Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/4/19 5:23 AM, Tom H wrote: 1) Shouldn't you be able to access the firmware even if you're booting from csm? I have two qemu-kvm machines. one for testing usb stick with legacy bios and one for testing with efi bios. Neither has a is no csm mode. This is on purpose. 2) Check "/boot/gr

28 to 30?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, So far I have four successful 29 to 30 upgrades. I have two 28 to 30's to go. Anyone successfully get 28 to go to 30? Anything special to consider? Many thanks, -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/04/2019 08:20 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2019 18:58:32 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: We don't need tortured logic to blame systemd.  It's doing the right thing. Though a sane person might ask, "Why is it the right thing to wait for a service gathering information which will be ut

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 3:48 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/4/19 11:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I'm not sure when this went away, but on a current Fedora 29 Server on > > a UEFI Intel NUC, the menu entries are linux and initrd. The linuxefi > > initrdefi and linux16 initrd16 distinctions aren't

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 4 May 2019 18:58:32 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: > We don't need tortured logic to blame systemd.  It's doing the right > thing. Though a sane person might ask, "Why is it the right thing to wait for a service gathering information which will be utterly discarded on the reboot anyway?" __

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/4/19 4:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: In the good-old days, when integrating some new gizmo like rngd, by the nature of the beast you'll always check into how it works and make a minimal effort to learn its basics. Basic due diligence. From the linked bugzilla bug, it seems that rngd was co

Re: GeoIP2 perl modules needed

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Garry T. Williams said: > This available on Fedora 30 and may be available on 29: > > Name : perl-Geo-IP That's the original GeoIP, not GeoIP2 (Maxmind replaced the library and changed the file formats). I've built RPMs of perl-GeoIP2 and its dependencies, but have

Re: fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-04 Thread Mark C. Allman
On 5/3/19 1:08 PM, Christopher Ross wrote: > > On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote: >> I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as >> nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner >> of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it).

Re: GeoIP2 perl modules needed

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 3:37 PM, Garry T. Williams wrote: On Friday, May 3, 2019 4:27:45 PM EDT Alex wrote: Hi, I have a fedora29 system and need the GeoIP2 modules and they don't appear to be available in the normal repos. Any idea where I can find them and their dependencies? https://metacpan.org/pod/GeoIP

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 5/4/19 9:32 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: How can you possibly get stopping a piddly daemon, like rngd, wrong? Who knows. It's brain damage. As usual, it is not a systemd problem, unless you consider that trying to do a clean shutdown is brain damage. The rngd proces

Re: GeoIP2 perl modules needed

2019-05-04 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Friday, May 3, 2019 4:27:45 PM EDT Alex wrote: > Hi, I have a fedora29 system and need the GeoIP2 modules and they > don't appear to be available in the normal repos. Any idea where I can > find them and their dependencies? > > https://metacpan.org/pod/GeoIP2::Database::Reader > https://metacpa

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 11:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm not sure when this went away, but on a current Fedora 29 Server on a UEFI Intel NUC, the menu entries are linux and initrd. The linuxefi initrdefi and linux16 initrd16 distinctions aren't present anymore. And it's the same on both Fedora 30 Workstations

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 2:49 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/3/19 11:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 6:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: What do you mean by? change linuxefi > linux16,initrdefi > initrd16* "linuxefi" does not exist in grub.cfg.  Neither does linux16 or initrdefi The EFI gru

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 9:32 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I just wait 90 seconds, in those instances, and write it off as yet another systemd brain damage. According to systemd.service man page, TimeoutStopSec sets this timeout. So you can add that to rngd.service, I suppose. Or, if you want to bring out the

Re: fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 6:59 AM, sean darcy wrote: That did it ! thanks Blocking it from accessing the X server worked? I wonder why your X server doesn't like the request. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:49 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting > from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI. > (It also have a bios_grub partition). > > It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. > > Now when bootin

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:05 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > >>> > >>> You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for > >>> csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for ef

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Andre Robatino
Overnight, my extensions were all re-enabled without my doing anything. The mitigation announced on the blog apparently worked. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fe

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 04 May 2019 12:32:59 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Maybe 1 in every 20 if my reboots gets held up for "stopping user processes". That happens to me so often that I built an entire big hammer from scratch just to hit the system with when I reboot: https://tomhorsley.com/game/punch.html

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: I'm frequently rebooting my new fedora 30 install as I test things, and on one reboot I got the entire boot process held up by a stop job for rngd.service. I'm rebooting for God's sake. Why do you need to stop the reboot process to wait till you've gathered enough entropy wh

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
I guess this is probably this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690364 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.

A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm frequently rebooting my new fedora 30 install as I test things, and on one reboot I got the entire boot process held up by a stop job for rngd.service. I'm rebooting for God's sake. Why do you need to stop the reboot process to wait till you've gathered enough entropy which will be thrown away

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Sat, 04 May 2019 10:08:57 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Heinz Diehl writes: > > > On 04.05.2019, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > > Basically, an "all your extensions are belong to us" situation. > > > > You can enter about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" > > to "false" unti

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sam Varshavchik writes: I am surprised that it actually worked. From what I read, I thought that this option gets ignored in the version of Firefox that all the hoi-polloi use, and it's enabled only in the dev/nightly Firefox builds. This just went up: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/0

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Heinz Diehl writes: On 04.05.2019, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Basically, an "all your extensions are belong to us" situation. You can enter about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to "false" until the problem is fixed. I am surprised that it actually worked. From what I read, I th

Re: fc29 : how to use libva as non-root ?

2019-05-04 Thread sean darcy
On 5/3/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 4:23 PM, sean darcy wrote: On 5/3/19 7:10 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 2:18 PM, sean darcy wrote: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1 X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)    Major opcode o

Re: how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 03 May 2019 23:30:29 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > In F29 and before, apparently all that's needed is > > GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 > > in /etc/default/grub Right. Every customization is located in /etc/default/grub until now :-(. I did go through the grub2 info file and read all the description

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 8:20 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> But on F30, if you set "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" in >> "/etc/default/grub" and run "grub2-mkconfig -o >> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", the latter'll be generic and blscfg'll build >> a menu from "/boot/loader/entr

Re: how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 5:14 AM Andre Robatino wrote: > > From > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu#Detailed_Description > : run the command "grub2-editenv - unset menu_auto_hide" as root (or via > sudo). Oops. I misunderstood the question... __

Re: how to always get menu in grub?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 4:29 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > > I could spend the rest of the weekend trying to follow the "logic" > in all of the /etc/grub.d files, or maybe I could ask and find > someone who already knows: > > How the devil do I make grub on fedora 30 *always* show the damn > menu and *al

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:27 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" fo

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Ralf Corsepius: > That's what I call superflous bureaucracy beyond reason. No, it's merely logical.?? Yes. If it's not available, *and* we're not aware that it's available, it's not released.?? It's as simple as that. It was available, it just had not formally been announced and the test

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/4/19 3:47 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:05 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.05.2019, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Basically, an "all your extensions are belong to us" situation. You can enter about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to "false" until the problem is fixed. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fe

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:05 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. >>>

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 11:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 6:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: What do you mean by? change linuxefi > linux16,initrdefi > initrd16* "linuxefi" does not exist in grub.cfg.  Neither does linux16 or initrdefi The EFI grub.cfg should have linuxefi and initrdefi lines.  O

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Andre Robatino
Most of my extensions have been disabled. However, the three that I have installed as Fedora packages (mozilla-https-everywhere, mozilla-ublock-origin, mozilla-noscript) are still enabled. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub