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Re: XFCE Missing Volume Control Plugin on AlmaLinux 9
by John Thompson 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

On 6/24/25 07:26, David Eric via AlmaLinux Users wrote: > Hi everyone, > I’ve installed AlmaLinux 9 with XFCE on my notebook, but I noticed the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is missing. As a result, I can’t control the system volume directly—only through individual apps like Audacious or Firefox. > I checked EPEL and even enabled epel-testing, but couldn’t find the package. Should I file a request for the plugin in EPEL, or is there a better solution considering AlmaLinux 9 uses PipeWire? > As a temporary fix, I’m considering using pavucontrol, but I’d love to hear how others are handling this. > Thanks in advance! I downloaded the source code for xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin_0.4.8 and built the plugin from that. Not sure why it wasn't included by default. -- -John (JohnDThompson(a)gmail.com) Appleton, WI USA

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XFCE Missing Volume Control Plugin on AlmaLinux 9
by nguyenthuu30031999＠gmail.com 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

Hi everyone, I’ve installed AlmaLinux 9 with XFCE on my notebook, but I noticed the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is missing. As a result, I can’t control the system volume directly—only through individual apps like Audacious or Firefox. I checked EPEL and even enabled epel-testing, but couldn’t find the package. Should I file a request for the plugin in EPEL, or is there a better solution considering AlmaLinux 9 uses PipeWire? As a temporary fix, I’m considering using pavucontrol, but I’d love to hear how others are handling this. Thanks in advance!

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Autofs: too many open files issue
by Carles Acosta Silva 31 May '25

31 May '25

Hi, We are running AlmaLinux 9.3 on several nodes that normally use autofs to mount different kinds of remote directories. Since the last week, we are seeing these errors: automount[2150866]: open_pipe:161: failed to open pipe: Too many open files And automount stops working. It does not seem that any user has arrived at the maximum number of open files. Do you have any idea where we can look to find a solution? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Carles

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Re: tftp not working on almalinux 9
by Gerald Vogt 31 May '25

31 May '25

On 20.05.25 15:31, Jerry Geis via AlmaLinux Users wrote: > Hi - > > I followed these steps: > https://computingforgeeks.com/setup-tftp-server-on-centos-rhel-rocky- > linux/ <https://computingforgeeks.com/setup-tftp-server-on-centos-rhel- > rocky-linux/> Don't do that. Those instructions are often from people who really don't understand what they are doing. Step 2 messes everything totally up. Someone doesn't understand how systemd works and how to overwrite unit files... > now I get this: > systemctl status tftp-server.service > × tftp-server.service - Tftp Server > Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tftp-server.service; enabled; > preset: disabled) > Active: failed (Result: resources) > TriggeredBy: ○ tftp-server.socket > Docs: man:in.tftpd > CPU: 0 > > May 20 08:27:27 VMWare.lsi.com <http://VMWare.lsi.com> systemd[1]: tftp- > server.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit tftp- > server.socket has a bad unit file setting. As the error says: your tftp-server.socket is broken. Which probably comes because of step 2 above. # systemctl cat tftp-server.socket will show the content of the active configuration. > May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com <http://VMWare.lsi.com> systemd[1]: tftp- > server.service: Got no socket. > May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com <http://VMWare.lsi.com> systemd[1]: tftp- > server.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Invalid argument > May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com <http://VMWare.lsi.com> systemd[1]: tftp- > server.service: Failed with result 'resources'. > May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com <http://VMWare.lsi.com> systemd[1]: > Failed to start Tftp Server. > > > this is my file after removing start arguments: > more tftp-server.service > [Unit] > Description=Tftp Server > Requires=tftp-server.socket > Documentation=man:in.tftpd > > [Service] > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot > StandardInput=socket > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > Also=tftp-server.socket > > STill does not start. Yes. Changing that file doesn't make sense either. The tftp-server.socket unit is broken. > What are the correct steps for setting up TFTP . The correct steps are fairly simple: # dnf -y install tftp-server # systemctl enable --now tftp.socket That's all what is necessary to get it running. After it's running, make necessary changes if you need something different. But that's done via the standard systemd overrides and not by putting different files with different names into /etc/systemd/system... I would recommend in your current setup to remove those copied files # /bin/rm /etc/systemd/system/tftp-server.service # /bin/rm /etc/systemd/system/tftp-server.socket # systemctl daemon-reload # systemctl enable --now tftp.socket And then check if you can access it... -Gerald

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Re: Virtualbox fail with new almalinux kernel
by John Thompson 22 May '25

22 May '25

On 5/22/25 11:45, John Thompson via AlmaLinux Users wrote: > My almalinux-9.6 just updated to kernel 5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6.x86_64 #1 > and Virtualbox can no longer load my virtual machines, failing with this > error: > > VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel > extension, recompile your kernel and reboot > > Anybody else seeing this? Following up on this, using rmmod to unload the kvm and kvm_intel kernel modules allows VirtualBox to load my virtual machines, but that still begs the question "why did this happen?" Looking at the .config files for the current and older kernels I have on my almalinux machine (5.14.0-503.38.1.el9_5.x86_64, 5.14.0-503.40.1.el9_5.x86_64, and 5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6.x86_64), I see that CONFIG_X86_VMX_FEATURE_NAMES=y and CONFIG_VMXNET3=m are set in all of them, so why does it fail with VirtualBox only in the latest kernel? And does almalinux support a module blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d to prevent the kvm modules from loading in future reboots? -- -John (JohnDThompson(a)gmail.com) Appleton, WI USA

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Virtualbox fail with new almalinux kernel
by John Thompson 22 May '25

22 May '25

My almalinux-9.6 just updated to kernel 5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6.x86_64 #1 and Virtualbox can no longer load my virtual machines, failing with this error: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot Anybody else seeing this? -- -John Thompson (johndthompson(a)gmail.com) Appleton WI USA

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Re: Install sox in 9.6
by Stephen John Smoogen 21 May '25

21 May '25

On Wed, 21 May 2025 at 08:39, Jerry Geis via AlmaLinux Users < users(a)lists.almalinux.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I do the following command to install sox and get an error: >> >> yum install sox >> Last metadata expiration check: 0:13:27 ago on Wed May 21 08:00:40 2025. >> No match for argument: sox >> Error: Unable to find a match: sox >> >> what? how do I install sox ? I tried dnf also >> >> Jerry >> >> > I did this: > yum install epel-release > yum install sox > > > my apologies for the email saying to do the above.. I didn't get this email until after I sent my reply. > that seemed to work > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > AlmaLinux Users mailing list -- users(a)lists.almalinux.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.almalinux.org > -- Stephen J Smoogen. Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren

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Re: Install sox in 9.6
by Stephen John Smoogen 21 May '25

21 May '25

On Wed, 21 May 2025 at 08:15, Jerry Geis via AlmaLinux Users < users(a)lists.almalinux.org> wrote: > I do the following command to install sox and get an error: > > yum install sox > Last metadata expiration check: 0:13:27 ago on Wed May 21 08:00:40 2025. > No match for argument: sox > Error: Unable to find a match: sox > > what? how do I install sox ? I tried dnf also > > The package sox has not been built for the base EL operating systems but is available in the EPEL repository. Please try the following: dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb dnf install epel-release dnf install sox > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > AlmaLinux Users mailing list -- users(a)lists.almalinux.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.almalinux.org > -- Stephen J Smoogen. Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren

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Install sox in 9.6
by Jerry Geis 21 May '25

21 May '25

I do the following command to install sox and get an error: yum install sox Last metadata expiration check: 0:13:27 ago on Wed May 21 08:00:40 2025. No match for argument: sox Error: Unable to find a match: sox what? how do I install sox ? I tried dnf also Jerry

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tftp not working on almalinux 9
by Jerry Geis 20 May '25

20 May '25

Hi - I followed these steps: https://computingforgeeks.com/setup-tftp-server-on-centos-rhel-rocky-linux/ now I get this: systemctl status tftp-server.service × tftp-server.service - Tftp Server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tftp-server.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) TriggeredBy: ○ tftp-server.socket Docs: man:in.tftpd CPU: 0 May 20 08:27:27 VMWare.lsi.com systemd[1]: tftp-server.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit tftp-server.socket has a bad unit file setting. May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com systemd[1]: tftp-server.service: Got no socket. May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com systemd[1]: tftp-server.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Invalid argument May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com systemd[1]: tftp-server.service: Failed with result 'resources'. May 20 08:27:28 VMWare.lsi.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Tftp Server. this is my file after removing start arguments: more tftp-server.service [Unit] Description=Tftp Server Requires=tftp-server.socket Documentation=man:in.tftpd [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot StandardInput=socket [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Also=tftp-server.socket STill does not start. What are the correct steps for setting up TFTP . Thank you. Jerry

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