Re: [need help] Grub does not find my Fedora39 anymore

2024-02-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 2/27/24 11:25, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 2/27/24 10:58, karlderletzte wrote: Hello, two days ago, i installed fedora jam 39 on an external drive. This runs successfully. BUT after restart and plug off the external drive Grub from my internal drive does not show my fedora39

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file >> still remaining and handle it itself. Joe Zeff: > And how do you suggest that it detects it? Other programs manage it, dunno what's so magic about it. It's not a problem that *I* need to solve. After a reboot, cron &/or

Re: [need help] Grub does not find my Fedora39 anymore

2024-02-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/27/24 07:58, karlderletzte wrote: two days ago, i installed fedora jam 39 on an external drive. This runs successfully. BUT after restart and plug off the external drive Grub from my internal drive does not show my fedora39 installation. You installed Fedora on the external drive, but

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/27/2024 10:48 AM, Go Canes wrote: I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head 1) put the lockfile in a memory-based file system like /tmp, /run, etc. This is probably the "correct" way. 2) compare when the system was booted against when the lock file was created. If boot time > lock

Re: [need help] Grub does not find my Fedora39 anymore

2024-02-27 Thread karlderletzte
hello, thanks for the info, but unfortunately this is the result: grub2-install: Fehler: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh existiert nicht. Bitte geben Sie --target oder --directory an. grub2-install: Error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh does not exist. Please specify --target or

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file > > still remaining and handle it itself. > > And how do you suggest that it detects it? An in-memory semaphore. No lock file required.

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file > > still remaining and handle it itself. > > And how do you suggest that it detects it? I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote: A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file still remaining and handle it itself. And how do you suggest that it detects it? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in the > ".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file > "192.168.1.218:+7103".  Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start. Software really ought to

gnome-disks

2024-02-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Attaching a drive with gnome-disks used to use the accessing user. It now brings up a drop down menu of the list of all the users in /home. Is there a configuration to tell it to use the active user? -- ___ users mailing list --

Re: [need help] Grub does not find my Fedora39 anymore

2024-02-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 2/27/24 10:58, karlderletzte wrote: Hello, two days ago, i installed fedora jam 39 on an external drive. This runs successfully. BUT after restart and plug off the external drive Grub from my internal drive does not show my fedora39 installation. i have to choose the efi file

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 2/27/24 10:12, Thomas Cameron wrote: On 2/27/24 09:08, Tim via users wrote: Is Thunderbird one of those apps that always runs once started, and never quits when you close the window? There have been times in the past where this is the case, but they're few and far between these days. Not

[need help] Grub does not find my Fedora39 anymore

2024-02-27 Thread karlderletzte
Hello, two days ago, i installed fedora jam 39 on an external drive. This runs successfully. BUT after restart and plug off the external drive Grub from my internal drive does not show my fedora39 installation. i have to choose the efi file directly via bios and loading efi file. then it

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 2/27/24 09:08, Tim via users wrote: Is Thunderbird one of those apps that always runs once started, and never quits when you close the window? There have been times in the past where this is the case, but they're few and far between these days. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I haven't

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 08:54 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Every once in a while, Thunderbird just loses its mind. No idea why. But > I will generally just rename my ~/.thunderbird directory to something > like ~/.thunderbird.old and launch Thunderbird again. Is Thunderbird one of those apps

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 2/26/24 19:44, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to work. Looked at the ".thunderbird"