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suspends shutdowns system instead of suspending
by Sudhir Khanger 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

Hi, A new bug has cropped up on my system Dell Precision 5510 running Fedora 25 Plasma Desktop. Anytime I suspend my device it shutdowns and obviously I lose all my unsaved work. I have tried all the kernel currently installed on my system 4.10.10-200.fc25.x86_64, 4.10.9, and 4.10.8. I have also tried downgrading systemd to systemd-231-10.fc25.x86_64. I continue to have the problem. sysinfo - https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/9nY1-YH4IKXt4wJhyIbMGV5M1UNdIGYhyRLiv… dmesg - https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/WK2NAqy3PRxrR6Fze2baIl5M1UNdIGYhyRLiv… What I can do to troubleshoot the problem?

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Fonts in F27
by Gordon Messmer 11 May '18

11 May '18

After upgrading to F27, I noticed that fonts looked "off". I made a screenshot of Thunderbird and gnome-terminal displaying roughly identical contents on Fedora 25, 26, and 27. The older two releases are identical, but F27's fonts (both fixed-width and variable-width) appear to be the same width as they were previously, but taller. Characters like monospace 'o' used to be round and are now oblong. Everything seems slightly heavier as a result of the additional pixels. Does anyone know if this change was intentional? Personally, I think it's worse than before.

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F26 update: gnome-terminal doesn't launch; locale issues
by Mike Zingale 07 May '18

07 May '18

I just did an update from F25 to F26 via dnf. After it boots, I can no longer start gnome terminal (nothing shows). If I ssh into the machine and try it remotely, I see the following: $ gnome-terminal (process:3586): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached So it looks like there is a locale issue in my update. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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how to correctly log without journald (and its blobs)?
by Franta Hanzlík 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

In previous Fedora distros was (IMHO) right way to log only to syslog, without journald and its (for me) unwanted annoying binary logs, by using configuration as: *) Set systemd log target to syslog: systemd.log_target=syslog (syslog-or-kmsg) ---- on kernel cmdline systemd.default_standard_output=syslog --/ and LogTarget=syslog ---- in systemd.conf DefaultStandardOutput=syslog --/ *) configuring rsyslog to listen on /dev/log unix socket: $SystemLogSocketName /dev/log ------ in rsyslog.conf $ModLoad imuxsock ----/ $OmitLocalLogging off ---/ $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/syslog --/(legacy directives) $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/socket -/ $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/stdout / (not sure when all last three directives needed) *) prevent to run journald: systemctl mask systemd-journald.service (and maybe mask systemd-journal-flush.service) And it works fine. But in actual Fedora 24 in systemd man page values syslog-or-kmsg and syslog are missing in LogTarget option. As systemd/journald man pages say hardly anything about exact mean of appropriate configuration for this purpose, then please when someone more knowledgeable can advise: - where to direct the systemd output? Maybe to kmsg an then read it in rsyslog via imklog? (rsyslog should have also imkmsg module, but is not in rsyslog-8.12.0-3.fc24) - what about /run/log/journal/.../system.journal ? On my test F24 system it have open rsyslogd, abrt-dump-journal-oops and abrt-dump-journal-xorg (no need for these last two) processes. Uses it also something else? - what about /run/systemd/journal/{dev-log,socket,stdout} unix sockets? Should rsyslogd listen on them? - /dev/log seems be now symlink to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log socket (as defined by systemd-journald-dev-log.socket) Should it be left (because now something sends to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log), or can be /run/systemd/journal/dev-log removed? Thanks in advance for some clarification about this. Franta Hanzlik

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downloading ALL Packages of a fedora release.
by JD 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

I do understand that robots are not allowed. In my current situation, I would NEED to be able to download all the Packages, save them all on a thumb drive, and make yum use that as the repo, to fix my problems with a non-networked machined.

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how to (re-?)construct grub menu?
by William 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Good afternoon, I found out the rather hard way what caused those boot failure problems that were the subject of a threat starting last month. After my weekly "dnf upgrade" last Thursday, I checked my root e-mail, and found the hard drive had 8 bad sectors, then 16 bad sectors. A smartctl short test showed several parameters "pre-fail", and the others "old-age". I obtained a new drive. My Cray Research friend gave me a USB stick with "Clonezilla-Live-Version" on it. That duplicated the old hard drive onto the new one, but apparently not 100%. After the old drive was removed and the new drive installed, I could not boot. The system was being put into a grub shell(?). (It displayed the "grub> " prompt.) After beating out heads against the wall (or the phone), my Cray research friend gave me another USB stick with "Boot-Repair-Disk" on it. That rebuilt a grub file, but not correctly. But at least I got a grub menu when booting, and I was able to edit the shell that the grub menu entry would run. I had to take the "efi" off the commands "linuxefi" and "initrdefi". That allows me to boot up Fedora. But the menu is missing an entry for windows, and I still have to edit that script every time. I want the grub menu to offer the three most recent patches of Fedora, the most recent Fedora rescue shell, and windows-7, in that order. (This is a dual-boot system.) And I want the shells launched by the menu entries to be correct. How do I get that accomplished - the correct Fedora-25 way? If it matters, the motherboard uses UEFI bios. Thank-you in advance. Bill.

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smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive.
by William Mattison 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Good evening, (f26; Gnome) This past spring, with a lot of help from this list, I replaced the dying hard drive on my home workstation. But when I use the "disks" tool to check the health of the new hard drive, smartmontools continues to report test data from the old drive. I've looked at the smartmontools web site, but I don't see a way of telling smartmontools to update itself to the new drive. I'm a home user with no real sys.admin., OS, or hardware training. So please spell it out clearly, in detail: How do I make smartmontools (and the disks tool) aware of the hard drive replacement and monitor the new hard drive properly? Thank-you in advance. Bill.

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XPS 13 (9360)
by Danishka Navin 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Hi there, Does anyone use Fedora on XPS 13 (9360) [1] ? http://www.dell.com/sg/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?oc=w51785746sgw10&model_id=x… I wonder if device drivers available for this model. Regards, -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin

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Epson XP-860: available printer driver won't print in duplex
by Temlakos 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Everyone: Recently I bought an Epson XP-860, to replace the XP-810 that finally quit on me after many long years of service. But when I went to install a printer driver, I found that duplex printing is simply not available. It might or might not be significant that the recommended printer drivers are Epson XP-820 CUPS/Gutenprint drivers, regular and simplified. I tried installing the Epson Printer Utility from the Epson site. But that doesn't seem to do anything to make full duplex available. Temlakos

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secure boot disabled
by AV 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

I installed Fed 27 on a Dell XPS 13 9370 using Fed 27 Live on a usb stick after deleting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS that came installed on the device. I checked that secure boot + necessary conditions were set to 'enabled' in UEFI. However after install I find 'secure boot disabled'. $ dmesg | grep -i secure [ 0.000000] secureboot: Secure boot disabled [ 5.630671] Loaded UEFI:MokListRT cert 'Fedora Secure Boot CA: fde32599c2d61db1bf5807335d7b20e4cd963b42' linked to secondary sys keyring $ ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/Secure* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5 Jan 31 16:33 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/SecureBoot-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d- 00e098032b8c Can this have anything to do with the fact that this notebook only has Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 (C) ports so that I had to use an adapter cable ? As I did not expect this I did not check what happened under Ubuntu. (Aside from some probably neglectable ACPI hiccups everything else seems to be working OK). AV

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