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Digest Version
by Mike Flannigan 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

I recently changed my e-mail and I want this list to be in Digest mode. I have checked the list guidelines, sent an e-mail to users-help(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, and everything else I can think of, but couldn't get it done on my own. Can the list admin change mflan(a)mflan.com to digest mode, assuming mflan(a)mflan.com is the e-mail I used to sign up to this list. Does anybody know how to change to digest mode? Mike

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Audio Disc Burning software recommendation
by Sreyan Chakravarty 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Hi, I have a 10 year old car with a CD player, I use to burn discs using Brasero on GNOME which used to work fine in my old CD player. But recently after upgrading to the latest Fedora 32 I find that whatever audio disc I burn with Brasero or K3b for that matter, doesn't work in my car. Can someone recommend a good audio disc burning program ? Or can someone tell me why suddenly upgrading my Fedora broke CD burning ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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systemd-resolved breakage
by Sam Varshavchik 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

I was surprised that a dig www.unicode.org a was coming back with a SERVFAIL. I have bind running on the same server, so I thought it just had a hiccup. Just to be sure I haven't fat-fingered anything and accidentally set dns lookups to go to another dns server on the network, I did an explicit "dig @127.0.0.1", and that worked. Must be it, right? I looked at /etc/resolv.conf and found out that the default server is 127.0.0.53, and then remembered in F33 it was decided to have systemd stick its nose into another place it didn't belong in the first place. So, systemd's resolver was broken, for some reason, with no indication why or how. Nothing was logged anywhere, as I far as I could see. Typical. As I was researching for the proper way to get rid of yet another pile of systemd junk, I got to the point of finding out about "resolvectl dns" which proudly reported the server's IP address as the only DNS server it knows about, then resolution via 127.0.0.53 started working again. And again, without any explanation. Reading the amusing list of buzzwords in "man resolvectl", like "server feature probing logic" it is unclear why any of that crap is needed. If the whole purpose of this whole house of cards is to have a proxy that silently redirect DNS lookups to whatever DNS server is configured via the currently active connection, I can see the value in that but I do not see what's to be gained by a fragile "server feature probing logic" that, apparently, sometimes decides that the DNS server on the same host doesn't really exist, and decides to reject all requests, on its own initiative, with SERVFAILs. And provide no useful logging, whatsoever. 'journalctl -u systemd-resolved' has no explanation, of any kind, whatsoever. DNS resolution is a critical function. systemd-resolved failed it, miserably. And without having even the courage to provide any kind of a useful logging that can be used to file a bug report.

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Packagekit: too many packages to process
by Matti Pulkkinen 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Hello! I ran into a problem where I'm not getting automatic updates in the way I would expect. I went looking in Gnome Software, and it shows me the button to reboot and apply updates, but clicking on it pops up an error, saying that the prepared update could not be found. Updating does not, of course, apply any update in this case. I took at look at journalctl when Gnome Software is looking for updates, and found two messages, first saying "couldn't parse execption 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction.NumberOfPackagesInvalid', please report" though I don't quite know what I'm supposed to report and where. The other message first has a long list of packages, and then ends with "Too many packages to process (7664/5200)". Now, that is indeed a lot of packages, but I don't think unreasonably so, because most of them come from texlive. I can, of course, update with dnf, but I was wondering if there is a way to raise the limit of packages packagekit is willing to process so I wouldn't have to worry about it? -- Terveisin / Regards, Matti Pulkkinen

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Unable to start any VMs : Domain requires KVM, but it is not available.
by Sreyan Chakravarty 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Hi, I have just upgraded to the latest version of Fedora 32, and switched to KDE. Now the problem is that I Virt-Manager doesn't work anymore. Whenever I try to start a VM I get: Error starting domain: unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 75, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 111, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 66, in newfn ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1279, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1234, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules. I have tried doing : sudo modprobde kvm While it worked it did not change anything. I am still unable to start any VMs. I also tried sudo modprobe kvm_intel This failed since there is no such module. What went wrong ? I don't think switching to KDE will have any impact on the VM services. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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Deleting a cups printer
by Adam Mercer 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Hi I was having printer issues, trying to print jobs just resulting in the system waiting and waiting and not actually printing anything. I deleted the printer from the Settings -> Printers and added it again, This got things working, however whenever I open the Settings the original printer is back in the list of printers, along with the new one that I added. Everytime I delete it, but when I open settings again it's back. How can I actually delete the printer? If I go to the CUPS settings, i.e. open http://localhost:631 only the new working printer is listed. So it seems that something else is finding this old printer and adding it back, in /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf I set BrowseRemoteProtocols to none and restarted cups-browsed.service to see if it was trying to he helpful and setup the printer automatically. That however didn't seem to help? Any idea how I can actually delete this old broken printer configuration so it doesn't keep coming back? Cheers Adam

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Application-specific networking
by William Oliver 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

This isn't a fedora-specific question, but I don't know where to ask. If there's a fedora-specific answer, thanks, and if not, I'd appreciate a pointer to the apprpropriate forum. I normally use a VPN that routes through another country. This works fine. However, a site I often use recently changed its security policies and now will only allow connection from networks that claim to be based in the US. So, in order to connect, I either have to turn off my VPN or rout it through a US proxy or just my ISP -- which I can do, but I resent it a little. So, I was thinking about adding another network card. I'd have one attached to my VPN and another attached just to the ISP. I'd like for some applications to use one card and other applications to use another, e.g. my browser to use the ISP-attached card and my email client to use the VPN-attached card. I've set up machines as bridges and gateways before, and I can configure moving traffic between two cards, but I've never tried to have different applications use different cards. Is this doable? Does anybody know where to look for info? Thanks! billo

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How can I use GNOME even after I uninstalled it ?
by Sreyan Chakravarty 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Hi, I have shifted to KDE from GNOME in Fedora using : dnf install @kde-desktop and uninstalled GNOME using: dnf remove @gnome-desktop Now common sense says that I should not be able to use GNOME any more. *But,* *I can seemingly log into GNOME from SDDM. * The option still works, how ?? How is this possible? *Does SDDM emulate GNOME ? Or did I not remove it from my system ?* Can someone shed some light on this weirdness ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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Swap still not activated on later kernels
by Sreyan Chakravarty 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

The bug still persists. I am on Fedora 32 and just upgraded to the latest 5.8 kernel. I am still getting the error of my swap file being failed to be activated, and as a result I have no swap space after boot. I use a swap file and not a swap partition. This problem is carried over from the 5.7 kernel, I reported it over here. It still exists in the 5.8 kernel. How do I activate my swap file ? Is there some sort of work around ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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Not enough swap space for hibernation
by Sreyan Chakravarty 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Hi, I have just upgraded to the new 5.8 kernel on Fedora 32. I have also configured my swap as a swap file of 8GB. But when I try to hibernate using the following command: $ systemctl hibernate Failed to hibernate system via logind: Not enough swap space for hibernation I have no idea why this is happening when I have 8GB of free swap space : $ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.7Gi 1.6Gi 4.1Gi 269Mi 2.0Gi 5.6Gi Swap: 8.0Gi 0B 8.0Gi My RAM is also 8GB. Any ideas ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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