Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-24 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 21:02 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > You are having far too many problems with too many programs. The > common fixes are not helping. Remembering tales from long ago - how updating an OS often seemed to induce faults in hardware that was apparently working fine before.

Re: conflict with ffmpeg

2023-11-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/24/23 17:40, Michael Hennebry wrote: More joy of a recent upgrade. Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:05 ago on Fri 24 Nov 2023 07:29:43 PM CST. Error:  Problem: problem with installed package libswscale-free-6.0-5.fc38.x86_64   - package ffmpeg-libs-6.0-6.fc38.x86_64 from

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 8:57 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > chromium is freezing on me now, too. > journalctl -r -g romium > does not reveal any errors or warnings. > > -- > Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu > "His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got >

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
chromium is freezing on me now, too. journalctl -r -g romium does not reveal any errors or warnings. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got smaller, more scribbly, and harder to read; although, like being hanged, one

Re: conflict with ffmpeg

2023-11-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:40:05 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Suggestions? This is fedora putting their own lame bits of ffmpeg in fedora. This works for me: dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing that swaps out the lame fedora stuff and gets everything from rpmfusion. --

conflict with ffmpeg

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
More joy of a recent upgrade. Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:05 ago on Fri 24 Nov 2023 07:29:43 PM CST. Error: Problem: problem with installed package libswscale-free-6.0-5.fc38.x86_64 - package ffmpeg-libs-6.0-6.fc38.x86_64 from rpmfusion-free conflicts with libswscale-free provided

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: A profile (for a browser) is where you bookmarks/cookies/cache and other associated stuff needed exist. You can typically (on most browsers) have more than one profile. If you aren't running chromium currently then you delete the files. You might do a

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Roger Heflin
A profile (for a browser) is where you bookmarks/cookies/cache and other associated stuff needed exist. You can typically (on most browsers) have more than one profile. If you aren't running chromium currently then you delete the files. You might do a "ps -elf | grep -i chromium" and make sure

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Mike Wright
On 11/24/23 14:43, Michael Hennebry wrote: I realize 127.0.0.1 is my computer, but I'm not clear on how 127.0.053 and 127.0.0.53#53 are used. All addresses from 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255 are on your machine. They are called loopback addresses (because they loop back to you). Usually the

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
OOn Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: It means likely it crashed while it had the profile locked and the program is too stupid to reclaim the lost lock. So while did it fail the first time? That seems to be a really common bug in a lot of programs. They test the lock/unlock and make

Re: Python code error in F39, but not in F38

2023-11-24 Thread Roger Heflin
I have seen the bug in old code that a new compiler optimization/library fix exposed. I have seen code unload a loadable library and then turn around and call a function in the unloaded library (it worked since the unload was a NOOP), but broke when the vendor removed/fixed the NOOP and made the

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Roger Heflin
It means likely it crashed while it had the profile locked and the program is too stupid to reclaim the lost lock. That seems to be a really common bug in a lot of programs. They test the lock/unlock and make sure other separate copies won't use the profile when another process is using it, but

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Restart you computer and try again. Let us know shutdown /r /f /t 00 Did that. Didn't help. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined with others,

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm saying it wasn't a memory thing. Here are some example lines that I saw. They were all together at the time that firefox was stuck. rtkit-daemon[1090]: Successfully made thread 7825 of process 6769 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT

Re: weekly patches crippled my display. [SOLVED]

2023-11-24 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 8:00 PM, home user wrote: I would like to run a memory test.  Does what Fedora offers now work?  I recall from a previous thread that it does not.  If it does, please remind me how to install it. It's memtest86+. It's on my work station, accessed during boot-up via the grub

Re: OT: X11: how to make cut-and-paste with mouse also work on every window

2023-11-24 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:03:14 -0600 Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is OT, but someone here might know the answer to this. > > So, I like the ability to highlight with my mouse left button, and > paste with my middle (scroll) button. It works on `xterm` but not >