Re: Fedora 40 Mate ALMOST can't be installed

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/4/24 6:14 PM, Tide Ka via users wrote: On 7/5/24 08:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: The writing is finished when dd exits, but the drive might keep flashing briefly after that.  Or maybe the drive has some internal caching that it doesn't advertise (that would be very bad). Won't there be any k

Re: Fedora 40 Mate ALMOST can't be installed

2024-07-04 Thread Tide Ka via users
On 7/5/24 08:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: The writing is finished when dd exits, but the drive might keep flashing briefly after that.  Or maybe the drive has some internal caching that it doesn't advertise (that would be very bad). Won't there be any kernel cache, so `sync` command is their for c

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tide Ka via users
Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) That (dual-boot) is based upon anaconda's behaviour. Basically it is about telling bo

Re: Fedora 40 Mate ALMOST can't be installed

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/4/24 2:16 PM, Tim via users wrote: You know, I'd like to try installing Fedora 40 (MATE spin), but found it almost impossible. The downloaded ISO couldn't be booted, whether DD'd to a flashdrive, or burnt to a DVD. The UEFI motherboard is ASRock B250M Pro4 (circa 2018), not running in any

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 16:30, Mike Wright wrote: --> EFI EXPLAINED <-- I just found this collection of pages about EFI. If you learn all of this you will know more about EFI than all but a miniscule percentage of humanity. https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html -- ___

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Alex
Hi, On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > >> Why are you trying to write log files into your homespace? > > Alex: > > It's a legacy system (think webalizer era), but there are also > > multiple virtual hosts and it makes it easier to keep them segmented. > > The document

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Why are you trying to write log files into your homespace? Alex: > It's a legacy system (think webalizer era), but there are also > multiple virtual hosts and it makes it easier to keep them segmented. > The document root is in /home/httpd/www.mysite.com/html. > > There's not enough space

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 11:37, Tim via users wrote: If you install other OSs, they should do something similar. You'd have something like: ... EFI/debian ... EFI/fedora Which should keep all the OSs separate from each other. If you wanted dual booting different versions of Fedora, without one sto

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Alex
> > > > I've just upgraded from fedora38 to fedora39 and directly to fedora40 > > and now apache won't start: > > > > (30)Read-only file system: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log > > file /home/httpd/www.mysite.com/logs/error_log. > > AH00015: Unable to open logs > > > > It has something to

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 16:31 -0400, Alex wrote: > I've just upgraded from fedora38 to fedora39 and directly to fedora40 > and now apache won't start: > > (30)Read-only file system: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log > file /home/httpd/www.mysite.com/logs/error_log. > AH00015: Unable to open l

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 4:48 PM Alex wrote: > > I've just upgraded from fedora38 to fedora39 and directly to fedora40 and now > apache won't start: > > (30)Read-only file system: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file > /home/httpd/www.mysite.com/logs/error_log. > AH00015: Unable to open l

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/4/24 2:25 PM, Tim via users wrote: And for what it's worth, on the newly installed Fedora 40 (after a fight and half), it's not mounted on /boot/efi, but inside it (like my CentOS example did). i.e. /boot/efi/EFI/fedora That's a clean install, so it does that itself. We could have simply

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > EFI is its own partition, that will be mounted inside /boot when Linux > > boots. I'm not actually sure why that decision was made, I don't see > > why we couldn't have just had /EFI. I suppose someone wanted to hide > > all the boot things in /boot. On this PC, it's wierdly nested, so

Fedora 40 Mate ALMOST can't be installed

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
I succeeded in the end, but this is a story about an annoying amount of pain that shouldn't have been necessary... You know, I'd like to try installing Fedora 40 (MATE spin), but found it almost impossible. The downloaded ISO couldn't be booted, whether DD'd to a flashdrive, or burnt to a DVD.

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Alessio
I wouldn't focus on filesystem, but on selinux. Jul 4, 2024 22:32:47 Alex : > Hi, > > I've just upgraded from fedora38 to fedora39 and directly to fedora40 and now > apache won't start: > > (30)Read-only file system: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file > /home/httpd/www.mysite.com/l

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/4/24 11:37 AM, Tim via users wrote: EFI is its own partition, that will be mounted inside /boot when Linux boots. I'm not actually sure why that decision was made, I don't see why we couldn't have just had /EFI. I suppose someone wanted to hide all the boot things in /boot. On this PC, it

apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-04 Thread Alex
Hi, I've just upgraded from fedora38 to fedora39 and directly to fedora40 and now apache won't start: (30)Read-only file system: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /home/httpd/www.mysite.com/logs/error_log. AH00015: Unable to open logs It has something to do with /home, as it seems it

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/28/24 11:25 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Another one to avoid: cheap SSDs with duplicate serial numbers. Some manufacturers repeat (clone?) serial numbers, and when you try to use them in a RAID configuration, things go badly. A fellow on a Ubuntu list struggled for months because of it. That

Re: fedora upgrade to 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64: no /bin/thunderbird-wayland

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/26/24 2:45 PM, richard emberson wrote: With fedora 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 thunderbird packaged contained /bin/thunderbird-wayland. With fedora 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64 the thunderbird package 115.12.1 does not contain /bin/thunderbird-wayland dnf search thunderbird === Nam

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
Mike Wright: > > I *think* that there can be only one /boot/efi partition on a disk. François Patte: > So how can we proceed when you want a dual (fedora/fedora, > fedora/debian, fedora.ubuntu) boot on the same disk? The idea is there is just one boot/efi on a system (even if you have multip

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 09:29, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) I *th

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) I *think* that there can be only one /boot/efi pa

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-04 16:51, Tide Ka via users a écrit : Hello: 1-It seems (for me) that anaconda takes into accompt the sd[ab]1,2 partitions and does not accept the BIOS boot config and I can't say to anaconda to ignore these partitions: it rejects /boot (because not /boot/efi) and rejects / because

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tide Ka via users
Hello: 1-It seems (for me) that anaconda takes into accompt the sd[ab]1,2 partitions and does not accept the BIOS boot config and I can't say to anaconda to ignore these partitions: it rejects /boot (because not /boot/efi) and rejects / because lvm on RAID1 array. For this question I think t

isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I am stuck trying to installe f40 on my computer. I have 4 disks, 2 SSD and 2 HDD. On the SSDs run a fedora 36 install *which I want to keep untill the f40 will be installed and configured.* On the SSDs 2 partitions: 1) sda1 sdb1, 1Gb RAID1 array as /boot for the f36 install 2) sd