Re: plymouth-quit-wait taking too long

2021-06-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 24/06/2021 14:05, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 01:34:27PM +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: I should have mentioned that I'm running KDE not Gnome, but at this stage it hasn't run. The 3½ minutes is the time it takes from power on to bring up the GDM login screen. I can't

Re: plymouth-quit-wait taking too long

2021-06-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 24/06/2021 13:11, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:15:48PM +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: Fedora 34 on my i7 with 32G RAM and nvidia RTX2060 card takes minutes to boot, and when it finally does there are a number of "something went wrong" notifications. How

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 24/06/2021 12:20, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 11:42 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: How can I go about diagnosing and fixing that? In 2021 i7 machines should not be taking literally minutes to boot. On my system (also an i7) that takes only 5s. Presumably something

plymouth-quit-wait taking too long

2021-06-24 Thread Christopher Ross
Dear fellow Fedorans, Fedora 34 on my i7 with 32G RAM and nvidia RTX2060 card takes minutes to boot, and when it finally does there are a number of "something went wrong" notifications. How best can I diagnose and fix this so that it boots quickly and without errors? CPU: Quad Core Intel

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 12/06/2021 20:45, Joe Zeff wrote: On 6/12/21 11:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Not my case. I don't have systemd-udev-settle.service. This is a fresh install of F34. Ok, you can still use systemd-analyze blame to find out what's causing the delay. On my F34 boot

Re: Lutris Currently Uninstallable in F32

2020-12-21 Thread Christopher Ross
On 03/12/2020 11:23, Grumpey wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 5:38 AM Christopher Ross wrote: For days I have been getting the error "nothing provides python3.8dist(python-magic)" when attempting a DNF update, and from googling it seems I'm not alone in that. I have now uninstal

Lutris Currently Uninstallable

2020-12-03 Thread Christopher Ross
For days I have been getting the error "nothing provides python3.8dist(python-magic)" when attempting a DNF update, and from googling it seems I'm not alone in that. I have now uninstalled lutris (the culprit) so that the update can proceed. Where should I look for news on when this might be

Re: F32->F33: Upgrade or reinstall?

2020-11-03 Thread Christopher Ross
On 03/11/2020 07:13, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 5:45 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'd normally upgrade, but my /dev/sda uses LVM to handle root, /home etc. and from what I read this cannot be converted directly to BTRFS, which I'm interested in using. ext4 can be converted

SOLVED Re: F30 last two updates won't boot, kernel 5.3 can't mount RAID0

2019-10-19 Thread Christopher Ross
OK, after more searching the 'net I have found the answer. It seems RAID0 was unintentionally broken since kernel 5.3.1, but there is a workaround On 19/10/2019 08:42, Christopher Ross wrote: There have been two kernel updates this past week: kernel-core-5.3.5-200.fc30.x86_64 kernel-core

F30 last two updates won't boot, kernel 5.3 can't mount RAID0

2019-10-19 Thread Christopher Ross
There have been two kernel updates this past week: kernel-core-5.3.5-200.fc30.x86_64 kernel-core-5.3.6-200.fc30.x86_64 Neither of these will boot for me. I get so far as the Fedora splash screen in graphics mode but never the login screen. I've been trying to debug this, and so far the

Re: fedora 30 kdm busted?

2019-05-03 Thread Christopher Ross
On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote: I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better. I

Re: fedora-upgrade fails with error: unrecognized arguments: --distro-sync

2017-11-16 Thread Christopher Ross
On 16/11/17 14:24, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/16/17 22:04, Christopher Ross wrote: On 16/11/17 12:59, Christopher Ross wrote: Today I tried upgrading my x86 laptop from Fedora 26 to 27 but it failed with the following... For info, trying again consistently yields the same results. Well

Re: fedora-upgrade fails with error: unrecognized arguments: --distro-sync

2017-11-16 Thread Christopher Ross
On 16/11/17 12:59, Christopher Ross wrote: Today I tried upgrading my x86 laptop from Fedora 26 to 27 but it failed with the following... For info, trying again consistently yields the same results. root@nellie 13:43:45 ~ # fedora-upgrade Going to upgrade your Fedora to version 27. You

fedora-upgrade fails with

2017-11-16 Thread Christopher Ross
Today I tried upgrading my x86 laptop from Fedora 26 to 27 but it failed with the following... root@nellie 12:33:40 ~ # fedora-upgrade Going to upgrade your Fedora to version 27. You may want to read Release Notes:   http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ Hit Enter to continue or

Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-07 Thread Christopher Ross
On 06/09/17 12:41, Tim wrote: Robin Laing And, is it still feasible to run the OS on old hardware? On my older 32-bit PCs, the notion of running Gnome or KDE is impossible. They're too slow for being fancy with the graphics card. And, some can't even run a modern distro, because they can only

Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-05 Thread Christopher Ross
On 04/09/17 04:07, Robin Laing wrote: On 03/09/17 09:53, Jeff Backus wrote: As you may or may not be aware, there is an active discussion on the development side as to whether or not we continue to support the x86 architecture. ... Is x86 support still important to you? If so, then come

Re: Delta RPMs -

2017-08-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 24/08/17 13:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The man page for dnf says: "Allow erasing of installed packages to resolve dependencies" (which is actually not as clear as it might be - would removing every package on the system resolve dependencies?). However that is consistent with what it did

Re: Delta RPMs -

2017-08-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 24/08/17 10:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 09:03 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: On 23/08/17 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/2017 08:40 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: # dnf upgrade Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed Aug 23 04:43:05 2017. Dependencies resolved

Re: Delta RPMs -

2017-08-24 Thread Christopher Ross
On 23/08/17 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/2017 08:40 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: # dnf upgrade Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed Aug 23 04:43:05 2017. Dependencies resolved. Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package firefox-55.0.1-1.fc26.x86_64 -

F23 rsnapshot log timestamps funny

2016-10-20 Thread Christopher Ross
Since yesterday's update of rsnapshot to rsnapshot-1.4.2-1.fc23.noarch The format of the date/time field in the rsnapshot.log has gone funny, as per the following examples... [19/Oct/2016:11:53:42] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed successfully [19/Oct/2016:12:04:15] /usr/bin/rsnapshot

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Christopher Ross
On 14/01/16 17:43, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly on the machine when it was installed)? # rpm -qi fedora-release Name: fedora-release Version : 22

Re: How can I copy photos from Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?

2015-11-06 Thread Christopher Ross
On 05/11/15 19:07, Rick Stevens wrote: And getting a listing of what's mounted there: [rick@prophead ~]$ ls -l tstmnt total 0 drwxrwxr-x. 2 rick rick 0 Dec 31 1969 Card drwxrwxr-x. 2 rick rick 0 Dec 31 1969 Phone So, there's a "Card" directory (the SD card in my phone)

Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues

2015-11-04 Thread Christopher Ross
On 03/11/15 14:42, Neal Becker wrote: A boring update Not for me it wasn't! root@nellie 10:27:06 ~ # dnf --best --allowerasing --refresh system-upgrade download --releasever=23 Fedora 23 - i386 655 kB/s | 39 MB 01:01 PostInstallerF-updates 2.7

Re: Q about Environment files of systemd

2015-08-13 Thread Christopher Ross
On 13/08/15 08:52, Christopher Ross wrote: On 13/08/15 01:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/13/15 08:01, Ed Greshko wrote: Being that it was a very specific question the 2 words were easy to divine. And, if I had my coffee, I probably would have used -K and a single word before resorting to google

Re: Q about Environment files of systemd

2015-08-13 Thread Christopher Ross
On 13/08/15 01:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/13/15 08:01, Ed Greshko wrote: Being that it was a very specific question the 2 words were easy to divine. And, if I had my coffee, I probably would have used -K and a single word before resorting to google. Recalling, again, this to have been a

Re: Q about Environment files of systemd

2015-08-13 Thread Christopher Ross
On 13/08/15 11:17, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/13/15 16:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: throws up a whole bunch of of hits which don't include the word EnvironmentFile. Oh, I think I parsed your statement wrong. I should have read it

Re: f21: several warnings from chkrootkit.

2015-06-04 Thread Christopher Ross
On 03/06/15 22:06, William wrote: warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got bogus l2cap line. warning, got

Re: F22 KDE How To Remove Software Updates Widget? (Solved)

2015-06-01 Thread Christopher Ross
On 30/05/15 06:07, Rex Dieter wrote: Christopher Ross wrote: In the Fedora 22 / KDE 5 task bar there is a Software Updates widget. Where is the setting to remove that? It's inappropriate for arbitrary end users to be be updating the system software on shared machines. Right click systray

Re: F22 'who' reports 0 users

2015-05-29 Thread Christopher Ross
On 28/05/15 09:52, Christopher Ross wrote: On 28/05/15 09:15, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/28/15 15:44, Christopher Ross wrote: On 27/05/15 22:29, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/27/15 23:18, Christopher Ross wrote: On the one machine I've updated to Fedora 22 (using fedora-upgrade) so far I've noticed

F22 KDE How To Remove Software Updates Widget?

2015-05-29 Thread Christopher Ross
In the Fedora 22 / KDE 5 task bar there is a Software Updates widget. Where is the setting to remove that? It's inappropriate for arbitrary end users to be be updating the system software on shared machines. Many thanks, Chris R. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F22 'who' reports 0 users

2015-05-28 Thread Christopher Ross
On 27/05/15 22:29, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/27/15 23:18, Christopher Ross wrote: On the one machine I've updated to Fedora 22 (using fedora-upgrade) so far I've noticed that uptime/who/w and friends report, wrongly, that no-one is logged in. Is anyone else seeing this? root@nellie 16:10

Re: F22 'who' reports 0 users

2015-05-28 Thread Christopher Ross
On 28/05/15 09:15, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/28/15 15:44, Christopher Ross wrote: On 27/05/15 22:29, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/27/15 23:18, Christopher Ross wrote: On the one machine I've updated to Fedora 22 (using fedora-upgrade) so far I've noticed that uptime/who/w and friends report

F22 'who' reports 0 users

2015-05-27 Thread Christopher Ross
On the one machine I've updated to Fedora 22 (using fedora-upgrade) so far I've noticed that uptime/who/w and friends report, wrongly, that no-one is logged in. Is anyone else seeing this? root@nellie 16:10:27 ~ # w 16:10:28 up 8:04, 0 users, load average: 0.21, 0.38, 0.45 USER

Re: Audio problems

2014-01-15 Thread Christopher Ross
This could be related to a regression I am seeing on Fedora 20. Pretty much every time a user logs in (or switch user) on Fedora 20 with KDE the audio output defaults to headphones and I have to manually change it to line out, even though there is nothing connected to the headphones socket

Why can't I find kmod-nvidia for 3.6.10

2012-12-20 Thread Christopher Ross
Hi All, (Is there a separate rpmfusion list I should ask this on?) On Sunday, 16th December, yum update brought in a new kernel package kernel-3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64 root@snoopy ~ # rpm -qa kernel kernel-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.6.8-2.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64 To date