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F26 rsyslog does not start after update
by Cristian Sava 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Hi all, After updating F26: rsyslog systemd systemd-libs systemd-pam systemd-udev syslog does not start! [root@*** ~]# systemctl status syslog ● rsyslog.service - System Logging Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-11-03 11:26:08 EET; 2min 1s ago Docs: man:rsyslogd(8) http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/ Main PID: 26414 (code=exited, status=127) Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Service hold- off time over, scheduling r Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: Stopped System Logging Service. Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service. Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Unit entered failed state. Nov 03 11:26:08 ***.ucv.ro systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. C.S.

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New NVIDIA card with F26?
by PropAAS DBA 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Hi All; Apologies in advance for cross posting, I posted this question to the Fedora KDE list as well. I just purchased the below system online from Lenovo, did a bit of research and it seems like it should all work but I cut the research short and ordered it mostly because I have a serious patience deficiency My main question is around the NVIDIA card, for the past several years I've been running laptops with integrated intel graphics and the default nouveau driver and things 'just work'. I don't really need high performance graphics like gaming or high intensive graphics operations, just standard business usage. Does anyone have any experience / insight per the below NVIDIA card and Fedora (I'll be running Fedora 26 - KDE Spin)? Is it likely I'll need to run NVIDIA drivers? If so is there an easy setup without needing to install the native driver each time a new kernel is released? Maybe something like the akmod-nvidia drivers? Also, is there anything in the below specs that may be cause for concern? Thanks in advance for any advice... *ThinkPad P51s Mobile Workstation* Processor Intel Core i7-7600U Processor (4MB Cache, up to 3.90GHz) Camera IR & 720p HD Camera with Microphone Display 15.6" UHD (3840x2160), non-Touch, no WiGig, WLAN, WWAN Video Card NVIDIA Quadro M520 2GB GDDR5 Memory 32GB DDR4 2133MHz SoDIMM (16GBx2) Hard Drive 1 TB Solid State Drive OPAL2.0 PCIe-NVMe Wireless Card Intel Dual Band Wireless AC(2x2) 8265, Bluetooth Version 4.1 Only because it was not an option to eliminate the mobile card: Integrated Mobile Broadband upgradable

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Re: f26 to f26 cups sharing problem
by tar＠sonic.net 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Well it works now, and the problem was a corrupted firewalld configuration. The hint was when I tried the brute force approach of telnet server.localdomain 631 and got "No route to host" indicating that the host resolution was working but the port was blocked on the server. One clean up and full reconfiguration of firewalld later, it's working. The older print server (with iptables) was easier to troubleshoot as I could just let everything pass through for testing. My error in testing here was that "systemctl stop firewalld.service" doesn't remove the firewall setup (like "iptables stop" would have). Thanks to all who suggested various approaches, it did help narrow it down.

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hybrid graphics laptop and nouveau
by AV 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hello, This concerns an Asus Zenbook with hybrid graphics (Intel/Nvidia). 1) There are 2 ways to deactivate the nouveau driver: by adding 'modprobe.nouveau=0' to the kernel cmd line OR by adding 'modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rd.blacklist=nouveau'. Which is to be preferred? 2) I do the above because there is as yet no Nvidia driver that gives a hybrid solution like under Windows and the Intel driver is more than enough for my needs. However when using a solution as described in 1) the Nvidia chip will still drain power. Is there anyway to deactivate the chip? (short of removing it from the motherboard if possible). AV

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Thinkpad X301 Trackpoint Sensitivity Setting
by Christopher St. Louis 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

I booted up my laptop yesterday to find that the Trackpoint sensitivity had somehow dramatically increased such that a slight nudge sends the mouse pointer flying across the screen, and clicking on any buttons or menu items requires me to circle around the selected item like a plane approaching the runway before I can finally make the selection. I have no idea what caused this, and to my knowledge I haven't installed anything manually or through daily updates that would cause such a dramatic change. This laptop started as a Fedora 26 XFCE installation but I'm using i3wm for my daily driver. Logging into XFCE and adjusting the Trackpoint ("pointing stick") sensitivity in xfce4-settings-manager appears to have some effect while in XFCE; these changes don't follow over to i3 and when I run Settings under i3 any changes don't appear persist or have any effect (e.g. the sensitivity defaults to 5; I set it to a more sane 2 and close the window. No effect on the pointer speed, and re-opening Settings shows the sensitivity back at 5). Looking online, there is an enormous amount of vestigial information on just where the configuration for Trackpoint settings is stored and how it is done, often with no indication of which is the most recent method or what is distro-specific. Some instructions are written for Ubuntu or Arch and mention locations which don't exist. I've seen the solution related to xinput, evdev, hal, udev; configurations should go in Xorg.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-somenamedfile.conf or .xinitrc or...; there are references to attributes being exposed at /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/ which also doesn't exist on my machine. In general, it's a confusing mess, and it's demanding a disproportionately ridiculous amount of work just so I'm not constantly overshooting toolbar buttons in LibreOffice. I won't even try to diagnose what property might have magically changed in from one day to the next that turned a perfectly working system into one with this distracting annoyance; that way lies madness. But can anyone tell me just WHERE I would go to attempt to change the sensitivity of a Thinkpad Trackpoint (I suppose this would be the same place as general mouse/touchpad settings) on a Fedora 26 installation? And more specifically, are there any X300/301/similar-era Thinkpad users here who have had experiences configuring your Trackpoint/touchpad in recent Fedora releases? Thanks in advance.

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strange screen tearing effect
by Tim 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Since updating to Fedora 26, I get a strange screen tearing effect on any moving image (scrolling webpages, watching live video, anything that moves). The effect is unnoticeable on static displayes. The effect is like this diagram: http://imgbox.com/TqED2C76 There's a portion at the top of the screen related to one moment in time, with a dividing line going across the screen, related to another moment. The really strange thing is that there's a diagonal portion to this division. The division slowly rolls down the screen, so it can be seen that the screen refresh rate is different from the source material (whatever it may be). According to driconf, which offers options I know nothing about, and offers nothing I see related to setting any vertical sync options, the graphics set is using: NV98 (nouveau) The display configurator (I'm using Mate) gives me 60 or 75 Hz refresh rates, and they will change the rate that the dividing line rolls down the screen, but not eliminate it. I'm using a LCD screen connected through a DVI cable (both ends, no conversions). Mate's display configurator says its DVI-I How can I get rid of this? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 16:53:13 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Using Windows software is like coating all your handtools with sewage.

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FW update from gnome-softwares
by Jeandet Alexis 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hello, Today I got for the first time a dell Precision 5520 and I saw the firmware(EFI) update from gnome softwares, this is AWESOME! I hope more vendors will push their fw in the near future :). Thanks guys, Alexis.

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Re: f26 to f26 cups sharing problem
by tar＠sonic.net 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

>Take that entry out of the hosts file, then try "ping liberty.local". >Does it work? If not, then make sure you have the "nss-mdns" package >installed. Well this seems to be on the right track(mdns issue). I removed the ".local" line from /etc/hosts . The nss-mdns package is installed, so I decided to test it as suggested in the README. On the client, testing for the client address getent hosts rights.local returns 192.168.1.4 rights.local Great, that's what we want fromnss-mdns, so now lets test for the server address: getent hosts liberty.local ... times out with no response and returns a status code of 2. Which seems to match the timeout from "cups-browsed -v" If I skip the ".local" we get getent hosts rights 192.168.1.4 rights.localdomain rights .. correct for the client getent hosts liberty 192.168.1.6 liberty.localdomain liberty .. correct for the server And since this all depends on /etc/nsswitch.conf, the relevant line there is hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname I also confirmed that avahi-daemon is running on the client and that firewalld has mdns allowed (client and server). Thanks for the good lead, this seems to be the problem area, any ideas on next things to try/investigate?

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