Re: AVC error in cron script

2024-09-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 9/10/24 5:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have a cron line that attempts to restart httpd every morning, but it's failing with an AVC error: Sep 10 08:00:00 Bree CROND[723189]: (root) CMD ((echo "$(date): Apache: calling restart") >> /var/log/httpd/my-log && /usr/sbin/apachectl restart)

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-22 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 8/22/24 5:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: When I reboot the system, there's a delay of around a minute before anything happens. This is a single-user desktop and I really don't need to stare at a spinner for so long. Is there a setting somewhere that lets me change this? I'm aware of 'reboot

Re: change the default dns on fedora 40

2024-07-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/23/24 7:31 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I try to change the default dns configured by my ISP on a fedora 40. Once upon a time it was easy: just change the file /etc/resolv.conf now So, according to some information got from the internet, I created a directory /usr/lib/sy

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/15/24 4:05 PM, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-14 10:50, François Patte a écrit : Bonjour, According to some howto, it is enough to install akmods-nvidia and reboot. some others tell that we have to generate and install some signature I have secure boot enabled. Is there some how-to

Re: OT: motherboard

2024-07-11 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/10/24 11:59 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Anyone have a favorite uATX motherboard that supports ECC and is Fedora 40 friendly? Hey, Todd - Depends on what you're doing. I have a homelab with a bunch of older Proliant servers I use for education and testing. Speed is not a hu

Re: make a bootable dvd

2024-07-08 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/8/24 10:01 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I downloaded the f40 iso for a worksation, but I did not see on the fedora website how to burn a bootable DVD with this iso file Maybe someone can tell me how to proceed. google indicates this for windows  no windows at home. I pref

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

2024-06-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/28/24 10:51 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:55:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, I Beartooth wrote: Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives

Re: F40 kernel 6.9.* and VMware 17.5.* question

2024-06-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/26/24 2:56 PM, Mark C. Allman via users wrote: Anyone have VMware Workstation or Player 17.5.1 or 17.5.2 working on the 6.9.* kernels? The kernel modules from VMware haven't worked in quite a while. They don't compile for the 6.9.* kernels, and, if I'm remembering correctly, they don't com

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

2024-06-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, Beartooth wrote: Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head. I tried posting via Gmane to se

Re: How do I Contact the Rpmfusion List?

2024-06-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/10/24 5:18 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I have installed Jellyfin from rpmfusion by following the instructions on the Jellyfin web site for Fedora.     After activating Developer Mode on my TV I used Docker to install the Jellyfin client on the TV.     I ran the Jellyfin script to

Re: can I clone from a usb flash drive to an NVMe drive?

2024-04-29 Thread Thomas Cameron
I'd be surprised if you could. The USB drive root filesystem is usually run on /dev/sda. If you're trying to clone it to /dev/nvme*, it may very well not work. I would do something like set up a kickstart so that you can install the system with all the preferred package groups. Thomas On 4/29

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 4/15/24 14:02, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 11:19 AM, home user wrote: There's 1. (Thomas) I finally just nuked all the RPMFusion packages and downloaded the drivers directly from https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx and ran the installer from there. It works fine again. (To

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 4/11/24 12:19, home user wrote: (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx driver) I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to upgrading from f-38 to f-39. There were no hints of any problems.  The kernel and the graphics driver were r

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-04-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 4/4/24 00:27, Javier Perez wrote: I was talking about kickstart Here you go: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f36/install-guide/advanced/Kickstart_Installations/ If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask. I usually "cheat" by building a system like I want it and the

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-04-01 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 4/1/24 17:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/1/24 15:03, Thomas Cameron wrote: I've never heard of having to overwrite the end of the drive, but then, I've only been working with Linux professionally since 1995. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ GPT has a backup copy stored in the last block of the disk.

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-04-01 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 4/1/24 15:57, Barry Scott wrote: I tend to dd of a few MiB of zeros over the front of the disk. A few KiB is often not enough. In some cases you also need to overwrite at the end of the disk I have been told. Barry TMTOWTDI. The dmesg output is generally *plenty* to nuke the boot sector

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-04-01 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 4/1/24 00:25, Javier Perez wrote: When I realize I need to nuke my machine and start over, it's: sudo -i dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 systemctl reboot Choose the right kickstart from the menu. Refill coffee. Go back to working as if nothing happened. My home directory is t

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 21:57, Joe Zeff wrote: In all the years I've been doing this I've never had it fail with a Fedora re-installation.  Of course, I always have a full backup of /home before I upgrade or re-install, JIK. I've never had it fail, either. But *in my case* it makes more sense for me to

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 11:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? poc To further clarify, my system uses NVMe drives (/dev/nvme0n1 and /dev/nvme1n1). So when I do dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 as root, it

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 11:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 11:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: dmesg > /dev/nvme1n1 What's that about? If you overwrite the first few sectors of the drive (i.e. with the output of the dmesg command), it nukes the boot instructions.

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 11:01, Joe Zeff wrote: If you have /home on its own partition, you don't even need to have it mounted on your file server.  Just do a custom partitioning (I presume that you can do that with a kickstart) mounting that partition as /home and not reformatting and Bob's your uncle.  I

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/25/24 10:21, Michael Hennebry wrote: Thanks folks. Disabling UEFI mode did the trick, though I do not understand why it was necessary. I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI. The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI directory. I didn't get a grub menu until

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/24/24 18:43, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been trying to get an HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt to boot from dvd. So far no luck. I've managed to get DVD listed as the first boot entry for both UEFI and legacy. The machine seems to try and fail. The error messages go by rather fast. I think I've seem

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/22/24 12:24, bruce wrote: Or... You might talk with the front desk/data person. If a group came in for a meeting and wanted to do what you describe, they might have an additional solution for you to use! Might be worth checking out. good luck That's a great point, but in my experience,

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/22/24 11:09, Sbob wrote: All I have 2 laptops I need to connect for testing / coding via ssh, if I connect each to the hotel wifi I cannot connect across laptops with ssh, If I grab a wifi router and connect it to the hotel wifi and use the router's wifi will this work? would it also

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/18/24 19:49, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Which scanner/copier does everyone use, that works out of the box with Xsane?Printing would be nice but I already have an HP that does the job for me. I use an HP Color LaserJet MFP M281fdw [1], and it works *okay*. I set up scan to email and scan to s

Re: Email Balkanization (was Re: Fora vs. mailing lists)

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/10/24 14:17, Dave Close wrote: To me the analogy is, in the olden days, a company sending you postal mail in care of the local post office, the PO sending you a post card that something has arrived, and you having to go to the PO and show your identification to retrieve the item. No one woul

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/10/24 14:39, Thomas Cameron wrote: ... but that's always the case with the myriad of fora which which I interact. Correction, I meant to write "that's not* always the case..." -- Thomas -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lis

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/10/24 14:32, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/10/2024 01:20 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I'm not sure why you're refusing to understand my point here. Oh, I understand your point, I just think that you're going out of your way to make your life more difficult than it needs to

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/10/24 13:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I agree with you about the push vs pull factor, so I interact with discussion.fedoraproject.org via email. 🙂 https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/guide-to-interacting-with-this-site-by-email/25960 You can decide what tags you want to 'subscribe' to, it

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/10/24 12:58, Joe Zeff wrote: You only need to have a tab open for a forum when you're actively using it.  Why are you going out of your way to make your life difficult? I'm not sure why you're refusing to understand my point here. It's that, in an email list, it's all in one place, and it

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 3/10/24 12:04, Joe Zeff wrote: Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times?  How many of them do you actually need to look at each day? I'm not saying that. What I AM saying, is that every time I need to go to a forum, I have to open a separate tab. It's a pain. Also, if I

Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/. Having said that... I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the correct mail folder, I can read through them at my le

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 s

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"

Re: Libre Office and the secondary clipboard

2024-02-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 2/23/24 14:51, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 39 libreoffice7.6-7.6.5.2-2.x86_64 (From LO's web site) Is it just me or is LO's Secondary clipboard ( etc.) a real pain in your neck?  The first copy work.  The second does not.  The paste is still the first copy.   I have to paste

Re: star office

2024-02-22 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 2/22/24 15:40, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: No to ask too stupid a question, but do we have an RPM of Star Office in the repos? Seems like we have the libraries, but not the main program # dnf list | grep -i star | grep -i office libstaroffice.x86_64  0.0.7-11.fc39 @fedora Star Division w

Re: procmail question

2024-01-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 1/26/24 10:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I used procmail for years and never had an issue with it. However I don't like unmaintained software so removed it when support was dropped. The problem with Sieve (and several other options) is that they're server-side, so if your server doesn't suppo

procmail question

2024-01-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
I'm reading articles saying procmail is dangerous and unmaintained (https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/). I get why a setuid root:mail binary is potentially dangerous, but procmail has been in use for decades and I don't think I've ever heard of it being used for an e

Re: NVMe sector size ?

2024-01-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 1/10/24 12:39, Bob Marčan wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:19:30 -0600 "Thomas Cameron" wrote: I just checked my system, and it looks like it's set for 512k blocks: [root@case ~]# blockdev --report /dev/nvme1n1p4 RORA SSZ BSZStartSecSize Device

Re: NVMe sector size ?

2024-01-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
I just checked my system, and it looks like it's set for 512k blocks: [root@case ~]# blockdev --report /dev/nvme1n1p4 RORA SSZ BSZStartSecSize Device rw 256 512 51269216256964765417472   /dev/nvme1n1p4 I assume the installer chose the block size, s

Re: How can you get remote access to laptops behind a NAT/firewall?

2023-12-21 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 12/21/23 14:39, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Thomas Cameron said: So my question is, is there any sort of software which is similar to Quick Assist we can install on our Linux laptops so that the Linux team sysadmins can get access to laptops? I've seen folks on this list talk

How can you get remote access to laptops behind a NAT/firewall?

2023-12-21 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
In my company, we're rolling out Linux laptops to my team. We're 100% remote workers, no one even lives in the same state as the headquarters. If my teammates are logged into the VPN, it's pretty easy to administer a team member's laptop - I just ask the user for the IP address and ssh in as t

Re: libvirt / qemu / kvm bridged network

2023-12-13 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 12/12/23 20:03, Sbob wrote: Hi; I'm running Fedora 39, I have installed qemu / libvirt / kvm I have found many guides on setting up bridged networking but none have worked. Can someone point me to a proper guide? Thanks in advance Setting up bridged networking is nowhere near as simple

Re: Clean install of Fedora 39 on Dell notebook was working, but recent update not getting 50 selerts??

2023-12-11 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
Actually, that brings up another point, that I don't know if it's still the case. When you write a file to a specific place, the SELinux contexts are set for what's usually expected at that file path. e.g. Write a page.html file in your homespace, and it'll get general context that won't be read

Re: Clean install of Fedora 39 on Dell notebook was working, but recent update not getting 50 selerts??

2023-12-10 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 12/9/23 07:36, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: On 9 Dec 2023 at 18:02, Tim wrote: Subject:Re: Clean install of Fedora 39 on Dell notebook was working, but recent update not getting 50 selerts?? From: Tim To: mi...@guam.net,

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-02 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 12/2/23 15:14, Andras Simon wrote: Why not remove just kernel-core? dnf will take care of the dependent packages (kernel-modules and the rest). Removing kernel-core totally makes sense. Thomas -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-02 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
Here's what I do. It's on RHEL, but the process is the same for Fedora. First, find all kernels which are installed.The last one is the latest, so we ignore that one. -- [root@neuromancer ~]# rpm -qa kernel | sort kernel-5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64 kernel-5.14.

Re: thunderbird: duplicated messages downloaded

2023-11-07 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 11/7/23 01:46, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: Though I do have imap available on my mail server if I ever want to use it. That's your answer, bud. POP is ancient and crufty, and as others have said, different mail servers do different, often weird, things to the messages. Switch to IMAP, i

Re: docker and iptables

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 10/20/23 11:42, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/20/2023 01:39 AM, jdow wrote: I bet something as simple as "horsehair" is far enough down the guess list that the probability of a successful attack is out at way more time than I have life left. When you can put time on your side life's great. I used

Re: Creating a bridge

2023-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 8/14/23 20:54, Alex wrote: Hi, I've just installed fedora38 over my previous fedora install but didn't save my network config that included a bridge to allow for local IPs for my virtual machines. Is there a network tool that I can use to create a bridge so I can then use the bridge option

Re: Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-31 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 7/30/23 21:45, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-07-30 17:39, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: On 7/29/23 08:55, Tim Evans wrote: Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue. When T

Re: Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-30 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 7/29/23 08:55, Tim Evans wrote: Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue. When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I

Re: xfce4 desktop problem

2023-07-05 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 7/5/23 13:02, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Running xfce4 desktop on f38 terminal the desktop windows have lost the window bar at the top. Can't reposition open windows. They are fine if I switch to LXDE or kde. What part of xfce needs to be reinstalled? The nuclear option is to boot to

Re: What causes mailing list bounce?

2023-06-19 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 6/19/23 14:39, Chris Adams wrote: I think it only does the rewrite for p=reject and p=quarantine, not p=none, since by definition, p=none is for monitoring. If you don't want to monitor, then don't set DMARC or set a policy that would require rewrites. ISTR that I was getting tons of reports

Re: What causes mailing list bounce?

2023-06-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/19/23 12:17, Richard wrote: Another issue on this relates to DMARC. If the mailing list doesn't rewrite the From: header and your mail service provider's servers enforce DMARC (DKIM/SPF), your mail service provider's servers will reject messages from list senders whose domains have DMARC set

Re: Anyone else seeing libvirtd refusing connections after a day?

2023-06-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/19/23 12:33, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:55:26AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: I have a dedicated Fedora 38 KVM hypervisor that I use for testing, and I also use my desktop to run VMs. When I leave the virtualization manager app open (typically overnight), it has

Anyone else seeing libvirtd refusing connections after a day?

2023-06-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
I have a dedicated Fedora 38 KVM hypervisor that I use for testing, and I also use my desktop to run VMs. When I leave the virtualization manager app open (typically overnight), it has disconnected from the remote hypervisor and from my local hypervisor. When I double click the connection, it j

Re: issue with dnf system upgrade

2023-06-05 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/5/23 08:14, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, Today I tried to upgrade from fc34 to fc36. Downloading the package was okay. Problems occur when I agreed to system-upgrade-reboot: 1- No display... I could only dee the led showing HDD accesses 2- After sometimes (when no more accesses were sh

Re: How to set up dhcpd.conf to serve different UEFI files per OS

2023-06-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/4/23 17:30, Chris Adams wrote: Again, the DHCP request that gets a response "use this file" comes from the firmware, not the OS. It goes something like: - BIOS/UEFI configured for network boot sends DHCP request - DHCP server says "use this file (aka shim)" - BIOS/UEFI loads that file and

Re: How to set up dhcpd.conf to serve different UEFI files per OS

2023-06-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/4/23 17:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: The part you're missing is that it isn't the OS that's sending the DHCP request.  It's the BIOS.  There's no OS loaded yet, that's what you're trying to boot. The hardware definitely sends a DHCP request when it tries to PXE boot. But when the OS actually lo

Re: How to set up dhcpd.conf to serve different UEFI files per OS

2023-06-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/4/23 16:25, Barry wrote: I have always seen this done by having tooling that read a database of hardware mac addresses mapped to config. With that setup you “just” edit the database to switch the os you want and rebuild your dhcpd/tftpd config. Unfortunately, the vast majority of my syste

Re: How to set up dhcpd.conf to serve different UEFI files per OS

2023-06-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 6/4/23 14:40, Chris Adams wrote: As far as I can tell, you cannot configure network boot for different OSes in a UEFI Secure Boot environment. The shim is loaded first, before you get to the point of choosing which kernel to boot, and a given distribution's shim will only load other Linux thi

How to set up dhcpd.conf to serve different UEFI files per OS

2023-06-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
I am trying to kickstart multiple versions of Linux. Some of my systems are BIOS based, and some are UEFI based. I have a stanza in my dhcpd.conf file that looks like this:     class "pxeclients" {     match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient";     ne

Re: F37: any suggestions on this WebEx error on F37?

2023-05-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/26/23 13:25, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks very much! It more or less put me on the right track. After a perceived clean exit of WebEx: $ ps ux localusr 5546 25.8 3.6 6429840 581604 ? Sl 13:16 0:07 /opt/Webex/bin/CiscoCollabHost /opt/Webex/lib/ libWebexAppLoader.so /Start

Re: ide editor??

2023-05-24 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/23/23 18:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote: There's only one true editor for developers: emacs Everything else is a pale imitation of emacs' awesomeness. EMACS is a great OS. It just needs a decent text editor. 😂 -- Thomas ___ users mailing list -- us

Re: ide editor??

2023-05-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/23/23 16:44, bruce wrote: Hi. Curious to know what IDE/editors you guys use for developing code (and why if you care to expound). Are there any you prefer for linux vs windows? just curious... I use vim, but I'm not a power programmer, just an old sysadmin who has to tinker with code

Re: Transaction test error

2023-05-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/15/23 11:33, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Running an update of fc36, I get Error: Transaction test error: file /usr/lib/.build-id/a8/5d273e920106a68e86541b187062d7dbef328a conflicts between attempted installs of java-latest-openjdk-headless-1:20.0.1.0.9-3.rolling.fc36.x86_64 and java-1

Re: Solution: Weird irritation with Firefox not lowering when I middle click on it

2023-05-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/15/23 15:11, Thomas Cameron wrote: I use Xfce on Fedora 38. I recently did a fresh install of the OS, and somehow when I launched Firefox, it wasn't honoring my Xfce configuration that lowers a window when I middle-click on the title bar. The solution took a LOT of digging. I ask

Solution: Weird irritation with Firefox not lowering when I middle click on it

2023-05-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
I use Xfce on Fedora 38. I recently did a fresh install of the OS, and somehow when I launched Firefox, it wasn't honoring my Xfce configuration that lowers a window when I middle-click on the title bar. The solution took a LOT of digging. I asked in #xfce on Libera Chat IRC, and the folks the

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 16:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you have two gigabit interfaces and a managed switch, you can also team the interfaces for double the bandwidth.  Still much cheaper than going to 10Gb. Sadly, right now I just have an unmanaged switch. I would either have to upgrade to a new switch or

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 10:39, Roger Heflin wrote: yes, that would give way more speed if those desktops need that kind of speed. "Need" is relative. ;-) But I use one of the servers as a hypervisor for testing stuff, and the other is a file server. I'm mostly thinking about the file server, that's where

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 10:19, Roger Heflin wrote: And also given your hw, limit your interrupt count to the number of cores on a single socket, the interrupts will typically only happen on the local socket the given pci bus is attached to, and you would need to determine if different cards have their PCI bus

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 10:14, Roger Heflin wrote: Given that hardware, buy something like this instead. used, but better class of card. https://www.newegg.com/intel-e10g42bt/p/N82E16833106075?Description=10gbit%20card&cm_re=10gbit_card-_-33-106-075-_-Product&quicklink=true or something similar from the us

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 10:03, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Thomas Cameron said: Do you just use a copper SFP+ module like https://www.ebay.com/itm/164322691847 in the Microtik? I'd love to know what you use. I used QFPTEK modules from Amazon, but any should do. The Mikrotik does run a l

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 09:41, Roger Heflin wrote: I have work experience with Intel 10Gbit, Older Emulex 10GB (be[23]net driver), current Broadcom 10/25G and Mellanox 10/25G. Note that for it to be useful you*MUST* have multiple interrupts. 1Gbit interfaces used to hit a limit at around 50Mbit (the cpu was

Re: Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 5/12/23 08:53, Chris Adams wrote: I have a couple of these, one in my home server (which includes NFS) and one in my primary desktop, connected through a Mikrotik CRS305 switch, and the setup works fine. I am using bridging on both systems (for VMs), and that works fine as well. Checking my

Experience with 10Gb ethernet adapters?

2023-05-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
Howdy, all - I use an NFS server export to mount my /home directory on my desktop. I've got the itch to go to 10Gb ethernet, but I am reading that the tp-link tx401 has a problem with bridging, and I use bridging for KVM virtual machines on my desktop. I *think* that you can just disable usin

DMARC and SPF and DKIM, oh, my!

2023-05-09 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
All - I've tested my DMARC, DKIM, and SPF records against multiple test sites, and it's set up correctly. I've sent email from my server to GMail, read the headers, and all tests pass. The problem is, as far as I can tell, EVERY server that sends mail to mailing lists causes me to get a barr

Re: How to create a Fedora 37 image for AWS

2023-02-27 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
Thomas On 2/27/23 00:45, Peter Boy wrote: Am 25.02.2023 um 16:19 schrieb Thomas Cameron via users : Honestly, this was just me nerding out and having fun, and I wanted to share it in case anyone else wanted to do the same. Thats perfectly OK. That's what FOSS is for - among other thi

Re: How to create a Fedora 37 image for AWS

2023-02-25 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 2/25/23 06:21, Peter Boy wrote: Am 25.02.2023 um 00:23 schrieb Thomas Cameron via users : Hey, all! I work for AWS, and I put together a quick HOWTO on setting up a Fedora 37 instance using KVM, and then converting it to a format that can be used to create a new EC2 instance on AWS

How to create a Fedora 37 image for AWS

2023-02-24 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
Hey, all! I work for AWS, and I put together a quick HOWTO on setting up a Fedora 37 instance using KVM, and then converting it to a format that can be used to create a new EC2 instance on AWS. Note that this is a personal project, is not endorsed by AWS, and was not produced by AWS. It’s just

Weird multiple display issue

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
Howdy - I have a multi monitor machine. The displays are set up like this: + + + + So I have three large monitors and a smaller tablet below the far right monitor. The weird thing is, it seems like the desktop THINKS my screen looks like this: + + + + + + So what happens is, when I d

Re: cron.weekly

2023-01-20 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
enue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988| | Room# D114A === Sent: Friday, January 20, 2023 at 9:30 PM From: "Thomas Cameron via users" To: users@lists.fedora

Re: cron.weekly

2023-01-20 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 1/20/23 14:07, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I would like to run cron.weekly from a line command immediately. How can I do it ? If the script is /etc/cron.weekly/myfile, then just run /etc/cron.daily/myfile as root or via sudo. Thomas ___ users m

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-18 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
And if this is a kernel issue, how is it that it didn't take a kernel update to cause it? It was working before the update with the same kernel, why would it stop? Strange. It may have been a perfect storm of e.g. a previous kernel upgrade which introduced a condition that a later audio or fi

Re: Fedora 36: How do I tell sound to NEVER use a mic?

2022-09-12 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/12/22 16:28, Grumpey wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:22 AM Thomas Cameron via users wrote: I have. It doesn't stick between reboots. Are you using wireplumber? I referenced https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePlumber#Disable_a_device/node when I disabled my camera micro

Re: Fedora 36: How do I tell sound to NEVER use a mic?

2022-09-12 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/12/22 16:28, Grumpey wrote: Are you using wireplumber? I referencedhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePlumber#Disable_a_device/node when I disabled my camera microphone. I think so: [thomas.cameron@case Desktop]$ ps axfw | grep plumb 14885 ?Shttps://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-U

Re: Fedora 36: How do I tell sound to NEVER use a mic?

2022-09-12 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
I have. It doesn't stick between reboots. On 9/12/22 10:07, Alex Gurenko wrote: Why don't you just disable microphones on Brio all together? --- Best regards, Alex --- Original Message --- On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 16:50, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: On 9/

Re: Fedora 36: How do I tell sound to NEVER use a mic?

2022-09-12 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/9/22 14:56, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: I have two mics, one on my Brio web camera, and one on my motherboard. Every time I boot up, the Brio mic is selected, and I have to manually go in and tell the audio mixer that I want the onboard mic to be used. Sometimes I forget, join a WebEx

Fedora 36: How do I tell sound to NEVER use a mic?

2022-09-09 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
I have two mics, one on my Brio web camera, and one on my motherboard. Every time I boot up, the Brio mic is selected, and I have to manually go in and tell the audio mixer that I want the onboard mic to be used. Sometimes I forget, join a WebEx or similar, and they are hearing me through my Br

Re: Looking for a GPU that "just works" - Is RX550 a good choice?

2022-09-02 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/2/22 16:56, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 9/2/22 14:11, Felix Miata wrote: It doesn't have to use only Radeon drivers. Try removing the ATI/Radeon Xorg driver rpm (xorg-x11-drv-ati). That will cause it to fallback to the newer technology, upstream default, "modesetting" DIX display driver, along

Re: Looking for a GPU that "just works" - Is RX550 a good choice?

2022-09-02 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/2/22 15:05, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 9/2/22 13:46, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: Hey, Ian! Good to see you, hope you're well! Same here!  (IIRC, you were the person who recommended the FirePro V4900 to me back in the day.) I think that's right! I loved mine, and it lasted for a

Re: Looking for a GPU that "just works" - Is RX550 a good choice?

2022-09-02 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/2/22 11:44, Ian Pilcher wrote: [1] The glitch takes the form of the contents of new windows not being     shown, only the frame.  It only seems to happen with Gtk apps,     primarily Thunderbird.  I've tried futzing around with the Xorg     acceleration settings, and I've been able to reduce

Re: Looking for a GPU that "just works" - Is RX550 a good choice?

2022-09-02 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 9/2/22 11:44, Ian Pilcher wrote: I'm currently using an old ATI FirePro V4900 to run my 3 displays - 1x 2K and 2x 1920x1200.  I've been seeing glitches in some Gtk applications for a while now (running on Plasma X11), and I'm getting pretty tired of them.[1]  This card uses the old radeon driv

Re: strange ip address reported by nftables

2022-08-21 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 8/19/22 15:33, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, This morning, logwatch reported this in the iptables section: Logged 99 packets on interface enp3s0 . From 10.91.96.218 - 6 packets to udp(54366) How, this IP address could be logged on my private network (which is 192.168.1.0)? I mis

Re: WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36

2022-07-29 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 7/29/22 10:29, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Dear friends, Does anyone still have the official Cisco WebEx linux client work with Fedora 36? It used to work fine a month or so ago, but has not worked for me for the last two weeks (at least). Specifically, what happens is that the client opens up

Re: How do I ask dnf for the current revision of Wine, when ...

2022-07-01 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 7/1/22 19:50, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I am afraid to take the exclusion out as if Wine gets accidentally upgrade to 7.0 and I have no downgrade, it will take my business down. Totally fair point. Not trying to tell you how to run your system. I was just suggesting *a* way that might

Re: How do I ask dnf for the current revision of Wine, when ...

2022-07-01 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 7/1/22 17:51, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Due to this bug:    https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52586 I have Wine updates excluded from /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. Take the exclusion out. Run "yum list wine*" and see if the update has made it out. I just checked on my F36 box, an

Re: Anyone use spf and dmarc and dkim?

2022-06-18 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
On 6/18/22 02:20, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > What is the misconfiguration that you are saying I have? Using "-all" or "~all" in your SPF configuration. They are saying "reject mail whose last hop source IP isn't explicitly authorized", with "~all" being less strict but any receiver is withi

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