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Fedora – Easier ‘Fix’ for F28 Wine..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 22, 2018 by RGJune 22, 2018

Wine on Fedora 28 is still broken with some windows apps, and to avoid having to individually download and then run RPM on a series of F27 wine rpms, it is possible to use dnf to do the update/replacement with the – working – Fedora 27 versions. # dnf update *wine* –releasever=27 –allowerasing –best This only works … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, fix, Linux, Opinion | Tagged dnf, fedora 28, fix, wine, wine f27 | 2 Replies

VMware – New Version of 4.18-rc1 ‘cmdline’ Patch..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 20, 2018 by RGJune 20, 2018

As expected, there is another version of the cmdline patch for Kernel 4.18-rc1 – this time from Linus himself.. at  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.2/03011.html I have applied this, and – as with the previous version –  VMware now behaves correctly.. I should mention that is is not a good idea to try to copy/paste patches from a website newsgroup listing, … Continue reading →

Posted in fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, Opinion, patches, Performance, VMware | Tagged cmdline bug, fix, kernel 4.18-rc1, new patch, vmware | 3 Replies

Fedora – F28 GCC 8 Now OK with Kernel 4.16.7, and fix for Grub-Customizer..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 2, 2018 by RGMay 2, 2018

Tried Kernel 4.16.7 on Fedora 28 (GCC 8.0.1), and this now compiles successfully, although still with a lot of ‘warnings’.. I use grub-customizer with each new kernel, and the F28 version of this fails: # grub-customizer Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18) *** initializing (w/o specified bootloader type)… * reading partition info… /usr/include/c++/8/bits/basic_string.h:1048: std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, compilation, Fedora, fix, gcc, kernel, Linux | Tagged fedora 28, fix, gcc 8, grub-customizer abort, ok with kernel 4.16.7 | 1 Reply

Linux – Dual-Boot Nasty Hack..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 14, 2018 by RGMarch 14, 2018

I am setting up an HP Z820 as – primarily – a video creating/editing/restoring system, but I need to be able to boot into Windows 7 Pro (for Vegas Pro, AviSynth, Prodrenalin, Mercalli, etc. etc..) and Linux (Fedora)..   I had set up dual-boot systems before, and I am still using Windows 7 Pro SP1, but this time … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, dual-boot, Fedora, fix, grub, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, quirks, UEFI, Win 7 | Tagged dual-boot, fedora entry missing, fix, grub2, hack, linux, substitute, success, uefi, windows 7, z820 | Leave a reply

Linux – Dual-Boot Nasty Hack..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 14, 2018 by RGMarch 14, 2018

I am setting up an HP Z820 as – primarily – a video creating/editing/restoring system, but I need to be able to boot into Windows 7 Pro (for Vegas Pro, AviSynth, Prodrenalin, Mercalli, etc. etc..) and Linux (Fedora)..   I had set up dual-boot systems before, and I am still using Windows 7 Pro SP1, but this time … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, dual-boot, Fedora, fix, grub, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, quirks, UEFI, Win 7 | Tagged dual-boot, fedora entry missing, fix, grub2, hack, linux, substitute, success, uefi, windows 7, z820 | Leave a reply

VMware – Fix for Kernel 4.15-rc1..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on November 27, 2017 by RGNovember 27, 2017

Thanks – again – to mkubecek, there is now a fix for VMware 14.0.0 and Kernel 4.15 – and details are here:   https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commit/562121d7bc06 The fix involves changes to vmmon-only/linux/driver.c and vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c, and a new file: vmmon-only/include/compat_timer.h .    I have tested this on 4.15-rc1, and now vmmon compiles, and vmware loads/runs, correctly. Robert Gadsdon.  November 27, 2017. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, fix, kernel, Linux, VMware | Tagged fix, kernel 4.15-rc1, success, vmmon, vmware 14.0.0 | Leave a reply

Fedora – 26-27 DNF Upgrade Woes, and a Workaround..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on November 15, 2017 by RGNovember 25, 2017

After upgrading four Fedora systems (x86_64) from release 26 to 27, using # dnf system-upgrade download –refresh –releasever=27 –allowerasing –nogpgcheck –best -y, two of these worked OK, but two failed – with a sudden reboot, back to F26 – and no (apparent) error displayed, after # dnf system-upgrade reboot had rebooted the system, and the upgrade process … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, Fedora, fix, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, quirks, success | Tagged 27 upgrade, dnf system-upgrade, fail, fedora, fix, reboot, workaround | 4 Replies

Fedora – Fix for Broken Kodi on Fedora 25

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 18, 2017 by RGJune 18, 2017

More distro-specific than usual posts, but hopefully ‘useful’.. I found that Kodi on Fedora 25 would no longer play M2T/MTS files.    Frustratingly, there was no error shown, or apparent debug clue, but the program just exited without any messages, when playback of one of these file types was selected. After checking associated libraries and not getting any … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Fedora, fix, Kodi, Linux, Opinion | Tagged fedora 25, fix, kodi, latest src rpm, m2t mts files not playing, no error messages, playback problem, rebuild, rpmbuild, success | Leave a reply

VMware – Not Working with Fedora 26 – GCC 7, and Workarounds..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 12, 2017 by RGJuly 16, 2017

UPDATE:  The vmware runtime fix shown here has not worked since version 12.5.6, and the solution is in a later article:  http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992 I have recently updated one crash-and-burn system to Fedora 26 (alpha/testing) and have encountered two problems with VMware and the ‘bleeding edge’ version of GCC included.. The first problem sounded very familiar, and it is a … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, VMware | Tagged fedora 26, fix, gcc 7, gcc 7.0.1, manual compile, vmmon, vmnet, vmware 12.5.3 runtime fails, workarounds | 21 Replies

ARM64 – Odroid C2 – Ethernet Fix, at Last..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on November 10, 2016 by RGNovember 10, 2016

Thanks to Jerome Brunet, there is now a fix for the long-standing Ethernet hang problem on the C2..   Details are here:   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2016-November/001538.html The patch is an attachment – named ‘attachment.bin‘, and so will need to be renamed to something appropriate..     I applied this to the 4.9-rc3-derived version of the C2 patched kernel, from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-amlogic.git/log/?h=v4.10/integ..    There is a … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, ARM64, fix, Hacks, Linux, Linux / ARM, Odroid C2, Opinion, Performance | Tagged arm64, ethernet hang problem, fix, kernel, linux, odroid c2, patch, success | Leave a reply

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