Re: Remap Super and Control on GNOME 41

2021-11-19 Thread Leander Hutton via users
On 11/19/21 22:30, Leander Hutton via users wrote: I'm running Fedora Workstation 35 and I sometimes use vintage IBM keyboards that do not have a super key. In previous versions of GNOME there was an option in the keyboard layout and shortcuts to remap that key or indeed change the Super and C

Remap Super and Control on GNOME 41

2021-11-19 Thread Leander Hutton via users
I'm running Fedora Workstation 35 and I sometimes use vintage IBM keyboards that do not have a super key. In previous versions of GNOME there was an option in the keyboard layout and shortcuts to remap that key or indeed change the Super and Control behavior. I'm not seeing an option to remap t

OT: system failure -- looking for assist

2021-11-19 Thread Geofffrey Leach
  Fedora 32 - up to date. Printer on wifi. Jobs start failing to print. Reboot enters emergency mode.   journalctl does not appear to see a problem:  kernel, system services and ram disk appear to have completed successfully. At first / was 100%, but that has been resolved.   FWIW, I h

Re: Getting a prompt that login password doesn't open keyring?

2021-11-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/19/21 14:18, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: After the last dnf update rebooted machine after kernel upgrade. Worked fine on 4 of 5 machines, but on notebook it pops up with message about keyring was not unlocked with login password. Enter the password, but it says doesn't match? On

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 30886 MB in 2.00 seconds = 15463.41 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 1046 MB in 3.01 seconds = 348.01 MB/sec ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
Update. The USB flash drive I chose (Kingston Data Traveler Exodia, 256GB) was horrendously slow. How slow ? I did the install on an old machine. It took forever. Like an hour. I thought it was the machine, even though it has a USB 3.1 port. This morning I moved to a faster machine and atte

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
Bug filed with Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024430 DNF developers notified: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-extras/issues/200 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

Getting a prompt that login password doesn't open keyring?

2021-11-19 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
After the last dnf update rebooted machine after kernel upgrade. Worked fine on 4 of 5 machines, but on notebook it pops up with message about keyring was not unlocked with login password. Enter the password, but it says doesn't match? Only option is to cancel, and everything seems fine, but

Seeking maintainers of mathematical packages

2021-11-19 Thread Jerry James
For some years now, I have maintained a collection of mathematical packages and some of their dependencies in Fedora. I actually stopped using the packages in question awhile ago, but have been maintaining them out of inertia. I would like to free up time to get some code checking and formal meth

sudo - sssd - pam_gss_api

2021-11-19 Thread Winfried de Heiden
Hi all, Since upgrading to Fedora 35 sssd+sudo+gssapi no longer works. In /etc/sssd/conf: pam_gssapi_services = sudo, sudo-i In /etc/pam.d/sudo: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_sss_gss.so auth include system-auth account include system-auth password include system-auth session optional pam_keyini

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-19 Thread lejeczek via users
On 18/11/2021 01:45, linux guy wrote: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir... ! So... went to do an upgrade to Fedora 35 and found that I was lacking room for the downloads.   I have /home set up on a separate drive, so I did the following: dnf sy

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
Fixed now! I had to put the following line in the script: export DISPLAY=:0 Paul On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:30 PM Ulf Volmer wrote: > > On 19.11.21 20:54, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 19Nov2021 20:42, Ulf Volmer wrote: > >> gxmessage relays on an X11 display. You have none in a session starte

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 19.11.21 20:54, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 19Nov2021 20:42, Ulf Volmer wrote: gxmessage relays on an X11 display. You have none in a session started via atd. You're confusing this with cron. At preserves your environment. If he's still logging into his X11 session this should work. Yes, a

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Ulf and Garry. Ulf seems to be right, as the following echo "XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority DISPLAY=:0 gxmessage \"hello\"" | at 7:52PM -M while echo "gxmessage \"hello\"" | at 7:52PM -M does not. Should I put XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority DISPLAY=:0 in the sc

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19Nov2021 20:42, Ulf Volmer wrote: >gxmessage relays on an X11 display. You have none in a session started >via atd. You're confusing this with cron. At preserves your environment. If he's still logging into his X11 session this should work. Cheers, Cameron Simpson

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 12:04, linux guy wrote: > Thanks for all the advice. > > How does one use a discarded NVME SSD drive ? If it is SATA, put it in an > external enclosure ? > There are 3 common types of SSD drives, NVME and SATA NGFF (Next Gen Form Factor?) that use M.2 slots, and legacy (O

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Friday, November 19, 2021 1:04:44 PM EST Paul Smith wrote: > I am trying to run a script with the following command: > > echo "~/scripts/teste.sh" | at 5:59PM > > but nothing happens. That's because there is no tilde expansion inside of quotes. Lose the quotes and all will be well. -- Garr

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Joe. I put echo xxx in the second line of the script and nothing was printed. The log mentions the creation of a new session, which is closed when (apparently) the execution of the script finishes. Paul On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:30 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > Adding echo or print statement

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 19.11.21 19:04, Paul Smith wrote: echo "~/scripts/teste.sh" | at 5:59PM [...] gxmessage -center \ gxmessage relays on an X11 display. You have none in a session started via atd. Assuming, you are running gnome and your uid is 1000, XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority DISPLAY=:0

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
Adding echo or print statements to a program or script for debugging is such an old technique that most people have either forgotten it or never learned it. On 11/19/21 12:11 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Nov 19 19:07:00 localhost atd[45263]: Exec failed for mail command: No such file or directory I

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Clifford. No, they are not scheduled to start later -- I have just checked that with atq. Moreover, the log tells that the script is run at the specified time. Paul On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:19 PM Clifford Snow wrote: > > Also check at -l, or atq to see if it is scheduled to run later. >

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Clifford Snow
Also check at -l, or atq to see if it is scheduled to run later. On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:12 AM Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:09 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > > I am trying to run a script with the following command: > > > > > > echo "~/scripts/teste.sh" | at 5:59PM > > > > > >

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:09 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > > I am trying to run a script with the following command: > > > > echo "~/scripts/teste.sh" | at 5:59PM > > > > but nothing happens. > > Try putting some echo commands into the script, redirected to a file so > that you can see if the script runs

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/21 11:04 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I am trying to run a script with the following command: echo "~/scripts/teste.sh" | at 5:59PM but nothing happens. Try putting some echo commands into the script, redirected to a file so that you can see if the script runs at all, and if so,

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, linux guy said: > The USB flash recovery OS is extremely slow compared to a Live OS. It is > slow even when I ssh into it and not run a window manager. Why ? What > can I change to make it faster ? IIRC the LiveOS image is run from a squashfs-compressed filesystem, which pr

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:34:37 -0700 linux guy wrote: > What > can I change to make it faster ? There are fantastic speed variations for different brand USB sticks. When I set up my 64GB stick, I got the Sandisk "Ultra Trek" specifically because reviews of USB sticks said it was the fastest USB 3 s

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
The USB flash recovery OS is extremely slow compared to a Live OS. It is slow even when I ssh into it and not run a window manager. Why ? What can I change to make it faster ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: How to dnf clean all of a specific repo?

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > > >>> What am I doing wrong? > >> Look inside that .repo file for the [name of repo] text at the > >> top. Use that name in the enablerepo argument. > > Thanks, Tom. Unfortunately, it cleans all not regarding the specific > > repo but all repos! >

Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I am trying to run a script with the following command: echo "~/scripts/teste.sh" | at 5:59PM but nothing happens. My script is: --- #!/bin/bash gxmessage -center \ -buttons "Yes":1,"Of Course":2 \ -geometry 290x80 \

Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-19 Thread Roger Heflin
It may be that prior it switched down to 2.4ghz it stayed there. And that the change is every so often it tries to now go back to the higher bandwidth one. I know that on a single router, the 2.4Ghz signal has significantly better range and is more reliable so any weakness in the 5ghz signal from

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
Thanks for all the advice. How does one use a discarded NVME SSD drive ? If it is SATA, put it in an external enclosure ? I installed F35 Workstation on a 256GB USB3 flash drive. It boots and works, but it is slower than the Live version. Why would that be ? Are there any special settings I

Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-19 Thread Scott Talbert
> On 11/19/21 00:17, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Given those MAC addresses, that's a quite likely scenario. The question > is still why are things getting disconnected and those logs are not > suitable for answering that question. It looks like dmesg output, > journalctl output would be much better

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 20:20, linux guy wrote: > From time to time I need to do maintenance on Linux computers that > involves booting an OS other than the one installed on the machine. > Currently I have 2 computers that need such attention. > > In the past I've used Live bootable USB drives. T

Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 19, 2021, at 02:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > What that looks like is that you have two APs and it's switching between > them. Is it getting different IP addresses from each one? I know it sounds counterintuitive, but you might get better performance lowering the broadcast power of the ph

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
Your assumption is correct. My desktop PC is an HP EliteDesk G2 Mini with two USB drives (one HDD, one SSD) typically hanging off of it. Both external drives as well as the internal drive are bootable. Each drive has its own ESP. No problem booting one of the external drives on any of my laptops

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
Nothing special about installing to a USB drive in my experience, other than ensuring it has its own bootable EFI system partition. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 17:53 -0700, linux guy wrote: > Thank you, Tom.   This is exactly why I ask the group questions like > this. It's good netiquette to quote the part of a message you are replying to, so people don't have to scroll back in a thread (which they may have already deleted) to see w

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread ja
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 19:59 -0700, linux guy wrote: > Your comment spurred me to use a 256GB USB flash drive instead of the WD > spinning drive.  256 GB is > large enough to do a couple system installs and multi boot them as well as a > bit of data backup.    If I > need more data backup than 256

Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/19/21 00:17, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/11/2021 15:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/18/21 19:05, Scott Talbert wrote: After upgrading my machine from F34 to F35, my WiFi interface has started periodically losing connection to my AP: [359558.259581] wlp2s0: disconnect from AP 74:83:c2:03:5e:61

Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 19/11/2021 15:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/18/21 19:05, Scott Talbert wrote: After upgrading my machine from F34 to F35, my WiFi interface has started periodically losing connection to my AP: [359558.259581] wlp2s0: disconnect from AP 74:83:c2:03:5e:61 for new auth to 7a:83:c2:04:5e:61 [35