2) When are we going to see timeshifting tools built into the desktop,
ala Solaris? That's incredibly useful for developers.
3) The existing Windows-like update mechanism is undesirable. It solves
a non-existent problem on filesystems with inodes. Like all Unix-like
systems, even Ubuntu does not require this. The ability to snapshot
means that the weird reasoning that requires 2 reboots to install
virtually all update packages is no longer required under any
circumstances. When is the software update mechanism getting a
fundamental redesign?
4) When is a standard backup mechanism that takes advantage of
snapshotting going to be in the distro? The published backup packages
do not seem to be aware of the better capabilities available in BTRFS.
Wrapping a few CLI tools in a GUI seems like it should be obvious, maybe
200 lines of shellscript or less.
5) If you encrypt your filesystems, the BTRFS built-in encryption
mechanism is not used. Why not? LUKS is still in use, even though that
is more complicated and slower. I note the possible ability to encrypt
being added if F38, but it seems like baby steps when a general solution
is already in the code.
6) Compression is not the default. Why not? SSDs are 10x slower and
disks are 100x slower than the processors of even 10 years ago, so this
omission is slowing the system down.
7) Keep the last 3 update snapshots, not just the last 3 kernels. This
would keep backout scenarios a lot more consistent and functional.
If I look at the changes coming in Fedora 38, I am disappointed in the
lack of innovation. All of these items should be in there to make the
system cleaner, better and faster. Most of these asks have already been
in SUSE for many years now, and are well debugged and understood.
Fedora is supposed to be leading the way at the edge, not way behind
it. Or am I missing something about the politics of the distro?
1 year, 2 months
Unable to login after fedora re-install
by Geoffrey Leach
After moving from F37 to F36 and re-installing a user directory (with dot
files) I discover that login for that user fails. No messages in /var/log,
no error message.
I assume that the problem is somewhere in one of the dot files. Any
suggestions?
Thanks.
1 year, 2 months
CentOS8 VM
by Robert McBroom
Installed CentOS8 on a VM from
CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Trying to update it gives
Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream'
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream'
I have the rpm's on a local repository but disabling the repos has no
effect on the error and will no proceed with the update.
is there a fix?
1 year, 2 months
vncviewer to new tightvnc 2.8.75
by Michael D. Setzer II
Just tested connecting to new tightvnc vncserver 2.8.75
on Windows 7 and windows 11 machines on network,
and after enter password, it just drops to command
prompt with
CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp)
little-endian rgb888
CConn: End of stream
If wrong password entered, it loops to ask for password
again.
So, viewer seems to talk to server, but then something
goes wrong and disconnects with no error message I see,
and tried a few options, but nothing made change.
Does work fine from windows 7 to windows 11, so not
sure if it is a compatibility issue? the 2.8.63 version has
worked mostly fine in past. Connects fine, and usually is
fine, but accasionally would stop updating screen, but
close and reconnect would fix that.
Issue is have a remote machine 7 timezone a way that
has 2.8.63, and was looking to update to the 2.8.75, but
if it doesn't work, can't just reinstall old version?
2.8.75 just came out. Have sent messages to both
Tigervnc and Tightvnc lists.
Tried strace vncviewer but didn't notice an error
message other than resource not available and fonts not
found?? But didn't seem to be terminal?
Thanks.
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Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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