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Server denies user access -
by Bob Goodwin 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

I have a server running fedora that denies access to me as user "bobg." I can ssh as root and have re-entered the "passwd" for "bobg" and it reported "passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully." I also added an= new user and had the same result. Am I being prevented from actually changing the password via ssh perhaps? If so it's strange that it reports tokens updated successfully. There's no display or keyboard attached, I can still access view the contents with Samba and the samba password but need user access for me. I suppose root access would wok but I have spent all morning at this and don't know what else to do to fix the user access problem. Suggestions appreciated. -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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Cinnamon configuring the samsung ml-1660 printer as duplex printer
by Joachim Backes 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hi all, i'm trying to configure my samsung laser printer ml-1660 as an (usb) duplex printer, but tis will not succeed anymore. I'm using the Cinnamon desktop. Neither the Cinnamon system settings menu entry nor the system-config-printer (using obviously the splix pckg) command will achieve this. All system upgrades are installed. Each advice would be welcome. Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 30 (Thirty) Kernel-5.2.14-200.fc30.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

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problem with personal default printers?
by Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

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Weirdness with 'tracer'
by Patrick O'Callaghan 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

On rebooting my system, and before doing any updates, I see: $ sudo tracer -a You should restart: * These applications rebooting your computer: kernel Is anyone else seeing this? poc

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disabling nouveau
by Amadeus WM 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

My goal is to install nvidia cuda for some machine learning on a new Lenovo Thinkpad P52S laptop running Fedora 30. The laptop comes with both an integrated intel card and an nvidia quadro P500 card (I think this is called Optimus). I want to use the intel card for display and the nvidia exclusively for machine learning. I've followed various tutorials and blogs on the web, most notably the rpmfusion howto: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA and a recent fedora magazine article: https://fedoramagazine.org/install-nvidia-gpu/ The latter says (in the comments) that there is no need to disable nouveau but I had to do that in the past every time I installed the nvidia drivers, so I'm trying to do that now as well. So I did the following: 1. Installed the nvidia rpms: dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia akmod-nvidia which installed the following + dependencies: [root@thinkpad ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 nvidia-settings-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 akmod-nvidia-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64-430.40-1.fc30.x86_64 2. The dnf install command modified the boot options, to blacklist nouveau: [root@thinkpad ~]# cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 resume=UUID=d1406222-e963-4043-a6f9-10c784752ed8 rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true 3. I read that is not enough though, as if nouveau is in the initram disk it will still do modeset = 1, so I blacklisted it in modprobe.d and created a new initram disk: [root@thinkpad ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_nouveau.conf blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 # backup nouveau initram disk [root@thinkpad boot]# cp initramfs-5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64.img initramfs-5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64_nouveau.img # create new one: [root@thinkpad boot]# dracut --force Now [root@thinkpad boot]# lsinitrd initramfs-5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64.img | grep -i nouveau -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Feb 14 2019 etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_nouveau.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 14 2019 usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636252 Feb 14 2019 usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.xz so it picked up the blacklist_nouveau.conf file. 4. set runlevel 3 systemctl set-default multi-user.target 5. I'm running Xorg, not Wayland: [root@thinkpad ~]# pidof xinit 1351 [root@thinkpad ~]# pidof Xwayland [root@thinkpad ~]# 6. Reboot. Even before starting X, I still get nouveau: [root@thinkpad ~]# lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau 2265088 0 mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau ttm 118784 1 nouveau i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau drm_kms_helper 225280 2 i915,nouveau drm 495616 8 drm_kms_helper,i915,ttm,nouveau wmi 36864 4 intel_wmi_thunderbolt,wmi_bmof,mxm_wmi,nouveau video 49152 3 thinkpad_acpi,i915,nouveau I can, however modprobe -r nouveau and things seem OK. But what do I do to have it not load on boot? When this happened in the past, as a last resort, I removed the appropriate rpms, but now the nouveau driver seems to be part of the kernel-modules package: [root@thinkpad ~]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.xz kernel-modules-5.2.11-200.fc30.x86_64 Any help on this, anyone? Thanks!

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kdeinit5 closed unexpectedly notification
by Michael Eager 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

I started seeing this after updating Fedora 29 (KDE) which installed kf5-*-5.59. There are several postings on StackOverflow (unix.stackexchange.com, superuser.com) about this issue and suggestions on how to suppress the notification. There's a Fedora bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1746465 and a KDE bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411441 This message happens whenever I close Dolphin, but also at random other times. Apparently, downgrading to kf5-kio-5.58 reverts the code which caused the error. Unfortunately, this is not in the F29 repo so it isn't possible to use dnf to downgrade. Can someone update the repo with the old version? -- Michael Eager eager(a)eagerm.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306

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tar a flash drive
by ToddAndMargo 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

Hi All, I have a flash drive with about four partitions on is. Lets call it /dev/sdc. Can I tar sdc or am I stuck with tarring the partitions? Any drawback to this? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -- Charles Varlet de La Grange ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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General protection fault involving flash
by Andre Robatino 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

The Citi.com credit card website allows generating virtual card numbers, but unfortunately they're using flash in that part of the site. When I try to use it in F30, on one particular machine (it's hardware-specific), in GNOME (it doesn't happen in MATE), the Firefox tab crashes and I get a general protection fault, for example [88812.835817] traps: Web Content[2532] general protection fault ip:7f94ee0d0adb sp:7ffedd6a3140 error:0 in libX11.so.6.3.0[7f94ee0aa000+8e000] Since flash is involved, it's not clear whether this is the fault of Fedora or flash. This has been happening for around half a year, so flash has been updated several times. It also happened with F29. Anyone know how to narrow down where the issue is?

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Adding a UEFI boot disk to Grub
by Patrick O'Callaghan 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

I have an old-style MBR Grub configuration for F30. Converting the system to UEFI seems like a hassle and doesn't provide an obvious benefit for now (maybe next time I do a full install I'll go for it). However I also run Windows 10 in a KVM/QEMU virtual machine. This has its own dedicated drive and uses UEFI (OVMF). My BIOS supports UEFI and I've managed to dual-boot a few times by fiddling with the BIOS settings, but switching back and forth is clunky and error-prone, and Windows always wants to "fix" itself before working. My question is: how can I add this as an option to my Grub configuration to enable dual-boot directly from the Grub menu (i.e. running on metal, not a VM)? In other words, BIOS boots using MBR, invokes Grub, which then (optionally) invokes UEFI to boot Windows. Or is this not possible? poc

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raspberry pi 4
by Amadeus WM 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Has anyone tried Fedora on an RPi 4 (arm 8 architecture)? Does it work? How about RPi3?

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