OK, here is where things stand now. I discovered that when I had mounted my Fedora 30 root partition using chroot that since I was still booted into the Live DVD, I was connected to the internet. Earlier tonight, when I tried to dnf install some things directly in the Live DVD, I had to erase Firefox to make room! So, I installed what appeared to be some appropriate GNOME related RPM's, as well as KDE, which I will end up running anyway. I also did a full dnf upgrade, pulling in over 1gig of data. Also, the percentage used in the chroot mount point kept going up while I was doing all this. The result? My Fedora 30 system is now fully bootable! I just installed some stuff, then installed all the available updates. But for some reason, the password that I used to install and upgrade all that stuff stopped working. So, I booted the Live DVD again (which takes a long time on my system), did the chroot thing again, and changed the password. passwd did not complain, it indicated that the two passwords I typed matched. Great, right? So I booted into Fedora 30, did "ctrl | alt | f2" so I could log in as root and assign myself a regular user password. Guess what? The root password that passwd had just excepted no longer works. I had an issue a LONG time ago with my password. Somehow the keymap got messed up, and when I typed an "x", a "y" was displayed on the screen. So typed the password in the username prompt, just to see if the correct letters/numbers were being output. They were.
Now passwd gives me errors even when I know that I typed the same password twice. So, I have a fully updated, perfectly bootable Fedora 30 system with both KDE and Gnome installed. But I can't log in because I can't set passwords that actually work when I try to use them. It might be said that I should do all this in rescue mode, since that loads up a lot faster, and I can actually boot into it now. The problem with that is that none of the keys that press while in rescue mode display on the screen. So, I'll type "passwd" being really careful, because I can't see what I am typing. Then I type one character, and passwd accuses me of trying to use a palindrome! By definition, a palindrome can not be only one character! I'm going to reboot into the Live DVD one more time and try again, before I have to give up for the night. Thank you for you help & your patience, progress has been made! Steven P. Ulrick On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:11 PM stan via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 21:02:07 -0500 > Steven Ulrick <meow8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dependency failed for GNOME Display Manager, Network Man & Login > > Services! L1TF CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See > > CVE-2018-3646 and > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html > > The link is dead, but the bug is a sidechannel attack that certain > intel processors are vulnerable to. It should have nothing to do with > the dependency error. I think the mitigation is enabled in all Fedora > kernels. > > > I'll go see what that's all about. But why would there be missing > > dependencies if I just chose to install a fully functional live DVD of > > Fedora 30 to my harddrive... > > Good question. There should be nothing missing *unless* there was a > failure to write properly to the disk. Is the install downloading > anything from the net? If it is going to repositories, they might > have a dependency problem for new versions if they are trying to > install them. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
