Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/30/19 8:51 AM, Beartooth wrote: unreadably elsewhere. (I run Mate, and if I could find a second string to Brasero that I could count on, I could uninstall all of KDE.) What's wrong with Brasero? ___ users mailing list --

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 May 2019, Beartooth sent: > I run Mate, and if I could find a second string to Brasero that I > could count on, I could uninstall all of KDE. I run Mate, have no KDE installation, I can burn discs. You need to say what it is that you need burning software to do. --

Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade

2019-05-30 Thread CLOSE Dave
Chris Murphy wrote: > We'd need to look at LBA 0 on a broken system to do an autopsy. Once > it's fixed, the evidence of what stepped on it is wiped away. I have two more systems to upgrade, probably next week. If one of them fails in the same way, I'll capture the MBR and post here. --

Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade

2019-05-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 4:00 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > I'm pretty sure (been a while since I checked) that neither the > bootloader nor kernel care if the primary GPT header or table fail > checksum verification, they just use it in the blind anyway. No > fallback to the backup. And no fail.

Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade

2019-05-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:36 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/30/19 10:06 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > > >> Not sure what would corrupt it but there is competition for LBA 0, > >> the MBR, in that there's a bootloader portion in the first ~440 bytes > >> and then a partition

Re: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' (F29)

2019-05-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/30/19 2:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2019-28516f8c38 ... Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' Any suggestions how to get around this bug? I even

Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade

2019-05-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:07 AM CLOSE Dave wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Not sure what would corrupt it but there is competition for LBA 0, > > the MBR, in that there's a bootloader portion in the first ~440 bytes > > and then a partition table from that point until the 512th byte. So > >

Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' (F29)

2019-05-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, On a new Fedora 29 installation, I get: sudo dnf update ... Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora-modular' So, I look around, and the solution may be: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi However, it is on

Re: F30 Zabbix

2019-05-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/30/19 10:18 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: >> On F30, zabbix-agent requires "zabbix = 4.0.7-2.fc30" but zabbix >> provides "zabbix = 1:4.0.7-2.fc30". The result is that DNF will not >> update either. > > It looks like something went wrong with the change to 4.2.1 so it was rolled

Re: F30 createrepo

2019-05-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
CLOSE Dave wrote: > In previous installations, /usr/bin/createrepo was a symbolic link to > /usr/bin/createrepo_c. Now with createrepo_c-0.14.1-1.fc30.x86_64, that > link is no longer created. This disrupts lots of scripts and will force > changes to a lot of documentation, including Fedora's own

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/30/19 8:51 AM, Beartooth wrote: When did Konqueror become enslaved to Google? Is there a way to liberate it? Or at least to get it back to displaying man pages? Your underlying question seems to be how to view man pages nicely. Try using yelp (the Gnome help browser). You can

Re: binary file editor

2019-05-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/30/19 2:38 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Paste into vim, position the cursor under the character in question and hit :ga for ASCII and :g8 for UTF-8 SPOILER: It's a space. And I see it in FireFox, but not in Chrome. So 'all' I have to do is figure out how to add the trim() function to my

Re: F30 Zabbix

2019-05-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/30/19 10:18 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: On F30, zabbix-agent requires "zabbix = 4.0.7-2.fc30" but zabbix provides "zabbix = 1:4.0.7-2.fc30". The result is that DNF will not update either. It looks like something went wrong with the change to 4.2.1 so it was rolled back to 4.0.7. However, that

Re: binary file editor

2019-05-30 Thread Ted Roche
Paste into vim, position the cursor under the character in question and hit :ga for ASCII and :g8 for UTF-8 SPOILER: It's a space. And I see it in FireFox, but not in Chrome. On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:24 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > For F28, I am looking for a file editor that when I paste

Re: system-upgrade from CIFS-mounted repo?

2019-05-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:21 AM wrote: > > Make instead a link to /run/systemd/generator/install.mount or write > an install.mount unit instead of using /etc/fstab > Thanks, I will try that when I have time for the next upgrade. And the reason it says CIFS in the subject when it's an NFS mount

Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade

2019-05-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/30/19 10:06 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: Chris Murphy wrote: Not sure what would corrupt it but there is competition for LBA 0, the MBR, in that there's a bootloader portion in the first ~440 bytes and then a partition table from that point until the 512th byte. So whenever something changes a

binary file editor

2019-05-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
For F28, I am looking for a file editor that when I paste from the clipboard, I can see any special characters. I am having problems with a web form copy to clipboard.  You can see at test page at: http://www.htt-consult.com/button2.html In Firefox on my F28 system, there is a character

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 30 May 2019 17:00:21 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [] > Maybe ask on the Fedora KDE list? Will do. Hadn't known there was one. Many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

F30 Zabbix

2019-05-30 Thread CLOSE Dave
On F30, zabbix-agent requires "zabbix = 4.0.7-2.fc30" but zabbix provides "zabbix = 1:4.0.7-2.fc30". The result is that DNF will not update either. -- Dave Close ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: F29 to F30 VMware upgrade

2019-05-30 Thread CLOSE Dave
Chris Murphy wrote: > Not sure what would corrupt it but there is competition for LBA 0, > the MBR, in that there's a bootloader portion in the first ~440 bytes > and then a partition table from that point until the 512th byte. So > whenever something changes a partition or a boot flag (active

F30 createrepo

2019-05-30 Thread CLOSE Dave
In previous installations, /usr/bin/createrepo was a symbolic link to /usr/bin/createrepo_c. Now with createrepo_c-0.14.1-1.fc30.x86_64, that link is no longer created. This disrupts lots of scripts and will force changes to a lot of documentation, including Fedora's own online. -- Dave

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 15:51 +, Beartooth wrote: > When did Konqueror become enslaved to Google? Is there a way to > liberate it? Or at least to get it back to displaying man pages? > > I don't use Google, except by way of Duckduckgo or other privacy- > providing intermediary. In

Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Beartooth
When did Konqueror become enslaved to Google? Is there a way to liberate it? Or at least to get it back to displaying man pages? I don't use Google, except by way of Duckduckgo or other privacy- providing intermediary. In fact, my main and almost only use of Konqueror is for

Re: system-upgrade from CIFS-mounted repo?

2019-05-30 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Thu, 30 May 2019 11:07:50 +0200 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > [3] put links in it for: ... > autofs.service I was wrong here: you are not using autofs but the automount of systemd. Make instead a link to /run/systemd/generator/install.mount or write an install.mount unit instead

Re: system-upgrade from CIFS-mounted repo?

2019-05-30 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Wed, 29 May 2019 10:58:01 -0600 Greg Woods wrote: > worldsys:/install /install nfsrw,x-systemd.automount 0 0 > Is it impossible to do a system-upgrade from a remote-mounted repo (which > would defeat much of the purpose of maintaining such a repo), or is there a >