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TPM control
by Whenow 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

I got a new computer (8GB RAM, 64-bit, AMD Ryzen 5 3550h) & managed to install Fedora 30 on it. I want to gain control of the TPM and began following https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/configure-and-use-your-tpm-modu… for guidance. TPM does show up in the BIOS as enabled but I can't set anything about it. # dmesg | grep -i tpm gives [ 0.000000] efi: ACPI=0x8f7fe000 ACPI 2.0=0x8f7fe014 ESRT=0x8e60b998 SMBIOS=0x8e607000 SMBIOS 3.0=0x8e605000 MEMATTR=0x7e2d4018 TPMEventLog=0x7516e018 [ 0.005638] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000008F7D0000 000034 (v04 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000002 1025 00040000) # systemctl status tcsd gives ● tcsd.service - TCG Core Services Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tcsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-02-27 09:30:15 PST; 26min ago Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting TCG Core Services Daemon... Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain tcsd[959]: TCSD TDDL[959]: TrouSerS ioctl: (25) Inappropriate ioctl for device Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain tcsd[959]: TCSD TDDL[959]: TrouSerS Falling back to Read/Write device support. Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain tcsd[959]: TCSD TCS[959]: TrouSerS ERROR: TCS GetCapability failed with result = 0x1e Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: tcsd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=30/n/a Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: tcsd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 27 09:30:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start TCG Core Services Daemon. No idea what this really means. whereis tcsd gives tcsd: /usr/sbin/tcsd /etc/tcsd.conf /usr/share/man/man8/tcsd.8.gz so I have tcsd, it just isn't talking with the TPM, apparently. # systemctl enable tcsd gives no response, apparently succeeds. # tpm_version gives Tspi_Context_Connect failed: 0x00003011 - layer=tsp, code=0011 (17), Communication failure This is my first rodeo with TPM and I'm trying to gain control over it so I can reinstall an OS and boot live disks and such and not be banned from doing so by my computer. What's wrong with TPM & how do I gain control over it? Thanks.

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XTerm font resource
by Dave Close 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Fedora 31 xterm-351-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm If I open an xterm window and use the menu to select the "Small" font, I like the result. But I can't seem to find the proper command options to get that result immediately, without the need to use the menu. The font I find from "appres XTerm xterm | grep -i VT100.font3" is "6x10" but that is certainly not what I see in the xterm window. Applying the result of "appres XTerm xterm | grep -i VT100.utf8Fonts.font3" using the xterm option "-fa '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1'" gets a smaller version of the font which appears when selecting "Small". Adding the "-fs 9.0" option gets a font that appears to be identical but isn't as crisp. Examining both with xmag shows that mine has a lot of half-tones but the one that comes up with "Small" doesn't. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? What options can I use on a command line to get the same font as selecting "Small" with the xterm menu? -- Dave Close

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gnome bluetooth?
by Tom Horsley 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

The gnome-control-center bluetooth page consistently tells me there is no bluetooth device on the system. The bluetoothctl command line tool, not only found the bluetooth on the motherboard, but allowed me to pair a keyboard successfully (which I am typing on now). (via a series of absolute gibberish commands I don't understand, but copied off a web page :-). Is gnome bluetooth support really that useless, or am I missing some obscure deamon it needs to run?

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Password trouble
by Beartooth 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

I had set my wife an account on one of my computers recently, a Thinkpad E-series using MATE User Manager under F31. I suppose I may have failed to set her password, though I doubt that intensely. This is a machine that never leaves my desk, despite being a laptop. I typed in her usual password for logging in; I got this: su - tslg You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced) New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a dictionary word su: Authentication token manipulation error Just for the record, it consists of first letters of a line of poetry, and does not resemble any word in any of the several languages I know. (The app is probably just complaining of the length.) Nor had I enforced any such requirement, nor would I. useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even root to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is Suppose I try the obvious: delete and re-add her. (She has not yet touched this particular machine, so the account is still empty.) Will she or I then be able to set the password she chooses? I don't mind an OS warning me of hazards I can judge better than it can; but I do take it amiss to be forbidden something trivial. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is

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f31,kde :: dolphin autostarting without being requested
by Adrian Sevcenco 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi! Some time ago, after some updates, i started to have the dolphin auto starting a window with my $HOME. This is not related to File Manager setting as my default is Konqueror.. Did anyone encounter anything similar? Any idea what is going on? Thanks! Adrian

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knotes, kaddressbook, korganizer
by Walter Cazzola 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Dear Fedora Experts, I've just completed the migration of my Linux box from Fedora 23 to 31 but I still have some problems in "importing" my old korganizer, knotes and kaddressbook data. I usually use the akonadi to import all of them through the akonadi applet I was used to find in my system tray (aknoaditray, I suppose) but it seems that it is not there anymore. At least in my fresh installed Fedora 31. Do I missed to install something or something has changed with the newest version? Currently what it is installed about akonadi is:  rpm -qa | grep -i akonadi kf5-akonadi-server-mysql-19.04.3-4.fc31.x86_64 kf5-pimcommon-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-akonadi-server-19.04.3-4.fc31.x86_64 akonadi-1.13.0-114.fc31.x86_64 kf5-akonadi-search-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-mailimporter-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 akonadi-import-wizard-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-akonadi-contacts-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-akonadi-calendar-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-akonadi-notes-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-libkdepim-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.14.10-34.fc31.x86_64 kf5-kmailtransport-akonadi-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 kf5-akonadi-mime-19.04.3-2.fc31.x86_64 Any idea? Walter --

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Shutdown not working on Fedora 31 with XFCE
by Meikel 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi folks, when I shutdown my Fedora 31 XFCE via the menu, the system goes down, and then after one or two seconds automatically restarts. What I' ve to do as a work-around to shut the system down is to log into a console and type "sudo halt" which halts the system. When a message indicates that the system is halted I then power the machine off. Any ideas why a shutdown via menu doesn' t work? Regards, Meikel

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F31 in Virtual box no shared folders available
by Peter Boy 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

I’m running Fedora in VirtualBox on a Mac. With F31, shared folder don’t work for me. I use the guest additions Fedora is providing. They are obviously installed automatically now when VirtualBox is detected during installation. The configuration works flawlessly with F30 and CentOS 8 & 7. Do I have to modify something for Fedora 31? Had anybody similar issues (and a solution)? Thanks

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Weird dnf problem... Fixed, but weird.
by Michael H. Warfield 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hey all, Background -- I run a cluster of x86_64, armfp, and aarch64 systems and I use a shared cache on my 100TB NAS for dnf so a package (even if it's a DRPM) only has to be downloaded once. Works pretty damn well for me and I know other people have tried to use (abuse) pkgcacher and socks and straight nfs and others to do this. The dnf maintainers should take note of a need (I've browsed some of the bugzilla reports). There are a few of us out there that want to download rpm files ONCE and avoid beating the sh*t out of the mirrors but don't want to build entire mirror repositories. But that wasn't the cause of this problem. It merely tripped over it. IAC, on a couple of my Raspberry Pi systems, I started getting this weird error about an sqlite error in "Generating completion cache..." during many operations. Well, I'm pointed at an alternate cache location but something was seriously wrong here. Just plain dnf was giving me the same error, ignoring the dnf-overlay front-end. Tried all the "dnf clean" options - no joy. Tried "rpm --rebuilddb" - no joy. Finally chased down the error message in the code to this file... /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/generate_completion_cache.py And this line: self.cache_file = "/var/cache/dnf/packages.db" Fancy that. It apparently doesn't obey the caching options in dnf.conf or from the command line. It also doesn't get cleaned in the cleanup operations. Your only option really is to remove that db file and rerun dnf update again to rebuild it and it's cool! I've filed a bug report here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1807238 Mostly, it can be ignored. I'm not sure WHY a bash completion database should be in a hard coded location but I'm not sure what would be better in the local system (maybe something in /var/lib) but it was frustrating to have to chase this thing down in the code when that damn database got corrupted and even worse that dbf could not clean it. In case anyone else gets bit by this... Regards, Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (o) +1 706 850-8773 | mhw(a)WittsEnd.com /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (c) +1 678 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ ARIN whois: MHW9-ARIN | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xC0EB9675674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!

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Mate panel: false error report
by Beartooth 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

I got an F31 message saying Mate-panel had crashed -- and it hadn't. This is on a machine which displays both on its own monitor and on my main one. (Both are behind an HDMI KVM-switch. Each has panels on all four sides, not identical.) The box that popped up the erroneous notice asked for a report, which I started, and then wanted to upload a whole core load, at many MiB and slowly. Stopping the upload killed the popped up box. If the Mate crew really does want all that dump, please tell me how and where to send it, or what to do instead, and I will. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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