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Question on bad links?
by Michael D. Setzer II 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

I've run this little script from time to time in / find . -xtype l >/badlinks 2>ERR grep -v '/proc\|/run' </badlinks >/badlinks-clean At present ends up with other 300 lines in the badlinks-clean Cleaned up a number of bad lines in a jre directory that seemed to be left over stuff from fc27 to fc33? Nothing from fc34?? and the reset were the currect fc35 files I have on system. Seems things that just got left?? Not sure if it is coming to have these on a system? Wonder if someone with a lot more knowledge than I have might know best option. Just leave them, remove some, remove all? Figured the ones in /proc and /run should be left alone?? Thanks. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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No sound after update
by andreas.fournier＠runbox.com 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Today I updated the software on my Fedora 36 and now there is no sound. I used Gnome Software to update. Neither VLC nor Firefox produces sound. In Settings -> Sound -> Output there are two values under Output Device, both saying HDMI/DisplayPort - Built-in Audio. No difference between them, when using the Test functionality both stay silent. Any advice?

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Re: Noto fonts - ugly and unreadable for everyone or just me?
by Richard W.M. Jones 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 08:29:52PM +0800, Lily White wrote: > Also, please attach a screenshot so we'll know if it's actually a > problem or a personal taste issue. http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/ugly.png > And don't forget to go to the test list. The same thing would apparently happen on F36. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v

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Noto fonts - ugly and unreadable for everyone or just me?
by Richard W.M. Jones 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

So I upgraded from Fedora 35-ish to 37 recently, and the most obvious thing is the change to Google Noto fonts (https://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts) Wow oh wow, are these fonts ugly and unreadable for everyone or is it just a peculiarity of my system or of the upgrade process? I have mostly been able to switch applications back to DejaVu fonts, but I still can't work out how to get XFCE and Firefox to restore readable fonts for the window decorations, menus and URL bar. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

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FYI: Microsoft broke secureboot in qemu-based VMs
by Sam Varshavchik 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

It is possible to run qemu VMs that emulate EFI and secureboot well enough for Windows to boot. This is still true, technically. Windows will boot. But it will not update reliably anymore. Microsoft broke it, ostensibly for "security reasons". Microsoft released a Windows update that will not install on qemu EFI VMs: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-kb5012170-secure-boo… dbx-update-may-fail-with-0x800f0922-error/ I was scratching my head, trying to figure out why this update won't install. A search on the cryptic error code brought up some random crap that wasted a ton of my time, doing things like resizing my system partition, almost bricking my VM (typical MS-Windows noise). Only after I got the bright idea of searching for both the error code and the update code itself did I find this article, and digging further found this: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/discussions/3221 There's still a lot of things I don't understand. What is being blacklisted, exactly, here. The OVMF RPM – to the best of my understanding – is emulated hardware. How does running some PowerShell voodoo end up updating (emulated) hardware? And if it's not a magical hardware update, yammers about an update to the bootloader on the EFI system partition. Except that (at least in my case), the bootloader should be Microsoft's own bootloader, since I used Micorosoft's own tools to convert my BIOS Windows VM to an EFI one (mbr2gpt, that's how I was able to get a working EFI Windows VM). But the bottom line: this is now broken. Just an FYI…

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backup tips: dump/restore
by Bill Cunningham 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Hello all, Some time back I asked for opinions on backups. I had a lot of good opinions. I tried to backup some directories with dump. Which seemed to me to be quick and for what I was altogether looking for, for ext 2/3, pretty good. A 16GB filesystem was copied to a level 0 dump at around 1.5 GB. So it seems. I have several favorites, but in regards to dump, for those that are familiar with it; I did a level 0 dump and before I try restoring an erased partition I though I would clean up a few questions. As far at the partition's bootsector, would that happen to be in the dump file? And I am pretty sure partition table entries or any of the MBR are not saved. Timestamps and uuid type data of course I would not see to be saved. Although on my fstab, I use simple /dev/sdXX entries (/dev/sda1) not uuids. device.map might have to be regenerated too to get a booting system. I did not leave out anything system wise specifically by cli options. /var, /sys, /run, /tmp, /proc I am assuming are in the level 0 dump. The switches I used were: dump -0uv -e {some inode directory entries, not system specific} -f dmp Any tips on what I should save or expect to need to change when restoring this? BC

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Re: backup tips: dump/restore
by Bill Cunningham 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

On 9/16/2022 6:34 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > On 9/16/2022 5:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 17:07 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: >>> As far at the partition's bootsector, would that happen to be in >>> the dump file? And I am pretty sure partition table entries or any of >>> the MBR are not saved. >> dump operates on filesystems, not disks, so it knows nothing about >> partition tables, boot sectors etc. >> >> poc > > I kind of thought that. I know it only works on the extended > filesystems. I would have to enter partition data into the 16 byte > entry field of the partition table manually, through fdisk or such. As > far as writing a new BS formatting extX partition of course would take > care of that. Other tweaks to the system would be what's concerning. > Things like UUIDs especially with the root directory would be where I > would get hung. Since I have no other users it would be a little more > simple. IDK if anyone has done or does this so I thought I would ask > for tips. I can scratch around online line for bits and pieces too of > things. > > BC >

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Askfedora
by belaz＠tuta.io 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Hi there! What the shit is going on with Askfedora? I've registered on Fedoraproject, but when I try to login to Askfedora with my credentials, it gives me some crap about expired authentication token. Although I'm not logged in and can't have any token, let alone expired. -- I'm using Tutanota - the end-to-end encrypted email service

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AnyOne on this list using Fedora Project Silverblue or Project Discourse silverblue
by Jack Craig 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

i have been using lists.fedoraproject.org. for support F20 -> F34 My platform environment is a small home system. i just read about Fedora 36/silverblue (immutable) & my inclination is to install silverblue, add flatpak's, and move on to verify F36 silverblue i also have a list of necessary application files for F36, that I need to verify before I move on. these include: Firefox including F36 OS +utils bash shell +(.XXX) OSB->studio pipewire audio http/https certbot ffmpeg image view files perl zoom My questions include; is anyone on this list using the silver blue desktop app? If yes, then... how easy is it to recover to an earlier version backup/reinstall user files how stable are the bind & activity logs how stable is Fedora 36 (silverblue) ?? would you recommend a migration to F36 silverblue now or wait for awhile?? tia, jackc...

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email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?
by stan 15 Sep '22

15 Sep '22

Hi, I just saw this article via Pocket in firefox, https://www.vox.com/recode/23332959/email-tracking-privacy and I wondered if that is an issue in fedora. It seems that in order for such tracking to work, it has to have the cooperation of the operating system, or at least the mail client. And, I would think that open source mail clients don't allow that. Am I right?

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