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F30 first impression problems (notes and screen timeout config)
by Fulko Hew 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

I'm helping someone switch to Linux, and he's trying F30. So I decided to put F30 (with KDE/Plasma) into a VM on my older (F26) system. My first 2 stumbling blocks are: 1/ Somehow (and I don't know how I did it), I seem to have created a 'notes' window. Now I can't figure out how to get rid of it. 2/ I thought I'd configure the screen timeout to just blank the screen and not lock it. I figure its under Settings -> System Settings -> Power Management. But when I select it, I get the message: Power Management configuration module could not be loaded. The Power Management Service appears not to be running. This can be solved by starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and Shutdown'. a) Switching to 'startup and shutdown' leaves that error info on the screen and I have to stop/start the settings GUI to clear it. b) There isn't anything in 'startup and shutdown' related to 'power management services'. I tried Googling, but I haven't discovered any solutions for either problem yet.

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stange dependencies
by François Patte 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

Bonjour, I removed ssmtp from a machine (f30) and dnf has removed more than 100 packages as dependencies of this package. A lot of perl modules (I did not know that ssmtp was a perl script...) and *google-chrome*.... Is it serious? -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

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dnf system-upgrade download + reboot does not finish upgrade.
by Federic Ducon 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

I am trying to upgrade from Fedora 29 to Fedora 30 dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 --allowerasing dnf system-upgrade reboot The download stage completes and posts a msg proposing the second line. The reboot starts up , gets to a certain stage and automatically reboots. On rebooting I see the same fed29 kernel is used and it just boots normally to the old system. I would have expected something indicating that it was processing the update with the usual message like "this may take some time". journalctl --list-boots shows me one on 2019-07-08 which seems to be the first reboot after the initial system-upgrade call. There are many reps after that as I repeated trying to find the problem. I expected to get output from this from its boot number , but the following gives lines with datastamps earlier today. journalctl -b -15 What do I need to get the boot log ? TIA. Here is a snip from one of the boot logs which appears to cover the point where reaches the Offline Update. If someone can give explicit instructions to get a better log I will try to submit it somewhere. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=grub-boot-indeterminate comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/syst$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=grub-boot-indeterminate comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/syste$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Offline System Update (Pre). Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: AVC avc: denied { read } for pid=1 comm="systemd" name="dnf" dev="sda6" ino=1572867 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:va$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Update the operating system whilst offline... Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain pk-offline-update[648]: another framework set up the trigger Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit-offline-update comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/sy$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit-offline-update comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/sys$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: AVC avc: denied { read } for pid=1 comm="systemd" name="dnf" dev="sda6" ino=1572867 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:va$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Update the operating system whilst offline. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Offline System Update. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Remove the Offline System Updates symlink... Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain rm[649]: removed '/system-update' Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Remove the Offline System Updates symlink. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=system-update-cleanup comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/system$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=system-update-cleanup comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Startup finished in 1.354s (kernel) + 8.443s (initrd) + 22.374s (userspace) = 32.172s. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Rebooting: unit succeeded

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what's with the "=" in the output of "dnf group info <groupname>"?
by Robert P. J. Day 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

perusing fedora project page on getting started with virtualization, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/getting-started-with-virtua… and an early example reads: $ dnf groupinfo virtualization Group: Virtualization Group-Id: virtualization Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment. Mandatory Packages: =virt-install Default Packages: =libvirt-daemon-config-network =libvirt-daemon-kvm =qemu-kvm =virt-manager =virt-viewer Optional Packages: guestfs-browser libguestfs-tools python-libguestfs virt-top when i run that command on f30, i see no "=" sign but perhaps that's an obsolete feature that is no longer documented, as i don't see any mention of it in the man page. any idea what it represents? rday

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Docked laptop boots to use of external display and built in display.
by Terry Polzin 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

Hello, I am running a current Fedora 30 on a laptop. Then the laptop is in its docking station and is booted both the external display and builtin display are active. I have to open the laptop and disable the builtin display at every boot. This seems to be a behavior issue that has recently changed. Is there a remedy? I am running XFCE.

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Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu
by Suvayu Ali 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

Hi, For a while now kernel updates doesn't update the grub menu on my system. However I could always manually update using `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub2.cfg`. But lately I can't even do that! I have already tried running `grub2-switch-to-blscfg`, but I don't think that does anything. I tried that because the comments in the config file says menus are now automatically generated from BLS config files in '/boot/loader/entries', which seems to be in order for me, there are conf files for all the installed kernels. I can't figure out where to go from here. I'm on F30, booting with BIOS. Any thoughts? TIA, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore
by Steven Ulrick 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Hello, Everyone I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to install to harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to nothing but a black screen with a flashing underscore character. So, where do I go from here? I have been successfully running Fedora 27 on this same system for quite a while. Again, this is NOT an attempted upgrade from Fedora 27. Steven P. Ulrick

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selinux - help - directory policy syntax
by Robin Laing 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Hello, I have searched documentation but I cannot find the answer to my question. I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy "thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t" I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax description for the two directories under this policy. /home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)? /home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)? So, does the [^] mean the "user" home directory? Does the + mean this directory? or something else? There was a bug report about not being able to create thumbnails in the current directory where the thumbnail program is run. Ideally that is what I would like or a related directory. I want to create a large number of thumbnails which would be more than the /home/{user} directory. Is there a document that describes this syntax? Some of the links off of the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux don't work either. Robin

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VLC stopped launching
by Robert Moskowitz 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

I have been looking at a couple mp4 videos transferred from my son's phone. I successfully opened 3 of them with vlc, closed vlc and renamed them. Then for the fourth, vlc stopped launching. Well I guess it is really not launching, as I see the vlc icon on the panel. It is not responding. It won't close. It won't let me open a file. It won't quit. How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way to get its attention? thanks

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Amarok song list seems to be white on white
by SternData 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Sometime in the last week, one of the updates seems to have broken Amarok's display. See https://imgur.com/eHk4Vc0 The list of tracks on the right is there, but seems to be white on white. I can't find anyplace to change the color scheme. -- -- Steve

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