Too technical is incorrect sometimes, start with basic – B550-F (wifi) motherboard

After getting Asus B550-F wifi motherboard and coupled with AMD Ryzen 5700G, Fedora never run successful, only with nomodeset.

Specification:
4 x DIMM, Max. 128GB, DDR4 5000(O.C)

1 x DisplayPort 1.2 1 x HDMI 2.1

1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x4 mode) * 3 x PCIe 3.0 x1 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 (x16 mode)
2x NVMe
2×2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) support 1024QAM/OFDMA/MU-MIMO Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200

Intel® I225-V 2.5Gb Ethernet
lot of USB ports ncluding USB-C

There was AMD 5700G nomodeset post on Fedora community with issue with it.

Once after bios upgrade to 2432 (2021/08/26), issue become more serious once LAN port failed to hold connection with Linux. after upgrading linux-firmware or kernel, display or LAN issues were still there,
Next steps were following:

• Boot with Fedora/Ubuntu USB – I/O error with NVM,
• Tried Windows 10 and 11, so Windows has NVMe issue as failed to detected nvm during disk partition – NVMe was not detected
• Install on SSD with SATA, installation was successful, but LAN port appeared to off soon after reboot, after upgrading drivers from various google results for Intel LAN port issues.

Contact with Asus support and decided to send motherboard for repair (with one way courier charges), yesterday I got B550-F (wifi), which was replaced and revision 3 (so with fixed Intel LAN).
Assembled in same setup, LAN port failed to work with previous Sata SSD, nvme failed to detected, but so only troubleshooting part was CPU, PSU and RAM. RAM made no difference.

After changing PSU 450W bronze certified with 750W Gold certified, all problems were gone, Although minimum required power supply was 350W.

Windows booted, fresh installed on NVM without error or LAN issue.
Fedora installed without no I/O errors during boot and no graphics issue.

nomdeset removed successfully and Fedora 35 and rawhide is working successfully.

• GUI is working
• LAN connection stable
• No more NVMe errors during boot.

Solution: PSU replacement, so it was hardware issue, but not motherboard for me

Day with Cloud Testing….

Trying to help Cloud QA by testing.

Searched Failed QA Jobs at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/autocloud/jobs/

While checking output, test case showed Passed 2 at the end, but actual build was failed with error

—-

192.168.121.35 22 vagrant /run/tunir/.vagrant/machines/tunirserver/libvirt/private_key
[Errno 113] No route to host
----

during debug and running test locally, I was getting same error while 
running everything manually and one step every-time. 

 

Created Ticket for Build failed as this build is continuously failed

 

updating….

 

Channel: #fedora-cloud

Fedora 19 i18n and Translation Test day

Fedora 19 Alpha released and it is best time to test translation and i18n feature, so that bugs can be timely fixed before release.

FLTG  team providing support for Translation Test Day and I18N Test Day by add, review test cases, search features and communicate between various groups.

for Translation Test Day, we add few more gnome applications (like gnome-initial setup) and remove features those are no more available or default in Fedora 19 (like ibus, which is not part of gnome desktop). Translation Test Matrix is improved, while Report Page and Feedback page is created. Anaconda, have major in-complete translation for almost in all language, while gnome-initial-setup, gnome-clock etc application those are new in gnome-3.8 are also have English interface.

Fedora i18n Test Day (May 02, 2013) is upcoming, where tester can get time to review feature for gnome-ibus integration, new shortcuts to Enable/Disable input (check i18n Meeting log for detail).

Major Rendering issue for Indic locales detected (Hindi, Punjabi confirmed and bug already filed) during pre-test activity. Actually this issue already reported for Anaconda (lorax) here, but but with gnu-free-fonts have bugs for Indic locales and set default for Monospace instead of Lohit fonts (as lohit is no monospace), now gnome desktop effecting by this. During i18n Meeting it was found that Either disable gnu-free-fonts for Indic language (those are effected), which is easy way or disable monospace for Indic

virtual machine’s network problem with fedora 16

facing issue with network in virtual machines (with virt-manager) in Fedora 16. It was always failed to boot. There is work around:-

$systemctl status dnsmasq.service

$systemctl stop dnsmasq.service

$systemctl disable dnsmasq.service

now virt-manager will be happy.

some of bug fixes for fedora 16 before release

during regular use of pre-release system, it is really good to know that something is fixed quickly. Lokalize is major application for translation. I am using gnome 3 on desktop and there were two major bugs from last week.

1) QT applications failed to select properly, when using in gnome -shell (Bug  ) – FIXED with qt-4.8.0-0.17.rc1.fc16

2)  ibus failed to work with gnome and kde (all applications) with Ctrl+Space (Bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746869) – FIXED with ibus-1.4.0-4.fc16

If you are using Pre-Release system, then please update ASAP to get those updates with yum

Kpackagekit – > apper:

recently kpackagekit moved to apper. Now Fedora 16 has apper as GUI of packagekit for KDE desktop. While new interface has various new feature, but there are still some bug exist (I am tester, so feature you can look here yourself).

Fuzzy Strings in apper: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747518

??? instead of Translation in kpackagekit: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676488

XKB keyboard layouts and IBus:

While integration of IBus with gnome continue in Fedora 16 (from Fedora 15). Fedora 16 has bug for Indic locales that there duplicate entries in IBus Preference menu regarding keyboard layouts like

Hindi Inscript (m17n)

Hindi  – Which is from XKB and basically inscript

So there are two problem:

1) XKB has no detail about layout, it is just saying “HINDI”

2) it is already exist in m17n-contrib and people are using with iBus from long time. So there are two layouts for same purpose.

if you have any comment please update bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747507

It was busy day as Fedora QA team member, there are around 2 new bug files, both were duplicate, Fedora i18 Meeting has great discussion regarding bugs and i18n/translation release-criteria (Fedora i18n Meeting log)

grub2 recovery for Fedora 16

 

Previously ‘grub’ was installed. With Fedora 16 upgrade I thought to try ‘grub2’. grub and grub2 had package conflict, for which I need to remove ‘grub’ package before installing grub2. After installing grub2, there were few configurations, which I need to made to work it properly (I learnt that later after failing to boot and using rescue mode)

1) install grub2 as following

$ yum remove grub -y

$yum install grub2 –y

2) you need to create grub.cfg file manually with following command (and it is not in /etc/grub(2).cfg)

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

(it detected Windows, Linux (Fedora, Linux Mint) automatically and added to configuration file)

3) install grub2 to MBR

grub2-install /dev/sda

Now it is complete and showing many kernel with Windows and Linux Mint.

Fedora GRUB2 Link

connect virtualization fedora server from ubuntu client

I was trying to access Fedora Virtualization server with qmeu+ssh from Ubuntu client

Server: Fedora 15 (running libvirtd)

Client: virt-manager connect with Server

1) install virt-manager to client

2)  Add connection  (File->Add Connection)

3)  Select ‘connect to Remote Host’ and select ssh with host IP or Address

if you get error like

—

Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.

Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://root@XX.XX.XX.XX/???

Verify that:
 – The ‘libvirt-bin’ package is installed
 – The ‘libvirtd’ daemon has been started
 – That you have access to ‘/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock’

—

then try following workaround:

—

ssh-copy-id -i /home/USER/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@XX.XX.XX.XX

(you may need to create Key with ssh-keygen -t rsa)

 

After doing this you need to DELETE old connection (virt-manager) and Add connection, otherwise it will not work

Sony YB with AMD Fusion

Yesterday got a chance to use Sony YB Series laptop, which is using AMD Fusion (AMD Link)  technology with APU (CPU+GPU)

Specification:

AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 with AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 Discrete-Class Graphics (detailed Benchmark by Notebooknet)

11.6 inch wide (WXGA: 1366×768) TFT colour display (VAIO Display, LED backlight)

Compact and light weight: 1.46 kg

Isolation keyboard for comfortable typing

HDMI Output

2 GB (2 GB x 1) DDR3 SDRAM

HDD 320 GB (Serial ATA, 5400 rpm)

AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 Graphics (detailed Benchmark by Notebooknet)

Touchpad (Gesture supported)

 

 

Performance is Good enough to say Powerful netbook and also can be Normal Laptop. with 11.6 inch screen and 1366×768 resolution, it is quite easy to use as Main laptop. Battery life is quite impressive when compare with older AMD Mobile CPU.

Windows Index score 3.7, lowest with CPU, Graphics (with Aero) 4.1

 

Detailed Index is below

 

If HDD changed with SSD, then Windows start time and Application start time can be improved

Linux: I tried Linux Mint 10 and Fedora Rawhide (Live)

Linux Mint run smooth, but Detected Screen was 1028×800

Fedora Rawhide detected correct Screens size (1366×768), but not work (due to broken packages in pre-Alpha release)

Update:

Fedora 14 – Display works (but @1080×800), bug 675177 reported, wireless works

Linux Mint installed – Display works properly with Non-Free Driver (from ATI), Wireless works out of Box, Touchpad and Sound is not working (headphone works)

 

lokalize Junk data with qt 4.7.1 – workaround 2 (fedora)

when lokalize crash problem was fixed, then New problem arrived – Junk data in translated field

(check video here)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run lokalize with translation file (PO file)
2. input something in local language (other than English)
3. Use BackSpace to delete some (not all)
5. Page Down (Move to next string)
6. Page Up (Move back to original String


Actual results:
Junk data inserted in text field automatically, which is not typed

Expected results:
Only Text should be there, which is typed, works fine with BackSpace

KDE bug 249373, kde-i18n mailing list discussion

OpenSUSE, kbuntu and Arch Linux user confirmed that problem.

Fedora workaround for this is below (on Fedora 14):
1) yum remove qt (it will remove whole kde, will not effect much if you are using other than KDE desktop)
2) yum remove kdelibs-common
3) Disable fedora-updates.repo (/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo)  (enabled=0)
4) yum install kdesdk (or other package which you want to install for kde)

Now your lokalize should work normal (qt-4.7.0-3.fc14.x86_64 from fedora 14 Released repo), but note 
that you are not going to get any update for your system (which includes security fixes also)

Nokia provide fix (Crash issue) for qt-4.7.2, but that patch was backport to 4.7.1 for many
distribution. Nobody respond to bug yet (from Nokia).

					

lokalize crash with qt 4.7.1 – workaround

lokalize is crashing from last few weeks in latest qt-4.7.1

Fedora Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660028

Upstream KDE Bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249373

Nokia qt bug: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15659

for Fedora, you need to downgrade your ‘qt’ packages for ‘qt-4.7.0-8′ or eariler,

which you can download from Koji or Simple way is:

$yum downgrade qt*

meanwhile

lokalize is crashing from last few weeks in latest qt-4.7.1.

Fedora Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660028

Upstream KDE Bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249373

Nokia qt bug: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15659

for Fedora, you need to downgrade your ‘qt’ packages for ‘qt-4.7.0-8’ or eariler,

which you can download from Koji or Simple way is:

$yum downgrade qt*

meanwhile Kevin Kofler confirm that qt is fixed by upstream (commit). So fix should be available in

fedora soon.