I don’t know how many of my regular readers knew him, but he was a founder of the Los Angeles L-5 Society (aka OASIS) back in the late 70s, and he passed yesterday. I’ll have more anon, but if anyone did know him, feel free to comment. I’m in good health, but one contemplates mortality more and more as one’s cohorts pass on.
Category Archives: Administrative
Still On The Road
ISDC is over, and I’m flying to DC in the morning. Driving down to Norfolk from there on Thursday to do a presentation on equatorial LEO at CRASTE. But I’ll have more time to check in this week once I’m ensconced there. I heard something about a bomber raid in Iran.
[Monday-afternoon update]
What next with Iran? Ten questions from VDH.
On The Road Again
I’m heading off to Orlando for the International Space Development Conference. I’ll check in from there.
Light And Scattered Blogging
Patricia and I are going to Cabo San Lucas for a few days. I’ll have my laptop, but don’t know how much time I’ll have to use it. Be good in comments.
On The Road Again
I’m driving up to the Bay Area for the weekend. I’ll try to check in from up there with my laptop, but we’ll be back on Monday evening. Disport yourself civilly in comments.
Light Posting
I’m at O’Hare, changing planes to go to DC for the Satellite Show. Not sure how much time I’ll have for blogging.
Linux Update Problem
When I ‘dnf -y update’ it downloads all the packages, but at the end crashes with this error message:
Importing OpenPGP key 0x7FAC5991:
UserID : “Google, Inc. Linux Package Signing Key linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Importing OpenPGP key 0xD38B4796:
UserID : “Google Inc. (Linux Packages Signing Authority) linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: EB4C1BFD4F042F6DDDCCEC917721F63BD38B4796
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Transaction failed: Signature verification failed.
OpenPGP check for package “google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64” (/var/cache/libdnf5/google-chrome-6ed7e4f336f6863c/packages/google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64.rpm) from repo “google-chrome” has failed: Import of the key didn’t help, wrong key?
Any idea how to tell it to ignore this and just do the other updates? I don’t see any obvious options on “dnf update.”
Thanks for the advice in comments. Unfortunately, I can’t deal with it until I get back from a trip on Friday.
[Friday update]
The problem seems to have resolved itself while I was gone. I updated last night with no issues.
Off The Air
I’m at DFW, on my way to Orlando via West Palm Beach, to attend the Global Spaceport Alliance, Space Mobility, and SpaceCom conferences, so posting will probably be light.
Light Posting
I’m posting this from a Quality Inn in Gallup, NM. We’re on our way to Golden, CO for Thanksgiving. I may post more on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, though, here are some space policy suggestions for the incoming administration from Jeff Greason.
— Jeff Greason (@JeffGreason) November 23, 2024
New Software Problem
When I rebooted my computer into Fedora this morning, it’s not talking to my right monitor. I don’t think it’s a hardware issue, because the BIOS sees both monitors, but when it boots, the monitor says it’s not getting a signal. When I go into settings to look at the display(s), the OS thinks that it only has one monitor. Any ideas?
[Afternoon update]
Apparently it was due to a kernel update. I backed up to the previous kernel and it seems to be working now.
[November 4th update]
Well, I’ve updated kernels several times, and this weekend I upgraded from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41. The problem persists. The OS is clearly having trouble seeing the second monitor. Do I need to replace the video card? How should I diagnose this?
[Bumped]
[Veterans’ Day update]
Well, I got no response from the Fedora Forum. This is what I get when I ixni:
inxi -Fzx
System:
Kernel: 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) v: 3.0
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: H.K0 date: 04/27/2023
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3596 min/max: 550/4208 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3596
2: 3596 3: 3596 4: 3596 5: 3596 6: 3596 7: 3596 8: 3596 9: 3596 10: 3596
11: 3596 12: 3596 bogomips: 86403
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450
/ R5 230 OEM] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2
bus-ID: 2e:00.0 temp: 62.0 C
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600
gpu: radeon resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.6 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 LLVM 19.1.0)
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check –recommends.
Audio:
Device-1: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio driver: snd_cmipci v: kernel
bus-ID: 2a:00.0
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD
6450 / 7450/8450/8490 OEM R5 230/235/235X OEM] vendor: XFX Pine
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2e:00.1
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 30:00.4
API: ALSA v: k6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: off
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 27:00.0
IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 1.08 TiB (52.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Patriot model: Viper M.2 VPN100
size: 238.47 GiB temp: 27.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZAZ-00L9GB0
size: 1.82 TiB temp: 31 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 231.3 GiB used: 38.79 GiB (16.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 515.7 MiB (53.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 1.79 TiB used: 1.04 TiB (58.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 62.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.26 GiB used: 21.5 GiB (68.8%)
Processes: 479 Uptime: 5h 22m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
Packages: 16 note: see –rpm Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32
inxi: 3.3.36
I’ve seen some people say that they solved the problem by upgrading Nvidia drivers, but would that work for a Radeon? Or should I upgrade Radeon drivers? Which one?