Re: [CentOS] Help with an HP Proliant gen10 plus?

2023-01-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Yeah.  Going to work on it some more today.  Plus got a finish a paper for a symposium.  I give up on learning tex; I found a word template that can create the right pdf, so pull out all my writing in tex and start over.  And I DO use the IETF's xml

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 15 May 2021, Ger van Dijck wrote: Try hp-setup and hp-check [liveuser@localhost ~]$ hp-setup -i HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.15.9) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-15 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 14 May 2021, Frank Cox wrote: The exact test of the output from hp-probe -busb -g is [liveuser@localhost ~]$ hp-probe -busb -g HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.15.9) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-15 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
I suspect that my friend does not want me working on her printer any more. If she asks, I will tell her that changing the cartidges might work, but that I am dubious. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
With the Deskjet D1420 disconnected, hp-probe finds no USB printers (duh). With the Deskjet D1420 connected, hp-probe finds it. hp-testpage produces error: Unable to communicate with printer Deskjet-D1400-series. Please check the printer and try again. Note that hp-probe found it.

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 13 May 2021, Frank Cox wrote: According to the manual you need to use the "HP Toolbox" to access the test page function (and other stuff). https://www.manualsdir.com/manuals/398954/hp-deskjet-d1420-printer.html?page=36 http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/hp-toolbox.1.html

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 13 May 2021, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On 5/13/21 11:51 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: In an attempt to diagnose a friend's HP Deskjet D1420, I'm running a Centos 6.10 LiveDVD. The readily visible symptom is that it will accept a job and claim to be printing it, but nothing ever gets printed

[CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
In an attempt to diagnose a friend's HP Deskjet D1420, I'm running a Centos 6.10 LiveDVD. The readily visible symptom is that it will accept a job and claim to be printing it, but nothing ever gets printed, not even a test page. The same happens on her Ubuntu system. I recently learned that a

Re: [CentOS] C7 live CD does not like F33 ext partition

2021-04-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
Why is "CentOS mailing list" "quoted"? On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:19:47 -0500 (CDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been trying to backup the root partition of my F33 installati

Re: [CentOS] C7 live CD does not like F33 ext partition

2021-04-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been trying to backup the root partition of my F33 installation. To that end, I'm running a C7 live CD. C7 won't mount the partition. tune2fs likes it, but [root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/a5 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

[CentOS] C7 live CD does not like F33 ext partition

2021-04-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've been trying to backup the root partition of my F33 installation. To that end, I'm running a C7 live CD. C7 won't mount the partition. tune2fs likes it, but [root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/a5 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5, missing codepage or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Lamar Owen wrote: On 3/18/21 10:23 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: [what can be done] I am guessing someone could make an unofficial set of spins which cut out some packages to try and make it fit in single density. This is probably the solution at this point for the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
Supergrub will boot some .iso files. In the past, I have directly booted a partition I made from a fedora .iso file. Another option *might* be making another .iso file. Mount the file. Copy its filesystem to a directory. Remove some stuff you can live without. Make another .iso file using

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb drive, so that option is not

Re: [CentOS] Xorg --configure

2020-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 09:27:21AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm currently running Centos 8 off an SD card. It, unlike F32, lets me use my monitor's full 1440 x 900. Both seem to use defaults and EDID, but F32 gets it wrong and saddles me

Re: [CentOS] Xorg --configure

2020-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 09:27:21AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm currently running Centos 8 off an SD card. It, unlike F32, lets me use my monitor's full 1440 x 900. Both seem to use defaults and EDID, Are you sure it isn't dropping

Re: [CentOS] installing Centos 8 to an SD card solved

2020-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: The installer appears not to notice the card reader. Doing a df from tty2 also provides no notice of the card reader. Can what I am trying to do be done? The card currently has a German Knoppix on it. I know from experience that my machine can boot

[CentOS] Xorg --configure

2020-11-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm currently running Centos 8 off an SD card. It, unlike F32, lets me use my monitor's full 1440 x 900. Both seem to use defaults and EDID, but F32 gets it wrong and saddles me with 640 x 480 when I can find the incantation to have it run at all. The configuration files and directories I can

Re: [CentOS] X defaults

2020-11-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 15:51, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:20, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

Re: [CentOS] GVIM annoyances

2020-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: HOWEVER, a different issue is that you are still using those older fonts if they were in your .fonts directory. The older fonts use a different 'hinting' system which when viewed on a newer X/Wayland makes the font look horrible. Since I have been

[CentOS] installing Centos 8 to an SD card

2020-11-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm trying to install Centos 8 from a CD burned with Centos-8-2-2004-x86_64-boot , to an SD card in a USB SD card reader. The installer appears not to notice the card reader. Doing a df from tty2 also provides no notice of the card reader. Can what I am trying to do be done? The card

Re: [CentOS] enp0s25 disconnect

2020-11-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I tried to boot a Centos 8.2 install CD, one burned with Centos-8-2-2004-x86_64-boot . In the setup, it persisted in telling me that ethernet thing enp0s25 was disconnected. I had the same thing happen

Re: [CentOS] enp0s25 disconnect

2020-11-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: # %< # get status of all network devices nmcli device status # look at all the settings for ens192 nmcli connection show ens192 # enable ens192 at boot time nmcli connection modify ens192 connection.autoconnect yes # start ens192 immediately

[CentOS] enp0s25 disconnect

2020-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
I tried to boot a Centos 8.2 install CD, one burned with Centos-8-2-2004-x86_64-boot . In the setup, it persisted in telling me that ethernet thing enp0s25 was disconnected. Nyet. 'Twas working several seconds previous and is working now. This is a showstopper. How do I debug it? Also, whatever

Re: [CentOS] X defaults

2020-10-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:20, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: I've been trying to move from Centos 7 to fedora. My monitor is 1440x900, but fedora only believes it's 640x480. 1. What kind of video card is t

[CentOS] X defaults

2020-10-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've been trying to move from Centos 7 to fedora. My monitor is 1440x900, but fedora only believes it's 640x480. G. xrandr has not helped. I've been trying to write X configuration files to tell fedora 1440x900, but no joy. Is there a way to get X to tell me its current beliefs, very

Re: [CentOS] @Microknoppix

2020-10-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Jonathan Billings wrote: Your Knoppix boot probably pushed a dynamic DNS update via DHCP to whatever hands out local DNS names on your LAN and now your local IP is resolving to that name. You probably need to update your hostname if you want it to be something else.

Re: [CentOS] @Microknoppix

2020-10-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:35:33 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: but now my LXterms all have hennebry@Microknoppix on top. WTF? How did that happen? How do I fix it? Wild guess: PROMPT_COMMAND was changed in /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc PROMPT_COMMAND

[CentOS] @Microknoppix

2020-10-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
Normally I run Centos 7, but I accidently booted a German Knoppix OS. I'm back to Centos 7, but now my LXterms all have hennebry@Microknoppix on top. WTF? How did that happen? How do I fix it? How do I make it not happen again? What other trouble should I be looking for? I opened a couple

Re: [CentOS] Invisible files and disk space

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
Does the filesystem have a fixed number of inodes? Perhaps the problem is the number of files, not their sizes. Does the filesystem have an explicit free list? If so, I'd expect there to be tools that could tell you how much was on it. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your

Re: [CentOS] Generating X configuration files

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I think I could make it go by booting to runlevel 3 and running startx manually. For that to work, I think I need to pass startx the right configuration file. To me, 'tain't obvious what to put in that file. Is there a way to get Centos 7 to generate

[CentOS] Generating X configuration files

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm trying to make my computer work with a Fedora 32 live DVD. Video issues make it either crap out or only give me 640x480. G. Centos 7 is running just fine. I think I could make it go by booting to runlevel 3 and running startx manually. For that to work, I think I need to pass startx the

Re: [CentOS] Unable to find the used space

2020-06-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Pete Biggs wrote: # du -sh /* Use 'du -xh --max-depth=1 /' it will clean up your output and show you only things on the root partition. Note the reason for -x . -x is equivalent to --one-file-system . It says that when searching from a directory, include only

Re: [CentOS] live centos 8?

2020-06-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Fabian Arrotin wrote: No, there is not ... I tried initially but lack of time on my side because anaconda wasn't able to generate an image that then would be installable on disk (never tried since though) Then we asked who would

Re: [CentOS] live centos 8?

2020-06-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 05/06/2020 18:15, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a live centos 8?> If so, where? No, there is not ... I tried initially but lack of time on my side because anaconda wasn't able to generate an image that then would be installable on disk (ne

[CentOS] live centos 8?

2020-06-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
Is there a live centos 8? If so, where? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

Re: [CentOS] mkfs.fat Device or resource busy

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 24 May 2020 18:33:25 -0500 (CDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: I'm trying to format a 16 GB SD card to FAT32. Either it won't find the device or it gives me the titular error message. mkfs.fat /dev/sdc First of all, doing it *without* a

[CentOS] mkfs.fat Device or resource busy

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm trying to format a 16 GB SD card to FAT32. Either it won't find the device or it gives me the titular error message. mkfs.fat /dev/sdc I have tried "ejecting" the drive and reinserting the card. I have tried inserting another card, checking to insure that I could see its file, ejecting that

Re: [CentOS] no images from www.imdb.com

2020-05-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 12 May 2020, John Pierce wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:37 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: For some reason, I no longer seem to get images from www.imdb.com , i.e. Internet Movie DataBase. The effect is really weird. I get from Firefox, Kon

[CentOS] no images from www.imdb.com

2020-05-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
For some reason, I no longer seem to get images from www.imdb.com , i.e. Internet Movie DataBase. The effect is really weird. I get from Firefox, Konqueror and Chromium. I'm running Centos 7. It's been happening for a few months now, so I really cannot tell what changed that mioght have caused

[CentOS] running app panel overflows

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm running Centos 7 with gnome. After 32 running applications, the panel at the bottom overflows. There seems to be no scrolling mechanism. How if at all can I see the overflow? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a

Re: [CentOS] Strangeness on X11 screen capture

2020-04-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Jerry Geis wrote: When I take a screen shot I get "different" things. I use: export DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xwd -silent -root -out screen; convert screen screen.png I tried import also for the screen capture and its the same random images. Granted the images are all things

Re: [CentOS] Encrypted container on CentOS VPS

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
What is the use-case here? Are you concerned that the host may change the data or just read it? Would re-creating the file anew for each use be practical? What about using the file in an encrypted form? I'm thinking of the case of records on people. Separate "cyphers" for first names, last names

Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, Chris Adams wrote: If it helps your search, what you are looking for is an application of the knapsack algorithm. Actually bin packing. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign,

Re: [CentOS] lapack

2019-12-31 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Tony Schreiner wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 1:24 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: Has anyone gotten lapack to work on centos 7? If so, how? Most recently, I installed lapace-devel and let yum bring in what it wanted. Whenever I try t

[CentOS] lapack

2019-12-31 Thread Michael Hennebry
Has anyone gotten lapack to work on centos 7? If so, how? Most recently, I installed lapace-devel and let yum bring in what it wanted. Whenever I try to link, I get a long list of undefined references ending with /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5/../../../../lib64/liblapacke.so: undefined

Re: [CentOS] midco stealling searches, was browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-12-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Louis Lagendijk wrote: The search parameter in resolv.conf is not related in any way to the searches in the browser. It just defines the domain to be added to hostnames that you want to resolve. So if you do a name lookup for foo, the resolver would add midcoip.net so you

Re: [CentOS] midco stealling searches, was browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
For whatever reason, the problem I was trying to solve seems to have gone away. I can type in firefox's search box without midco stealing searches. Something changed resolv.conf behind my back. search midcoip.net is there again. I hadn't rebooted or changed firefox's preferences. I'm guessing it

Re: [CentOS] midco stealling searches, was browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 01:17:53PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: I only have ifcfg-lo , which I am pretty sure is the loopback interface. As expected, other files suggest eth0 is my ethernet connection. Should I add a one-line ifcfg-eth0 file

Re: [CentOS] midco stealling searches, was browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-12-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 06:51:44PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any idea what does affect search in resolv.conf ? How can I fix this so I do not have to manually edit resolv.conf after each reboot. Neither of those files are the correct files

[CentOS] midco stealling searches, was browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-12-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: So you need to modify the source file that NetworkManager is using. somewhere in /etc/network or /etc/networking-scripts, a config file has DNS0=192.168.0.1 or sokmething, or your system is getting that from

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Pete Biggs wrote: [Michael Hennebry] 'Tain't as big a deal as having none, but why does CUPS have two queue names for the printer? Do you have CUPS autodiscover turned on? (AKA Avahi on Linux systems), if so CUPS will have automatically added the printer in addition

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Fred Smith wrote: It looks as if you downloaded the two RPMs from Brother then attempted to follow their complicated instructions for installing them. Much simpler is to do this: linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 is the brother printer driver installer I used on my

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Pete Biggs wrote: I've been trying to folow directions, but no go. The bad ELF interpreter really through me for a loop: [root@localhost drv]# ls ~hennebry/D*/*.rpm /home/hennebry/Downloads/hll2360dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.rpm

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote: Have you tried adding the Brother CUPS and/or generic LPR software? https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us=en=hll2360dw_us I've been trying to folow directions, but no go. The bad ELF

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote: Have you tried adding the Brother CUPS and/or generic LPR software? https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us=en=hll2360dw_us I've been trying to folow directions, but no go. The bad ELF interpreter really through me for a loop:

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote: Have you tried adding the Brother CUPS and/or generic LPR software? https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us=en=hll2360dw_us Where is "the directory where the drivers are"? I expect somewhere under /usr/share/cups. Correct? I really don't

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:55:32PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:55:32PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:55:32PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints at most the first page

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints at most the first page. After powering the thing off and turning

[CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints at most the first page. After powering the thing off and turning it on again, it printed page 3 of pages 3-6 .

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:14:12 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: I cannot even replace the memory I removed. There might be dirt plugging up the slot. Try vacuuming the slot out (carefully) and see if it fits after that. The process gave me a better

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: 2. Run out and buy more RAM. Max your system out at 4G or 8G or whatever it will take. You will need it and appreciate it. My fears and trepidations have been realized. I finally got around to trying to install the memory I bought. No go. The first card

Re: [CentOS] CUPS job handling

2019-08-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, hw wrote: is it somehow possible to make CUPS automatically redirect jobs, and following jobs, away from printers which can not print them to other printers that can print them until the printers that couldn't print them are again able to print them? IIRC CUPS has printer

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: On 6/08/19 3:44 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. Presumably something has changed. Websites have gotten more resource-intensive. You've run "yum updates" and now have a newer version of Firefox and

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Richard wrote: Does the system slow down when you have your internet connection enabled, but aren't explicitly using it (i.e., not using a browser)? The slowdown only happens when the browser is open, but I do not have to be using it. If so, look at the netstat output

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Mem:    2020144 1454904   76140  204764  489100 135004 Swap:   4883724  978480 3905244 free -h is generally more readable, but... It's RAM. You basically have a total of 2G ram

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: So you need to modify the source file that NetworkManager is using. somewhere in /etc/network or /etc/networking-scripts, a config file has DNS0=192.168.0.1 or sokmething, or your system is getting that from DHCP Will check on that. the web login on

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1 ? what that ipv6 address ? I expect that that is in the box with midco's router. Do not know about the ipv6 address. I was about to show to what I had changed resolv.conf, but something changed it back.

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
Something I just remembered because I saw it again: When I start chromium, I keep getting pop-ups to enter the password to unlock my login keyring. Me no have keyring, except the metal things in my pockets. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every other unix system since forever. Much to my surprise, I found this: # Generated by NetworkManager search midcoip.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 2001:48f8:3004:2ce:5a19:f8ff:fe9e:a4bc I

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Jonathan Billings wrote: Are you sure you don?t have other processes or users running on the system? It only happens when you have a network connection? It might also be swapping heavily, check to see how much RAM you have. Check the output of ?free?. Pretty sure. I

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm finding elinks hard to navigate, but at least it's not slowing stuff to a crawl either. Might have written too soon. elinks is starting to slow down, e.g. down arrow sometimes takes a full minute to respond. -- Michael henne

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote: No place to type a url. Found g. I'm finding elinks hard to navigate, but at least it's not slowing stuff to a crawl either. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
elinks does not seem to be working for me. I typed in google.com as my first url. There seems to be no way out of google, nor any way further in. No place to type a url. What appears to be the search window is black and does not accept input. Oops. Now I seem to have clicked on google help or

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:38:29 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestions on how to diagnose it? What happens if you try downloading a large file with wget? I'll try it. My expectation is that it will work just fine *once it starts*. That is my

[CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
My video problems mentioned in a previous thread are gone, though I do not know why. Now my problem is that whenever I have a browser open and an internet connection, my Centos 7 slows to a crawl. Chromium seems to be the least bad. Sometimes it slows to the point that I cannot even move the

Re: [CentOS] youtube-dl No module named 'pkg_resources'

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 8 May 2019, Nux! wrote: How did you install it? Most recently yum reinstall youtube-dl I'm using their binary and it works great, just tested it. https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html - Original Message - From: "Michael Hennebry" To: "Cent

[CentOS] youtube-dl No module named 'pkg_resources'

2019-05-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
youtube-dl doesn't work for me after a recent update. I do not use it often, so do not know whether the update matters. It gives the error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 6, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ModuleNotFoundError: No

Re: [CentOS] konqueror vs. centos and mathematics

2019-03-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 3/17/19 7:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/Screenshot2019-03-17+21-29-06.png The web site seems to be emitting tex. Presumably something has to translate between tex and image. That said, firefox worked (barely

Re: [CentOS] konqueror vs. centos and mathematics

2019-03-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 3/17/19 4:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Wikipedia seems to use tex, so I installed texlive and texlive-* . Formulas can be composed with tex, but they're displayed as images.  You shouldn't need any special browser support to display formulas

[CentOS] konqueror vs. centos and mathematics

2019-03-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm running centos 7. Firefox spends so much time in th D state that I am trying konqueror. Displaying mathematics on wikipedia, e.g. Remez algorithm seems to be a no go. Wikipedia seems to use tex, so I installed texlive and texlive-* . Firefox hadn't needed it and it did not seem to help

Re: [CentOS] a problem with the kdelibs-4.14.8-6.e17_3

2018-09-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote: I clicked on report. I got asked for my password. I typed it in and clicked on authenticate. The wheel is still spinning. My GUI screen in effectively froxen I can move the curson, but that is all. Clicking has no effect. Much to my surprise

[CentOS] a problem with the kdelibs-4.14.8-6.e17_3

2018-09-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
I closed firefox before updating it and rebooting. On starting it again, all my tabs came up blank. Refresh didn't refresh. I tried konqueror to see whether it would work. It did. I eventually discovered that I coulld click in the address bar and hit enter to get the effect of a refresh. While

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote: The next thing on my list is to try MemTest86+ with SMP. 5 hours in SMP mode, no errors. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiro

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: First, check the memory - MemTest86+ is the tool most people use for this. Run it on your system and it will highlight memory problems. It can be found at www.memtest.org - the precompiled versions are tiny and will fit on a floppy (or memory stick or CD).

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: (Yes I know the relationship). I'm told I couldn't install Fedora on a machine because a A machine, a now-defuct DakTech machine that I bought new. My current machine is an HP that I bought used. Did not mean to confuse. kernel bug affected precisely

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 10:10 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an hardware issue. I'm not at all sure how. If it means opening the case, hardware

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an hardware issue. I'm not at all sure how. If it means opening the case, hardware issues are likely to occur. Is there a way to tell whether the video player is even using video

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been looking. I keep finding claims that Fedora live CD's exist, but not actual images. https://getfedora.org/ specifically https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ What

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-15 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7. I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) the drivers from CentOS 7. I've been looking. I keep finding claims

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues (they use the same video driver)? No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic. The black tape

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues (they use the same video driver)? No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic. The black tape has gone away for KDE also. Apparently logging

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues (they use the same video driver)? No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic. One of them, I think it was gnome-classic, did videos badly. It was a bit like a shutter came about a quarter

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: The i915 driver is fairly rock solid - virtually all desktop machines these days have on-board Intel video, it's the lowest common denominator. And your chipset is not exactly cutting edge stuff. I bought it used. Are there any errors in the logs -

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, George Labuschagne wrote: If it is to just get better font rendering (infinality freetype rendering); have a look at this gist: No. It is to replace the 'black tape' that covers a lot of text. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, mark wrote: Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:29:52 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Suggestions on how to dignose this? Sounds like a video driver issue. In other words, a video driver that almost works. I

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:29:52 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Suggestions on how to dignose this? Sounds like a video driver issue. In other words, a video driver that almost works. I expect the first things to do are discover what video card

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