Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/28/19 2:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/27/19 10:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 7/28/19 11:37 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> The instructions I saw was to add (or replace?) with >>> >>> /mnt/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 >>> >>> Couple questions.  When I ran mkswap: >>> >>> # mkswap /mnt/s

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/27/19 10:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 7/28/19 11:37 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The instructions I saw was to add (or replace?) with /mnt/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 Couple questions.  When I ran mkswap: # mkswap /mnt/swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 8 GiB (8589930496 b

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/28/19 11:37 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The instructions I saw was to add (or replace?) with > > /mnt/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > > Couple questions.  When I ran mkswap: > > # mkswap /mnt/swapfile > Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 8 GiB (8589930496 bytes) > no label, UUID=ad2c68

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Felix Miata
sixpack13 composed on 2019-07-27 14:24 (UTC): > If I were you I would get rid off that partion schema and would change it to > GUID partioning ! I don't know if it's able to do without new installation ! I have only nominal familiarity with partitioning tools other than that which I've been usin

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/28/19 12:00 PM, home user via users wrote: > By the way, what is all that activity just after "dnf upgrade" completes? You have the nvidia drivers installed from, probably, rpmfusion.  So, every time an upgrade installs a new kernel there will be activity after the upgrade as the akmod pro

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread home user via users
> I assume that the > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/IUlWCabjTPra7laQna9xHg > log is unfiltered. correct. > I presume that you did a reboot, soon after. When I do my weekly "dnf upgrade", I am logged in as root, and the only things that I explicitly have running are xeyes, ksysguard, an

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 7/26/19 12:10 PM, Alexander Ruetz wrote: I don’t know how risky it is to shrink existing partitions but you also could use a swap file instead of a partition So I just did this using the following commands: fallocate --length 8GiB /mnt/swapfile chmod 600 /mnt/swapfile mkswap /mnt/swapfil

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When you have a notebook install, you are locked into the drive you have and whatever you did on the partitioning, you are stuck with, for the most part.  No adding a new drive with additional partitions. I originally deleted the default LVM setup and then created the ext4 partitions you see i

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/28/19 7:34 AM, Tim via users wrote: > There > may be an issue from something without gnome in the name, and we can't > see what the disabled repo was. Oh, I can answer that. The new version of akmod-nvida installs the kmod after a kernel install in a different way than in the past.  The dis

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread Tim via users
Hi Bill, On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 14:16 -0600, home user via users wrote: > (Tim: dnf history) > I put the relevant part of the dnf log here: > "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/IUlWCabjTPra7laQna9xHg";. > Firefox was upgraded. I did not see "gnome" anywhere in the log. > If something undernea

Re: Samba broken pipe -

2019-07-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 7/26/19 9:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 7/27/19 7:59 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 7/26/19 7:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 7/27/19 3:44 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: It still works when mounted from root except now it comes up read-only and the users can't save files to it. What is read only? Output

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread sixpack13
sure the OP doesn't need GPT. Not strongly/imperative ! and my suggestions are far away from just "extend swap". but he needs to save his data anyway (backup) before he moves his partitions with gparted. - I never would manipulate partition WITHOUT an backup ! - a second backup is needed ag

Re: Equalizer for pulseaudio

2019-07-27 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:13:22 -0500 SternData wrote: > I just did a clean install of F30 on this system and am trying to get > things back to work. > > I've got pulseeffects installed because the install of > pulseaudio-equalizer fails > > $ sudo dnf install pulseaudio-equalizer > Error: > Prob

Re: Equalizer for pulseaudio

2019-07-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:13:22 -0500, SternData wrote: > I just did a clean install of F30 on this system and am trying to get > things back to work. > > I've got pulseeffects installed because the install of > pulseaudio-equalizer fails > > $ sudo dnf install pulseaudio-equalizer > Error: > Prob

Equalizer for pulseaudio

2019-07-27 Thread SternData
I just did a clean install of F30 on this system and am trying to get things back to work. I've got pulseeffects installed because the install of pulseaudio-equalizer fails $ sudo dnf install pulseaudio-equalizer Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides ladspa-swh-plugins needed

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread home user via users
Good morning, (responding to Samuel and Fred) Ctrl-Alt-F2 and Ctrl-Alt-F3 both work. From there I am able to kill Firefox. That seems brings the system load back to typical. Alt-F1 returns me to the Gnome graphical session. The others do not. (responding to Ed) > If the issue did surface af

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-07-27 10:24:54, sixpack13 wrote: If I were you I would get rid off that partion schema and would change it to GUID partioning ! I don't know if it's able to do without new installation ! You would have to copy all the data off and back on; might as well re-install. What I suggested using

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-27 Thread sixpack13
If I were you I would get rid off that partion schema and would change it to GUID partioning ! I don't know if it's able to do without new installation ! In my view/with my understanding: if you ever get in the position/the need to do an new install with new partioning your /home on an logical

Re: Mostly OT: recommendations for simple personal static website generator (Fedora 30)

2019-07-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Have you looked into GitHub pages? Sent from my Android phone. On Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 6:13 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > After over 20 years, I am having to create a new personal website. I > looked around a little and feel that I would like to have a static website. > So, I was wo

Mostly OT: recommendations for simple personal static website generator (Fedora 30)

2019-07-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, After over 20 years, I am having to create a new personal website. I looked around a little and feel that I would like to have a static website. So, I was wondering about possible recommendations available on Fedora 30 (ideal) but otherwise that would be easy to get started on. I

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/27/19 4:16 AM, home user via users wrote: > > -bash.5[~]: dnf history gnome | more > No transaction which manipulates package 'gnome' was found. > ID | Command line | Date and time    | Action(s)  | > Altered > --