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Fwd: Training SIG
by Bryson 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Hello everyone! I am currently gauging interest in a training SIG. Please let me know if this is something you'd want to assist with. The focus areas would be; - Beginner to advanced training courses on system administration, security, and more. - Recording and editing trainings. - Standing up an AlmaLinux OS course certifications. - Interactive labs and virtual machines to practice AlmaLinux commands and tasks. - Certification study guides and hands-on practice exams for certifications. - Community mentorship programs to help new users learn from experienced administrators. If any of these sound like something you would be interested in helping with, or you feel you would like to see this happen, please reply to this email! Feel free to suggest anything you would like to see added to the scope of this SIG.

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About rdma service in Almalinux9
by Patrick Bégou 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Hi, I'm deploying a small cluster based on Almalinux9 using a dedicated cluster environment. When deploying infiniband support, the provided Ansible scripts try to launch the rdma service and it fails. In my old CentOS8 cluster, rdma-core provides the rdma service startup file /usr/lib/systemd/system/rdma.service in rdma-core-26.0-8.el8 to launch the rdma service In my new Almalinux9 cluster this file is no more provided by rdma-core-51.0-1.el9 And I'm unable to understand if it is no more necessary ("automagically" activated) or if I need an other package by looking at various documentations and https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core. But I'm not very familiar with this stack as usually it works out of the box (so I never delved deeply into the documentation before) Could someone help me to clarify this ? Thanks Patrick

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Cannot install drivers for NVIDIA
by Angel Campoverde 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Hi, I am trying to install NVIDIA drivers following https://wiki.almalinux.org/series/system/SystemSeriesA03R9.html#%F0%9F%8C%9… but I see: Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Tue 25 Feb 2025 05:34:12 PM CST. Error: Problem 1: package nvidia-kmod-common-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best candidate for the job - package kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering - package kmod-nvidia-open-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering Problem 2: package nvidia-driver-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod-common = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-kmod-common-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best candidate for the job - package kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering - package kmod-nvidia-open-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering Problem 3: package nvidia-driver-cuda-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod-common = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-kmod-common-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best candidate for the job - package kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering - package kmod-nvidia-open-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering Problem 4: package nvidia-driver-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod-common = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-settings-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-driver(x86-64) = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-kmod-common-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best candidate for the job - package kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering - package kmod-nvidia-open-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering Problem 5: package xorg-x11-nvidia-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-driver(x86-64) = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-driver-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod-common = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-xconfig-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires xorg-x11-nvidia(x86-64) >= 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - package nvidia-kmod-common-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod = 3:570.86.15, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best candidate for the job - package kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.x86_64 from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering - package kmod-nvidia-open-dkms-3:570.86.15-1.el9.noarch from cuda-rhel9-x86_64 is filtered out by modular filtering (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages) What should I do about it? Cheers.

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Libvirt SEV support in Kitten
by Teodor Pripoae 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Hello, I have been testing Alma Linux Kitten and libvirt is not properly detecting SEV capabilities. Is Libvirt/QEMU compiled without SEV support ? $ dmesg | grep -i sev [ 1.821468] ccp 0000:45:00.1: sev enabled [ 53.414679] kvm_amd: SEV enabled (ASIDs 250 - 509) [ 53.414701] kvm_amd: SEV-ES enabled (ASIDs 1 - 249) [ 53.414720] kvm_amd: SEV-SNP disabled (ASIDs 1 - 249) $ virsh domcapabilities | grep -i sev <sev supported='no'/> $ virt-host-validate QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS QEMU: Checking if device '/dev/kvm' exists : PASS QEMU: Checking if device '/dev/kvm' is accessible : PASS QEMU: Checking if device '/dev/vhost-net' exists : PASS QEMU: Checking if device '/dev/net/tun' exists : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpu' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpuset' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'memory' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'devices' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'blkio' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for device assignment IOMMU support : PASS QEMU: Checking if IOMMU is enabled by kernel : PASS QEMU: Checking for secure guest support : PASS QEMU: Checking for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES): PASS QEMU: Checking for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP): PASS

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Autofs: too many open files issue
by Carles Acosta Silva 24 Nov '24

24 Nov '24

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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AlmaLinux 9.3 and libvirtd problem
by Alessandro Baggi 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Hi list, I'm running AlmaLinux 9.3 and I'm running several virtual machines using qemu-kvm and libvirtd ( and virt-manager). 3 VMs starts during system boot (configured with "virsh autostart VMNAME"). All works as expected until I loaded a old vm config file. When I tried to run "systemctl reload libvirtd" I got: "libvirtd.service is not active, cannot reload." It is enable on boot and running "systemctl status libvirtd" I get: Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2024-01-25 16:32:40 CET; 4min 55s ago Duration: 5min 14.530s It reports that it is inactive (really dead) because I can't find it inside process table. Rebooting the system, I found libvirtd process with argument "--timeout=120" and after 120 seconds it dies. Reading libvirtd systemd unit I found Environment=LIBVIRTD_ARGS="--timeout 120" and from the man page I get: "t, --timeout *SECONDS* Exit after timeout period (in seconds), provided there are neither any client connections nor any running domains." Here I found something strange. On boot I have 3 running domains but libvirtd dies after 120 seconds. To load new configuration I need to run restart and virt-manager works without problem also if libvirtd is not running. This is a misconfiguration or it is a bug? Thank you in advance. Alessandro.

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Cannot login to user account
by Angel Campoverde 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Hi, I am seeing some problems with my alma9 installation. 1. I locked the machine with superkey + l, then I came back and unlocked it. 2. I saw that the upper case keys were on by default and I had to turn on caps-lock to turn back on the lower case keys. 3. The number pad did not show numbers, but the signs you get when you press shift, i.e. !@#$... 4. The arrow keys did not do the arrow thing, but they showed upper case letters, A, F, I do not remember the others. So I restarted. Then I tried to log in but: 1. When I put the right password, It looks like it will log in, because the screen goes black, however it comes back to the login screen without telling me anything else. 2. I know this is not a password issue, because when I put a wrong password, it tells me that the password is wrong. 3. I can log in as root. 4. I can do su - username and log in from there with my normal password. I do not recall doing anything special with the computer. Do you know what might be happening? Cheers.

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Kickstart installs with isolinux (insecure boot) fails, same Kickstart works with EFI(secureboot)
by fait＠uga.edu 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

I have been working with AlmaLinux 8 for a couple of years using various iterations AlmaLinux 8, with my systems(5 of them) currently using 8.10. I am now in the process of validating install media to move to version 9.4, using kickstart to manage the initial configuration of these hosts. The kickstart file sets up the network,decides the host name, and sets up a complex partitioning scenario. Initially I tested this using secure boot, without any issue. I repeated the same install, on the same hardware, using the same kickstart file, only this time using the legacy boot (insecure). I have verified that this is an issue with insecure boot, as I then did a manual install of a server+graphics, along with development tools, and then took the resulting kickstart file, made the required changes so that the partitioning would work, and then attempted to do a kickstart install using this minimal kickstart, with the same results of success for the EFI boot, and failure with the isolinux boot. I did check, and the two commands to the kernel appear to be identical, but the insecure boot is not able to find the kickstart file. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone found a work-around?

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Almalinux 9.4 import LVM VG bug?
by Alessandro Baggi 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

Hi list, on my Almalinux 9.4 I tried to import LVM Volume Group from another system. When I attached disks on my workstation, pvscan or vgimport does not found any lvm devices. Reading here: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/lvm-operations-might-fail-on-a-fedor… seems that renaming /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices permits the system to read lvm devices and able to import an existing volume. This is a bug or a wanted behaviour? File system.devices is required? I should restore it? Thank you in advance Alessandro.

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Where are the archives for: users@lists.almalinux.org ?
by Mike Schleif 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

I just signed up and I want to see if my questions are already answered. TY

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RPM creation problem
by Alessandro Baggi 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Hi list, I'm creating an RPM package for gocryptfs on AlmaLinux 9.3 I'm using the source with deps (vendoring) because deps are too much. During the process rpmbuild returns: gocryptfs-debugsource-2.4.0-1.el9.x86_64 error: Empty %files file /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/gocryptfs_v2.4.0_src-deps/debugsourcefiles.list To avoid this I can add: %global debug_package %{nil} and the problem is solved also if the build-id links are generated. But, here there is a problem. I read that for $arch packages a debug package will be created and if some error is reported there is something wrong on the SPEC file. Why debugsourcefiles.list is empty? What is causing this? Thank you in advance. Alessandro.

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there is a strange delay in my work on the Almalinux forum - what should I do?
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

I registered on the forum yesterday and sent a message. Today I go to the forum (general) - my message has not appeared yet. And I cannot answer to the message (from another forum user) about a problem: I don't see any answer icon. My username on the forum is mbkus (with my other e-mail). I don't see any way to contact the forum manager. Mikhail

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AlmaLinux 9 and XFCE sound problem
by Alessandro Baggi 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Hey there, I installed Almalinux OS 9 on my notebook. I installed XFCE but I'm getting problem with audio because xfce4-pulseaudio plugin is missing and I can't change sound volume except on the specific program that play the music (In my case audacious and firefox). Currently I don't know if I must open a "please build xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin" on epel or if I should use something due to pipewire. I enabled also epel-testing to check if the package was in testing but seems missing. Someone has the same problem? Thank you in advance.

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OpenSSH policies / system crypto policy equivalence
by Francesco Di Nucci 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hello, I am trying to write a crypto policy modifier to disable some kex algorithms in OpenSSH (not the one in the example, but the issue is the same). Reading //usr/share/crypto-policies/python/policygenerators/openssh.py/, I find mappings like /'ECDHE-SECP521R1-SHA2-512': 'ecdh-sha2-nistp521'/, so I tried to write in a pmod /key_exchange = -ECDHE-SECP521R1-SHA2-512/ When I try to load it with update-crypto-policies, it fails stating /Bad value of policy property `key_exchange`: `ECDHE-SECP521R1-SHA2-512`/, and in fact If I check //usr/share/crypto-policies/python/cryptopolicies/alg_lists.py, /ECDHE-SECP521R1-SHA2-512 is not defined there. So, how can I disable in OpenSSH kex/algorithms/etc that are defined in //usr/share/crypto-policies/python/policygenerators/openssh.py /but not in //usr/share/crypto-policies/python/cryptopolicies/alg_lists.py?/ Best regards Francesco Di Nucci

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Nftables breaks ...
by Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) 16 May '24

16 May '24

LS Updating AlmaLinux 9.3 to 9.4, the package Nftables seems to get upgraded from 1.0.4 to 1.0.9.1 And after the upgrade, netfilter completely blocks any in- and outbound network traffic. Removing version 1.0.9 and reinstalling the Alma9.3-baseos-package nftables-1.0.4 fixes the problem. Could it be that some of the nft-kernel modules aren't loaded by the package ? Anyone any idea ? Regards, Carel

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pdfjam?
by Morgan Read 10 May '24

10 May '24

Folks, Can` anyone point me in the direction of `pdfjam`? It seems part of `texlive` but doesn't get installed with it. It seems to be provided in the fedora build system for EL: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=34352082 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=26454 I'm a bit stumped with what to install for it. Thanks -- Morgan Read Grande Bretagne Em: <email:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz>

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AlmaLinux 9 and KDE problem
by Alessandro Baggi 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi, I'm trying to install KDE from EPEL on AlmaLinux 9.3, but got several errors. I have enable crb repo and EPEL repo. Running dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" I get: Error: Problem 1: package kdegraphics-thumbnailers-23.08.5-1.el9.x86_64 from epel requires libKF5KDcraw.so.5()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - conflicting requests - nothing provides libraw.so.23()(64bit) needed by kf5-libkdcraw-23.08.5-1.el9.x86_64 from epel Problem 2: package gwenview-1:23.08.5-2.el9.x86_64 from epel requires libgwenviewlib.so.5()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - package gwenview-1:23.08.5-2.el9.x86_64 from epel requires gwenview-libs(x86-64) = 1:23.08.5-2.el9, but none of the providers can be installed - package gwenview-libs-1:23.08.5-2.el9.x86_64 from epel requires libKF5KDcraw.so.5()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - conflicting requests - nothing provides libraw.so.23()(64bit) needed by kf5-libkdcraw-23.08.5-1.el9.x86_64 from epel (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate package There is something bad with EPEL Repository? Thank you in advance.

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package broken, initscripts-10.11.6-1.el9 brakes network-scripts-10.11.5
by jehan Procaccia 07 May '24

07 May '24

Hi since few hours (it worked fine yesterday at least) , a /dnf update/ on different of my alma 9.3 systems fails with this error /# dnf update Last metadata expiration check: 2:03:50 ago on Mon 06 May 2024 08:26:51 PM CEST. Error: Problem: cannot install both initscripts-10.11.6-1.el9.x86_64 from baseos and initscripts-10.11.5-1.el9.x86_64 from @System - package network-scripts-10.11.5-1.el9.x86_64 from @System requires initscripts(x86-64) = 10.11.5-1.el9, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best update candidate for package initscripts-10.11.5-1.el9.x86_64 - problem with installed package network-scripts-10.11.5-1.el9.x86_64 (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)/ if I do a/--allowerasing/, update does proceed but it removes package /network-scripts-10.11.5-1.el9.x86_64/ , then, at next reboot network is not configured anymore, indeed networks-scripts (ifup ...) is not there anymore did someone broke something in packages dependencies ? thanks . PS: systeme before update /# cat /etc/os-release NAME="AlmaLinux" VERSION="9.3 (Shamrock Pampas Cat)" ID="almalinux" ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora" VERSION_ID="9.3"/

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Almalinux and integritysetup speed problem
by Alessandro Baggi 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Hi list, I'm trying on a spare machine dm-integrity with mdadm raid1. This is an old machine (i7-2600k). I'm using 2x500GB wd caviar black SATA3. I'm trying to run some test and see how much performance changes using dm-integrity. First I created a raid1 with mdadm and checked the performances and writing 50G I got 100 MB/s Then I destroied the md device and on every disk I run: # integritysetup format --integrity xxhash64 /dev/sdb1 # integritysetup format --integrity xxhash64 /dev/sdc1 During this process the performances was good ~95MB/s. After this I opened the devices with: # integritysetup open integrity xxhash64 /dev/sdb1 sdb1 # integritysetup open integrity xxhash64 /dev/sdc1 sdc1 and created the mdadm array with: # mdadm --create /dev/md10 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/mapper/sdb1 /dev/mapper/sdc1 and reading on /proc/mdstat I got this: [>....................] resync = 1.1% (4929792/443175424) finish=677.3min speed=10782K/sec Why there is so big drop on speed during the sync? I'm missing something? I'll need 11 hours to sync 2x500GB hdd? Why so slow? Before this I tried the same on a newer machine with i7 8700k and 2x2TB WD gold and I get a drop sync speed at ~35MB/s. There is something that I can do to improve this? Thank you in advance. Alessandro.

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AlmaLinux Appstream
by Alessandro Baggi 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Hi list, I've noticed that RHEL has several type of appstream: RHEL 9 Application Streams Release Life Cycle RHEL 9 Full Life Application Streams Release Life Cycle RHEL 9 Rolling Application Streams Release Life Cycle from here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel-app-streams-life-cycl… I noticed that in application streams there less software that in AlmaLinux appstream. Why? They are RHEL binded packages (licenses etc...)? I noticed also that there is a rolling appstream which includes firefox 102 and other app. Is that rolling appstream available for AlmaLinux? Thank you in advance

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ZFS and AlmaLinux 9.X
by Alessandro Baggi 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hi list, I would install ZFS on my backup server. It runs Almalinux 9.3 and actually it saves data on RAID1 MDADM. From what I read I can install ZFS from OpenZFS repositories for EL and choose between kABI tracking or DKMS. I read that using kABI module I will have problem when a new minor release will be released because I must wait that the kABI module from OpenZFS repo team should be built to support the new kernel. Have someone used the kABI module? How many time you need to wait the new module? Are they quick releasing it? The other method is using DKMS, so at every kernel update I need a DKMS recompilation with a possible problem during recompilation. Ok I will have the old module with the previous kernel that will work. How much DKMS recompilation problem occours? What is the best method in your experience? Thank you in advance. Alessandro.

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