Re: Interrogating BIOS from CLI? - dmidecode doesn't have the info

2022-08-22 Thread Roger Heflin
It generally is worse than that. It should be almost trivial to code, if you have the internal document for each bios version laying out the structure that is stored in the nvram. The other issue is even though it is trivial, the structure could be different between bios versions in the same MB,

Re: Monitor id detection via HDMI is variable

2022-08-25 Thread Roger Heflin
the command dmesg will tell you all kernel messages from the start of the buffer to now. You probably want to find the Wayland/Xorg log file and see what it says about edid. /var/log/Xorg* for Xorg, I don't use wayland but its log files should be a the same location. And how it works or does not

Re: /etc/grub2.cfg Flagged a Potenially missing

2022-08-29 Thread Roger Heflin
sudo/root is required to access the grub subdirectory because the permissions are locked down. I would guess since there can be encrypted grub passwords (and possibly other similar stuff) in there that is why it is locked down. On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 6:38 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: /etc/grub2.cfg Flagged a Potenially missing

2022-08-31 Thread Roger Heflin
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 6:02 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 30/8/22 01:16, Roger Heflin wrote: > > sudo/root is required to access the grub subdirectory because the > > permissions are locked down. > > > > I would guess since there can be encrypted grub passwords (

Re: Help building custom kernel RPM.

2022-09-02 Thread Roger Heflin
You would have to change the correct config options. make menuconfig used to bring up the interface for that and then you need to figure out which corner of the menu your modules are hiding. the rpmbuild is going to be very hardwired to make it harder to do what you are wanting to do. When doi

Re: Help building custom kernel RPM.

2022-09-02 Thread Roger Heflin
You would have to run "make menuconfig" and update the config file used in the source rpm. The config file controls what modules and/or other drivers get compiled, if you did not change the config file none of the add-ons would get compiled. On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 6:43 PM Sharpened Blade via use

Re: Help building custom kernel RPM.

2022-09-03 Thread Roger Heflin
That may or may not be the right CONFIG_* option."make oldconfig" I think will copy the current config and question you on any new options. You could also look at the source code for the modules you want to build (or make menuconfig and enable them and diff the config file) to figure out what

Re: Using kernel 5.19.8 does not boot

2022-09-20 Thread Roger Heflin
Someone also reported nosound after 5.19.8 so it sounds like a lot of the modules either weren't built (at all or correct) or were not included in the install rpms. a "find /lib/modules/kernelversion -name "*ko*" -ls | wc -l against it might tell you if the count is significantly different. Also

Re: Getting Wifi 5 Ghz AC1200Mbs Wireless USB adapter to work on Fedora 35?

2022-10-11 Thread Roger Heflin
I got one of those working for a while, but it is a disaster to keep working. Every few kernel versions it stops working and you have to find fixed code and download and compile it to get it working again. Then a few kernels later it happens again. When it worked it worked better that the origi

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-14 Thread Roger Heflin
It might be overkill for this but obs-studio will do it. You have to create/add a screen grab and pick a window or do screen capture and once picked and working in the preview window right click on the preview and click windowed preview and size and place it. On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 7:09 AM Paul

Re: Getting Wifi 5 Ghz AC1200Mbs Wireless USB adapter to work on Fedora 35?

2022-10-15 Thread Roger Heflin
lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 9:09 AM Roger Heflin > > wrote: > > I got one of those working for a while, but it is a disaster to > > keep working. > > > > Every few kernel versions it stops working and you

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-16 Thread Roger Heflin
I have been able to resize the preview window to whatever size I wanted. In obs itself you can make the canvas size different and you can resize the contents inside that canvas to whatever size you want. To do you click on the contents in obs and it will highlight the border and you can grab the

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Roger Heflin
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:06 AM Ken Smith via users wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes > regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it > lasts several hours. There is no trace at all in journalctl of its > demi

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Roger Heflin
Note, kdump will not work if the issue is a hardware reset. So if you do install kdump and test kdump and verify it works and then when it crashes you do not get a kdump then that points to a hardware issue. On one of my other systems, on reboot after a hw crash it detected that there were prior

Re: amdgpu firmware failure (solved?)

2022-10-27 Thread Roger Heflin
lsinitrd | grep amdgpu and same with the name of the firmware. If the module is there and the firmware is not then the module would load and the firmware would not exist so cannot load. The firmware gets loaded or not when the module loads. On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:08 AM Felix Miata wrote: > >

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-28 Thread Roger Heflin
The dmesg in the dump where it starts having issues is often enough to have an idea. On Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 9:09 AM Ken Smith via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > Ken Smith via users composed on 2022-10-26 13:05 (UTC+0100): > > > >> This machine has a Kabb

Re: Nouveau Blacklisting not in /etc/default/grub

2022-10-31 Thread Roger Heflin
What does cat /proc/cmdline show for the current kernel parameters? On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:53 AM Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 31/10/22 13:48, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 10/30/22 19:26, Stephen Morris wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 31/10/22 09:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >>> On 10/30/22 14:54, Stephen M

Re: Nouveau Blacklisting not in /etc/default/grub

2022-10-31 Thread Roger Heflin
led kernel. On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 6:00 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 31/10/22 21:12, Roger Heflin wrote: > > What does cat /proc/cmdline show for the current kernel parameters? > > It shows the blacklisting of the nouveau drivers in there. Is that a change > with the 6.0

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-11-01 Thread Roger Heflin
I usually add a bs=4k or bs=16k or a bs=256k when using dd so the blocksize is larger. That usually makes it quite a bit faster. And if you background the dd you can use "vmstat 1" and the bi/bo columns tell you the actual disk io rates, and you can use that to reliably estimate. Default is 512

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-11-01 Thread Roger Heflin
For people that don't want to use a 2nd terminal, and/or are working in single user mode. I usually do the =1M also, and the default for dd has always sucked going back 30+ years. On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 6:56 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 11/1/22 11:13, Roger Heflin wrote: > > I

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-11-02 Thread Roger Heflin
hdparm has a secure erase option on it that tells the disk to erase the disk via a sata command. I am going to bet it will erase it faster and more completely than using dd. On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 8:30 AM George N. White III wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 8:36 AM Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> >

Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

2022-11-06 Thread Roger Heflin
What kind and brand is it? If a given drive quits answering the sata bus (even after a power cycle) then there is little you can do except pay a data recovery company. On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 9:28 AM wrote: > > So, a SSD just dieded on me, the root and home partition was on it. The > computer fr

Re: i915 Unstable <- no it a hardware fault

2022-11-12 Thread Roger Heflin
bunch of machines/motherboards made by one company in a short window so that cause must have been that the dimm slot metal was bad or miss-installed. On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 11:06 AM Ken Smith wrote: > > > > Roger Heflin wrote: > > The dmesg in the dump where it starts having issu

Re: It's a brick :-<(

2022-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
In the past I have been able to with a working network dnf install as needed on any of the livecds. I have been using one or another livecd as a rescue disk for a long time and they generally have most tools, and dnf install's work until you reboot it. On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:09 PM Geoffrey Lea

Re: Heads-up: Google Chrome repo disabled on Fedora upgrade

2022-12-06 Thread Roger Heflin
I am looking on Fedora 36, and mine is still enabled, but there is a google-chrome.repo.rpmnew file that has the initial setting of disabled, so if that file replaced your prior file for some reason then it would be disabled. On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 8:03 AM Chris Adams wrote: > I upgraded several

Re: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux?

2022-12-06 Thread Roger Heflin
If you aren't buying support from the OS distributor and/or the application developer (and the app developer providing the support will only support the enterprise releases) then it makes little sense to use the "enterprise" variant. If you have to stay up on patches then the enterprise OSes might

Re: Dealing with "Emergency Mode"

2022-12-11 Thread Roger Heflin
In my experience (and I have debug 100's of emergency mode).The issue is typically a filesystem issue. Either the fstab entry is wrong, or a driver required by a critical filesystem is failing. The ugliest ones are when the issue is inside the initramfs and that issue is causing the root devi

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Roger Heflin
My logi wireless keyboard/dongle works to get into the bios. So there would not appear to be any driver needed to operate it, so that would make me suspect the reboot is more of the cause than anything else. And usb chipsets/connections in my experience aren't the most reliable devices depending

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Add a chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf as the last step to be save. You will have to -i it if you want to change the file later. On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 7:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 12/17/22 16:54, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:38:43 -0800

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-17 Thread Roger Heflin
wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 19:30:32 -0600 > Roger Heflin wrote: > > > Add a chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf as the last step to be save. You will > > have to -i it if you want to change the file later. > > That may work on Fedora, but the last time I tried it on Ubuntu, t

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Roger Heflin
>From what I can tell they developers expect everyone to do the config in exactly one way. If you do the config differently (ie the old way, and if dns is not configured/defined I assume from dhcp and/or directly in the Network manager config), then the software rewrites the file with a valid ent

Re: Fedora37: Fails to boot with NISDOMAIN=... in /etc/sysconfig/network

2022-12-18 Thread Roger Heflin
If the nisdomain is not responding, I would claim the system should still boot, so I would think that is a bug. But if systemd/pam is not timing out on the non-responding nisdomain or the timeout is too high then I would think that might screw up a significant part of the system because lookups of

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

2022-12-19 Thread Roger Heflin
SSD firmware is unlikely to cause that sort of issue. SATA/SAS is a pretty well defined protocol that defines a significant level of standardized basic functionality. Trackpad's and similar devices usually require a special vendor provided driver to use most features, and there really are no gen

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

2022-12-19 Thread Roger Heflin
+1.Unless you know of a critical fix it is best to not mess with the firmware. if you don't know of an issue then upgrading fw is more likely to kill your device than fix anything. Only the "Enterprise" OEM's who put too much screwed up crap (to increase reliability) in their firmware (broken

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

2022-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
> > Just for Information. I did get a response from WD that > was a little concerning.. Some messages had mentioned > perhaps hooking the disk to a windows machine and > doing the updates, but the WD respone mentioned that > they could not guaranty that the disk would still work > with the windows

Re: xroach?

2023-01-02 Thread Roger Heflin
Xiconall was way more fun to run on someone else. Most of the ancient x11 programs used apis that have not changed so seem to still compile and work with very minimal and or no changes. The hardest part is finding all the add on libraries. On Mon, Jan 2, 2023, 3:45 PM Barry wrote: > > > On 2 J

Re: Grubby? Doesn't Load Initrd

2023-01-07 Thread Roger Heflin
95% of the time when I see initrd did not get built and included in the boot, it was because the kernel install runs in 2 steps, the first step puts in the kernel grub entry, and the 2nd step build initrd and adds initrd to the grub config.run "dnf reinstall kernel" and that fixes it. Usually

Re: Grubby? Doesn't Load Initrd

2023-01-07 Thread Roger Heflin
grubby changes the per-kernel options (in the entries files), it has never cared about what was in /etc/default/grub. Typically /etc/default/grub is useless because typically no one ever runs grub2-mkconfig, so the file is kind of pointless. And kernel installs copy the options from one of the ot

Re: Unsolved - Re: Solved - Re: F37/Xfce no Firefox window

2023-01-09 Thread Roger Heflin
If you happen to have another firefox running elsewhere on the same machine under the same username/firefoxprofile it will do that. It will also do that if there is a firefox running on another screen of your desktop. It is kind of annoying. The purpose seems to be to hand it of to the already r

Re: production env linux??

2023-01-10 Thread Roger Heflin
Redhat Enterprise compatible variant, mostly because there are security updates for a long time, most versions. And most paid support applications will only officially support RHEL variants or SLES variants (enterprise variants). On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 12:41 PM bruce wrote: > hey... > > ju

Re: NetworkManager switches between networks

2023-01-27 Thread Roger Heflin
Usually switching means that one lost a signal and so it logged back in and found a different connection. I do not believe Networkmanger will disconnect a working connection and switch to another. My laptop would at random lose wifi and sometimes reconnect and I "fixed" that by getting a new $20

Re: Switching nvidia GPU cards - can multiple driver versions co-exist?

2023-02-13 Thread Roger Heflin
If the new card is supported with the 470 driver then I would replace the card while the 470 driver is running. Then do the upgrade. Both drivers have the same name so you will not be able to have both installed and built in /lib/modules at the same time. On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 8:05 AM Jon LaBa

Re: Kernel drivers RT2870

2023-02-13 Thread Roger Heflin
insmod is the original low level way to do it and you need the full path and module filename. modprobe knows the correct kernel and knows where all modules are supposed to be install so should just work(assuming a depmod was run to build the name -> filename mappings). dmesg | grep -i rt28 and

Re: Switching nvidia GPU cards - can multiple driver versions co-exist?

2023-02-14 Thread Roger Heflin
Look at the capacitors also. The last couple of hw deaths I have all had one or more bulging capacitors. The electrolytic caps are the one component that are likely to eventually die. On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 3:38 AM Tim via users wrote: > > Tim: > >> Re the "not overheating" are you judging by

Re: Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Usually how battery packs die is that one of the cells becomes very weak (this case), or goes high resistance (completely dead pack), or shorts internally (you lose the voltage from one battery but the pack will still work so long as the device can survive with much lower voltages). And basically

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-02-23 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 11:30 AM Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while > I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen > anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generali

Re: Enabling Apache HTTP/2 => Too many open files error

2023-02-27 Thread Roger Heflin
Do a lsof -p and it will list out the files. It may be a file handle leak. I have seen leaks from failure to close a file when a process is done. There can be leaks if a process uses an anonymous memory allocation trick that relies on file handles, and there are probably others. The lsof output

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Roger Heflin
if whatever you are running on said machine is going to be useless if you are swapping you don't need much swap. The apps I deal with if we get much into swap has severe performance issues and is basically in an outage. I have 72core/1TB ram and have 30GB of swap (pre zram os) The reality is if

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-01 Thread Roger Heflin
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:02 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to RAID two of my disks, and I was wondering if the > recommendation is to do software or hardware RAID? > > Thanks, > Ranjan I work with a lot of hardware raid from a couple of vendors. The documentation is rather spa

Re: open files limit was: Re: Enabling Apache HTTP/2 => Too many open files error

2023-03-02 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 2:35 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 2/27/23 13:44, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > It turns out that the default open file limit (1024!) is too low. To > > change this and fix the problem: > > > ># systemctl edit httpd > This low limit can be an issue for many processe

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-02 Thread Roger Heflin
if you suddenly lose power there is a fair chance that the last few blocks of data had not made it to disk yet. For the most part this only only a big issue with oracle db and/or mysql and/or stuff with critical transactions that cannot be lost and that need a consistent state when they come back

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-03 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:42 PM Tim via users wrote: > > I have a UPS sitting next to me, right now, in pieces, which (half) > died in a most peculiar manner: > > A burning smell was eventually traced to it. There's no visible signs > of burning, and no schematic available for the model, that I ca

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-03 Thread Roger Heflin
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:07 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > I don't think the part about a generator is a good idea. Generators > are usually wildly out of spec for Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). A > generator under load can easily reach 15% to 20% THD. Meanwhile, > electronics usually expect 3%

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread Roger Heflin
I have been buying the lowest priced HP/Acer/ASUS that has the features I want. I don't know that there is much difference between them, and I am not sure who the real maker/designed of the laptop is. See the ODM section on this page; From that it becomes clear you have zero idea who really made

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively.

2023-03-23 Thread Roger Heflin
Did both of the sticks fail to boot in the exact same way? Or did they fail differently? Failing to boot differently each time on 2 different sticks (and on the same stick several times) would make me think that there was an issue with the USB on the workstation you are trying to boot being unre

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Roger Heflin
What Tim says. Check to make sure your resolution is right and check to make sure the screen scaling is right. I have had both not always work as expected on my 4k monitor. It almost seems as if the assumption is that 4k is running on a small screen(17" laptop maybe) so scaling needs to be 200%

Re: Is there some way of getting interactive access to a Fedora boot menu to a computer on the same LAN?

2023-04-20 Thread Roger Heflin
Setup grub to have serial support and the booted kernel to have serial support and use a serial crossover cable from one machine to another. For it to allow access into the bios, the bios needs to also have some serial console support. On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 8:28 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once

Re: I have not been able to install F37 on a computer that has RAID1

2023-05-01 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 11:13 AM David Woodyard wrote: > > I have searched the web for a solution and have found nothing on this topic. > The error I get is sda1 and sdb1 have the same UUID. I would rather not > remove a drive from raid and unplug it to do the install. > > I must be missing someth

Re: Systemd Unit Fails at Boot, but Succeeds when Started from the Console

2023-05-01 Thread Roger Heflin
I have something like this in my rc.local for similar reasons. ( sleep 30 ; cd /someplace ; ) & On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 4:41 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 01 May 2023 13:39:29 -0700 > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > And the problem remains. Further advice would be welcome. > > Without ever mana

Re: I have not been able to install F37 on a computer that has RAID1

2023-05-02 Thread Roger Heflin
Hardware or software raid typically makes and exact copy of what they are mirroring. Hardware raid typically mirrors the entire disk (all UUIDS on the disk will be duplicated on the 2nd device, but in real hw raid the raid controller hides the underlying devices), software raid can do the entire d

Re: I have not been able to install F37 on a computer that has RAID1

2023-05-02 Thread Roger Heflin
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 10:46 AM Doug Herr wrote: > > On Tue, May 2, 2023, at 8:14 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > Hardware or software raid typically makes and exact copy of what they > > are mirroring. > > I was just preparing a reply to this. I had been confused since I d

Re: dnf update finishes and I'm logged out?

2023-05-05 Thread Roger Heflin
Just about any package could do a systemd restart against its startup script, and so if your login session was started from a systemd startup script that got restarted then it would restart. I don't boot to graphical, and I login via the console as a user and run startx. I do it partially becaus

Re: HDD errors during boot

2023-05-05 Thread Roger Heflin
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 7:19 PM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > For a long time I noticed that at boot time I often see disk errors, but > later on all seems well. > Below is an example of relevant log messages after a boot. > > Initially things are normal for all (7) disks in the array, then there is

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Roger Heflin
I have work experience with Intel 10Gbit, Older Emulex 10GB (be[23]net driver), current Broadcom 10/25G and Mellanox 10/25G. Note that for it to be useful you *MUST* have multiple interrupts. 1Gbit interfaces used to hit a limit at around 50Mbit (the cpu was not fast enough to do the required data

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Roger Heflin
good. On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:06 AM Thomas Cameron wrote: > > On 5/12/23 09:41, Roger Heflin wrote: > > I have work experience with Intel 10Gbit, Older Emulex 10GB (be[23]net > > driver), current Broadcom 10/25G and Mellanox 10/25G. > > > > Note that for it

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Roger Heflin
. Which model of proliant is that? Note I have used/debugged/optimized dl360/dl380/dl560/dl580/dl980 gen7/8/9/10/11(testing). On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:14 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Given that hardware, buy something like this instead. > > used, but better class of card. > > http

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Roger Heflin
nless it comes with the MB) simply because when I need a card I can get a used enterprise for about the same price and know that it will work. On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:35 AM Thomas Cameron wrote: > > On 5/12/23 10:14, Roger Heflin wrote: > > Given that hardware, buy something

Re: Poweroff on Fedora 37

2023-05-12 Thread Roger Heflin
you could do this and see if this works. stop all apps you care about and then: sync echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger That will call the kernel directly and immediately power the machine off, if that does not work then the kernel itself does not know how to power it off. And if that does not work, t

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Roger Heflin
If the switch is dumb enough and won't disable a port if it sees the same mac address on 2 ports then linux bonding active-active round-robin has worked for me before. If the switch is smart enough it will disable one of the 2 ports. This is using dumb bonding no LAG, and the switch will bounce th

Re: Strange error running scripts. without #!/usr/bin/bash

2023-05-21 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 3:29 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > On 21 May 2023 at 16:05, Go Canes wrote: > > From: Go Canes > Date sent: Sun, 21 May 2023 16:05:06 -0400 > Subject:Re: Strange error running scripts. without > #!/usr/bin/bash

Re: Strange error running scripts. without #!/usr/bin/bash

2023-05-21 Thread Roger Heflin
You should be able to add -f (follow all forks) on strace and it will follow everything. But without the script tracing POC mentions you aren't really going to know what line gets the error. It is likely the bug is in one of the commands you are using, and it may depend on the data you are getti

Re: Strange error running scripts. without #!/usr/bin/bash

2023-05-21 Thread Roger Heflin
That usually implies something in the profile/bashrc and such is hitting the bug under some condition. On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 5:14 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > On 21 May 2023 at 16:52, Roger Heflin wrote: > > From: Roger Heflin > Date sent:

Re: F38: pipewire -> pulseaudio

2023-06-01 Thread Roger Heflin
I am not sure what you are attempting to do by trying to replace pipewire with pulse, but you only removed the pipewire to pulseaudio module, you did not erase any of the actual pipewire rpms, just the module that provides pulseaudio compatibility. What exactly did the dnf swap command say it did?

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2023-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
try typing vgs/lvs/pvs and see if that also gets the warning. Some prior centos version did also have this error for a while, I never noticed any real issue with the programs reporting this. For the most part this is just some attempt at reporting a "leaked" file descriptor.I am not sure how o

Re: Cable modem packet loss?

2023-06-05 Thread Roger Heflin
The earlier mentioned fact you have that using tcpdump causes the drops to disappear indicates that whatever the packets are the nic believes they aren't destined for your host. Use this to see all packets not going to your local node. tcpdump -i ! host If those packets are close to the number

Re: gimmicks for most & a question networking curious/experts - ? MACSEC

2023-06-06 Thread Roger Heflin
If the bond is an active/passive (non-LACP) then the older setup scripts/bonding module would put the mac address for the first interface it finds on the bond device and on both underlying physical interfaces and in the bond. Using the old scripts/bonding module (with LACP) both underlying physica

Re: Asking for thoughts/comments on a laptop/specs

2023-06-28 Thread Roger Heflin
The only issue I see with that one is the display is 1600x900. I personally look for 1080p on 17". Costco has an HP 17" (1080P) that just went on sale this week for $499 (https://www.costco.com/hp-17.3%22-laptop---13th-intel-core-i5-1335u---1080p---windows-11.product.4000138583.html)--if you ar

Re: HDMI works - Re: Restarting video driver to turn on external vga port

2023-07-02 Thread Roger Heflin
I use a usb keyboard/mouse switch. One push on it and input goes to the other machine. I use the monitors/tv multiport to switch hdmi via the tv remote. The reviews i read on hdmi switches indicated a lot of reliability issues, and i also run my monitor at 4k which is likely to cause more issu

Re: Gui for fstab?

2023-07-07 Thread Roger Heflin
Plus the gui would be useless unless it had all of the knowledge of all types of fses and what options were valid. And coding that into a fstab gui program correctly seems like a massive undertaking with all of the details. so it would likely be a mess. I saw a gui to manage /etc/groups years ago

Re: OT: Ways to figure what causing High Ping Loss that require power cycling cable modem??

2023-07-09 Thread Roger Heflin
I have had a cable modem break from me turning on extra logging and or statistics that apparently worked badly. Turn off any extras you turned on. Mine was also having random issues from a zwave transmitter tnat was really close. The zwave caused errors on 2 of the many different frequencies on

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Yes, some did have efi back then. i have some fm2 mbs that did. There will be an option in the bios to enable efi if it does. efi dates to early itanium systems in 2002. it was so bad it took years to make it to x86 systems. very little was in the classic bios menu and most config was in a mess

Re: sleeping machine?

2023-07-21 Thread Roger Heflin
Enabling WOL (wake on lan) should wake it up from sleep. If WOL is supported depends on the hardware and possibly bios settings so is slightly different for each hardware combination. You basically use a utility to send a WOL packet to the machine and the network card wakes it up. Search the ar

Re: Understanding SD data transfer

2023-07-24 Thread Roger Heflin
What do you have it plugged into? I have found some(most) of the usb2/3/usbc claimed connected ones seem to run much slower. You may need some combination of lspci and lsusb to see how it is connected. Note linux does not yet support UHS-II so any UHS-II card will run as UHS-I until the kernel

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Roger Heflin
The ordering is going to prevent you from shrinking. /boot is last and you likely cannot get enough space out of that one. I am not sure what would happen if you made p2 smaller or if it would even let you create a p7 that is after p2 but before p3. And with all shrinks you must shrink the fs fir

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Roger Heflin
I got the partition that was last wrong. You would have to know the sizes and used of the various mount points and have to know how/if btrfs has enough free and how to re-arrange that free space to be at the end so you can resize. In general adding a 2nd installation after the fact is very compli

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Roger Heflin
Adding to what George says. If doing a 2nd install, have a plan of what to do if it all fails badly and you end up with no working installs (there are posts all of the time for failures, not sure how many dual installs work as people only post when it goes wrong). There are a few places it can go

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-07 Thread Roger Heflin
What does it show in messages after the mount? That is where I would expect the underlying read errors to be. I have also had some issues with certain sdxc readers seeming to not work well with some cards. There are also a significant number of MMC changes going into the kernel recently. There

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-07 Thread Roger Heflin
, but journal has data. > Run journal anyway? yes > e2fsck: unable to set superblock flags on MP4 > MP4: ** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ** > > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:05:17 -0500 > Roger Heflin wrote: > > > What does it show in messages after the m

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-08 Thread Roger Heflin
mounted=2022-10-07 08:25:42 state=mounted > > The second system is a StarLabs StarLab mk III Aside from more memory, > SD main storage, more recent Intel CPU ... not much different :-) > Despite all of that, the problem with the SD is the same. > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2023

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-08 Thread Roger Heflin
If it has never worked anyplace then read through this: https://photographylife.com/fake-memory-cards On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 12:33 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Have you ever had this card work in anything? > > And if you have used this card for a long time how long have you used it f

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-08 Thread Roger Heflin
same thing as a real ssd that has decent wear leveling. On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 2:55 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > As far as I can tell, my SanDisk Ultra card is genuine. The article is > very useful to the uninitiated. Thanks. > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 12:41:55 -0500 > Roger Heflin

Re: Is this another rpmfusion versus fedora thing?

2023-08-10 Thread Roger Heflin
I would uninstall the vlc-core from the fedora repos and install the one from rpmfusion. The issues seem to generally be with tools(ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc, all media players, likely some other tools) that have pieces that have some sort of legal complication such that IBM/Redhat not going to provide

Re: slowness with kernel 6.4.10 and software raid

2023-08-18 Thread Roger Heflin
Is it moving at all or just stopped? If just stopped it appears that md126 is using external:/md127 for something and md127 looks wrong (both disks are spare) but I don't know in this external case what md127 should look like. I would suggest checking messages with grep md12[67] /var/log/messages

Re: slowness with kernel 6.4.10 and software raid

2023-08-18 Thread Roger Heflin
ug18'23 12:23:23PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > From: Roger Heflin > > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:23:23 -0500 > > To: Community support for Fedora users > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > > Subject: Re: slowness with kernel 6.4.10 and software raid >

Re: slowness with kernel 6.4.10 and software raid

2023-08-18 Thread Roger Heflin
, 2023 at 2:05 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri Aug18'23 01:39:08PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > From: Roger Heflin > > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:39:08 -0500 > > To: Community support for Fedora users > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > > Sub

Re: slowness with kernel 6.4.10 and software raid

2023-08-20 Thread Roger Heflin
I think you are overestimating their competence. The issues continue to seem to be new formula/process to increase platter density, and poor long term testing to figure out it is garbage. Usually the platter issues show up well before the warranty expires and usually continues and fails most of t

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-24 Thread Roger Heflin
I have piwigo installed on my webserver. It allows uploads. I don't know how well it interacts with Iphones. It is a full photo management server (uploading and albums). On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 4:06 PM Tim Evans wrote: > > On 8/24/23 17:01, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > > People, > > > > I

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-25 Thread Roger Heflin
limited upload bandwidth. On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:34 PM Philip Rhoades wrote: > > Roger, > > > On 2023-08-25 09:18, Roger Heflin wrote: > > I have piwigo installed on my webserver. It allows uploads. I don't > > know how well it interacts with Iphones. >

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Roger Heflin
Possible ways, are if the /boot was not mounted when a prior kernel removal was done, or if something else was mounted over boot when that kernel removal was done. Or if you have a dual boot system both using the same /boot directory (but different rootvgs). Each install would manage the rpms tha

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Roger Heflin
Those will probably actually be gone. The way you get these is if the /boot is not visible and/or mounted and/or hidden during the rpm removal or there is another /boot that was incorrectly mounted at the time over the right boot. The exact same thing also happens with installs, if wrong /boot t

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