Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-16 Thread Peter Boy
Am 16.01.2022 um 22:53 schrieb Thomas Cameron :On 1/16/22 15:00, Peter Boy wrote:Do you want to set the hostname at every boot?Usually you set the static hostname once using "hostnamectl set-hostname “.  „fedora“ is the transient hostname. DHCP client uses the static hostname to request an IP.But m

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-16 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 1/16/22 22:40, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 15:53 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: All of a sudden with F35, no matter what the address of the VM is, its hostname is set to fedora. Just fedora. Not fedora.tc.camerontech.com. I see your pain, that doesn't really work well when you

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 15:53 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > All of a sudden with F35, no matter what the address of the VM is, > its hostname is set to fedora. Just fedora. Not > fedora.tc.camerontech.com. I see your pain, that doesn't really work well when you have several Fedora PCs, does it? (I

Re: ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 13:44 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I've had a workstation (dual amd rome) for about 2 years. The M2 ssd > died after about 1 year. I replaced it with a samsung 980 pro, which > then lasted almost 1 more year. Then I replaced it with a 1TB > samsung 980 pro, this time with he

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 11:11 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > What are you doing that would require that much disk swap? And even > if it did the performance would be pretty bad unless you're running > an SSD/NVMe drive, and even if you are, in memory swap would still be > faster. With me, I can only e

Machine won't finish booting after update

2022-01-16 Thread Fulko Hew
I decided to log out and log back in to my X11 based KDE session just now, and I saw that 'Discover' was telling me I had updates available. So I said 'go ahead'. Eventually, it said I needed to reboot, so I did. After 4 (or 5) reboots that the machine drove itself through, the last reboot failed t

Re: ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 16:32, Neal Becker wrote: > Well I guess I can try reseating it, good idea. > Unfortunately this server is remote from me, so might as well collect > ideas before driving over. > Have you seen: Fix your dead SSD with the power cycle method - The Silicon Underground (dfarq.

Re: cobang

2022-01-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 16, 2022, at 17:09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Do you know how to install cobang? > > I tried > > [copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:xoloitzcuintle:CoBang] > name=Copr repo for CoBang owned by xoloitzcuintle > baseurl=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/xoloitzcuintle/CoBang/fe

Re: Unable to Add Printer in Fedora 35

2022-01-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 18:11 -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > I'm trying to add my Brother DL-5450DN printer in a new installation > of > Fedora 35. No matter what I do, I get this error: > > Unable to create PPD file: Could not poll sufficient capability info > from the printer > > It's di

Unable to Add Printer in Fedora 35

2022-01-16 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
I'm trying to add my Brother DL-5450DN printer in a new installation of Fedora 35. No matter what I do, I get this error: Unable to create PPD file: Could not poll sufficient capability info from the printer It's discovered just fine, and I've not had anything like this problem previously. A

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-16 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 1/16/22 15:00, Peter Boy wrote: Do you want to set the hostname at every boot? Usually you set the static hostname once using "hostnamectl set-hostname “. „fedora“ is the transient hostname. DHCP client uses the static hostname to request an IP. But maybe I didn't get what exactly you wan

cobang

2022-01-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Do you know how to install cobang? I tried [copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:xoloitzcuintle:CoBang] name=Copr repo for CoBang owned by xoloitzcuintle baseurl=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/xoloitzcuintle/CoBang/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/ type=rpm-md skip_if_unavailabl

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-16 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 16.01.2022 um 21:31 schrieb Thomas Cameron > : > > ... > What is the preferred way of having Fedora 35 server instances use the host's > hostname from DNS? I notice that if I restart NetworkManager.service, then > the reverse DNS hostname is set - hostname gives me host123.mydomain.com.

Re: ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Neal Becker
Well I guess I can try reseating it, good idea. Unfortunately this server is remote from me, so might as well collect ideas before driving over. On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 3:00 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 1/16/22 11:44 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > > Now it's dead again. I can ssh to the machine. I can cat

How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-16 Thread Thomas Cameron
It looks like the hostname is set in /etc/profile to uname -n, which means every instance I spin up thinks its hostname is "fedora." I don't want that. I want each hostname to set its hostname to whatever its DNS name is. We used to set the hostname in /etc/hostname to localhost.localdomain,

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-01-16 11:53 a.m., Grumpey wrote: Um, I did not know I set up zram? How did that happen. Is zram now part of the basic Fedora install? It has been a while my using zram. How do I disable it for now? With 16GB real memory and 16GB real swap partition, I want to see how things are workin

Re: ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/16/22 11:44 AM, Neal Becker wrote: Now it's dead again.  I can ssh to the machine.  I can cat /proc/partitions and no nvme shown.  I can only issue a couple of commands (I guess whatever is builtin to bash?), but almost all just give I/O error.  no sudo or journatctl. I presume that yo

ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Neal Becker
I've had a workstation (dual amd rome) for about 2 years. The M2 ssd died after about 1 year. I replaced it with a samsung 980 pro, which then lasted almost 1 more year. Then I replaced it with a 1TB samsung 980 pro, this time with heat sink. This lasted a few weeks. I had been looking at smar

Re: Installing dual-boot - SOLVED

2022-01-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 17:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 12:24 -0500, Lester Petrie wrote: > > > Thanks. I did manage to boot Fedora by pressing the hotkey on > > > restart. > > > I really just want to add Windows as an option in the Grub menu > > > so > > > I > > > don

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/16/22 11:53, Grumpey wrote: Um, I did not know I set up zram? How did that happen. Is zram now part of the basic Fedora install? It has been a while my using zram. How do I disable it for now? With 16GB real memory and 16GB real swap partition, I want to see how things are working...

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:46 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > It has been a while my using zram. How do I disable it for now? With > 16GB real memory and 16GB real swap partition, I want to see how things > are working... > While someone provided the direct answer to your question, I would reverse

Re: Making dnf install ssh:// work

2022-01-16 Thread Michael Young
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: # dnf install ssh://foo/tmp/bar.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:41 ago on Sun 16 Jan 2022 09:21:19 GMT. [MIRROR] bar.rpm: Curl error (1): Unsupported protocol for ssh://foo/tmp/bar.rpm [Protocol "ssh" not supported or disabled in libcurl]

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread Grumpey
> Um, I did not know I set up zram? How did that happen. Is zram now > part of the basic Fedora install? > > It has been a while my using zram. How do I disable it for now? With > 16GB real memory and 16GB real swap partition, I want to see how things > are working... > > thanks https://fedorapr

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 11:46 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK.  What is happening.  I remember Ed's comment about him using > zram, > so I did some digging and find: > > # swapon --show > NAME   TYPE  SIZE USED PRIO > /dev/sda3  partition  16G   0B   -2 > /dev/zram0 partition   8G   0B 

F35 - zram on auto install?

2022-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
With all this memory work I have been doing I finally noticed that free was reporting 24GB swap: # free    total    used    free  shared buff/cache   available Mem:    15625916 7018872 6765700  109108 1841344 8162532 Swap:   25165816   0 

Re: Regex version mismatch after dnf update

2022-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/16/22 11:31, Grumpey wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 11:25 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did a dnf update this morning before updating my bios and installing more memory (more on that in a separate missive) ... 2022-01-16T10:41:04-0500 INFO Regex version mismatch, expected: 10.39 2021-10

Upgraded - Re: More memory

2022-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/14/22 08:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: First, I have ordered 16Gb of memory for my x140e.  One of the Lenovo forum experts has run this way in the past with no noticeable problems, though he no longer uses the 140.  The mem cards should come next week.  I will first test them out in my ole F

Re: Regex version mismatch after dnf update

2022-01-16 Thread Grumpey
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 11:25 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Did a dnf update this morning before updating my bios and installing > more memory (more on that in a separate missive) > > I saw some messages during the update process about "Regex version > mismatch" but it said it completed successfu

Regex version mismatch after dnf update

2022-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Did a dnf update this morning before updating my bios and installing more memory (more on that in a separate missive) I saw some messages during the update process about "Regex version mismatch" but it said it completed successfully.  I did my hardware changes, booted back into F35.  Went to r

Making dnf install ssh:// work

2022-01-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
# dnf install ssh://foo/tmp/bar.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:41 ago on Sun 16 Jan 2022 09:21:19 GMT. [MIRROR] bar.rpm: Curl error (1): Unsupported protocol for ssh://foo/tmp/bar.rpm [Protocol "ssh" not supported or disabled in libcurl] I'm trying to work out if it's possible to make

Re: Script for making a KVM VM from a kickstart

2022-01-16 Thread Peter Boy
Hi, > Am 16.01.2022 um 00:01 schrieb Chris Adams : > > I have been building up a script to quickly and easily make CentOS/RHEL > and Fedora VMs from kickstart files for a long time, and thought I'd see > if anyone else was interested. It's especially useful IMHO if you are > working on building