Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

On 5/19/21 6:06 PM, bruce wrote: Hi. In the middle of trying to figure out a dev platform. So, looking at a blank slate to figure out what version of OS should have on the "work" laptop. Project work will be on the laptop as well as cloud VM.. In general, until not too long ago, Fedora used

Re: Strange error with 'man'

On 12/7/20 2:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: $ rpm -qd lutris /usr/share/man/lutris.1 [poc@Bree ~]$ man lutris No manual entry for lutris [poc@Bree ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/man/lutris.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1433 Jul 19 00:02 /usr/share/man/lutris.1 I also ran 'mandb' just in case. No

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 12/1/20 1:18 AM, home user wrote: (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 23:56 +, Ed wrote) > I thought you said your system was "quiet"? > > For your "network activity" issue the lines of interest are those > which include "ESTABLISHED" as the state. > > It shows both "thunderbird" and "firefox"

Re: Policy regarding opt-out telemetry and privacy

On 10/27/20 9:57 PM, Olivier Lemasle wrote: Hi all, I'm packaging Open Policy Agent [1] (OPA) for Fedora. However, with version 0.20.0, OPA added a telemetry service, enabled by default, reporting to a OPA-managed service the OPA version, a UUID and the build architecture (cf changelog [2]

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

On 5/28/20 1:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 18:08 +0930, Tim via users wrote: Perhaps there should be an automated culling of participants. If you step up the plate to say you'll maintain a package, but don't, *you* get dumped from bugzilla. I was about to suggest

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

On 5/27/20 9:42 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:23 PM Michael Schwendt wrote: The fundamental problem here is that it has taken a very long time for somebody to respond to the bug reporter. There has been no guidance and no hint whether anyone "somewhere" would be interested

Re: today's f32 update hung on restorecon

On 5/6/20 3:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-06 20:30, Neal Becker wrote: Running update today appeared to hang on restorecon, which was triggered by an update to selinux-policy-targeted IIRC (can't seem to find the log). After running >10minutes (system has SSD and shouldn't take long) I

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

On 3/12/20 8:08 PM, Neil Thompson wrote: Ralf, With all due respect (i.e. none) I don't think your opinion is really necessary here - you've made your feelings clear over the last long while and I have to wonder what the heck you're still doing here if you hate the whole thing so much. Surely

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

On 3/12/20 5:10 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 12.03.20 14:05, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 3/11/20 11:31 PM, Christopher Marlow wrote: I am just curious why people stay on old versions of Fedora like say FC30 instead of upgrading to 31? Upgrading Fedora is a bit like "installing Win10&quo

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

On 3/11/20 11:31 PM, Christopher Marlow wrote: I am just curious why people stay on old versions of Fedora like say FC30 instead of upgrading to 31? Upgrading Fedora is a bit like "installing Win10" updates. That said, I usually wait for a couple of weeks before upgrading, because new Fedora

Re: Fedora 30 nvidia

On 5/5/19 1:26 PM, John Fawcett wrote: Hi Just before I launch into an upgrade to Fedora 30, has anyone had a successful upgrade F29->F30 with nvidia drivers? Yes. An upgrade on an old Core2Duo with an NVidia card and rpmfusion nvidia-akmods worked without major probs (There were minor probs

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

Ralf Corsepius: > That's what I call superflous bureaucracy beyond reason. No, it's merely logical.?? Yes. If it's not available, *and* we're not aware that it's available, it's not released.?? It's as simple as that. It was available, it just had not formally been announ

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

On 5/3/19 6:51 AM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Ed Greshko sent: When is jury selection? I imagine there must be an upcoming trial to address this travesty. :-) My vote is: Until it's officially announced AND released, it ain't a release. Even though we could

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

On 5/2/19 8:32 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/30/19 8:33 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You redirected the OP to test@, at a point in time, when - though fc30 had not been formally announced - fc30 already had been in place on the download servers. That said, you were just behaving bureaucratic

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

On 5/1/19 8:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It happens if the most recent 'grub2-install' happened with a Fedora 20 or older GRUB package. e.g. if you installed Fedora 20 clean, then did an OS upgrade every 6-12 months all the way through to Fedora 30, then you'd probably run into this bug. But if

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

On 4/30/19 8:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 18:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 4/30/19 6:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 17:34 +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 29.04.19 17:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 09:43 -0400, Neal

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

On 4/30/19 5:53 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Now that the release announcement has been done, I can say that upgrading for me (on a VM) also failed. After the final reboot, I just got a grub prompt. So far, the upgrade went fine on 2 out of 3 systems. On the 3rd system, I am also stuck with a

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

On 4/30/19 6:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 17:34 +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 29.04.19 17:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 09:43 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: I just attempted update f29->f30 using sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh

Re: Will RedHat deprecate KDE on Fedora?

On 11/3/18 2:00 AM, William Oliver wrote: I just read this in The Register -- that RH is deprecating KDE in RHEL. As a long time fan of KDE, I'm a bit saddened. Is this planned for Fedora as well? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ Provided the IBM deal and

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

On 10/22/18 5:27 PM, SternData wrote: I'm OK with a web forum as long as it has an RSS feed. You might not be aware about it, but RSS is effectivly dead, IIRC, because major browsers soon will drop supporting RSS or already dropped it. Ralf ___

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

On 10/22/18 4:13 AM, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 10/21/18 5:42 AM, stan wrote: The idea is that it would invigorate the Fedora community by encouraging younger people raised on social media and mobile platforms to contribute. Young people tend to use social media such twitter and facebook but

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

On 10/20/18 11:42 PM, stan wrote: Hi, There's a big mail thread on fedora-devel about using a web forum software called Discourse instead of mailing lists. The idea is that it would invigorate the Fedora community by encouraging younger people raised on social media and mobile platforms to

Re: Hard drive to sleep

On 10/12/18 4:11 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: There maybe a good reason why I cannot put this drive at sleep. The /tmp partition is on this disk! Are you using Fedora? For several years, Fedora by default put /tmp on tmpfs. Ralf ___ users mailing list

Re: Hard drive to sleep

On 10/7/18 11:48 PM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 7 October 2018, Ralf Corsepius sent: HW-wise you should check if your drive-hardware is suiteable to be frequently "put to sleep/woken up". Most NAS- or server-class HDDs are not, most desktop/notbook drives

Re: Hard drive to sleep

On 10/7/18 9:29 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Is it safe to put a hard drive on sleep? Depends on your use-case. SW-wise it is pretty save to "put to sleep" not frequently used drives ("data"/"backup" drives). "Putting to sleep" drives hosting system-partitions or partitions hosting

Re: dnf crash

On 03/05/2018 02:55 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' This is consistent, and also happens on a second machine. Both run f27 fully updated. The following does work: $ dnf provides '*/Droid*' But this one crashes:

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

On 02/18/2018 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and "less" commands can be used interchangeably. This does not apply. "more" is the traditional UCB/Berkeley

Re: What is this gibberish?

On 02/04/2018 08:34 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: The problem wasn't that it was silent. It was that it was a long(ish)-running process that was not suited to run as a scriptlet. It's better done via cron or as it is now as a transient systemd-run service. And does this actually work? I

Re: F26 suddenlty freezes (apparently due nouveau)

On 01/24/2018 12:34 PM, Frédéric wrote: Since 2 days ago, one of my F26 computer freezes (2 freezes in 3 days). I had similar problems on one f27 machine w/ amdgpu. They "magically" healed with today's kernel update. As f26 and f27 kernels are very similar these days and (due to meltdown

Re: fc27: nis/ypbind?

On 11/16/2017 12:04 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 16.11.2017 11:32, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/15/2017 06:13 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I have been using yp/nis for ages, but with fc27 things stopped working? Has anybody managed to get ypbind/nis working with fc27? If so, how? To me, yp/nis

Re: fc27: nis/ypbind?

On 11/15/2017 06:13 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Hi, I have been using yp/nis for ages, but with fc27 things stopped working? Has anybody managed to get ypbind/nis working with fc27? If so, how? To me, yp/nis seems to be in an untested shape and unusable in fc27. Some more insights

fc27: nis/ypbind?

Hi, I have been using yp/nis for ages, but with fc27 things stopped working? Has anybody managed to get ypbind/nis working with fc27? If so, how? To me, yp/nis seems to be in an untested shape and unusable in fc27. Ralf ___ users mailing list --

Re: selinux prevents user to log-in

On 11/09/2017 05:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/08/2017 08:01 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You can't touch /.autorelabel, when you can't log-in ;) You can always boot into rescue mode, touch /.autorelabel and reboot. Actually, I have never used rescue mode and have never found it useful

Re: selinux prevents user to log-in

On 11/09/2017 05:26 AM, Dirk Gottschalk wrote: Am 9. November 2017 05:01:44 MEZ schrieb Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>: On 11/08/2017 07:26 PM, Earl A Ramirez wrote: On 8 November 2017 at 12:23, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de <mailto:rc040...@freenet.de>> wro

Re: selinux prevents user to log-in

On 11/08/2017 07:26 PM, Earl A Ramirez wrote: On 8 November 2017 at 12:23, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de <mailto:rc040...@freenet.de>> wrote: On 11/08/2017 04:34 PM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have just upgraded an f23 to f26, keeping the ho

Re: selinux prevents user to log-in

On 11/08/2017 04:34 PM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have just upgraded an f23 to f26, keeping the home partition. selinux blocks the user log-in: when I try to log in, lightdm shows my login name, but when I enter my password, the process aborts and I go back to the lightdm login

Re: repos for Fedora 26 i386 (Mate) network install?

On 10/14/2017 11:24 AM, Franta Hanzlík wrote: I want to try Fedora 26 i386 (with my preferred Mate desktop). I prefer network installation with custom kickstart config. I found that install image can be downloaded on:

Re: Problem: Cross compile to arm (Raspberry pi) using autotools

On 10/07/2017 01:49 PM, Dirk Gottschalk wrote: Hello, I have a problem cross compiling using autotools for my Raspberry Pi 3. I wrote a server program which runs good with Linux and under windows (compiled with MinGW) on my X86_64 machine. Since there is no configure wrapper for ARM like

Re: End of i686 Support

On 09/06/2017 01:41 PM, Tim wrote: And, is it still feasible to run the OS on old hardware? Why should it not be? Just because some $DEITY@Redhat has decided you to throw away your old hardware you must do so? Up to fc25 it was technically perfectly possible to run Fedora on a variety of

Re: End of i686 Support

On 09/04/2017 07:18 PM, Andras Simon wrote: 2017-09-04 18:36 GMT+02:00, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>: [...] Actually, I'd recommend Fedora/RH to drop all other "secondary" archs, because they do not have a community user base. How do you know? - How many arm, s

Re: End of i686 Support

On 09/04/2017 05:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 10:32:33AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I'd hope the plan is to do this much the same way as centos. Drop i686 kernels and programs, but continue to provide i686 libraries for legacy 32 bit programs which have no source code so

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

On 08/19/2017 09:08 PM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: For the t42 you need to tweak one kernel parameter. T42-CPU does not support pae-extension. Somewhere down the kernel-line they changed the default setting. From default to 'required', thus very old cpu's won't boot anymore, unless you drop

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

On 08/18/2017 07:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: My guess is yeah, it'll need more memory--regardless of what "modern" OS you manage to install on it. I think even Windows 10 has a minimum of 1GB for a 32-bit environment and 16GB of disk. Fun, fun, fun! Well, installing Fedora 26 on x86ers with

Re: What is this DNF nonsense?

On 07/25/2017 01:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Almost the very first thing I do on a new install is to erase bash-completion, and it is indeed not installed: tomh> rpm -q bash-completion package bash-completion is not installed So why did the dnf-automatic run I have in cron tell me this last

Re: Green screen error in VLC

On 07/13/2017 01:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de> wrote: This happens after upgrading from F25 to F26, when playing a video -- no image; only a green screen. Any ideas? Which GPU do you have and what is your setting in

Re: Green screen error in VLC

On 07/13/2017 01:26 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, This happens after upgrading from F25 to F26, when playing a video -- no image; only a green screen. Any ideas? Which GPU do you have and what is your setting in vlc's "Tools->Preferences->Video->Output"? Since having upgraded to F26[1],

Re: /var/cache

On 07/05/2017 10:16 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: but it is even worst for /var/cache: 14338744 I gives the largest sub directories: How can I clean this? Files under /var/cache are supposed to be automatically regenerated by the programs which create them (Hence the name "cache"). I.e. in

Re: FedoraPackages

On 02/14/2017 06:26 PM, InvalidPath wrote: Probably a dumb question but if you see a package release pushed to stable.. does that mean it’s available in the Fedora repos? Yes. Reality is bit more complicated, but somewhat oversimplfied, that's what it means. Ralf

Re: SUB# connectors -

On 02/06/2017 04:53 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have an MSI motherboard with USB3 connectors on the back panel that I have never been able to use because the connectors are different and nothing I have fits them.They are similar to the usual USB 2 connectors but have a blue insert. Errm, USB-3

Re: RANT: installing fedora is now a real punishment!

On 02/01/2017 02:34 PM, François Patte wrote: Install of f25 was (almost) easy *but* I am unable to login! I created a user with a password but when I want to login system claims that the password is incorrect. OK maybe I made a mistake, so I try to login as root from the console : password is

Re: no shutdown at all in fedora 24 Again!

On 01/22/2017 02:26 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: I think you're going to have to put logs up somewhere and configuration information somewhere to get an answer. I can tell you that mdadm raid and lvm being used do not themselves result in an inability to shutdown Fedora. Fedora by default uses LVM,

Re: Most system update requires system reboot or session restart

On 12/21/2016 02:00 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:39:08 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/20/2016 03:27 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Depends on which part. You can use dnf repoquery to list duplicates, leaf packages (now "unneeded", which I don't think is an improvement

Re: Kernel not configured for semaphores

On 12/12/2016 07:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/12/16 13:35, Frédéric Bron wrote: Hi, Each time I turn off Fedora 24, I get the following message about 50 times printed in the console: Kernel not configured for semaphores (System V IPC). Not using udev synchronisation code. device-mapper:

Re: Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

On 12/05/2016 09:12 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 11:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 05/12/16 06:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 07:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled and also it does not default to the last user

fc25 ypbind/nis fails

Hi, has anybody managed to get ypbind working with f25? If so, how? ypbind used to work with fc25 prereleases[1,2], but with the post fc25-release update to ypbind-1.38-6.fc26.x86_64, ypbind fails at system startup/when booting. Ralf [1] ypbind-1.38-5.fc24.x86_64 [2] nss_nis is installed

Re: Weird window behavior

On 08/06/2016 01:33 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 16:04:34 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: Another example: If I edit a file and change something in vi in an Xterm...the display flickers between what I just edited and what it looked like before the change. Again, clicking in another

Re: old packages

On 08/01/2016 09:54 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: What are the alternatives ? One would have to look into each of these packages individually to answer this. For example to system-config-lvm ? system-config-lvm still works (Simply rebuild it locally). Actually, I never understood, why RH

Re: Fedora 24 - Beta installation problem to Netbook

On 05/17/2016 08:58 AM, Prof. Server Acim wrote: Hello, I have a CREA Netbook. I am having problems about installing Fedora 24 Beta. These are the steps and the results of my things that I'd done. Is this an Atom N270 based netbook? If so, I'd guess your are facing

Re: DNF is a time waster

On 03/30/2016 09:11 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: On 30. 3. 2016 at 06:35:19, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 03/29/2016 07:36 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: If I run something like, "dnf -y install ", and is already installed, DNF gives a response like the following. Last metadata expira

Re: DNF is a time waster

On 03/29/2016 07:36 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: If I run something like, "dnf -y install ", and is already installed, DNF gives a response like the following. Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:02 ago on ... Package is already installed, skipping. ... (long delay,

Re: conflict installing i686 version of "qt" on x86_64

On 03/15/2016 05:30 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 03/14/2016 07:18 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: Hi, Seems to be a problem that 32 and 64 versions of the krb5-libs package claim/provide the same file. Any idea? Clearly a packaging bug. File a BZ against these packages

Re: conflict installing i686 version of "qt" on x86_64

On 03/14/2016 07:18 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: Hi, I want to install the 32-bit version of QT on a x86_64 system (for Skype, their Linux version seems to be quite outdated). I'm getting this error: -- # dnf install qt.i686 Last metadata expiration

Re: smplayer volume control

On 01/25/2016 03:47 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: For a long time now, the smplayer (from RPMFusion) volume control is vertical, instead of horizontal, with a negligible height, so it's essentially useless. This is still true with the latest version smplayer-16.1.0-1.fc23, and even after deleting

Re: smplayer volume control

On 01/25/2016 11:35 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: Thanks for confirming. Filed https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3955 . Thanks. Apparently it's GNOME-specific. I don't think so - I am using xfce ;) With smplayer and avidemux_qt4, I am

Re: NFS URLs in Nautilus on Fedora 22 stopped working

On 01/22/2016 08:26 PM, Ranbir wrote: On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 15:01 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: Is your NFS server doing NFSV3 or NFSV4? "showmount -e" doesn't work if the server is NFSV4 and I suspect that's what Nautilus is doing (or something like it). No, that's not it: I'm using nfsv3.

Re: flash plugin

On 12/23/2015 08:48 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Antonio M wrote: is anybody experiencing this issue?? Tnx The last version of Adobe Flash Player that will work on Firefox for Linux is 11.2. Security updates will be provided until

Re: Firefox does not play Rutube videos

On 12/18/2015 09:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Interestingly, the Adobe website asserts that the current (and last) version of the flash player is Version 11.2.202.554, but the rpm that the website delivers is adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1, built in 2011. adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1 contains their

Re: X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64

On 12/19/2015 01:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/18/15 20:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: After rebooting I get the login screen but Plasma segfaults and Gnome gives an oops and sad face so I've had to fall back to LxQT until I can figure out what's going on. FWIW, I can confirm that

Re: MP4 video on F23

On 12/09/2015 01:16 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: No idea yet where that lib comes from: Review Request: vo-aacenc - VisualOn AAC encoder library https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742 Huh? Else there seem to be packages for OpenSUSE and a few other 3rd party repos. Debian

Re: MP4 video on F23

On 12/09/2015 01:02 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 12:52 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/09/2015 12:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW, HandBrake was also failing with the same error, until an update last night fixed it. It no longer tries to load the library

Re: MP4 video on F23

On 12/09/2015 01:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 13:17 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/09/2015 01:02 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 12:52 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/09/2015 12:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW, HandBrake was also

Re: MP4 video on F23

On 12/09/2015 12:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW, HandBrake was also failing with the same error, until an update last night fixed it. It no longer tries to load the library in question. HandBrake is neither available from rpmfusion nor fedora. I.e. you have other repos in addition to

Re: Why was YUM removed

On 12/09/2015 07:33 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 12/09/2015 11:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/09/2015 03:21 AM, Tim wrote: As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting parlance means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do not f**k. Why couldn't you spell out fork

Re: MP4 video on F23

On 12/08/2015 06:35 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: A fresh install of Fedora. Sorry! Sorry, but this is bad advice - Linux/Fedora is not Windows. Reinstalling the distro because some arbitrary program (here: vlc) or a library (here: x264) doesn't work/malfunction, is *never* required. Ralf --

Re: Installing i686 on x86_64 with DNF

On 11/19/2015 03:23 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: Am I'm missing something obvious? I need to install nosync 32bit for mock but I had to remove it before dnf system-upgrade would stop complaining. Now that I'm upgraded I tried "dnf install nosync.i686" does not find the package. What magic

Re: How much cache does keepcache keeps?

On 11/17/2015 05:28 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: Hi, I learned it the hard way that dnf undo/rollback will fail if packages to rollback to are missing. I would recommend not to waste time on rollbacks, because a package based rollback will only work when a package's installation is

Re: How much cache does keepcache keeps?

On 11/17/2015 08:44 AM, Porfirio Andres Paiz Carrasco wrote: 2015-11-16 23:41 GMT-06:00 Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>: On 11/17/2015 05:28 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: Hi, I learned it the hard way that dnf undo/rollback will fail if packages to rollback to are missing. I

Re: dnf gets stuck on poor connections

On 11/13/2015 12:53 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: Mmmhh... My connection isn't very reliable either but dnf doesn't get stuck. Maybe you should update packages in small bunches instead of everything altogether. I am not on a poor connection, either, but I am occasionally experiencing this problem

Re: Is upgrading to fedora 23 safe?

On 11/04/2015 07:01 PM, Sergiu Mihuleac wrote: Hi! I want to know how many did the upgrade and worked perfectly vs how many had problems and what where those problems. IMO, upgrading is not safe, ATM. I recommend to wait for a couple of weeks. Issues, I have experienced so far: 1. packages

Re: rpmbuild error on F23

On 11/04/2015 03:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: How does one create debuginfo packages (is there an easy/automated way?) They normally are being generated automatically as by-product of building rpms. However, you a) must not to use "%global debug_package %{nil}" (this disables building

Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues

On 11/04/2015 11:43 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: Some folks having difficulties may be better served by making sure they have both dnf-plugin-system-upgrade-0.7.0-1 and python2-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade-0.7.0-1 installed. This doesn't change much in my case. The sad truth is the f23 repos currently

Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues

On 11/03/2015 03:42 PM, Neal Becker wrote: A boring update Not for me: # dnf system-upgrade --releasever 23 download ... Skipping packages with broken dependencies: python-pexpect What's interesting about python-pexpect is its state in the repos:

Re: Upgrade advice

On 11/02/2015 02:47 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I think I'm going to just bite the bullet and do a fresh install while preserving /home, I recommend to also backup /etc. Otherwise you'd have additional efforts with restoring passwd/accounts, ssl-keys, etc. I'll have to look through the current

Re: upgrade to 23 when it comes out

On 10/31/2015 07:35 AM, Porfirio Andres Paiz Carrasco wrote: 2015-10-31 0:16 GMT-06:00 William Biggs : I installed xface f22 64 bit then installed Cinnamon Desktop . When 23 comes out if I upgrade using fedup . I think that what is is called . Will I get the Cinnamon

Re: strange issues with f22

On 10/14/2015 09:23 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks, I have seen several issues with f22 on one of my systems. Issue #1: I tell the system to shutdown, and it doesn't. I see the message "Powering off" on the console and then the system restarts. It does not power off. This doesn't happen

Re: fedup leaves me stuck between 21 and 22

On 10/06/2015 07:18 PM, sean darcy wrote: running updated 21. fedup --network 22 Preparation seemed to go well: [ 191.911] (II) fedup:() /usr/bin/fedup exiting cleanly at Tue Oct 6 12:26:25 2015 Rebooted. Died somewhere in upgrading. Is there any log of the upgrade ? No new

Re: firefox?

On 09/27/2015 03:24 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Paul Cartwright gmail.com> writes: what does this mean? how do I install 41.0.4 ? Firefox needs sqlite-3.8.11 which is currently in updates-testing but will go to stable in the next push. The bodhi link is

Re: firefox?

On 09/27/2015 10:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/27/2015 10:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/27/2015 03:24 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Paul Cartwright gmail.com> writes: what does this mean? how do I install 41.0.4 ? Firefox needs sqlite-3.8.11 which is currently in updates-test

Re: e2fsck after hard shutdown

On 09/05/2015 07:31 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: do you mean that I could run e2fsck from inside the root shell? Yes. I guessed that filesystems were already mounted and e2fsck doesn't work on mounted filesystems I have to study. :-) Depends, depends on what actually happened/gone

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

On 09/04/2015 04:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I used gcc with -O3 or -Ofast. Any suggestions on this? Stay with -O2 unless you precisely know what you are doing. Playing with -O3 and -Ofast may squeeze out some usecs somewhere, but because you are using less used and tested paths of the

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

On 09/04/2015 10:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote: On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" > wrote: > > I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap. > > Cost is definitely an

Re: Sorting iPhone image files -

On 09/01/2015 03:47 PM, Markku Kolkka wrote: 1.9.2015, 16:31, Bob Goodwin kirjoitti: So it seems there probably is either software to sort them or a script that would sort on the date shown by "file." What can I do to accomplish this? Use exiftool to rename the files based on the creation

Re: More dnf annoyance

On 08/11/2015 12:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 10:35 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: F22, in short: first running dnf --refresh upgrade shows some new packets. Then dnf clean all followed by dnf --refresh upgrade shows the same packets to be updated, and *some more*. So

Re: More dnf annoyance

On 08/11/2015 12:16 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:35:04 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: F22, in short: first running dnf --refresh upgrade shows some new packets. Then dnf clean all followed by dnf --refresh upgrade shows the same packets to be updated, and *some more*. Last Sunday,

Re: More dnf annoyance

On 08/11/2015 01:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 13:13 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 08/11/2015 12:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 10:35 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: F22, in short: first running dnf --refresh upgrade shows some new packets

Re: More dnf annoyance

On 08/11/2015 04:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 04:35:56PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: Yet two completely separate contacts with Fedora's metalink server. Trouble-shooting these kinds of problems would need to include a closer look at what mirrors you are assigned to in both

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

On 07/23/2015 08:28 AM, Radek Holy wrote: - Original Message - From: Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 6:58:49 PM Subject: Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates On 07/22/2015 05:41 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 22.07.2015

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

On 07/23/2015 06:05 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:55 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: Is there a way to make dnf provide info instead of being silent? The answer was posted earlier in the thread. Well, the real answer would be to change dnf's behaviour. The current

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

On 07/22/2015 05:41 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 22.07.2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: I usually update weekly (or at least once within two weeks). And since F22, I get nothing to do every time I do this What you describe indicates you could be victim of what I conside a massive design flaw in dnf, the

Re: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

On 07/21/2015 10:56 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: As a plea to users of Fedora: If you get notifications from ABRT, the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, please spend a bit of time on submitting the _complete_ report instead of only enabling shortened reports. Sometimes the shortened reports may be

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