Re: Upgrading to f31

2019-12-29 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/29/19 9:39 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,   I was trying to upgrade one of my systems to f31 by running: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=31 but the attempt fails with: Error:  Problem: package cmake-fedora-2.9.3-5.fc31.noarch requires

Upgrading to f31

2019-12-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I was trying to upgrade one of my systems to f31 by running: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --skip-broken --refresh --releasever=31 but the attempt fails with: Error:  Problem: package cmake-fedora-2.9.3-5.fc31.noarch requires packagedb-cli, but none of the providers can be

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 3:52 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > There are a couple of long term solutions for the problem, depending > on what's being updated. For applications, flatpak can handle updates > (I'm not absolutely sure to what degree it's intended for and reliably > handles updating running

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 1:50 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > > kI'm just gonna ask this: > > > Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being > prompted to "restart & Install"?.. This is literally many years old behavior. https://lwn.net/Articles/702629/ > Is this

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 13:28:09 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/29/19 12:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: [snip] > > ...there's a funky button up top of the > > Software Updates (after its found packages to update) that says > > "Restart & Install"?..is there ANY way possible to TURN THIS >

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/29/19 12:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Is this WINDOWS!?...I have enjoyed the fact that I could update my system and use my computer until I was ready to shutdown / restart at my leisure. Now?there's a funky button up top of the Software Updates (after its found packages to

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Andras Simon
2019-12-29 21:50 GMT+01:00, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : > Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being > prompted to "restart & Install"?.. > > > WTH! Are you using gnome? Then you may find this thread interesting:

Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
kI'm just gonna ask this: Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being prompted to "restart & Install"?.. W    T    H! Is this WINDOWS!?...I have enjoyed the fact that I could update my system and use my computer until I was ready to shutdown /

Re: Did I kill it?

2019-12-29 Thread Javier Perez
Same Here. I wanted to run an Nvidia Drivers Free system, but I could not cope with the continuous freezing up. On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 9:52 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:34:48 -0700 > John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > Well, we're talking about nvidia here, not nouveau.. It's

Re: What is better a 2nd drive for Raid 1 or a backup one?

2019-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 2:01 PM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 12/26/19 10:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 2:56 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> > >> Oh yes, one more thing. If you do the RAID1 thing: either make a shiny > >> new RAID1 and copy to it, or practice the

Re: Did I kill it?

2019-12-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:34:48 -0700 John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > Well, we're talking about nvidia here, not nouveau.. It's not tested on > Fedora, and not supported to begin with. Yep. I always use nouveau after installing a new fedora release for the 2 or 3 hours it takes for it to freeze up and

Re: Did I kill it?

2019-12-29 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Saturday, December 28, 2019 1:50:34 PM MST Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/28/2019 12:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > Did I zap something on the video card? It worked > > fine in the old computer. (No video problems). > > > If it did get zapped, which I doubt, the new mobo did it, not anything > in