Tag Archives: Fedora

Fedora 29 / pgadmin4.3 Bug: ‘psycopg2.extensions.Column’ object has no attribute ‘_asdict’

There’s a bit of a lag in the Fedora RPMs from PostgreSQL’s repositories, so I thought I’d post this up in case anyone else out there runs into the error message in the subject of this post. To fix it … Continue reading

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Possible Bug: lvm2-2.02.175-1.fc27

So I just updated this package and rebooted my system.  I encountered an interesting issue where one of my guest domain refused to start.  Initial investigation of the system journal revealed messages like: systemd-udevd[775]:  seq 3711 ‘/devices/virtual/block/dm-21’ is taking a … Continue reading

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Installing Discord on Fedora 27

This guy solved the blank screen issue. Just thought I’d throw another pointer out there on the Interwebs.

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Fedora, Firefox 52, and NPAPI Plug-Ins

Quick Fix Up Front: Open up Firefox 52, navigate to about:config. Right click and add a boolean configuration variable named “plugin.load_flash_only” and set it to False. Restart Firefox 52 A Brief Write-Up: So, Firefox 52 was just pushed to Fedora … Continue reading

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FreeBSD and OpenZFS Enable Scientific Discovery: How Long Do Seagate Hard Disks Live?

Ok, I don’t usually post little “yay for me” articles ’round here, but I’ve been buried in work to the point of not being able to post much at all so at the risk of taking a solid step in … Continue reading

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Fedora, NFS Home Directories, and You: Proprietary NVidia Driver Edition

Well that was one hell of a circuitous problem solving tale of woe.  So here’s the rundown: After some upgrades, I ran into the following slew of errors on reboot (in reverse chronological order): Jan 31 23:31:48 gdm[1217]: GLib: g_hash_table_find: … Continue reading

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Potential Resolution for Remmina Error ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x2000D]

If you attempt to connect to a Windows 7 workstation using the RDP protocol TLS security, you may encounter the following error information from Remmina: Dec 30 21:25:00 hostname remmina.desktop[4836]: [21:25:00:443] [4836:5478] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] – freerdp_set_last_error ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x2000D] Dec 30 21:25:00 … Continue reading

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Bug Report: mutter.3.22.2-1.fc25 Breaks GDM and GNOME for Proprietary NVidia Drivers

MAN.  That took hours to figure out.  I simply ran a dnf upgrade on my Fedora 25 system (using an NVidia GeForce GTX 960 with the proprietary drivers) and, when it rebooted, I was greeted with a failure to start … Continue reading

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Adding a New Boot Disk in Fedora 23 with UEFI

Well THAT was a hell of a learning experience.  You know, I spent all this time learning about GRUB 2, the MBR, and bootloader operation in general, and just when I thought I really had the bootloader stuff down, I … Continue reading

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Upgrading a KVM/QEMU Windows Guest Domain to Windows 10

You are likely to run into the following error during the upgrade process: Windows 10 installation failed in SAFE_OS phas with error during boot The error code reported to you when you reboot the system and it rolls back changes … Continue reading

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