Re: Virtual Box not loading vboxdrv on Clean install of Fedora 31

2020-04-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 7 Apr 2020 at 16:39, Bob Marcan wrote: Date sent: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 16:39:56 +0200 From: Bob Marcan To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: Virtual Box not loading vboxdrv on Clean install of Fedora 31 Send reply to:

Where is the bootloader installed on GPT formatted disk?

2020-04-07 Thread spike
Hi, I'm installing Fedora 31 with a kickstart file that contains bootloader --location=mbr #Same when omitting location parameter, mbr is default zerombr clearpart --all part /boot/efi --fstype=efi --size=200 --ondisk=sda part / --fstype=ext4 --size=1--ondisk=sda --grow According t

Re: LVM Merge hangs at 100%

2020-04-07 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
Thanks On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:58 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/7/20 4:58 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > I though Fedora KDE was an official image, are you saying that its not ? > > I don't see how that relates to what I said. The official images are > only released once for each release.

sort of Rawhide related

2020-04-07 Thread David
I am a novice user of Fedora Rawhide. Today, I did a fresh new clean install ( on an cheap old SSD ) of Rawhide as my only operating system. I used the nightly compose finder, and chose "Workstation live" for X86_64, using the last good iso "20200325." This was probably my 5th time to install Ra

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-08 07:27, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07Apr2020 07:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: >> 01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam > [...] > > 1:23am. Do not the timezone shifts happen at 2am (avoids horrible day changes > if it happened at 12am). So 1:23am can happen twice if 2am steps back to

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Apr2020 07:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: 01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam [...] 1:23am. Do not the timezone shifts happen at 2am (avoids horrible day changes if it happened at 12am). So 1:23am can happen twice if 2am steps back to 1am. Our summer time just ended here. Might a sim

Re: remind

2020-04-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-04-07 17:29, David A. De Graaf wrote: What's happened to the remind and tkremind packages? I just discovered, to my horror, they're not available in Fedora 31. I'm going to have to contend with a lot of unhappy birthday celebrants. ° Just download and install from the remind web page

Re: remind

2020-04-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:29:15 -0400 David A. De Graaf wrote: > I just discovered, to my horror, they're not available in Fedora 31. > I'm going to have to contend with a lot of unhappy birthday celebrants. I never knew they ever appeared in the repos. I've been compiling remind from source for ever

Re: remind

2020-04-07 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 3:30 PM David A. De Graaf wrote: > What's happened to the remind and tkremind packages? To find out what happened to packages that get retired, you can visit a URL of the form https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/remind (with the package name the final component). In this ca

remind

2020-04-07 Thread David A. De Graaf
What's happened to the remind and tkremind packages? I just discovered, to my horror, they're not available in Fedora 31. I'm going to have to contend with a lot of unhappy birthday celebrants. -- David A. De GraafDATIX, Inc.Hendersonville, NC d...@datix.us www.da

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: alacarte in fc32

2020-04-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
menulibre ? > > On 4/7/20 3:08 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> what has happened with Alacarte (menu editor for GNOME) in fc32? > >> > >> Will it become available eventually? > > > > No, it was retired. > What takes it's place? > > ___ > >

Re: Anaconda question

2020-04-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 02:07:08AM -0400, David wrote: > Once a user gets their computer running on Fedora, is there > any reason to keep anaconda and its associated dependencies ? Nope > Is there any reason to delete it ? A slight amount of disk space I suppose. > Is there any reason to updat

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/7/20 3:21 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 07/04/2020 09:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/6/20 11:07 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: This system has been in use for 10 years or more on various Fedora versions. However about 18 months ago I have seen a problem where cron will start two backups with identic

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > The resulting ISO will grow by the size of the whole ISO directory tree > and the size of the data files which get added. Clarification: "size of the whole ISO directory tree" means the size of the meta-data, not the size of the data files in the tree. The meta-data in Fedora-Works

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: alacarte in fc32

2020-04-07 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:32 AM Wells, Roger K. via users wrote: > What takes it's place? Possibly nothing. It was retired due to lack of a maintainer. If anybody would like to bring it back, see point 4 here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers -- Jerry J

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: alacarte in fc32

2020-04-07 Thread Wells, Roger K. via users
On 4/7/20 1:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/7/20 3:08 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: >> Hello, >> >> what has happened with Alacarte (menu editor for GNOME) in fc32? >> >> Will it become available eventually? > > No, it was retired. What takes it's place? > ___

Re: LVM Merge hangs at 100%

2020-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/7/20 4:58 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I though Fedora KDE was an official image, are you saying that its not ? I don't see how that relates to what I said. The official images are only released once for each release. There are unofficial respins done for the workstation live, but onl

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > If someone asked you to create a custom Fedora ISO that you could use in > VirtualBox/DVD/USB, what would you do ? (As first i'd try what you did: Build a new ISO from the mounted original. Then i'd try whether the original works in the test situation. Then i'd i

Re: alacarte in fc32

2020-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/7/20 3:08 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: Hello, what has happened with Alacarte (menu editor for GNOME) in fc32? Will it become available eventually? No, it was retired. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-07 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
> Hi, > So i assume you see an ISOLINUX menu with the labels you expect from your > isolinux.cfg file. (If not, then this would make much more sense to me, > though.) > > Since i assume that your "." directory was the mounted original ISO > or a copy of the mounted file tree of that ISO, the diffe

Re: Anaconda question

2020-04-07 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 02:07:08 -0400 David wrote: My opinions. > Once a user gets their computer running on Fedora, is there > any reason to keep anaconda and its associated dependencies ? No. Not anaconda as it is for installing fedora, but some of its dependencies might be used by other program

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote here: > Its stuck at the bootmenu. and at sysli...@syslinux.org: > Unfortunately when I boot and press enter nothing happens. So i assume you see an ISOLINUX menu with the labels you expect from your isolinux.cfg file. (If not, then this would make much more sense to

Re: Virtual Box not loading vboxdrv on Clean install of Fedora 31

2020-04-07 Thread Bob Marcan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:22:20 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 15:32 Bob Marcan wrote: > > Is there any particular reason you don't use KVM? > > It is Linux native virtualization. > Look, we're here to make Virtualbox better. Not to encourage users to stop > using it. > > Th

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 13:06, Iosif Fettich wrote: Hi Terry, Yes, there is nothing unusual in /var/log/cron: Apr  6 22:01:01 beam CROND[651585]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) [...] /var/log/messages Feb 24 23:00:03 beam dhcpd[1743]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.201.214 from 00:25:b3:e6:a9:18

Re: Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-07 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
If anyone knows how the official images are compiled please let me know. On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:23 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I am unable to boot the custom ISO I have created. > > I have just created a Custom ISO from the Fedora Live ISO using the > following command: > > genisoimage -U -

Re: Display Manager question

2020-04-07 Thread Rex Dieter
David wrote: > Last week, I replaced the file "default.png" in my background directory, > and was delightfully enjoying a new custom backsplash, instead of the new > fancy > one that Fedora has ( light color blue with some rectangular glass cluster > ). > > In my recent update yesterday, somethin

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Iosif Fettich
Hi Terry, Yes, there is nothing unusual in /var/log/cron: Apr  6 22:01:01 beam CROND[651585]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) [...] /var/log/messages Feb 24 23:00:03 beam dhcpd[1743]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.201.214 from 00:25:b3:e6:a9:18 via enp4s0 [...] In the backup log: Bba

Re: LVM Merge hangs at 100%

2020-04-07 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
I though Fedora KDE was an official image, are you saying that its not ? On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 2:13 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/6/20 9:52 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > Well I tried that it told me that I did not have enough space. > > > > The easiest option is use a distro which uses the u

Custom ISO won't boot to Fedora

2020-04-07 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
I am unable to boot the custom ISO I have created. I have just created a Custom ISO from the Fedora Live ISO using the following command: genisoimage -U -r -v -T -J -joliet-long -V "Fedora-WS-Live-31-1-9" -volset "Fedora-WS-Live-31-1-9" -A "CDLABEL=Fedora-WS-Live-31-1-9" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Iosif Fettich
Hi Terry, The bbackup-beam shell script is pretty basic and I can't see how this could have an issue like this. Googling on similar issues finds some hits where the cause were two running cron daemons, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004764/why-is-this-cron-entry-executed-twice I

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Iosif Fettich
Hi Terry, I have assumed the system time is always UTC synchronised using chronyd. The servers user code is running under the GMT timezone. I was wondering if the tweaking of the time by chronyd could cause this issue, but I would have thought this situation would have been handled by crond

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 09:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/6/20 11:07 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: This system has been in use for 10 years or more on various Fedora versions. However about 18 months ago I have seen a problem where cron will start two backups with identical start times occasionally. I have had

alacarte in fc32

2020-04-07 Thread Saša Janiška
Hello, what has happened with Alacarte (menu editor for GNOME) in fc32? Will it become available eventually? Sincerely, Gour -- As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities. _

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 09:25, Iosif Fettich wrote: Hi, On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries: #

Re: LVM Merge hangs at 100%

2020-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/6/20 9:52 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Well I tried that it told me that I did not have enough space. The easiest option is use a distro which uses the updated version. I have no clue why Fedora a distro that lives on the bleeding edge does not update its ISO images. Because releasing

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Iosif Fettich
Hi, On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries: # Beam B

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/6/20 11:07 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: This system has been in use for 10 years or more on various Fedora versions. However about 18 months ago I have seen a problem where cron will start two backups with identical start times occasionally. I have had to add a file lock system in the bbackup

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 08:21, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries: ###

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 07:07 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > I have had to add a file lock system in the bbackup-beam to cope with > this. Probably a good thing to do, anyway. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpect

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: > I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during > the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following > entries: > > > # Be

Re: Display Manager question

2020-04-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-07 14:04, David wrote: > Last week, I replaced the file "default.png" in my background directory, > and was delightfully enjoying a new custom backsplash, instead of the new > fancy > one that Fedora has ( light color blue with some rectangular glass cluster ). What file, full path nam