Thunderbird issue (OT).
Good morning, When I try to sign in to a (verizon) yahoo e-mail account via Thunderbird, it takes several seconds to get a response, then I often get this error message: -- Thunderbird The current operation on 'Inbox' did not succeed. The mail server for account [my e-mail account] responded: [CLIENTBUG] SELECT Command is not valid in this state. -- I then have to exit Thunderbird, and sign in again to all the accounts I want to connect to. I usually have to do this 2-4 times before it finally downloads the folder structure and message headers successfully (though v-e-r-y slowly). I experience this problem randomly but frequently (almost daily) with all 6 of my (verizon) yahoo accounts. My incoming server is set to "imap.mail.yahoo.com:993"; my outgoing server is set to "smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465"; connection security is set to "SSL/TLS". Yahoo e-mail does not work properly in my browser, so that's not a good work-around. I've checked both yahoo and Thunderbird on-line help; I get nothing really helpful, though I notice the problem is not unique to me. What's the real cause of this problem, and what do I fix it? Thank-you for your help. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
empty messages from fedora users list.
Good morning, Since March 08, I've received 11 messages from this list that appear empty, including 2 so far today. I have received a few (less) not empty, none today and 3 yesterday. What's causing this problem, and how do I fix it? My e-mail client is Thunderbird 52.5.2. I will occasionally check the Fedora Hyperkitty for replies. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
h I did a "View source" on the most recent empty-looking message. Everything is there. The whole thing is 742 lines long. You want the top how many lines? Or how would I recognize the end of the header? What displays in the header area (below the list of messages, above where the message body displays) of Thunderbird is: From users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject users Digest, Vol 169, Issue 74 To users@lists.fedoraproject.org Against the right margin of the Subject line is "05:45 AM" thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
Hi Samuel, Using the "View source" function, here between the lines of '=' is the header (copied and pasted): = X-Apparently-To: mattison.compu...@yahoo.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:45:33 + Return-Path: Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.fedoraproject.org designates 209.132.181.2 as permitted sender) X-YMailISG: 7zYIUBAWLDvaXm1iC_be37bYsn7FF1qt0Knq5KDGf8tSnT7A 1Mx.xwNKSzMDI0HLsumT4twi2opNu.5Dx_5h6q52wE7ANMEkNa_haBRZl4RI qacOK6H1eYSKcBHI4wOzcqKH7gLEzdUT9G2lZSW10N7Cv18o23muP2aFlyNl 0nUZOb06Gr1HluGcFsUx71Ee73r08c0WS7txIo5x4lHIR45tjmd3eLsdTImJ 48EQMNb_WZYuQjq5oc9dhlqmE8QFFAkBpZSD0PYqBgWxC2.l6uPhttJIbO7Q d5Jr.Lu92vGmMG9N9V8viNzd5._g_UH9ChMrV0zKxMQIggWVv34KYhXJxJwa FnUiS2ZQ34l1DfnegvwVb30w_jkd32G8Jlxlu344aU2IgREMFmXnUwo_wV8L ZcbfnafVLK3b5R6pEsp33qoGRM.DL2bZ6oaECpTVamUJaiPjGW39bMI41y7p uP_o.etBg_Wqdg06KO0QevzYfrKtxuqQMPMnf8NIkdnY1LUrKqKRSpTHfbF8 g1kx4B_tDBxKKQms4oRA0LXRsqMWEvSWtpQyXNICsXe7KAiGqHS.pDYcjrQi 0vZ621tJXe5YDqKL5JLVKdTOnw8DI98fKQYM0v3HSPlZRxPYlJaeqv9IOhVK mnv7LmcfJvUcHnakLumqUbYr0BVv.x7ZkPY9uwyHPHAy.DtSzYTY7wny9pPj eGzFt3hkxor52l2G5STMI.4ILIv3J53Z0WbZHQA9CPzioKxlj6_OGNPWxAME WfsPodTOfCFv9yRb7T0QLYf19TP57E.Lq7qBZrbyPH9YowhcItRVu1eDXgcl .nAoCUe3jgUFY61fvTHPcpitgGIXqAPDzvOeevRs_Tw9OlklKwiaWMHGFXkh .10NiEso_Le6Tl5qyp4I5tn0FHB.p0eau8BoKSkNqh2LaL3zMJYKeovloSqn 003TyjE9iVKIvzyf5ckoK0GaLlYehdafzzN44AoQLTV6JhN_wuv7sxQ85w0P PlZB1XHYiRZUwZiRNLSE7zq5scZDaZfY._Ke2fwR0cJQnVmKFOM.KyATVnjs KhPVk5GDkQE0EXBqPEEfW8rQSfyNFZ9gHAOuDTNm86indtGU3MNYKcdN.Won eCzAsGDnJHHMhR4yFOtGT4jIDO808IeQnTaP2JESKiAlNVR0fo9EsHgHdtXa 4yPR_h8NB0B7lt6KVPv94MftkNtEM1zBEq1JUVg4EvZldf6wYKPH09DIixFL _w.UowoHGJjL4PRan.BUuaR30tX1nhxMvqISE4Tt2nX8U.FNFKRRzZGaHMXJ vj4S7NUFIsBKSD13MDV5xJoGAgPpeQfROza5TaSps4MO_lHw2P0DbB.laK6i AbUtESosON2TmZbsxR3kLvv0QgkNiHYh_J9fLp29HGA2dmVk65wNwGcNIlgG Mb8.fkcZvhPnW_P9djUAfStsMEeMz4vxMisOJSs11Oiq2vGYjirV7zyIGlJe 5nbZnsvoNqW6ebVCN7mbsuhxt9q.lM3l7AW9nJ3ZnFq9XcRWlRTNChWjr7no K6M9HLyXFXgV5foajSjTQusV5UjwCN.VL_29m1oSKlinfF7J0nkj6crbq3VB tefiVB3WXfDD0kPURgefwvkVCI9jrRKfkkbZJjqul1mSqqKnmmkXsdZD7f4K 0kpLd0clafjas6_Fl5rRl7RwOrJ0FzqxmWVjm9iQdunHlmbbAHZTTDZrJxPb hJxMo2GrkDe6aF4k1Fn4ygUH7ePENnTIAmc5wq7aTb3arVtV_tcACIf64lJe DOeRjO0BtoQu3iTCsCpr X-Originating-IP: [209.132.181.2] Authentication-Results: mta4186.mail.gq1.yahoo.com from=lists.fedoraproject.org; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=fedoraproject.org; dkim=pass (ok) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO bastion.fedoraproject.org) (209.132.181.2) by mta4186.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTPS; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:45:30 + Received: from mailman01.phx2.fedoraproject.org (mailman01.phx2.fedoraproject.org [10.5.126.36]) by bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C9060BD873; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:45:29 + (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org 19C9060BD873 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fedoraproject.org; s=bastion; t=1521027929; bh=TDDIE30sb8hRPs1W0pXgNMWcMopsLjWcqVdyS2SAvjQ=; h=From:Subject:To:Reply-To:Date:List-Id:From; b=yIr6IpQCdPA2kAgKS8EPYoFSheWMNimN0jVGDgDLaIClf8yKYCkY+7x0Fhh3nEbNg Bp3y0tdjXx4f0d4WovQuTH8msb0dWldljEpwwBAh0VEG8Div63x6krPuRNss4C9hOV 4hK1QPI4kF8eqLdSLW4aXJHLSDffvlt98aT5Z2TU= Received: from mailman01.phx2.fedoraproject.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mailman01.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67882473CEEE; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:45:28 + (UTC) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===2203156689282690053==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: =?utf-8?q?users_Digest=2C_Vol_169=2C_Issue_74?= To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:45:00 + Message-ID: <152102790003.10799.16018935919794161...@mailman01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> List-Id: Community support for Fedora users X-Mailman-Version: 3.1.1 Precedence: list Content-Length: 33542 = > Did you copy and paste that? There should be a colon [etc.] No. The only way of showing you the displayed header (from the message pane, not from the "View source" display) is by manually typing what I saw. I did, and do, not see any colons in the displayed header. I even looked with a magnifying glass. > It sounds like you are using the digest version of the list. Why? Correct. Personal preference. Otherwise, I get too many messages each day. > Not sure what you mean by this. In the message pane display, the full subject line looks like this: Subject users Digest, Vol 169, Issue 74 05:45 AM thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
> The header looks fine and there should be 33KB of content. When you > view source do you see the message body? yes. In "View source", I see 759 lines of stuff. But most looks like "meta-data", not message body that I would expect to see in the Thunderbird window. The first blank line is line 65, so the header is 64 lines long. I don't know if this helps, but when messages that look blank in the Thunderbird window are downloading, the following error message shows just below the Gnome black bar at the top of the screen (in which the current date-time is displayed): == Thunderbird The current operation on 'Inbox' did not succeed. The mail server for account [my e-mail address] responded: [UNAVAILABLE] UID FETCH Server error while fetching messages. == This error message shows up multiple times per empty-looking e-mail message. Each failed download takes over a minute. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
Patrick, I am using the "fedora HYPERKITTY" web interface for all my posts to this thread. But the e-mail address for my Fedora users list is a yahoo e-mail address. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
I saved the "View source" window contents as a text file. What is now the best way to get that file onto Fedora's paste bin? Last time I tried that (last summer), it didn't work well. Making the whole message available might be better than me trying to guess what would be helpful in diagnosing this problem. Part of what I'm hoping you can help me with is why I'm getting those error messages, what's really going on, and what I can do about it. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
ok, I figured out how to get the message into the Fedora paste site. It can be viewed here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/LvQNrf-2pwpvnXbWWxOmow";. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
> I saved that [etc.] That does work. > ... Try closing ... cough gag cough cough choke gag cough On March 06, I started a thread titled "Thunderbird issue (OT).". I never saw any replies. The problem remains completely unsolved. Actually, it's now worse! I've experienced that problem a few times today. So what you suggest has already been tried. ... a few times. ...even with a full power-down re-boot between 2 of the tries. It did not work. It can take quite a few tries (almost half an hour!) before I finally get a successful sign-in. > I suspect that something to do with the download problems is causing the > blank message. I don't fully understand. I viewed and saved the source, then we both successfully loaded that source back into Thunderbird and saw the message properly displayed. So the message source was downloaded without corruption. I agree with you in suspecting a connection between the download error messages and the blank-looking display. But what would be that connection? Is there anything I can do to fix it? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
> What I was suggesting... KSysGuard shows that yahoo feeds data to Thunderbird in very teeny chunks. A message with an attached photo took about an hour to download yesterday. I also access my e-mail from multiple workstation accounts and operating systems. So some time ago, I set all my e-mail accounts to *** not *** keep messages on my workstation. That is, "Message Synchronizing": "Keep messages for this account on this computer" is unchecked. So messages have to be re-downloaded after every Thunderbird launch and account sign-in. > In a terminal Yes, I use IMAP. Tried it: bash.4[~]: export MOZ_LOG_FILE=/[myhome]/thunderbird/log bash.5[~]: export MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,timestamp ... bash.10[thunderbird]: thunderbird & (I assume putting it in the background makes no difference in the logging.) I tried it a few times. I saw the same misbehavior as yesterday, but the log file remained empty. I also tried it without the ampersand. The log file is empty. There are no subdirectories or other files in "/[myhome]/thunderbird/". ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: empty messages from fedora users list.
That worked. Thank-you Samuel. The log is here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/07xQurGCBVjXYes1PUleiw"; I'll add that this bug is partially random. I only see the problem (and other problems) on messages with attachments. But the problem does not always show up on messages with attachments. To me, it seems random in that respect. All digests from the Fedora users list have html attachments. I've had the problem most severely with messages that have attached pictures (such as JPEG attachments). In many such cases, I get numerous occurrences of the "[NOTAVAILABLE] UID FETCH Server error", and the attachments arrive corrupted. The problem also seems more likely to occur with older messages. This problem started with Fedora users list messages on March 08. But I've been experiencing problems with messages having attached photos for many weeks. I was also able to get a log for my other (March 06) thread "Thunderbird issue (OT)." It's here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/UmtcWch07hlEUUJ60vqIyA"; I'll reply in that thread to my original posting with a little more information. To answer the question > You're using IMAP, so why would you use this setting? Are you saying > that you're using shared accounts and workstations? No. One home workstation, two operating systems, and 6 logins. But they're all mine. I don't keep things on my workstation because there are thousands of messages, and I estimate they would take gigabytes of storage. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Thunderbird issue (OT).
Thanks to guidance from Samuel Sieb in another thread, I'm now able to get a log relating to this problem. It's posted here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/UmtcWch07hlEUUJ60vqIyA"; A few more notes... This problem occurs much more often with two e-mail addresses than with my other four, but I see no further pattern. The problem has been occurring for many weeks. It's now taking more like 6 to 10 tries before it finally downloads the folder structure and message headers successfully (though v-e-r-y slowly). Any ideas? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Updated to f20, but can only boot f19.
Joe asks: > > And I did "fedup --network 20". > > Have you run the upgrade yet? Yes, I did that Monday afternoon. I did not watch it continually, but I saw no indication of trouble until the boot screen came up with no Fedora-20. Important question... Given my answer above, is what Chris advises... > 1. > > "Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR…" > > Why has this never been updated? I have to go back to Fedora 16 to find a GRUB this old. Since what's in the MBR points to > core.img at sector 1, and the first partition starts at LBA 2048, it's safe to have Fedora 19 reinstall grub. I would replace it: > > grub2-install /dev/sda > > 2. > I'd also replace the grub.cfg with one created by grub2-mkconfig: > > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > It appears you have custom boot parameters "nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off" in which case you > should have edited /etc/default/grub and added those boot parameters to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=. If you haven't, do that > before running grub2-mkconfig so that those boot options get picked up in the new grub.cfg. > > > And I did "fedup --network 20". > > Try: > > fedup --network 20 --debuglog fedupdebug.log > > Before rebooting, confirm that fedup says it's ready for you to reboot the system, and then fpaste the fedupdebug.log (or pastebin it). > > Chris Murphy ... still the proper things to do? Chris's part 1 raises another question. My system was new in March 2013. Fedora-18 was installed. Whatever grub came with that is the grub that was installed. I ran "yum update" every week. In July or August, I updated to Fedora-19. I continue to run "yum update" every week. So why is my grub so out-of date? Doesn't the "yum update" take care of that? By the way, I don't recall doing anything to customize my grub boot parameters. Could this have something to do with this being a dual-boot system? thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?
Joe says: > If it helps, I don't have either a /dev/dev or a /root/.readahead. > However, I'm running F19 on my desktop, with Xfce, although I never use > a GUI as root. I also don't have rkhunter installed, so that might be > significant. The file is not "/root/.readahead". The mystery file is "/.readahead". What is this mystery file? Frank asks: > Did you run rkhunter prior to update? to check for nasties? # if not too late > now. yes. > did you run "rkhunter --propupd" after FN+1 which would be required yes. John says (regarding "rpm -qf --queryformat..." error codes) > This means that when rkhunter (RKH) uses the 'rpm' command to check a > package it is getting an error back. All it can do is log the problem. > If you run something like 'rpm -V chkconfig' then you will probably get > an error - that is what RKH is seeing. But why all the rpm errors? Is yum not doing something that it should be doing during an update? Am I not doing something I should be doing? Is something wrong with RPM or my RPM database? What and where is the real bug, and what's the permanent fix? John says (regarding prelink issues): > The problem here is prelinking. It will change file properties when it > runs, but RKH tries to detect this and so obtain the true values for > each file (either by using the rpm package manager or using the prelink > command to verify the file). In some cases a dependency the file has, > has changed. again, RKH cannot do anything about that, but suggests > running the prelink command. If it is occurring a lot with different > files, then you can try running 'prelink -qa', 'prelink -fa' or just > wait for the regular prelink cron job to run when it should sort out > prelinking problems. However, when I last looked the job ran about once >every two weeks :-) "prelink -qa" fixes things only until the next yum update. Should yum do a "prelink -qa" at the end of each update? John says (regarding the GasKit rootkit warning): > It's a bug in F20 with the 'dracut' package, the '/dev/dev' directory is > created by mistake(see > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045116). I got the same > problem. There is a fix, or you could wait for an update to the package. > You can whitelist this in your RKH config file (see RTKT_DIR_WHITELIST). Good. Thank-you, John. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]
Neither VLC nor Amarok seem to come with Fedora. But late last night, I found VLC with "apper" and downloaded it. I got it to work for the two radio stations. It did not help with "Pipedreams". (By the way, Pipedreams is *not* a radio station.) Now this morning, the buttons on the second link (http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes) for Pipedreams does work! The buttons on the first link (http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2016/1628/) still don't work. I'll open a new thread on that later, mainly focused on adobe applications. Since VLC worked, I did not try the others. I thank Rick, Andras, and Fred for their help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]
The message I'm replying to was intended to be the closure of the thread "application to listen to on-line broadcasts?", but I failed to put the "Re: " at the beginning of the subject line. My apologies. On to the new thread that I intended to create... 1. I've encountered several websites that have media needing Adobe's Flash. "Pipedreams" is one. I can't at the moment recall others. What is the best Fedora (and/or Firefox) alternative for Flash? And how do I get Firefox to launch that application rather than Flash when the host website calls for Flash? 2. I also occasionally have to fill in a pdf form. In windows, Adobe's Reader used to handle that. Reader no longer fills in forms. What is the best Fedora application for both viewing and filling in pdf forms? What about a Firefox add-on? 3. The National Weather Service weather RADAR displays have the option to do looping and zooming. But those features need Java. I have Java installed and up-to-date, but Firefox doesn't find it. I haven't found a way to tell Firefox to use Java or where it is. How do I do that? 4. Earlier in this thread, Samuel recommended that I activate a flag "mozilla_plugin_can_network_connect)" in selinux. I'm not familiar with selinux (I'm just a home user struggling to be his own sys-admin.). How do I do that? thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]
I was wrong about the National Weather Service weather RADAR pages. When I click a "Loop" button, the display shows a message "A plugin is needed to display this content." message. I used Firefox's "Inspect Element" function, and what I see includes this: followed by a small gray-filled rounded rectangle with "ev" inside. So these animations do not need Java, they need flash. There is still a "gnash" website, but it shows the most recent release being about 4 years old. The Wikipedia page for "gnash" gives me the sense that it's dying thanks to legal risks and lack of programmers. I wonder... Does Redhat have the money and programmers (and legal eagles) to make a good flash substitute?! Redhat: are you listening? In the next day or 2, I'll try working through ask.fedora question 10217 as suggested by Samuel. I did the "setsebool" command. One of these days, I'll find a web page that will provide a test. The NWS RADAR sites are no good for this. Thank-you. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]
I finally found time to do some more of this. (Samuel: I'm looking to go the pepper flash player + freshplayer route, not the old flash route.) First I looked in the places that I trust most. I used Fedora's "apper" to look for Chrome, Chromium, pepper, and freshplayer in the Fedora and rpmfusion repositories. I struck out, so apparently none of these are available from the Fedora and RPM Fusion repositories. I tried the Firefox app (or plug-in) search, same search words. Nothing. So these must all come somewhere else. Did I miss something? Am I correct in concluding that to get the pepper flash player, I must go to the Google site for downloading Chrome and download the whole Chrome? or am I missing something? Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]
Thank-you for the explanation. Yes, I'm the same person. I tried what you suggested. You're right. It works. Thank-you, Samuel. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
evercookies.
Hi all, Two questions about "evercookies". I think this could be useful to others in this forum as well as to me. 1. On my home Fedora-23 (updated weekly) workstation, how do I find and truly, fully, permanently get rid of whatever evercookies might be on my system? If y'all don't mind, I'd also like to know how to find and delete "evercookies" on my home windows-7 box, if there are any. 2. I use Firefox (updated weekly) for browsing. On my home Fedora-23 workstation, how do I block or prevent the storage of evercookies on my system? If y'all don't mind, I'd also like to know to to block or prevent the storage of "evercookies" on my home windows-7 box. I'm already using "No-Script" (on both systems) if that's relevant. thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: evercookies.
(I'm replying to the entire discussion as of Wednesday evening US Mountain time.) I'm now wondering if evercookies can really be fully blocked. I do want to block what I reasonably can. But as was pointed out, a lot of wanted web functionality needs cookies. So now I'm mainly focused on getting them deleted when I close a tab or the browser. * My Firefox is set to never remember history. It clears all "regular" cookies, cache, and browsing history when I exit Firefox, right? What about evercookies? * Fingerprinting was mentioned. Wikipedia has two relevant fingerprinting articles: device (browser) fingerprinting and graphic fingerprinting. The device fingerprinting article makes this curious statement: "Recently such fingerprints have proven useful in the detection and prevention of online identity theft and credit card fraud. In fact, device fingerprints can be used to predict the likelihood users will commit fraud based on their signal profile, before they have even committed fraud." So now we're stuck in a love-hate relationship with fingerprinting. Having experienced credit card fraud at least 3 times, I want what those two Wikipedia sentences mention. But I hate commercial sites tracking, profiling, and targeting me. I also understand that the advertising is needed to have "free" content on the web. I accept "generic" (non-personalized) advertising that is not intrusive and not deceptive. The rest actually affects me opposite of what the advertiser intents: it pushes me away! So what / how much fingerprinting to allow vs. try to block? * Does NoScript block evercookies or the fingerprinting parts of allowed scripts? * I recently looked at Adblock Plus, and saw the same conflict-of-interest noted by others in this discussion. I will look at the alternatives mentioned in this discussion. I also saw the separate "Browser Privacy" topic started by Drew. I've since turned off html5 storage, and will study the other recommendations there. * It seems CCleaner is for windows but not Linux. I am indeed looking for windows-7 solutions, but I'm also looking for Fedora solutions. How can I clean out evercookies on my Fedora workstation? * Stan - In your last message on this topic, you implied you are abandoning Adblock Plus and said you are using "tracking blockers". Which? Thank-you, everyone. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Brasero problem and question.
Good afternoon, I'm using Fedora-18 (updated last Wednesday) on a 64-bit system. The desktop is Gnome (updated last Wednesday). This is about Brasero 3.6.1. After putting together the project, that is, listing all the tracks I want burned onto a music CD, I click the "Burn..." button. Up comes this message box with the title "Creating Image", it says "Creating image", shows a progress bar, says "Normalizing tracks", and has a "Cancel" button. This happens regardless whether or not I have a blank CD in the burner. Question: I do not want volume normalization of the tracks. If I'm burning a Beethoven symphony from one commercial CD, and a Dvorak symphony from another commercial CD, I surely don't want tracks 1-4 normalized relative to each other; and I surely don't want tracks 5-8 normalized relative to each other; though I in theory *might* want tracks 1-4 normalized relative to tracks 5-8 (or visa-versa) since they come from different commercial CDs. I did not see any way of disabling the volume normalization. How do I do that? Problem: That progress bar shows no progress. I checked task usage of CPU, and CPU usage of Brasero is negligible. Even after many minutes, nothing seems to happen. What am I not doing that I should do, and/or doing that I should not do? Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Brasero problem and question.
Good evening, > > Problem: That progress bar shows no progress. I checked task usage of > > CPU, and CPU usage of Brasero is negligible. Even after many minutes, > > nothing seems to happen. What am I not doing that I should do, and/or > > doing that I should not do? > > Sorry, I don't have a solution for you but thought I would mention that > apparently Brasero has been unmaintained for some time and a new maintainer > recently took it over so there may be a fix in future versions, but of > course that doesn't help you right now. > > You'll end up having to install a bunch of kde libs but try k3b. > > Richard Thank-you, Richard. I hope it gets fixed soon. As far as I know, K3b (and microsoft's media player) allow the user to put 2-second gaps after all tracks or not at all, but not selected gaps. Brasero allows the user to add a two second gap after *selected* gaps. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
problem: system freezes.
Good afternoon, This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660. I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04. At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced warning or symptoms. It just stops responding to the trackball and keystrokes. The display simply stops changing. The only things I can do is a hard reset or cut off the power. I am not aware of any pattern to what I'm doing when such a freeze-up happens. Once it happened after logging in and simply launching a terminal window; another time I was doing a "more" on a test file; another time I was reading e-mail through Firefox; another time I was listening to a CD; another time I was preparing to burn an audio CD. No error messages show up on the screen. This problem has been occurring for a few weeks now, and was occurring when I had Fedora-18 also. I just now think I have the time to try to handle it. (I'm guessing this will take some doing!) I'm just a home user. I have no sys. admin. training or experience. How do I diagnose and fix this? Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill.-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: problem: system freezes.
Good afternoon, Rick Stevens wrote... > Need a lot more info: > > Make and model of computer > Video card type (nVidia, Intel, ATI, etc.) > Memory size > Disk size and type > > You can (as root) run "dmidecode" and "lspci" from the command line > and include that with your response. We can then try to help you. I get the following from "lspci": --- bash.2[~]: lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev c4) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK106 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) 03:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 03) 04:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] 05:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller 06:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) 07:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) bash.3[~]: --- If you need a re-run with certain options, let me know. "dmidecoe" gives me over 1100 lines of output. Please tell me what options to use to get this down what you need, or some way of paring the output down to a reasonable size. A few more facts that might provide clues: * This is a dual boot system; the other OS being windows 7 home. I experience no problems when using windows. Does this rule out hardware problems? * This system has an ASUS Sabertooth Z77 motherboard. * This system has 16 gigabytes of memory. * This a dual monitor system. I have two Dell U-2711 monitors, each 2560x1440. These are "wide gamut", not sRGB. * This system has an ASUS Xonar Essence STX audio card. * This is a "diy" system. Yesterday evening, the display suddenly wend "psychedelic", showing seemingly random, changing, loudly-colored squares (?) all over both screens. First time, after a few minutes, I had to shut off the power. Second time, after several minutes of the "psychedelic" display, it froze, after which I had to shut off the power. Curiously, the audio CD kept playing normally (with normal sound coming out of the speakers) until I turned off the power. "linuxnutster" wrote... > I'd start by going here: > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > Burn it to CD/DVD, set your bios to boot up on CD/DVD. Go to the memory > section and run the highest version of memtest86+ to check your memory. > The last time I had freezes like that in Linux, I'd blow a couple of > memory bars. This is in progress. I'll post something when I have something worth posting. A caution about that website. I loaded the website in Firefox, running in windows. "NoScript" was active; windows security essentials and Malwarebytes were hooked in. Yet something briefly flashed on my screen while viewing that site. It wasn't up long enough for me to see specifically what it was, but it sure looked like an ad. Subsequent scans showed no problems. Be careful with that site! Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedorap
Re: problem: system freezes.
Good afternoon, I ran the memtest86+; it passed - 100%. I'm curious: is there a way to test the gpu? If yes, how? > That's the one. So it's an nVidia GeForce GTX660. > Yeah, that's typically the driver having issues or memory problems. > Next, we need to see if you're running the nvidia or nouveau drivers. > You can look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and see which driver is > loaded. Alternately, try (as root): > > lsmod | grep -i nvidia > > If you get an output line that contains both "drm" and "nvidia" in it, > then you're running the nVidia driver. If you get no output, try: > > lsmod | grep -i nouveau > > If you get output, then you're running the nouveau driver and it may > have issues with your hardware. The first lsmod gave no output. The second gives: --- bash.2[~]: lsmod | grep -i nouveau nouveau 989091 3 i2c_algo_bit 13257 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 50210 1 nouveau ttm 80402 1 nouveau mxm_wmi 12865 1 nouveau drm 272504 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau i2c_core 34242 5 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau video 19052 2 nouveau,asus_wmi wmi 18697 3 mxm_wmi,nouveau,asus_wmi bash.3[~]: --- That confirms my system is using nouveau. > If you decide you want to try the > nVidia binary driver, then you'll need to install it. Here's a > reasonable guide as to how to do it. It's for F18, but F19 is similar: > > http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-18-nvidia-guide/ Tomorrow morning, I'll first do my weekly Fedora-19 updates and scans, then I'll try the nVidia driver install. By the way, there's also a web page there for Fedora-19. Unless you advise otherwise, I'll follow the Fedora-19 page's process. Thank-you for your help so far, Rick. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: problem: system freezes. [SOLVED]
Good afternoon, Rick Stevens wrote: > Yeah, that's typically the driver having issues or memory problems. > Next, we need to see if you're running the nvidia or nouveau drivers. > You can look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and see which driver is > loaded. Alternately, try (as root): > > lsmod | grep -i nvidia > > If you get an output line that contains both "drm" and "nvidia" in it, > then you're running the nVidia driver. If you get no output, try: > > lsmod | grep -i nouveau > > If you get output, then you're running the nouveau driver and it may > have issues with your hardware. If you decide you want to try the > nVidia binary driver, then you'll need to install it. Here's a > reasonable guide as to how to do it. It's for F18, but F19 is similar: > > http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-18-nvidia-guide/ After getting side-tracked yesterday, I did this this morning. Routine use of my Linux system afterwards showed no problems. I believe this is one of those things that can be proven wrong, but not correct. So I'm closing this. Thank-you Joe, linuxnutster, geleem, and especially Rick for your help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and Windows 7 home. I need to delete the Fedora 18 install. The installation guide (section 20.2.1) discusses how to do this if the windows install is Windows 2000, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, but not Windows 7. I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media provides. Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
follow-up - Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
Thank-you, David. I will try it. - Bill. --- On Wed, 3/13/13, davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: > From: davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com > > Subject: Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:01 AM > Install over it would be the easiest > way to do it. > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity > > -----Original Message- > From: William Mattison > Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:04:38 > To: > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? > > I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live > Media) and Windows 7 home. I need to delete the Fedora > 18 install. The installation guide (section 20.2.1) > discusses how to do this if the windows install is Windows > 2000, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, > Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, but not Windows 7. > > I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can > re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd > rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media > provides. > > Thank-you in advance for your help. > Bill. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
Thank-you, Tim. I plan to attempt the install today. - Bill. --- On Thu, 3/14/13, Tim wrote: > From: Tim > Subject: Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 6:52 AM > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 08:04 -0700, > William Mattison wrote: > > I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the > Live Media) and > > Windows 7 home. I need to delete the Fedora 18 > install. > > If you find that you're unable to install over the top, as > the other > reply suggests, and as some posts on this list seem to > suggest that some > people have had trouble doing, you can: > > Boot from some other Linux disc (including the install > disc), make your > way into a command line, run the "fdisk" program and delete > the Linux > partition(s). > > If, for example, your Linux partition was on /dev/sda2, then > it'd be > something like this: > > fdisk /dev/sda > > Press the "m" key then enter, to see fdisk's menu; press the > hotkey to > delete a partition, choose the right partition to remove, > then write the > partition table to disk and quit out of the fdisk program. > > Now, the details about what was your Fedora partition is > lost, so an > install should believe that part of the disc is unused and > available. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is > ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? [SOLVED]
The replies I received were correct. It was unnecessary to delete the previous install. I merely had to install over the old installation. Thank-you, both of you that replied. Bill. --- On Wed, 3/13/13, William Mattison wrote: > From: William Mattison > Subject: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:04 AM > I have a dual boot desktop with > Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and Windows 7 home. I > need to delete the Fedora 18 install. The installation > guide (section 20.2.1) discusses how to do this if the > windows install is Windows 2000, Windows Server 2000, > Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows > Server 2008, but not Windows 7. > > I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can > re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd > rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media > provides. > > Thank-you in advance for your help. > Bill. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 18 security questions.
I have a single desktop connected only to the internet. It's dual-boot: Fedora
18 and windows 7 home. In Fedora, it has more than one user id.
I skimmed/read through the Fedora 18 security guide, and much of the Fedora 18
installation guide and the Fedora 18 sys. admin. guide. As best as I can tell,
the only thing that I need to do is make sure the default firewall is active as
per this section of the security guide:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Security_Guide/sect-Security_Guide-Firewalls-Basic_Firewall_Configuration.html
and make sure the system stays up-to-date ("yum" seems to be doing that). But
my experience, understanding of computer security and sys. admin. are extremely
poor and beginners level. I'm assuming that what these guides say about
multi-computer systems, LANs, WANs, servers, etc. does not apply to my system.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Windows has security essentials and malwarebytes scanning browser traffic to
detect and block malware, and scanning the hard drive to find and remove
malware. What does Linux have corresponding to that? I'm just about certain
that my old Linux system is infected with working spyware. I'd like to have
something like security essentials, malwarebytes, etc. on my new Linux system.
Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.
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Re: Fedora 18 security questions.
chkrootkit and rkhunter installed. Thank-you, Steve Stern.
nmap installed. Thank-you, Rahul.
automatic updating is on.
The old system (10 years old) was probably infected early summer 2011. Whether
the spyware came from a bad web site via Firefox, or e-mail via yahoo e-mail
(thru Firefox), or some other way, I don't know. As far as I know, no files
that I've knowingly created have been changed or lost. But there's a definite
uncanny correlation between e-mail that I write and spams and spoofs that I
receive, both in timing and in content (judging by subject lines). There is
almost certainly at least some sort of keystroke logger on this dinosaur. One
of the main reasons for getting the new system is to solve this problem. (I
was long overdue for an upgrade too.) Though the probability of infection is
very small, I know from first hand experience it's not zero. Better diligence
and less laziness on my part can reduce that probability some, but I still
would like something to detect and remove whatever slips through the cracks,
and because I'm human.
I do not currently plan to connect to the new home system from the outside.
But I may someday connect to work computers, clouds, etc. from home via ssh,
vpn, etc. I will not be running a mail server, or any other kind of server, on
my new system.
thanks,
Bill.
--- On Thu, 3/21/13, William Mattison wrote:
> From: William Mattison
> Subject: Fedora 18 security questions.
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 10:31 AM
> I have a single desktop connected
> only to the internet. It's dual-boot: Fedora 18 and
> windows 7 home. In Fedora, it has more than one user
> id.
>
> I skimmed/read through the Fedora 18 security guide, and
> much of the Fedora 18 installation guide and the Fedora 18
> sys. admin. guide. As best as I can tell, the only
> thing that I need to do is make sure the default firewall is
> active as per this section of the security guide:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Security_Guide/sect-Security_Guide-Firewalls-Basic_Firewall_Configuration.html
> and make sure the system stays up-to-date ("yum" seems to be
> doing that). But my experience, understanding of
> computer security and sys. admin. are extremely poor and
> beginners level. I'm assuming that what these guides
> say about multi-computer systems, LANs, WANs, servers, etc.
> does not apply to my system. Any thoughts or
> suggestions?
>
> Windows has security essentials and malwarebytes scanning
> browser traffic to detect and block malware, and scanning
> the hard drive to find and remove malware. What does
> Linux have corresponding to that? I'm just about
> certain that my old Linux system is infected with working
> spyware. I'd like to have something like security
> essentials, malwarebytes, etc. on my new Linux system.
>
> Thank-you in advance for your help.
> Bill.
>
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no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
Hi, When I try to print anything out, I get no printout. Even a test page does not come out. But no indication of trouble shows up on the monitor, and no indication of trouble on the printer's display. I did download and install the driver. cups gives no hint of trouble that I recognize. If I restart the system and boot up with Windows 7 home, I do get printouts. The printer is a Xerox WorkCentre 6015ni, I'm using Fedora-18, 64-bit, and the printer is connected to the system via usb bus. This is a stand-alone home desktop. I'm neither trained nor experienced in sys. admin. I've exhausted the help I can get from the printer's manual (media and web site). Any help you can give will be appreciated. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
Hi Dave, > Sorry for the top post. Google shows there is a linux driver for that > printer on xerox web sight. Google search string was xerox 6015ni linux. > > Might be a short term solution for you. > > Dave I had already done this before I posted the problem. But thank-you for trying to help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Roger)
Hi Roger, > I too have Fedora 18 64 bit. Have always had trouble with Xerox laser printer > in Fedora Linux, all versions, for years. It has never been auto detected. > > You may need the ppd file, I can send my fxlinuxprint.ppd if you wish or > google for it. Copy it to /usr/share/cups/model/ > My Xerox only seems to work if I jump thru the below hoops. > > First in Printers > Print Settings > Add, I have to enter my password 2 times > (one of the Fedora 18 vagaries) which brings me to Select Device: > In this dialog select LPT#1 > Forward> it will search for drivers. > In the next dialog "Choose Driver" select > Provide a ppd file and navigate > to > File system /usr/share/cups/models and choose one of these: > fxlinuxprint.ppd > pxlcolor.ppd > pxlmono.ppd > I find that only the last 2 work, so I have created both a color and a mono > laser printer. > From here in follow the prompts and complete the printer set up. > BUT > Now the hard part. > This is set up as LPT and needs to be changed to USB. To do this I need to go > back to > Print Settings double click on the printer I just created and in > > Printer Properties change the > Device URI to what ever suits your system, > on mine it is: usb://FUJI%20XEROX/DocuPrint%20C2100 > -- Finding the correct URI is the difficult part. I think I got this some > time ago from my Ubuntu setup where printer was auto detected. > Click Ok and the printer should be available and should now print. > > I'm sure others have no trouble and It's just my Xerox but hey this is my way > of resolving Xerox hassles. > > Hope this helps > Roger I'll give this a try and let you (and the list) know the outcome. I may need more help with that "URI" step. thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Roger)
Hi Roger, > > I too have Fedora 18 64 bit. Have always had trouble > with Xerox laser printer > > in Fedora Linux, all versions, for years. It has never > been auto detected. > > > > You may need the ppd file, I can send my > fxlinuxprint.ppd if you wish or > > google for it. Copy it to /usr/share/cups/model/ > > My Xerox only seems to work if I jump thru the below > > hoops. Hi Roger, ok, please send your fxlinuxprint.ppd file to me. I don't know what does or does not matter in this file, but my printer is 1200x1800 resolution, color, and I need to be able to to print many simplified Chinese fonts as well as many English fonts. thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Roger)
Hi Roger, > > > > I too have Fedora 18 64 bit. Have always had > > > > trouble with Xerox laser printer > > > > in Fedora Linux, all versions, for years. It has > > > > never been auto detected. > > > > > > > > You may need the ppd file, I can send my > > > > fxlinuxprint.ppd if you wish or > > > > google for it. Copy it to /usr/share/cups/model/ > > > > My Xerox only seems to work if I jump thru the > > > > below hoops. > > > > Hi Roger, > > > > ok, please send your fxlinuxprint.ppd file to me. > Here ya go Bill > Both fxlinuxprint and the PCL-Docuprint ppd files I think the > PCL-Docuprint creates the usb:// uri mentioned earlier. > Both are plain text files - you can open them in gedit or vim > There should be a PCL file for your printer in the Xerox system > somewhere Thank-you. My apologies for not responding sooner. I got buried in company paperwork yesterday. Then Xerox (a) accepted my ticket, and (b) gave it priority 1. So I'm putting this on hold for a few days hoping they fix their rpm file. The Xerox engineer did not seem too confident, saying: - This printer uses GDI-based drivers, so technically speaking, the - standard print process with Linux environments wouldn’t work since - they only use PostScript-based drivers or emulators. I’m sure - engineering solved that problem somehow, but I don’t see how since - the files the driver package includes are just ppds and a few filters. But he's trying. To answer your question, I did an "rpm -qp -l" on Xerox's 64-bit Linux .rpm file for this printer. I saw no PCL file. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
how to fully delete user account?
The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese. Not what was wanted! So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it. I used the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account. I did check that the home directory for that account was gone. Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups. When the user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified Chinese! I re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and re-creating the account. It was still simplified Chinese. All other user accounts are English. Where is the language preference for that one user account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I clear it? No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc. Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to default without becoming that user? Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to fully delete user account?
I forgot to mention: this is a Fedora-18 system. - Bill. - Original Message - > From: William Mattison > To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:52 PM > Subject: how to fully delete user account? > >T he language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese. Not what was > wanted! So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it. I > used > the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account. I did check that the > home > directory for that account was gone. Then I re-created the account with > Users > and Groups. When the user first tried to log in, everything was in > simplified > Chinese! I re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and > re-creating the account. It was still simplified Chinese. All other user > accounts are English. Where is the language preference for that one user > account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I > clear it? No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the > simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon > labels, etc. Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to > default without becoming that user? > > Thank-you in advance for your help. > Bill. > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to fully delete user account? [SOLVED]
Good evening, Nalan provided the needed information. The directory "/var/lib/AccountsService/users/" did have a configuration file for the deleted user. I deleted that file, re-created the user, logged in as that user, and everything was English. Thank-you, Nalan. Bill. - Original Message - > From: William Mattison > To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:52 PM > Subject: how to fully delete user account? > >T he language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese. Not what was > wanted! So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it. I > used > the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account. I did check that the > home > directory for that account was gone. Then I re-created the account with > Users > and Groups. When the user first tried to log in, everything was in > simplified > Chinese! I re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and > re-creating the account. It was still simplified Chinese. All other user > accounts are English. Where is the language preference for that one user > account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I > clear it? No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the > simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon > labels, etc. Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to > default without becoming that user? > > Thank-you in advance for your help. > Bill. > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
how to make user account partially bi-lingual?
(Fedora-18; all desktops) A user needs all * menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc. within * desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.), all LibreOffice applications, vi, etc. to be English. But he needs to be able to both * enter and view text in both * English and simplified Chinese within * vi, all LibreOffice applications, internet e-mail (Yahoo mail, gmail, etc.), etc. where most files/messages will contain a mix of English and simplified Chinese. How does root and/or the user set up his account so he always has these abilities? In effect, we want the account to be bi-lingual, with English as the primary language, and simplified Chinese being a secondary language. Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
how to create iso9660 archive.
(fedora-18, all desktops) I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file made from: * /home/user1/project17/ * /home/user2/project17/ * /home/user2/.hidden/ Each of these directories has multiple levels of subdirectories. user1 and user2 each has other directories directly under his $HOME directory. I tried to use "Brasero" to do this. But the ISO file it created was a mere 71.7 KB, though these three directories contain over 600 MB of files. I get the impression that the tool only looked one level below what I dragged to the right side of the screen. I need it to go all the way down, like a "cp -r". On my old Redhat 9 system, X-CD-Roast handled that beautifully. I also tried this with another tool whose name I now cannot now recall or find. It was worse. How do I do this with Fedora-18? Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?
> (Fedora-18; all desktops) > ... > How does root and/or the user set up his account so he always has these > abilities? > In effect, we want the account to be bi-lingual, with English as the primary > language, > and simplified Chinese being a secondary language. > > Thank-you in advance for your help. > Bill. Ed Greshko answered: > Run "im-chooser" and then select ibus as the input method. You'll then need > to > configure the input methods to add whatever method you want for Simplified > Chinese. > I'm pretty sure this gets you want you want since you seem most in need of > inputting in > Chinese. Viewing shouldn't be an issue. In addition to what Ed suggested, it was also needed to add simplified Chinese within the "System Settings" GUI under the user name in the upper right corner of the screen. I also wrestled with preferences in Konsole, Terminal, and XTerm. Things now seem to be fine in LibreOffice. I can create a new simplified Chinese or mixed file with vi(m). But... I imported from a Redhat 9 system many files created by vi and containing a mix of English and simplified Chinese. When I load any of those into vi(m) on the Fedora-18 system, the simplified Chinese is not displayed properly. I notice at the bottom of the Konsole/XTerm/Terminal, there is a message saying "converted". I don't know if there's a connection. Both the message and the failure to properly display the simplified Chinese happen regardless of the simplified Chinese encoding that I choose in the terminal's preferences. Any ideas/suggestions anyone? thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?
> What do you get when you type > > file filename ? > > I don't remember, but I think in the Fedora 9 days Unicode may not have been > the default. The encoding you have may be GB2312. > > You can try running > > iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8 filename > filename.utf8 > > and then vi the resulting file On the Redhat 9 system, for a simplified Chinese file, I get "ISO-8859 text". On the Fedora-18 system, for a simplified Chinese file imported from the Redhat 9 system, I get "ISO-8859 text". On the Fedora-18 system, for a new simplified Chinese file, I get "UTF-8 Unicode text". I have not yet tried an iconv. When I try it, what should the f and t arguments be, and do I need any other arguments? thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]
> (fedora-18, all desktops) > > I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file > made from: > * /home/user1/project17/ > * /home/user2/project17/ > * /home/user2/.hidden/ > Each of these directories has multiple levels of subdirectories. user1 and > user2 each has other directories > directly under his $HOME directory. I tried to use "Brasero" to do this. > But the ISO file it created was a > mere 71.7 KB, though these three directories contain over 600 MB of files. I > get the impression that the > tool only looked one level below what I dragged to the right side of the > screen. I need it to go all the way > down, like a "cp -r". On my old Redhat 9 system, X-CD-Roast handled that > beautifully. I also tried this > with another tool whose name I now cannot now recall or find. It was worse. > How do I do this with Fedora-18? "geleem" suggested: > have you considered "K3b"? k3b allows you to do what you want, as it allows > you to pre-build your own paths > and then drag in what ever files, directories, or paths than you want. I couldn't find k3b on my system. So I searched the repository, found it and X-CD-Roast, and downloaded and installed both. I tried k3b. I couldn't find a way in it to see hidden files. Since I found X-CD-Roast, and it worked so well for me on the old Redhat 9 system, I decided to try that next. It didn't see my blu-ray writer, and I don't know enough about configuring blu-ray drivers to try it. But it created the image file easily. I then used Brasero to burn that image file to the m-disk. I verified that it worked correctly. Since I found X-CD-Roast, and it made the image file easily and successfully, I did not try Mark's suggestion. I thank "geleem" and Mark for their effort. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?
> The ISO-8859 text is a good indication that the file is encoded in GB2312. > > So, you'll want > > -f GB2312 > -t UTF-8 > > That is all Progress. That made the file display in vi in Terminal correctly. Thank-you, Ed. But the Chinese still doesn't display correctly in vi in Konsole and XTerrm. There are other issues, but I will initiate separate threads for those. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?
> > But the Chinese still doesn't display correctly in vi in Konsole and XTerrm. > > > > There are other issues, but I will initiate separate threads for those. > > I could understand it not displaying properly in an xterm. > > I've no problem konsole. Should check Advanced profile settings to make sure > the Encoding is set to UTF-8. In the Gnome terminal, doing a "more" on a UTF-8 text file containing simplified Chinese does display everything, but it's mixing fonts (both face and font). I'll open a new thread on that. In the Gnome terminal, vi-ing a UTF-8 text file containing simplified Chinese, same thing - including mixed fonts. I configured ibus to toggle with control-space, but when I type an 'o' to open a new line and try to insert new text, control-space brings up the message "E29: No inserted text yet", and "Press ENTER or type command to continue". I typed an 'o' again to open a new line, then control-space, and this time nothing happened. I had to toggle the language up in the upper right corner in the screen. Then ibus worked. But newly inserted characters show up in a mix of two fonts - two faces, two sizes. I had to install kde-l10n and the Chinese language pack. But it seemed to not help. I did all the settings and configuring I could find. In KDE, in a Konsole terminal, when vi-ing a file, I cannot find a way to enter Chinese. It seems to not know about ibus. Doing "more" behaved the same as in the Gnome Terminal in Gnome. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
how to change character menu font in ibus？
(Fedora-18) Using ibus's settings GUI, I configured ibus to use a size 16 kai font to display a list of simplified Chinese characters that match the pinyin that the user types to enter a simplified Chinese character. But when I try to enter Chinese characters (in vi in a Gnome terminal), the menu of characters is displayed in a smaller ming(?) font. It is the same in LibreOffice Writer. My configuration settings seems to be ignored. Chinese characters, even simplified Chinese characters, can have over 20 strokes (compare 'W' and 'M' have only 4 strokes each). The smaller size and ming(?) font is harder to read. How do I get ibus to use the kai font and bigger size in its character menus? thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
not receiving anything from users at lists.fedoraproject.
Good morning, For several days now, I have not received anything from users@lists.fedoraproject.org. I sent a message to "owner", but received no response. How do I get this fixed? Please reply to me as well as the list. I will also check the archives later today for answers. thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: not receiving anything from users at lists.fedoraproject. [SOLVED]
I checked my settings. I was mis-understanding what one of them meant. Now I know: "Mail delivery" set to "Disabled" also turns off reception of digests, too. I fixed it; I've since received a digest. By the way, I still receive unwanted messages from "nob...@fedoraproject.org", though a lot less today. It was really bad a few days ago. Could Yahoo e-mail subscribers' responses to all those "nobody" messages be what caused Yahoo to bounce messages - based on "fedoraproject.org". Bill. - Original Message - > From: William Mattison > To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:58 AM > Subject: not receiving anything from users at lists.fedoraproject. > >G ood morning, > > For several days now, I have not received anything from > users@lists.fedoraproject.org. I sent a message to "owner", but > received no response. How do I get this fixed? > > Please reply to me as well as the list. I will also check the archives later > today for answers. > > > thanks, > Bill. > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
Good morning,
> From: William Mattison
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 11:33 AM
> Subject: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
>
> Hi,
>
> When I try to print anything out, I get no printout. Even a test page does
> not
> come out. But no indication of trouble shows up on the monitor, and no
> indication of trouble on the printer's display. I did download and install
> the driver. cups gives no hint of trouble that I recognize. If I restart
> the
> system and boot up with Windows 7 home, I do get printouts.
>
> The printer is a Xerox WorkCentre 6015ni, I'm using Fedora-18, 64-bit, and
> the printer is connected to the system via usb bus. This is a stand-alone
> home
> desktop.
>
> I'm neither trained nor experienced in sys. admin. I've exhausted the
> help I can get from the printer's manual (media and web site). Any help you
> can give will be appreciated.
>
> Bill.
Some time ago, I put this aside because Xerox said it would work the problem.
Xerox has since refused to work it. Xerox does support this device on Redhat
Enterprise systems, but will not support it on Fedora systems. A Xerox
user-support back-line engineer was able to reproduce the problem on a
Fedora-18 system (hardware unknown). Xerox engineers were not able to
reproduce the problem on a 32 bit Enterprise system. I now need to revive this
issue here.
I don't know how printing works ("under the hood"); and I do not know the
jargon involved. So let's please take this one easy step at a time. My first
question: Once the Xerox driver (an RPM) for the device is downloaded, and RPM
and cups have done what they do, what files (names) should be where (paths)
with what ownership and what permissions? This information will let me check
that the download and install worked correctly. I did the download and install
as the root user.
thanks,
Bill.
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Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
> Do you see any errors in /var/log/messages pertaining to cups? Does > "lpstat -t" show the printer and is it enabled? > > Kevin Here's what I have/get, right after re-booting and trying an "lp" command: [root@c-69-138-198-76 ~]# cd /var/log [root@c-69-138-198-76 log]# lpstat -t scheduler is running no system default destination device for Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI: usb://Xerox/WorkCentre%206015NI?serial=BD1580153&interface=1 Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI accepting requests since Tue 14 May 2013 04:46:41 PM EDT printer Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI is idle. enabled since Tue 14 May 2013 04:46:41 PM EDT Processing page 1... Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI-15 root 1024 Tue 14 May 2013 04:46:32 PM EDT [root@c-69-138-198-76 log]# grep -i cups messages May 13 16:26:13 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-WorkCentre-6015NI May 13 16:26:13 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 13 16:26:14 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[625]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied May 13 22:14:22 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Printing Service... May 14 05:24:56 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-WorkCentre-6015NI May 14 05:24:56 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 14 05:24:57 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[621]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied May 14 09:28:16 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:28:45 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:29:12 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:29:24 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:29:24 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:29:27 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:29:33 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:29:34 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 09:30:08 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Printing Service... May 14 05:30:52 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-WorkCentre-6015NI May 14 05:30:52 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 14 05:30:52 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[610]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied May 14 05:46:48 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-WorkCentre-6015NI May 14 05:46:48 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 14 05:46:48 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[613]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied May 14 10:26:02 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 10:28:47 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 13:08:56 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Printing Service... May 14 11:15:49 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-WorkCentre-6015NI May 14 11:15:49 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 14 11:15:49 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[630]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied May 14 15:48:00 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 15:48:20 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 16:23:10 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 16:23:20 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 16:33:11 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 16:33:14 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 16:33:28 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 12:40:54 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 14 12:40:54 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[642]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied May 14 16:46:32 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. May 14 16:46:42 c-69-138-198-76 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service. [root@c-69-138-198-76 log]# pwd /var/log [root@c-69-138-198-76 log]# There is also a directory "/var/log/cups": [root@c-69-138-198-76 cups]# pwd /var/log/cups [root@c-69-138-198-76 cups]# ls -l total 144 -rw---. 1 root lp 8546 May 14 16:46 access_log -rw---. 1 root lp 16003 Apr 21 17:54 access_log-20130421 -rw---. 1 root lp 10057 Apr 29 17:11 access_log-20130429 -rw---. 1 root lp 10178 May 5 15:52 access_log-20130505 -rw---. 1 root lp 5566 May 13 09:38 access_log-20130513 -rw---. 1 root lp 27459 May 14 16:46 error_log -rw---. 1 root lp 22946 Apr 21 13:54 error_log-20130421 -rw---. 1 root lp 9962 Apr 29 12:12 error_log-20130429 -rw---. 1 root lp 10331 May 5 11:51 error_log-20130505 -rw---. 1 root lp 6446 May 13 05:35 error_log-20130513 -rw---. 1 root lp 0 Mar 17 20:44 page_log [root@c-69-138-198-76 cups]# I couldn't make sense of anything in this directory.
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
> Also, the line:
>
> May 13 16:26:14 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[625]: p11-kit: couldn't open
>
> config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied
>
> from your lpstat output may not be causing a problem, but you should
> address it anyway because until you do you won't know if it's part
> of the problem or not.
Umm..
There is no directory "/root/.pkcs11/". The permissions on directory
"/root/" are "dr-xr-x---". I added write permissions for user and
group, then I rebooted the system and turned on the printer. "lpstat -t" now
gives:
=== begin
bash.1[~]: lpstat -t
scheduler is running
no system default destination
device for Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI:
usb://Xerox/WorkCentre%206015NI?serial=BD1580153&interface=1
Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI accepting requests since Wed 15 May 2013 12:22:30 PM EDT
printer Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI is idle. enabled since Wed 15 May 2013
12:22:30 PM EDT
bash.2[~]:
=== end
But there's still no directory "/root/.pkcs11/"!
>>> I couldn't make sense of anything in this directory. Might
>>> something here help?
>>
>> Try this: run tail /var/log/cups/error_log before and after
>> printing, and see if anything new shows up.
>
> Rather than using that command "before and after", you should do:
>
> tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log
>
> before you try to print. it will display all the log lines as it
> goes (stop it when your printing event stops logging). The
> previously suggested commands will only get you the last 10 lines
> (with the lines before you try to print being mostly irrelevant to
> the immediate event), so running it after will miss anything
> relevant that's more than 10 lines back.
I did this:
=== begin
bash.2[~]: cat -n testprint.txt
1
2 A very short test text file for testing the printer.
3
bash.3[~]: lp testprint.txt -d Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI
request id is Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI-19 (1 file(s))
bash.4[~]:
=== end
The tail -f generated a lot of output:
=== begin
bash.1[~]: cd /var/log/cups/
bash.2[cups]: tail -f error_log
D [14/May/2013:21:10:44 -0400] [Job 18] printer-state-message="Sending data to
printer."
D [14/May/2013:21:10:44 -0400] [Job 18] printer-state-reasons=none
E [14/May/2013:21:15:47 -0400] [Job 18] Stopping unresponsive job!
E [14/May/2013:21:26:34 -0400] Failed to update TXT record for Xerox WorkCentre
6015NI @ c-69-138-198-76.hsd1.md.comcast.net: -2
E [15/May/2013:11:38:09 -0400] Unknown directive JobPrivateAccess on line 88 of
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
E [15/May/2013:11:38:09 -0400] Unknown directive JobPrivateValues on line 89 of
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
E [15/May/2013:11:38:09 -0400] Unknown directive SubscriptionPrivateAccess on
line 90 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
E [15/May/2013:11:38:09 -0400] Unknown directive SubscriptionPrivateValues on
line 91 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
W [15/May/2013:11:38:11 -0400] failed to find device:
cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI
E [15/May/2013:12:22:30 -0400] Failed to update TXT record for Xerox WorkCentre
6015NI @ c-69-138-198-76.hsd1.md.comcast.net: -2
---> {"lp" command issued at this point}
E [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Job stopped due to filter errors;
please consult the error_log file for details.
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] The following messages were recorded
from 12:28:29 PM to 12:28:37 PM
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Adding start banner page "none".
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Queued on "Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI" by
"root".
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Auto-typing file...
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Request file type is text/plain.
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] File of type text/plain queued by
"root".
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Adding end banner page "none".
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] job-sheets=none,none
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[0]="Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[1]="19"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[2]="root"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[3]="testprint.txt"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[4]="1"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[5]="finishings=3 number-up=1
job-uuid=urn:uuid:b64612fa-9ef2-34b2-5660-d9413ecfd992
job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1368635309
time-at-processing=1368635309"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] argv[6]="/var/spool/cups/d00019-001"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] envp[0]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] envp[1]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19]
envp[2]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/cups/www"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19]
envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19]
envp[4]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
D [15/M
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Kevin Martin)
>Where did you say you got the PPD for this device? Are you running 64bit or >32bit Fedora? Does libcups.so.2 exist on the system >anywhere? I do not know what a "PPD" is. Whatever I got specifically for this device must have come from the Xerox device driver RPM for this device which I downloaded from the Xerox web site. The RPM is named "Xerox-WorkCentre-6015B_6015N_6015NI-1.0-28.i586.rpm". Xerox's date on the RPM is Oct. 10, 2011. This is 64-bit Fedora-18, running on an X86-64 system. I last updated yesterday (Tuesday). The file you asked about is here, with permissions and ownership as shown: bash.2[~]: cd / bash.3[/]: find . -name "libcups.so.2" -print ./usr/lib64/libcups.so.2 bash.4[/]: cd /usr/lib64/ bash.5[lib64]: ll "libcups.so.2" -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 379328 Dec 4 07:40 libcups.so.2 bash.6[lib64]: thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual? [CLOSED]
> From: William Mattison >To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" >Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:03 PM >Subject: how to make user account partially bi-lingual? >(Fedora-18; all desktops) > >A user needs all >* menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc. >within >* desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.), all LibreOffice applications, vi, etc. >to be English. > > >But he needs to be able to both >* enter and view >text in both >* English and simplified Chinese >within >* vi, all LibreOffice applications, internet e-mail (Yahoo mail, gmail, etc.), etc. >where most files/messages will contain a mix of English and simplified Chinese. > >How does root and/or the user set up his account so he always has these >abilities? In effect, we want the account to be bi-lingual, with English as >the primary language, and simplified Chinese being a secondary language. > > >Thank-you in advance for your help. >Bill. When diagnosing and solving this started involving screen captures, I decided to take this off-line with Ed Greshko. With a lot of excellent help from Ed, everything I believe I want or need to do, I can now do somehow. It would take a lot to spell it all out. I'll try to summarize. I'll keep referring to Chinese (meaning "simplified" Chinese) here, but I suspect this applies to some other languages as well. * It may be necessary to download RPMs for Chinese. You'll need Chinese fonts and "ibus" (the tool needed for input of Chinese characters). * In the chosen desktop's customization GUI, a user can select more than one language. He should make sure English is the display language. But the list of available languages must include Chinese. * The "ibus" tool should be chosen for input of Chinese. "ibus" is configurable. * UTF-8 is the preferred encoding for text in files. * Make sure the encoding in terminal windows and LibreOffice applications is set correctly. The encoding in terminal windows and LibreOffice applications must match the encoding of the text in the files being edited. * Make sure the font in terminal windows and LibreOffice applications is set to something that provides glyphs for Chinese. * The "file" command is useful for determining the encoding within many (but not all) files. * The "iconv" command is useful for converting files from one encoding to another. Along the way, four bugs were found. Two bugs were already reported in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890474 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918308 One new bug was reported by Ed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956512 One bug was reported by myself in both Redhat and LibreOffice (freedesktop): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960768 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64678 There are work-arounds to all four bugs if you're not tied to one desktop manager and one terminal, and you're flexible about font face and size. The last two bugs (Redhat #960768 and LibreOffice #64678) appear to be already closed, prematurely in my opinion. The others appear to still be open. Therefore, I termed this thread "[CLOSED]", not "[SOLVED]". I thank Ed for all his help on this. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. [SOLVED]
> When I try to print anything out, I get no printout. Even a test page does > not come out. > But no indication of trouble shows up on the monitor, and no indication of > trouble on the > printer's display. I did download and install the driver. cups gives no > hint of trouble that I > recognize. If I restart the system and boot up with Windows 7 home, I do get > printouts. > > The printer is a Xerox WorkCentre 6015ni, I'm using Fedora-18, 64-bit, and > the printer is > connected to the system via usb bus. This is a stand-alone home desktop. > > I'm neither trained nor experienced in sys. admin. I've exhausted the help I > can get from > the printer's manual (media and web site). Any help you can give will be > appreciated. The first specific "symptom" was this in "/var/log/messages": May 13 16:26:13 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 13 16:26:14 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[625]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied This was solved by changing the permissions for "/root/" to 770 (drwxrwx---). From this point on, Ed Greshko worked with me off-line to solve this. The next symptom to appear was in "var/log/cups/errorD [21/May/2013:18:24:12 -0400] [Job 21] Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory D [21/May/2013:18:24:12 -0400] [Job 21] Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory D [21/May/2013:18:24:12 -0400] [Job 21] Sent 0 bytes... One probable cause was that I (probably, I don't clearly remember) used "rpm" rather than "yum" to install Xerox's driver. Another part of the problem was that Xerox's driver used 32-bit libraries, and my system is a 64-bit system. This was fixed by installing the 32-bit library for "libcups.so.2": "yum install cups-libs*i686" I still couldn't print. But I noticed alerts from SELinux. The SELinux Alert Browser said: SELinux has detected a problem. The source process: xrhk2ap Attempted this access: execmod On this file: /usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so The SETroubleshoot Details Window said: SELinux is preventing xrhk2ap from execmod access on the file /usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so. * Plugin allow_execmod (91.4 confidence) suggests ** If you want to allow xrhk2ap to have execmod access on the xrhk1acl.so file Then you need to change the label on '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' Do # semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' # restorecon -v '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' [... snip ...] This was fixed by entering the two suggested commands: semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' restorecon -v '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' This fixed the problem. I was then able to print. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. [SOLVED]
[the previous version of this was sent by mistake; I intended to "Save draft".] > When I try to print anything out, I get no printout. Even a test page does > not come out. > But no indication of trouble shows up on the monitor, and no indication of > trouble on the > printer's display. I did download and install the driver. cups gives no > hint of trouble that I > recognize. If I restart the system and boot up with Windows 7 home, I do get > printouts. > > The printer is a Xerox WorkCentre 6015ni, I'm using Fedora-18, 64-bit, and > the printer is > connected to the system via usb bus. This is a stand-alone home desktop. > > I'm neither trained nor experienced in sys. admin. I've exhausted the help I > can get from > the printer's manual (media and web site). Any help you can give will be > appreciated. The first specific "symptom" was this in "/var/log/messages": May 13 16:26:13 c-69-138-198-76 colord: Device added: cups-Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI May 13 16:26:14 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[625]: p11-kit: couldn't open config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied This was solved by changing the permissions for "/root/" to 770 (drwxrwx---). From this point on, Ed Greshko worked with me off-line to solve this. The next symptom to appear was in "var/log/cups/errorD [21/May/2013:18:24:12 -0400] [Job 21] Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory D [21/May/2013:18:24:12 -0400] [Job 21] Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory D [21/May/2013:18:24:12 -0400] [Job 21] Sent 0 bytes... One probable cause was that I (probably, I don't clearly remember) used "rpm" rather than "yum" to install Xerox's driver. Another part of the problem was that Xerox's driver used 32-bit libraries, and my system is a 64-bit system. This was fixed by installing the 32-bit library for "libcups.so.2": "yum install cups-libs*i686" I still couldn't print. But I noticed alerts from SELinux. The SELinux Alert Browser said: SELinux has detected a problem. The source process: xrhk2ap Attempted this access: execmod On this file: /usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so The SETroubleshoot Details Window said: SELinux is preventing xrhk2ap from execmod access on the file /usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so. * Plugin allow_execmod (91.4 confidence) suggests ** If you want to allow xrhk2ap to have execmod access on the xrhk1acl.so file Then you need to change the label on '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' Do # semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' # restorecon -v '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' [... snip ...] This was fixed by entering the two suggested commands: semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' restorecon -v '/usr/lib/xrhk1acl.so' This fixed the problem. I was then able to print. I thank Joe, Richard, and others for helping or trying to help. I especially thank Ed for his help, and successfully coaching me to being able to print. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. [SOLVED]
Hi Daniel, > You might want to open a bugzilla with Xerox to fix the way they build their > libraries, with PIC flags. I looked and searched the Xerox web site. I found neither Bugzilla nor any other bug-reporting page/link. How do I do as you suggest? thanks, Bill.-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. [SOLVED] [CLOSED]
> You might want to open a bugzilla with Xerox to fix the way they build their > libraries, with PIC flags. Done. The second line engineer gave me the sense that it's very unlikely that they will implement the requested fix. He said that Fedora and Redhat each account for less than 0.1% of the calls that the support line gets. So Xerox very probably will not see an adequate business case for giving Fedora and Redhat issues any attention. I also put in an enhancement request to have the ppd file support manual duplex, as the Xerox windows driver does. Same answer. I was also told that Xerox is getting a lot of requests for 64-bit drivers, and that is getting Xerox's attention, but the engineer seemed to think that won't happen until next year. Bill.-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
question: F-19 and CUPS upgrade.
I see in the Fedora-19 release notes that CUPS will be upgraded to 1.6. The page on that: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CUPS1.6 says this involves using pdf rather than postscript as the baseline document format. While wrestling to get printing working on my system this past spring, the printer's manufacturer (Xerox) told me that my printer was "GDI" based. I don't really know how printers and their drivers work, but I'm guessing that the Linux drivers for this printer are converting psotscript out by LibreOffice, the Linux print command, the browser, etc. to GDI, and sending that GDI to the printer. My question: Will the coming CUPS upgrade break printing on my system? or has this been properly accounted for in CUPS 1.6? thanks, Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: question: F-19 and CUPS upgrade.
> I think that change is just an internal detail cups cares about. > > I've been just copying my /etc/cups/ppd/ files from one fedora to the > next for years now and printing keeps working (and seemed to work > in fedora 19 beta as well). Thank-you for your comments, Tom. Did any of those changes involve something as fundamental as the change from ps to pdf that is happening here? And is your printer a GDI printer, a ps printer, or a pdf printer? In other words, how good of a test is your experience? Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: question: F-19 and CUPS upgrade.
> I'm pretty sure the ps versus pdf is just the way the print job > is handed to the driver that converts it to whatever the > printer actually needs. > > Certainly my Brother HL-2040 doesn't print postscript of > any kind natively, it needs HP PCL. My Epson Artisan doesn't > even use a native driver from the fedora repos, it is from > some place that produced a 3rd party driver for epson. It > has worked unchanged through several releases (including > fedora 19). ok. Thank-you Tom. - Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
lost cursor.
(Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops) I have two 27-inch monitors on my system. Occasionally, I "lose" the cursor. (ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!) I recall years ago (two jobs ago) on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes" which amounted to a pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and always "followed" the cursor. It was great. Just what I need now! But when I launch the "Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it doesn't find it. How do I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system? thanks, Bill.-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: lost cursor. [SOLVED]
Good morning, >(Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops) > >I have two 27-inch monitors on my system. Occasionally, I "lose" the cursor. >(ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!) I recall years ago (two >jobs ago) on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes" which >amounted to a pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and >always "followed" the cursor. It was great. Just what I need now! But when >I launch the "Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it doesn't find >it. How do I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system? > >thanks, >Bill. I installed the wmeyes. It works. But I didn't see a way of customizing the size or position of the eyes. I installed the "X.Org X11 applications" to get xeyes. It works. I can customize the position, the size, and the colors of the eyes. This is the solution I'm going with. To make the eyes show up and work automatically when I log in, I added the line: /usr/bin/xeyes & to my ".bash_profile" twice. Each line has different options so each monitor has a pair of eyes. One pair would be adequate; two pair is just a personal preference. Now if only I could make the eyes look blood-shot! :) Thank-you for your help: Murph, Ed, Ranjan, and Reindl. Bill. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
looking for xv.
(Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops) On my old Redhat-9 system, I had this great tool "xv" which I used quite often to "colorize" raw weather satellite images. It made doing that very easy, especially with the three GUIs that let me graphically vary the red, green, and blue intensities independently using the "RGB Modification" graphs in the "color editor" window. But when I launch the "Software" tool on my system and look for xv, the only thing I find is actually just a short script to launch the real xv. How do I get xv for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system? Or does Fedora-18 come with something else with the same functionality? If yes, what? thanks, Bill.-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
All three fedora versions in the grub menu appear to yield the same results. So whatever the "dnf upgrade" did, it affected all three. The windows-7 boot still works (this is a dual boot system, a desktop). My camera died over a year ago, and I have no portable devices. Having been unemployed for over 2.5 years now, I cannot afford to replace the camera or buy any portable devices. I copied the failure messages the old fashioned way (paper and pencil); I'm manually typing in what I got - Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue. Type "journalctl" to view system logs. You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot after mounting them and attach it to a bug report. :/# - After I type "exit", I get this: - Failed to start default.target: Transaction is destructive. See system logs and 'systemctl status default.target' for details. - After that, I must manually reset the system. I tried looking at "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt". The file's lines are too long to fit across the screen, and the file is over 1000 lines long. I did not really understand what I was seeing. What should I be looking for? I tried entering "journalctl". The output's lines are too long to fit across the screen, and the file is almost 900 lines long. I did not really understand what I was seeing. What should I be looking for? I tried "systemctl status default.target". I got this 6-line output: - [a white square] initrd.target - Initrd Default Target Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd.target; static; vendor preset: Active: inactive (dead) Docs: man: systemd.special(7) May 11 15:11:43 coyote systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Default Target. - Removing the rhgb and quiet options from the kernel command line resulted in lines of output flying by far too fast. This system has worked well for about 4 years now. What was in the dnf upgrade today? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
Good evening, Based on what y'all said, I'd say I'm in a "dracut shell". I cannot reach any login whatsoever, using any of the techniques y'all suggested. The "/var/log/" directory is empty. There is no "/var/cache/" directory. The directory "/usr/bin/" does not have many things in it. It does have "less" and "vi" and "cp" and "mount" and "umount" and others, but no "more, no "man". Fortunately, "vi" (and "vim", "gvim", and "view") are the editors I'm most comfortable with. There is no "nano". I saw no browser or e-mail, but I did see "ping". I did not see any "/home/" directory! (This has me seriously concerned!) "sudo" and "dnf" are not available. If you can give me good complete answers to a few questions, it will help me to help you to help me: 1. I do have USB ports on the front of my tower. How can I find out their device IDs? 2. How can I get this dracut shell to recognize and talk to a USB stick inserted into one of those USB ports? Since I don't have the "man" command, but I do have "mount" and "umount" commands, maybe I can use them to help me get information to you. 3. I know how to use "cp" to copy files around various directories, but I don't know how to use "cp" to copy files to a USB stick. With these, I hope that I can put the desired logs onto the USB stick, and then use the windows system to put log file lines-of-interest here in the fedora users forum. Thank-you for your help. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
Good afternoon. I've wrestled with this for some 3(?) days now. I'm still stuck. I did find a "rescue" mode, and I was able to get in to it. But it didn't really help. Two IT grad students came and tried to help, but couldn't. In the rescue mode, I tried to use "fdisk" to get the device ID for the USB stick. (The stick has files on it from both my Fedora system and my windows-7 box.) No hint of a device ID for the stick. The "lsusb" command gives me "Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05dc:a786 Lexar Media, Inc. JumpDrive Retrax". Still nothing that I can use for the first parameter of the "mount" command, right? From within the dracut shell or rescue mode, how can I get the correct device ID to use as the first parameter of the "mount" command"? In the rescue mode, I could not find "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt". I did find the long (>1000 lines) log from the last "rpm upgrade". It showed no problems. I installed Fedora on this dual-boot workstation about 4 years ago. It took a few days, mostly wrestling with the first few steps. I still don't know what I finally did different so that it worked. I do not recall what kind of file system this Fedora system has. I am a home user, not a sys. admin. How can I find out from within the dracut shell or the rescue mode? This seems to be essential to following ShenEn's or Stan's advice. Thank-you in advance. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
Finally, I hope, a few useful clues. Rescue mode gave me enough information to make a lucky guess as to how to mount "/home" from within the dracut shell. With that, I could try the boot again (which of course failed and dropped me into the dracut shell), and then mount "/home", and then copy logs to a good place within "/home". I further did a "cat -n [file].txt > [file]_catn.txt" on each log file to make navigation and discussion easier. I then booted into the windows box, and used some tool that lets me look at some of the Fedora directories, including "/home". Using that, I got the files into a windows folder. I have the following files: * "dmesg" output; * dnf.log; * dnf.rpm.log; * "fdisk -l" output (from rescue mode); * "journalctl" output; * "journalctl -x" output; * "mount" output; and * rdsosreport.txt. I also, from grub, copied (the old fashioned way - paper and pencil) the script that is running when I try to boot. I then typed that script into a text file within rescue mode. So if someone wants to see any of these, please sent me the e-mail address, and I'll send the full file. They're too long to put here. From the rdsosreport.txt, I've extracted 2 sets of lines that look to me to be likely causes. Here is the first (with line numbers): - 862 [1.218683] coyote kernel: ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) 863 [1.218927] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 864 [1.219196] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT1._GTF] (Node 92ef8e0db488), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 865 [1.219856] coyote kernel: ata2.00: ATA-8: ST2000DM001-1CH164, CC24, max UDMA/133 866 [1.220017] coyote kernel: ata2.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA 867 [1.220812] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 868 [1.221100] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT1._GTF] (Node 92ef8e0db488), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 869 [1.221620] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 870 [1.221909] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node 92ef8e0dbac8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 871 [1.00] coyote kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH14NS40, 1.00, max UDMA/100 872 [1.222374] coyote kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 873 [1.222582] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 874 [1.222908] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node 92ef8e0db348), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 875 [1.222919] coyote kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST2000DM001-1CH1 CC24 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 876 [1.223466] coyote kernel: ata4.00: ATAPI: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208M, 1.10, max UDMA/100 877 [1.226360] coyote kernel: ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) 878 [1.226407] coyote kernel: ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) 879 [1.226501] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 880 [1.226507] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node 92ef8e0dbac8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 881 [1.226519] coyote kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 882 [1.227197] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 883 [1.227204] coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node 92ef8e0db348), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 884 [1.227217] coyote kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 - and here is the bottom of the file (with line numbers): - 1530 [2.651202] coyote systemd[1]: Reached target Basic System. 1531 [2.933094] coyote kernel: clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc 1532 [2.968658] coyote kernel: random: crng init done 1533 [4.022605] coyote systemd-fsck[428]: /dev/sda6: Superblock last mount time is in the future. 1534 [4.022745] coyote systemd-fsck[428]:(by less than a day, probably due to the hardware clock being incorrectly set) 1535 [4.022878] coyote systemd-fsck[428]: /dev/sda6 contains a file system with errors, check forced. 1536 [6.881352] coyote systemd-fsck[428]: /dev/sda6: Deleted inode 1704549 has zero dtime. FIXED. 1537 [ 13.814145] coyote systemd-fsck[428]: /dev/sda6: Duplicate or bad block in use! 1538 [ 13.855820] coyote systemd-fsck[428]: /dev/sda6: Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 674527: 2703102 2703103 1539 [ 13.855918]
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
From what I've seen in the website you referenced, and what I posted here earlier today, it seems similar to what you experienced, but not identical. It seems fsck says something is wrong with one of the partitions. Take a look. Feel free to chime in along with the others. Thank-you. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
I don't have a LiveUSB, and I get the impression it would take hours to make one. This incident teaches me that once I get the system back on its feet, and I've upgraded to f25, I'll want to make one. About how long should it take? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
I have three active versions of f24 - the 3 most recent weekly patches. All three fail the same way and drop me into the dracut mode. I didn't know I had a rescue mode until some long-time IT friend suggested it to me last Friday. It wasn't obvious in the grub menu. It actually proved helpful yesterday and today for getting log files out to where I can show them to people trying to help me. The point of accessing /home is to get those log files out to where I can really use them, to where people trying to help me (like you) can fill in the blanks in the commands needed to actually fix the system. I'll also need them logs if, once the system is fixed, a bugzilla should be submitted. The rdsosreport.txt file does seem to be available only available in the dracut shell; it seems to go away once the dracut shell is exited. I agree: the dracut shell is something different from the rescue mode. Another PhD student in IT is coming this evening to work with me on this. We'll look at the commands lsblk and "udevadm settle" you've suggested. I hope to post results tomorrow. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help.
> It isn't home you want to mount, it's /, the root filesystem. I wanted /home as a place to copy log files to so I could then access them from the windows box. I originally wanted to copy them to a USB stick, but I couldn't get that to work. I didn't know workstations nowadays had batteries. When the system is back on its feet, I'll try to check that. It was bought in 2013. Based on the "fdisk -l" output that I put into my post earlier today, am I correct to conclude that my system uses a block device? What's going on with the ACPI errors? Are those relevant in this situation? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]
Well, as you yourself said in an earlier post on this topic, " Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first!"! You are almost certainly correct - it was "fsck", not "fdisk". I just typed the wrong thing into my posting. Another "senior moment". > This isn't a black art To me, a home user, it sure seems like at least magic, maybe black magic! (just kidding, partially!) It amazes me what some of you, and those who engineer operating systems, boot scripts, etc., can do. I dread to think how many college (and graduate?) courses and how many years of experience it takes to do what you do. I guess that why they pay you the big bucks! I should see my friend sometime next week or two. He wants me to help him practice his cloud computing paper before he presents it at some conference. (He's an international student.) I'll ask him about the fsck options then. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]
You're right. I should see my friend sometime next week or two. He wants me to help him practice his cloud computing paper before he presents it at some conference. (He's an international student.) I'll ask him about the fsck options then. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).
After groping through papers in a moving box, I found the user's guide for the motherboard. Amazing: something I kept actually proved useful! It's a ASUS Sabertooth Z77, bought in early 2013. Well, no index, no mention of battery in the table of contents. I skimmed through once, no hint of battery. I went back to the diagram of the motherboard, grabbed the magnifying glass, and behold - in very teeny print, a circle labelled "Lithium cell CMOS power". Rick Stevens said in another topic posting "Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first!". Maybe vision is the first thing to go? Y'all are correct: the motherboard does have a battery. The ASUS website showed how to change the battery, but that's all. Oh yes: it's a CR2032 3 volt Lithium ion battery as some of you said. I'm not really concerned about the $ cost of a new battery. I am concerned about BIOS settings disappearing the instant the battery comes out, and therefore what else I might have to do before and after the battery change. This seems like another high risk task. I think the user's guide mentioned a way to copy BIOS to a flash stick, and read BIOS from a flash stick. I'll have to study this properly before I actually do anything. I did not see any indication of battery state in the BIOS display. I'll have to install the chrony package and give it a try. Is there a Fedora command to display the appropriate BIOS settings that I may have to restore after replacing the battery? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: ACPI errors (was: f24 boot fails; need help).
1. For several weeks, I've been seeing text fly by early during the boot process, before the blue and white line grows left to right at the bottom of the screen. But the text scrolls by too fast and disappears too fast for me to catch more than an isolated word or two. I also had no idea how to access appropriate logs. Then came the boot failure. I did what the dracut shell said, and I recognized that the first set of lines that I posted in one of the boot failure postings quite possibly was the text I had been seeing during boots for the past several weeks. 2. Since the boot problem was fixed, I continue to see what I believe is the same text, the same way as before the boot failure problem. As you advised, I did the journalctl command. I routed the output to a text file, and then did a "cat -n" to another file so we would have line numbers. Here's the result, with line numbers and an extra couple lines at the beginning and end for context: --- 698 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) 699 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) 700 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 701 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT1._GTF] (Node 8db5ce0db2a8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 702 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata2.00: ATA-8: ST2000DM001-1CH164, CC24, max UDMA/133 703 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata2.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA 704 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 705 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT1._GTF] (Node 8db5ce0db2a8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 706 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 707 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST2000DM001-1CH1 CC24 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 708 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 709 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node 8db5ce0db2f8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 710 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH14NS40, 1.00, max UDMA/100 711 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 712 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node 8db5ce0db528), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 713 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata4.00: ATAPI: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208M, 1.10, max UDMA/100 714 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 715 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node 8db5ce0db528), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 716 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 717 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs-359) 718 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT5._GTF] (Node 8db5ce0db2f8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543) 719 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 720 May 21 11:22:13 coyote kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 --- So yes, the problem is still there. (And now I know a way of getting to boot logs!) Thank-you for you help so far. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
Thank-you Sam and Rick. For the next 2 questions, I'm not looking for numerical answers. Qualitative probability terms on a scale going from "highly improbably" to "almost certainly" would be great. The clock (and the CMOS battery) got some attention while trying to fix the boot problem. I have not yet replaced the battery, but I'm not seeing any problems. What is the likelihood that the battery or the clock caused the boot failure? The boot failure occurred right after doing my weekly "dnf upgrade". What is the likelihood that the "dnf upgrade" (or one of the patches installed by it) caused the problem? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]
My friend was here earlier tonight. The command was "fsck /dev/sda6" (no options). He also said he's seen this kind of thing before. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
Good evening,
Hardware problems have seriously tied me up for about a week now. My apologies
for my silence on this topic. The hardware issue is not really fixed yet. I
likely will be forced off-line again for several days to a few weeks. If I'm
not responding; assume that that's what's happening.
The fix on Thursday, May 18 did not last. This past Thursday, my workstation
again failed to boot. This time, it dropped me into an emergency shell, not
the dracut shell. This time, the log file was almost twice as long. But it
reported fsck failures again, this time on sda7 rather than sda6. So I tried
what my friend did, but with "/dev/sda7" instead of "/dev/sda6" as the command
parameter. I spent 30-45 minutes doing nothing but rapidly hitting the 'y' key
before the command finally completed. (Apparently, hundreds of i-nodes were
corrupted this time.) Then the workstation successfully booted.
I think I spent a week trying to get into BIOS. But I wasn't seeing a BIOS
screen before the grub menu showed up. I think it was when I shut down and
started up a different way that I finally saw the BIOS screen. I quickly
changed the time for the BIOS screen from 2 seconds to 8 seconds. As suggested
in this discussion, I checked the voltages and the clock. The voltages looked
fine. The clock was about 5 seconds slow compared to my "atomic" clock. I
adjusted that. This morning, the clock seemed barely noticeably slow compared
to that atomic clock, but by less than a second. So I'm agreeing with your
suspicions that the battery is getting low.
This morning, I tried to replace the battery. Most of the motherboard (ASUS
Sabertooth Z77, bought in early 2013) is covered by a hard, dark gray plastic
cover. The battery should be under that, below the graphics card socket. I
could not find a way of getting that cover off. Neither the user's guide nor
the support dvd provided any clues. The ASUS web site GUI for submitting a
support request did not work. Any ideas?
If I have to replace the motherboard, will I have to re-install Fedora and
windows-7 (it's a dual-boot system)?
I find it odd that this problem:
* did not seem to affect windows-7 (yet?).
* happened only immediately after doing my weekly Fedora patches ("dnf
upgrade").
* did not occur for a week between the first and second occurrences.
* would corrupt so many i-nodes the second time.
Once the battery gets low enough, I'll have no access to the internet or this
list. How can I get help if I need it? My problems will be beyond what my
local IT friends can handle.
Thank-you for your help so far.
Bill.
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Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
I wasn't fully convinced these problems are due to the battery. That's why I listed the four things I found "odd". On the other hand, I recall hearing and reading that the output of lithium batteries is almost flat (better than any other type of battery), but then very quickly drops (faster than any other type of battery) as it reaches end-of-life. Back to diagnosing the real cause of the problems... Is there a Fedora command that I can use to check the hard drive (not the file systems) for bad blocks, sectors, tracks, etc? Is there a Fedora command that I can use to check the controller? Both problems occurred immediately after doing a "dnf upgrade". What is that telling us? Does "dnf upgrade" access the hard drive or the controller in a way that normal daily use does not? Is there something different about the first boot after a "dnf upgrade" vs other boots? I shut down every night, and boot up every morning. When I bought the system 4+ years ago, I bought separate parts. This is a DIY desktop. I was advised to buy more power supply than needed. I did so. So unless the power supply is failing, I would think it's not a good candidate for the cause of the two problems. There have been no problems until this month, and I've been doing weekly patches since I got the system in 2013. I was/am not in the mood to change the battery! Since I've already bought the new one and have no other use for it, and since the old one is 4+ years old, I plan to change the battery either Friday or Saturday. But you know what they say: "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans!". I did watch the youtube that Tim provided. I don't recall seeing screws on the underside of the motherboard. I'll look again Friday or Saturday (God willing!). Thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
I did "smartctl --all /dev/sda > smartctl_out.txt". I got over 200 lines of output. The most recent error reported in the output file is this one: === Error 66 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 13741 hours (572 days + 13 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0fff = 268435455 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:05:43.747 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:05:43.746 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED ea 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:05:43.746 FLUSH CACHE EXT ef 10 02 00 00 00 a0 00 00:05:43.746 SET FEATURES [Enable SATA feature] 27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:05:43.745 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT [OBS-ACS-3] === I can't really make heads or tails of this. I also notice in my system e-mail these 2 messages, bot on Thursday, May 25: (1st message) Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors (2nd message, 1 minute later) Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors I also tried "smartctl -t short /dev/sda", followed later by "smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda". The result: === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13813 - === If I understand the "-all" output correctly, the "-long" test would take about 4 hours, so I'm not trying that until later this week. What else from the "smartctl" output should I post here? What other "smartctl" functionality should I try or use? Thank-you. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
> Look up S.M.A.R.T., though be aware that some controllers may not > co-operate, but that tends to be things like outboard USB interfaces, or > RAID. Ordinary hard drives plugged straight into the motherboard are > likely to be checkable. It's the hard drive, itself, that checks its > health and produces the stats, smartctl just gives you an interface. Please see my reply to Rick. > That you ought to try rebooting using a previous kernel, and see if > problems persist. I did, and the problem showed up with all three of the latest f24 versions available in the grub menu. > Yes, an update can be more stressful than other PC activities, for > *some* users. But for other users, they're always subjecting their PC > to a heavy workload, so a prolonged update session is nothing different > from normal use. I don't understand what you're saying here. Both weekly patches went very quickly (I wish windows-7 were like that!) and with no errors reported in the output. > But what type of power supply did you put in? Did you match the wattage > your supplier said you needed, did you overcompensate by an extra 100 > watts? Did you get some generic Chinese thing, or something that had a > reputation? I did not figure out that part for myself. I got advice from a friend with decades of experience working for IBM's high performance division, and then for Cray research. The power supply is a Thermaltake TR2 600W. The system also has a Core i7-3770K @ 3.5GHz x 8, 16 GB memory, GeForce GTX 660 graphics card, an ASUS Xonar Essence STX audio card, a 2 TB hard drive, 2 blu-ray drives, keyboard, trackball, web cam (rarely plugged in), two 27-inch Dell monitors, and 2 small speakers. It's no gaming system, but a rather high-powered programming workstation by 2013 standards. Thank-you, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
I tried badblocks last night. I didn't realize how long it would take. After over 3 hours, I had to abort it to do something else. This morning, I retried it, this time with options to show its progress. It took between 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 hours. Here are the results: === bash.3[~]: badblocks -s -v /dev/sda Checking blocks 0 to 1953514583 Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors) bash.4[~]: === I don't think this completely rules out the hard drive as the villain, but it's now less of a suspect. Am I correct in guessing that the non-destructive read-write option (option "-n") would take over twice as long (7 1/2 or more hours)? Thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
Well, the battery has been replaced this afternoon. It took between 2 and 2 1/2 hours. The system seems to be functioning ok so far, but I haven't yet booted up in windows-7, and I haven't yet tried a "dnf upgrade". Before I took the system apart, I checked the CMOS clock and the voltages reported by the motherboard in the UEFI BIOS display: * CPU voltage varied, but was 0.98 +/- less than 0.01 volts. * "3.3V Voltage" was 3.392 volts. * "5V Voltage" was 5.040 volts. * "12V Voltage" was 12.096 volts. The CMOS clock seemed slightly slow compared to my "atomic" clock, but by less than 1 second. I gather none of the voltages displayed was the battery's voltage; I could not find a battery state indication in any of the BIOS displays. After the battery change was done, I checked the old battery with a battery tester. It was well in the "green range". I agree with the criticisms about ASUS making the battery so difficult to access on this motherboard. I also found the USB 3.0 connector to be a problem. The pins were too crowded, too close to the socket wall, and too easily bent. I had to straighten out two of them, and it was difficult. Getting the plug into the socket took very careful and delicate alignment. I hope to try the smartctl long test on the hard drive tomorrow. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
According to the man page, the "-n" option is non-destructive; the "-w" option is what you described. Regardless, it's too long. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
While changing the motherboard battery yesterday (Friday), most cables were disconnected and then later re-connected. That included the hard drive connection to the motherboard. I also disconnected and reconnected both the power cable and the data cable where they plug in to the hard drive itself. The hard drive was removed, vacuumed, and put back into its place. No problems since, but I haven't done a "dnf upgrade" since then. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
The smartctl long test took about 4 hours (I think!). I wish it would notify me when it was actually finished! As best as I could tell (by using "smartctl -l error /dev/sda", it found no problems. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
I did my weekly patches this afternoon, and this time the system booted up fine. So I'm back to what caused the problems. * Motherboard battery? Quite unlikely, but not 100% certain. Battery replaced anyway. * Hard drive? Somewhat unlikely. Two 4-hour non-destructive disk checks found no issues. System cleaned; cables dis- and re-connected; hard drive removed and put back in; no kinky cables seen. Destructive testing and replacing the hard drive are not options for me at this time. Circumstances suggest such would be over-kill. * Somehow caused by the "dnf upgrade"? I can't assess this. After the second failure (May 25), I backed up all user data, and then upgraded from f24 to f25. I did not see any problems. This afternoon's patches were f25; the failures were f24. So I can no longer test whether f24 patching is at fault. But if it were, I'd be surprised if I were the only person to be hit by it. So my leaning is that it wasn't the patching that caused the problems. * Power supply? Somewhat unlikely. I know of no way to test this. But Tim's analysis and other circumstances suggest it's not worth pursuing this possibility any further. Two questions: 1. Are there any other theories I should consider? 2. Should I submit a bugzilla? (If yes, against what?) thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
It's believed that the main problems were i-node problems identified by "fsck" during boot. The first time, they were on sda6; the second time, they were on sda7. A few follow-up questions about the hard drive... I used the long but non-destructive test options of both "badblocks" and "smartctl". They each scan the entire hard drive, right? If "dnf upgrade" were writing to new areas of the disk, and those areas were bad, 1. those writes would have failed, and in turn have caused the "dnf upgrade" to fail, right? 2. the "smartctl" and "badblocks" tests would have found and reported those bad areas right? I only have one system, and only one hard drive, and no money to buy. The hardware work was done between fixing the second occurrence of the problem and the upgrade from f24 to f25. That upgrade would have done a lot more disk writing (and reading?) than did the two f24 weekly patches that preceded the boot failures. This suggests - merely suggests - to me that the hardware work (re-doing cable connections, cleaning, etc.) fixed the problem rather than it being a problem within the hard drive. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.
I think you're probably right on both counts. I thought so before my Thursday night post, but really thought it best to check with the experts. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
(replying to all three messages) When I boot, the bios display says it is UEFI. Am I mis-understanding what that means? Am I mis-using the term? My /boot directory has only two sub-directories: "grub" and "grub2", no sub-directory "efi". Each of the two sub-directories has a file called "grub.cfg". The two files are identical, except for permissions. In /etc/fstab, the UUIDs are already correct, based on output by both the blkid command and the lsblk command (which blkid's man page says I really should use instead). I tried the grub2-mkconfig command in both sub-directories. Then I rebooted. The new menu has Fedora, other Fedora options, Windows 7 (on /dev/sda1), and Windows 7 (on /dev/sda2). Each option appears to boot up correctly, though I did not attempt to actually log in to a windows account. Why are there two menu entries for windows? On this system, sda1 is the master boot record, sda2 is the windows partition. After signing in to Fedora, I get a crash message saying vmlinuz crashed. I couldn't catch the whole message. Yet the system does seem to work. What's going on? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
Good evening, I believe Stan is correct. I built this system 4+ years ago. At that time, it was my understanding that to get a windows-7 and Fedora dual-boot system, I had to install windows-7 first. I think that at that time, windows-7 did not support UEFI. Though I did not explicitly make it so, the windows-7 install made this a non-UEFI (old BIOS?) system. My sense is that that in turn forced the Fedora install to use the old BIOS. I don't recall having any choice in that. My sense is that for me to now try to convert this home system to UEFI would mean a total re-install of both Fedora and windows-7. (Am I correct?) Remembering how much trouble I had with this 4+ years ago, and being a home user, not a sys-admin, I fear such a conversion would take days, and wouldn't really gain me anything. Questions: When doing my windows patches and scans today, windows automatically downloaded and installed a new device driver for the new hard drive. Do I need to do that in Fedora? Did Fedora automatically do that already? How do I check? I saw no indication of vmlinuz crashes in the "journalctl -b" output. I also haven't seen any more vmlinuz crash messages. I'll keep watching. I'll be doing the weekly "dnf upgrade" tomorrow; maybe that will fix any problems that do exist. What log file shows me all attempts to sign in to this system regardless whether they're local or remote, and regardless whether they were successful or not? And where is that log file? Bill, here's my fdisk output: --- -bash.1[~]: fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xfde8da65 Device Boot StartEndSectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 206848 1859026943 1858820096 886.4G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 1859026944 18600509431024000 500M 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1860050944 3907029167 2046978224 976.1G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1860052992 1876436991 16384000 7.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 1876439040 1981296639 10485760050G 83 Linux /dev/sda7 1981298688 3907028991 1925730304 918.3G 83 Linux -bash.2[~]: --- sda2 is the windows partition, sda6 is the Linux partition, sda7 is Linux "/home". thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
Good afternoon, I found the login attempts in the journalctl output, though it isn't easy. I'll open a new thread to address what this is really about. Before the hard drive replacement, the grub menu showed the three most recent Fedora patches, then something like "Advanced options for Fedora>", then a Windows (or DOS) option. The menu entries for each of the three most recent Fedora patches looked like this: Fedora (4.11.5-200.fc25.x86_64) 25 (Twenty Five) but with different numbers. Now there is only one Fedora option, and it merely says "Fedora". I did my weekly "dnf upgrade" earlier this afternoon, and it did update the kernel. But the grub menu did not visibly change. I would like it the way it was before the hard drive replacement: three Fedora entries formatted like the one I showed a few lines above here. How do I get it to be that way? After the grub menu disappears but before the three small whitish rectangles appear, some boot logging shows up in a very large font. Before doing the "grub2-mkconfig", that logging showed up in a much smaller font. The same is true of logging that shows up after the three small rectangles disappear, but before the login GUI shows up. How do I get the font for the boot logging to be a small font? thank-you in advance, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
attempts to hack in?
Good afternoon, (f25 home workstation) While looking at journalctl output yesterday and today for other reasons (separate thread), I saw many "authentication failure" messages, over half also saying "user=root". I also saw many "password check failed for user (root)" messages. I saw many unknown user login attempts, and a few invalid user login attempts, and some attempts using one of the valid regular user names. Why? I am not yet good at reading journalctl output, so I don't know if these connection attempts are coming from "outside" or within this system. I don't know if I should be concerned or not. I do not intend anyone or anything to be able to get in to this system except for things that I initiate (examples: Firefox activity, Thunderbird activity, "dnf upgrade", installs, etc.). And it doesn't make sense to me that any of those would be trying to log in to this system to do what I want. I also don't see why anything on this system would try to log in to this same system except me personally (su, sudo, and actual logins). I am the only actual user. What's going on? How do I determine where they're coming from? Is there really someone or something trying to hack in? If no, what really is going on? Most important, How do I prevent connections from outside? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
> Add the entry > GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y > to the /etc/default/grub file. That made no difference. Then I did "grub2-mkconfig". Still no difference. > Try adding the entry > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text > to the /etc/default/grub file. You might have to play with this a > little. To examine the possibilities look in the documentation for > grub2 options about GFX using > pinfo grub2 I couldn't find anything about GFX, GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX, or GFXPAYLOAD in the pinfo output. I found some documentation in the GNU GRUB web site. Based on that, I tried "auto" on the right side of the '='. No difference, even after re-running grub2-mkconfig. It's not the text in the grub menu or the grub shell that I'm trying to change. It's the text of the boot logging that shows up after the grub menu goes away (times out), or after I hit the enter key to select "Fedora" for booting. Is that what GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX controls? The GNU documentation gave no examples (that I saw) of what to put on the right side of the '='. What goes there? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
Good evening,
I did what was advised. Still no change. But I think there is a more
fundamental problem here. The grub on my system came from"Boot-Repair-Disk",
on a live-usb stick, not from any dnf install from a Fedora repository. So if
Fedora's grub is customized or specialized in some way, I don't have that.
This shows that the grub.cfg file is getting updated by grub2-mkconfig:
bash.8[grub2]: ls -l /etc/default/grub
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 463 Jun 30 18:34 /etc/default/grub
bash.9[grub2]: ls -l grub.cfg
-rw---. 1 root root 14507 Jun 30 18:37 grub.cfg
bash.10[grub2]:
The title at the top og GRUB's script-editing window reads "GNU GRUB version
2.02~beta3-5".
The grub.cfg file has these lines for the first grub menu entry:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Fedora (4.11.6-201.fc25.x86_64) 25 (Twenty Five)' --class fedora
--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --unrestricted $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-4.11.6-201.fc25.x86_64-advanced-45e553d2-fa0c-4eae-95f6-7bf9086ab74c'
{
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos3'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos3
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos3 --hint='hd0,msdos3'
c6db3d91-f891-48a2-ae61-28ad5cc9c3a6
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
c6db3d91-f891-48a2-ae61-28ad5cc9c3a6
fi
linux16 /vmlinuz-4.11.6-201.fc25.x86_64
root=UUID=45e553d2-fa0c-4eae-95f6-7bf9086ab74c ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0
rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
initrd16 /initramfs-4.11.6-201.fc25.x86_64.img
}
But when I reboot, the grub menu shows up, the first entry simply says
"Fedora". When "Fedora" is highlighted, and I hit the 'e' key, a script
editing window appears. In that script, the numbers for vmlinuz and initramfs
are 4.11.5, not 4.11.6.
And I do have version4.11.6 of the kernel, though it's version 4.11.5 that's
being booted:
bash.11[grub2]: dnf list kernel
Last metadata expiration check: 3:20:59 ago on Fri Jun 30 16:16:09 2017.
Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64
4.11.4-200.fc25 @updates
kernel.x86_64
4.11.5-200.fc25 @updates
kernel.x86_64
4.11.6-201.fc25 @updates
Available Packages
kernel.x86_64
4.11.7-200.fc25 updates
bash.12[grub2]: uname -a
Linux coyote 4.11.5-200.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 14 17:17:29 UTC 2017 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
bash.13[grub2]:
From all the above, my sense is that something more fundamental is wrong.
What, I don't know.
Earlier today, as suggested by this list's guidelines, I created a Fedora
People account so I could have a place to post things (logs, files, screen
captures, etc.) for members of this list to view. But when I do the ssh
command to connect, all I get is "permission denied". I was hoping to put a
few files out there for you to examine for better clues. I'm guessing that
that will now have to wait until after the Independence Day holiday.
thanks,
Bill.
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Re: attempts to hack in?
Wow. Hot topic! I view all this here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org In past threads, the oldest messages were at the top, and the newest at the bottom. Why is it "upside down" in this thread?! I have skimmed the responses so far. But I've had to focus on my other problem (how to (re?)construct grub menu) today. That problem remains incompletely or not correctly diagnosed. Once that is closed, I'll focus on this issue. Quick answers to a few questions: * This system has an ethernet cable connecting it to an Arris "phone modem". As far as I know, I have no control over the modem other than on-off switch, a reset button, and the power cord. The modem is connected to Comcast via co-ax(?) cable. * Nether this system nor the modem has any wireless ability. * I only access this system via the keyboard and trackball physically connected (via cables) to the system. * I am the sole user of this system. However I have set up a few different user accounts for different uses. * I use this system for web access (Firefox) and public (yahoo, gmail, etc.) e-mail. * I do not want anyone to be able to connect into this system from outside. I myself have no need to connect to this system from outside. Earlier today, as suggested by this list's guidelines, I created a Fedora People account so I could have a place to post things (logs, files, screen captures, etc.) for members of this list to view. But when I do the ssh command to connect, all I get is "permission denied". I was hoping to put the log extracts out there for you to examine for better clues. I'm guessing that that will now have to wait until after the Independence Day holiday, and after the grub issues are closed (so the logs will be clean of all the root activity I'm having to do to diagnose and fix the grub issues). I will keep watching this thread. Have a good weekend! Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: attempts to hack in?
Today (Saturday), I booted up only once, logged in only once as my primary common user, and then a short while ago logged in to an different account with adequate privileges to view the journalctl. With over 12 hours as a common user, I hoped that searching the journalctl would be simpler. I hoped! In today's log, there were at least 148 occurrences of "authentication failure", 41 occurrences of "password check failed", 14 occurrences of "user=root", 27 occurrences of "user (root)", 270 occurrences of "invalid user", 1546 occurrences of "CRYPTO_KEY_USER", and 296 occurrences of "CRYPTO_SESSION". I saw the following "rhost=" ip addresses: 62.176.5.7 36.250.77.36 5.196.67.128 91.232.157.98 5.101.40.10 91.197.232.103 I saw the following "user=" fields: root operator ftp mysql games I saw the following "invalid user __ " fields, most followed by "[preauth]": share user docker vsftpd arma3server nagios PlcmSpIp samba cs csgoserver ftpuser osama admin monte pi monitor debian guest ubnt osmc odroid mobile ts steam 0 010101 1234 api dbadmin mc default git gpadmin service support sysadmin telecomadmin telnet test ubnt user user1 jboss > Can y0u show us the full text of some representative messages (perhaps > replacing any IP addresses with placeholders for privacy purposes)? Here are a few relevant journalctl entries: Jul 01 11:49:52 xx audit[10407]: USER_AUTH pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=password acct="root" exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=36.250.77.36 terminal=ssh res=failed' Jul 01 11:49:52 xx unix_chkpwd[10411]: password check failed for user (root) Jul 01 11:49:52 xx sshd[10407]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "uid >= 1000" not met by user "root" Jul 01 11:49:52 xx audit[10407]: USER_AUTH pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=? acct="root" exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=36.250.77.36 addr=36.250.77.36 terminal=ssh res=failed' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx sshd[10407]: Failed password for root from 36.250.77.36 port 51702 ssh2 Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: USER_AUTH pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=password acct="root" exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=36.250.77.36 terminal=ssh res=failed' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx sshd[10407]: Connection closed by 36.250.77.36 port 51702 [preauth] Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: CRYPTO_KEY_USER pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=destroy kind=server fp=SHA256:03:65:34:22:92:2c:17:22:fc:8a:b6:b5:e7:f3:ec:50:c3:62:42:73:ac:a9:70:34:88:dc:7d:a9:89:3f:5c:e9 direction=? spid=10408 suid=74 exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: CRYPTO_KEY_USER pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=destroy kind=session fp=? direction=both spid=10408 suid=74 rport=51702 laddr=xx lport=xx exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=36.250.77.36 terminal=? res=success' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx sshd[10407]: PAM 2 more authentication failures; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=36.250.77.36 user=root Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: CRYPTO_KEY_USER pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=destroy kind=server fp=SHA256:82:79:d0:65:d5:4a:2b:06:07:dd:ad:07:28:cc:a6:a0:e3:12:12:6a:f1:ae:64:91:d2:b1:68:42:55:f7:77:38 direction=? spid=10407 suid=0 exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: CRYPTO_KEY_USER pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=destroy kind=server fp=SHA256:c7:c1:32:3a:be:0f:e3:c2:4a:f3:d3:5b:46:f8:38:93:6a:b7:e1:6b:e4:a0:72:e8:ea:fd:63:89:31:5b:d4:87 direction=? spid=10407 suid=0 exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: CRYPTO_KEY_USER pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=destroy kind=server fp=SHA256:77:7e:93:19:a5:60:e0:fa:79:bd:e7:85:ad:e0:b5:8c:b3:fe:6d:9b:e1:a8:9b:a7:45:68:ef:76:dd:a7:f4:f2 direction=? spid=10407 suid=0 exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: CRYPTO_KEY_USER pid=10407 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=destroy kind=server fp=SHA256:03:65:34:22:92:2c:17:22:fc:8a:b6:b5:e7:f3:ec:50:c3:62:42:73:ac:a9:70:34:88:dc:7d:a9:89:3f:5c:e9 direction=? spid=10407 suid=0 exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Jul 01 11:49:54 xx audit[10407]: USER_LOGIN pid=10407 u
