Re: After f39 upgrade sddm broken on 1 system

2024-05-27 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 9:15 AM Barry Scott wrote: > On 27 May 2024, at 13:49, Go Canes wrote: >> No GPU per.se. It is an old Dell Inspiron 530. > > You do have a GPU, after all you want to do a graphical login. I should have been more clear - "No GPU per.se." mea

Re: After f39 upgrade sddm broken on 1 system

2024-05-27 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 3:27 AM Barry wrote: > What is your GPU? No GPU per.se. It is an old Dell Inspiron 530. $ lsmod | grep -i vid video 77824 1 i915 wmi36864 2 video,dell_smm_hwmon -- ___ users mailing list

After f39 upgrade sddm broken on 1 system

2024-05-26 Thread Go Canes
I recently upgraded 5 systems from f38 to f39. 4 of the 5 are fine, but on 1 sddm is broken. There is no text and sometimes the areas that should be text are a pinkish-purple color. I googled and saw suggestions about locale and dejavu fonts, but as near as I can tell this system has the EN

Re: How to increase size of /boot partition

2024-05-03 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:52 PM richard emberson wrote: > > Just today I upgraded from 39 to 40 but there was an issue: > dnf told me I needed some 800k more space in my /boot partition to proceed. > I had two kernels in /boot so I dnf removed those associated with the older > of the two kernels.

Re: can I clone from a usb flash drive to an NVMe drive?

2024-04-29 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am making up a USB flash from of Fedroa 40 MATE for > a customer to play with. > If he likes it, can I clonezilla clone it over > to his brand new NVMe drive (gpart it to expand > the extents)? Can you? Probably yes. But it

Re: Fedora 40 - KeePass fails to run

2024-04-28 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 10:12 AM John List wrote: > Just an FYI that KeePass is failing to run on my recently upgraded Fedora 40 machine. I'm not sure of the correct place to report the issue. There are several keepass* alternatives: keepassx.x86_64 keepassxc.x86_64 keepass.x86_64

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > > Am 20.04.24 um 23:16 schrieb George N. White III: > > I assume you can still boot with manual grub commands. > Yes, linux ..., initrd ..., boot > or: >configfile (hd0,1)/grub2/grub.cfg > which immediately brings back the

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:31 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But, as Felix had proposed in his post, I dived a bit deeper into > efibootmgr (also new to me up to know), and found out that entries point > to PARTUUIDs, in my case: >

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM John Mellor wrote: > > With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix > development stopped about 2 years ago. Most disturbing is that for the > last 2 years there have been essentially no security fixes as a result. I have heard that there

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:42 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > I faintly remembered the dracut thing, so I tried that first - but it > didn't help. If the other problems aren't resolved, rebuilding initramfs probably won't help. > I will look into the UUID stuff tomorrow, although I

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:38 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > As I understand it, X11 will still be installable, though I don't know > how long that will last. I think the only long-term hope for those of us that require capabilities that X11 provides (and Wayland does not) is that either Red

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But rebooting still gets me to the dreaded grub>. > So what am I missing? > BTW, I did NOT use the grub2-install command which shoud not be used on > UEFI systems. I recently had similar problems. These are the things to

Re: how long does dnf system-upgrade take?

2024-04-14 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 9:49 AM Fulko Hew wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 7:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > Then it was back to are-install for F33 because it was a hardware > replacement, and Linux/Fedora does not have a one-true backup/restore > process that I have ever seen. [...]

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:52:10 -0600 > home user wrote: > > > kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64 > > Possibly relevant, but I don't know what it means for sure: > > My system gets regular updates. I've never had a yadda-yadda-100 kernel, > all

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-19 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 8:49 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Which scanner/copier does everyone use, that works out of the box with Xsane? Canon LIDE 400 over USB. "Just works." -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file > > still remaining and handle it itself. > > And how do you suggest that it detects it? I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head

Re: imminent /boot problem.

2024-02-25 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM Tim via users wrote: > I'd like to run the few WiFi controlled lights I have locally, all this > cloud stuff goes against the grain, I loathe things controlled by > mobile phones, even though I am doing that. For that reason all the > main lighting has no smarts.

Re: imminent /boot problem.

2024-02-25 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:49 AM Tim via users wrote: > I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB sticks. > It's only options for USB booting are USB floppy and USB zip drives, > neither of which like USB anything else. It's also an extremely > useless motherboard, small RAM

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-29 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and > the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and > glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are present. Does > anyone have any idea what is

Re: VLC in Fedora vs RPMFusion

2023-12-24 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:21 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I just did an upgrade on my Fedora 38(-ish) machine and dnf wants to > replace the rpmfusion version of vlc: [vlc 3.0.19 from rpmfusion -> 3.0.20 from fedora-updates] > Is there some advantage here? One change I have noticed (also

Re: Obscure rsyslog question on remote logging

2023-11-16 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 7:51 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > # Log incoming message from remote systems here > $template DynamicFile,"/var/log/loghost/%HOSTNAME%/%syslogfacility-text%.log" > :hostname, contains, "nast" > *.*-?DynamicFile > > Most remote log message do indeed get redirected to the

Re: Strange daily reboot - SOLVED

2023-11-16 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:43 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I've emailed the manufacturer (TP-Link), though without much > expectation of a reply. > > If it is as you say, it's a design fault. The power cycle is a definite > Off, wait a second or so, then On. I have TP-Link KASA EP10 smart

Re: ffmpeg/openh264/Samuel Sieb.

2023-11-13 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:09 AM Ger van Dijck wrote: > Dnf info openh264 gives that the version FC33 is installed (!!!) , I heard > from other users that they have the same problem sfter upgrading FC38 to > FC39 , so I installed the openh264 version FC39 and all runs fine !! FWIW, I am on

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 4:25 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 10/04/2023 02:16 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > - on the laptop, boot off of the USB drive. If it gives you the > > expected menu, choose the option for verifying the media. > > If I could do that, I wouldn't be asking abou

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 3:39 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > [...] The laptop has a new, unformatted hard drive because the old one is > dead. When I picked up my laptop after the brain transplant (I don't do > hardware. Ever.) I used my desktop to create the drive off of an .iso > that I downloaded from

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 2:59 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 10/04/2023 12:37 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The laptop's BIOS obviously sees the drive because if the drive's > inserted when I turn it on, it ignores any and all F keys and tries to > boot from it. And, my desktop had no trouble writing

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-08 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 3:30 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Yes, the card has been in use for nearly two years and has 250G of > data. The problem only began recently. > > It was purchased on Amazon for $110 +/- a couple of years ago. Shot in the dark things to try First, save the data

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-04 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 8:52 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I can't recall if I tried [defragmenting the file system]. It's been years since I did this, so don't know how much is still relevant 1) Disable hibernation, reboot, delete hiberfil.sys 2) Check for "shadow copies" or whatever they're

Re: firewalld question

2023-06-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 2:15 PM Amadeus WM via users wrote: > > Say I want to drop/reject outgoing connections to a particular destination > address (for parental control). How would I do this with firewalld? I can't address using firewalld, but I think you could get basically the same result by

Re: OT: Working on script to add Memtest86+ version 6.20 to Fedora boot menu

2023-06-07 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:53 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > rm index.html -f > wget https://memtest.org/ > f=$(grep -m1 binaries.zip rm index.html -f [...] > Thanks for any suggestions.. replace above with: f=$(wget -O - https://memtest.org/ 2>/dev/null | grep -m1 binaries.zip |

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively. [SOLVED]

2023-06-03 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 10:28 PM home user wrote: > I have no idea how to compare the one iso file to the several directories and > files on the stick. You can mount the iso file with "sudo mount file.iso /mnt", and then use "diff -r /mnt /stick" or similar. Assumes: - you don't already have

Re: follow-up - Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-06-02 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 12:21 AM home user wrote: > One more kernel update is needed to make sure the weekly patches does not > keep too many kernels, and that the rescue kernel is updated. I don't believe the rescue kernel gets updated automatically.

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively. [SOLVED]

2023-05-31 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM home user wrote: > 2. I used Fedora Media Writer to put > Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-37-1.7.iso" on stick_1; no hint of trouble. I > tested it in the left USB-3 port; it failed. I tested it in the right port; > it succeeded. Instead of Media Writer, you

Re: ide editor??

2023-05-23 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 5:45 PM bruce wrote: > Curious to know what IDE/editors you guys use for developing code (and > why if you care to expound). emacs, in text mode (non-GUI), and without color decorations. I've been using it since the early 1980s when there really wasn't much in the way of

Re: Strange error running scripts. without #!/usr/bin/bash

2023-05-21 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:18 PM Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Recently was getting a strange error when running a script that didn't have > #!/usr/bin/bash at top? > free(): invalid next size (fast) > Aborted (core dumped) > Just adding the line fixes the issue, but not sure why?? > Have run

Re: /boot problem.

2023-05-19 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 3:05 PM home user wrote: > bash.1[~]: rpm -q kernel > kernel-6.2.14-200.fc37.x86_64 > kernel-6.2.15-200.fc37.x86_64 > bash.2[~]: > -- > The grub menu no longer shows 6.2.9. It still shows 6.2.10. > The grub menu shows a 6.2.12, but the rpm -q does not. Basically,

Re: /boot problem.

2023-05-19 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:58 PM home user wrote: > bash.2[~]: rpm -q kernel > kernel-6.2.8-100.fc36.x86_64 > kernel-6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64 > kernel-6.2.14-200.fc37.x86_64 > kernel-6.2.15-200.fc37.x86_64 > bash.3[~]: > -- > bash.5[~]: dnf remove kernel-core-6.2.9-100.fc36.x86_64 > No match

Re: many errors behind mount and the file fstab

2023-05-15 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:32 AM Dorian ROSSE wrote: > sudo mount -o /dev/sda4 /boot/dos_4 > mount: /boot/dos_4: impossible de trouver UUID=9a71295a-04. First, "-o" requires options, so the command is not valid. Second, "impossible de trouver" appears to be "can't find", which would suggest there

Re: huge weekly "dnf upgrade" and clean-up failure.

2023-05-11 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 9:22 PM home user wrote: > (f37) > This afternoon, I did my weekly "dnf upgrade". This typically involves > between 100 and 200 packages. Today, it was over 700 packages, by far a > record for me in the 10+ years I've had this Fedora workstation. [...] I did a "dnf

Re: Dell XPS 13 recommendations (used/refurbished)

2023-05-07 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 10:11 AM Max Pyziur wrote: > With the L322X I was able to do some maintenance on my own, specifically > replacing the SSD from a 125MB to a 1TB and then installing Fedora via > USB. > > And also installing a new batter and wifi network cards. > > I would hope to do the same

Re: F38 - Which python asn1 library

2023-05-07 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 10:16 AM stan via users wrote: > > On Sun, 7 May 2023 08:46:26 -0400 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > from /usr/share/doc/python3-asn1/README.rst > of the fedora package python3-asn1 python3-asn1 != pyasn1 which is what the OP is trying to use as per the guidance from his

Re: F38 - Which python asn1 library

2023-05-07 Thread Go Canes
Trying to see what help (If any) I can offer despite knowing nothing about the module in question (I'm not going to try to preserve the quoting as to who said what, but rather will just respond to the instructions.) > > The README for python3-pyasn1 says that it is the one that you would > >

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-21 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:17 PM Robert Nichols wrote: > And no, I don't have a clean solution for keeping encrypted backups in the > cloud. I do believe that my current backup method (rdiff-backup-2.2.4-2.fc37) > is incompatible with that. Don't know if it qualifies as a "clean solution" as it

Re: Python cSHAKE hash function for Fedora?

2023-04-18 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:44 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: [...] > https://github.com/Hemoth/cSHAKE > > which seems reasonable, but I am not experienced enough with this end of > things to do the building of the module to use per the instructions in > the script and of course wonder if there is

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-10 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in particular > Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. Firefox and > Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on > (but

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-10 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:22 AM stan via users wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 21:17:37 -0700 > ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 4/8/23 19:07, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 4/8/23 17:11, Go Canes wrote: > > >> I'm curious what bugs you are enc

Re: Warning for KDE users with HiDPI displays

2023-04-09 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 1:35 PM wrote: > On Sun, 09 Apr 2023 08:48:39 -0400 Go Canes wrote: >> 5.27.3 appears to fix the issue (so far). 5.27.4 is in >> updates-testing, so it should be released in the next few weeks. > > I think 5.27.4 is already in the updates, at least f

Re: Warning for KDE users with HiDPI displays

2023-04-09 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:11 AM Go Canes wrote: > > I "dnf updated" today and it took my system to KDE Plasma 5.27.1, and > there is an issue with scaling on HiDPI displays. As near as I can > tell the issue isn't fixed until 5.27.4, but that is not yet availabl

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > The bugs [in vlc] drive me nuts. I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. I use vlc all the time and the only significant bug I run into is the one where it skips the first few seconds of the first track on startup. I have

Re: what is my dns?

2023-03-28 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I was just wanting to see what DNS I was actually using. dig and nslookup both display the IP address of the DNS resolver that you are querying. But if you are asking for which DNS resolver actually provided the answer, that would

Re: what is my dns?

2023-03-28 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 2:10 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I was looking for a way I could look up the final DNS > server, regardless of was type of local server I was > going through. I don't think it is possible. It looks > like I should dig it out from /etc/named.conf's > forwards

Re: commands available on bootable iso

2023-03-26 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 2:16 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > What I wanted to be able to do is this. I 've downloaded the fedora 37 > iso. I wan to know if it has gparted. How can I answer that without > writing it to a thumb drive and booting? Assuming the downloaded iso is on or available from an

Re: Recently sound does not play as root

2023-03-22 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:33 AM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > [...] > Doing this works: > $ su > # su eyal -c "ogg123 ... > but doing this does not: > $ sudo -i > # su eyal -c "ogg123 ... > nor does this: > $ sudo -i > # sudo -u eyal "ogg123 ... > > So

Warning for KDE users with HiDPI displays

2023-03-19 Thread Go Canes
I "dnf updated" today and it took my system to KDE Plasma 5.27.1, and there is an issue with scaling on HiDPI displays. As near as I can tell the issue isn't fixed until 5.27.4, but that is not yet available in updates-testing. There are workarounds, but so far my experience is they make the

Re: 37 systemd pulseaudio paradox

2023-03-06 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 3:34 AM Felix Miata wrote: > [...] [How to switch between pulseaudio and pipewire] > I'm not against change, but this is a result of several years of > system-upgrades, > and I've never seen anything explaining how to make a switch:

Re: kdeconnectd error

2023-02-26 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 2:51 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I'm getting a ton of these error messages but have > been unable to find information about them. > > kdeconnectd[4717]: kdeconnect.core: \ > Too many remembered identities,\ > ignoring "1c85aaeceba8c226" received via UDP > >

Re: kdeconnectd error

2023-02-26 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 2:51 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I'm getting a ton of these error messages but have > been unable to find information about them. > > kdeconnectd[4717]: kdeconnect.core: \ > Too many remembered identities,\ > ignoring "1c85aaeceba8c226" received via UDP > >

Re: Fedora (37) i686 32-bit virt-p2v ?

2023-02-26 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 1:58 PM Franta Hanzlik via users wrote: > I want to virtualize any old i686 Windows XP 32-bit physical PC on F37. [...issues trying to use virt-p2v...] > Has anyone done this? What optimal way would you recommend? I've never used virt-p2v - do you really need the --arch

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Go Canes
[quoting is a bit improper here - I have tried to fix it where I noticed] On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:15 PM John Mellor wrote: >> and Go Canes replied > At this point, I doubt that EXT2 is better debugged than BTRFS, and its use > has a number of detrimental effects. For one,

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: > 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is > no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for > years now. /boot is critical and using a well debugged file system for it to me seems like an

Re: kvm vs firefox issue?

2023-02-17 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 4:58 PM Go Canes wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 7:04 AM Ron Yorston wrote: > > > > Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > >This started only recently (kernel 6.0.18 or 6.1, or another update?) > > > > > >Is there a known probl

Re: What is wrong with my dnf exclude for wine?

2023-02-03 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 10:11 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > > ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 2/2/23 22:29, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 2/1/23 21:55, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > $ cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf > > [main] > > gpgcheck=1 > > installonly_limit=3 > > clean_requirements_on_remove=True >

Re: tar

2023-02-01 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:24 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > To create a tar file, I used to create a list and to make > tar -cvzf arch.tgz $list > > However, if there are file names with a space, this space is > interpreted as file name separator. > > How can I fix this, > either when I

Re: kvm vs firefox issue?

2023-01-26 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 7:04 AM Ron Yorston wrote: > > Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > >This started only recently (kernel 6.0.18 or 6.1, or another update?) > > > >Is there a known problem. > > There is. It's in the 6.1 kernel and it isn't yet fixed in Fedora. > (Not even in the 6.1.8 kernel

Re: Libreoffice on F36 quirk in auto-correct control window

2023-01-25 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:53 PM Tim via users wrote: > Does anyone else notice this happen in LibreOffice (7.3.7.2) on Fedora > 36: > Open the AutoCorrect options (in an AutoCorrect sub-menu in the Tools > menu). > Click on any of the tabs, or use the scroll wheel on the mouse, and the >

Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with Windows 10, but doen't show windows as boot option??

2023-01-10 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:08 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > Don't use windows much at all. So probable not worth doing for me. Windows > was pre-install so have no windows media, and would have to find method to > get the key code. Do a google search for "download windows 10 iso"

Re: FYI - Issues with kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 and KDE

2023-01-09 Thread Go Canes
I updated one of the affected systems to kernel 6.0.18-200.fc36.x86_64 from updates-testing, and I was able to reboot (to activate the new kernel), login, do a "ls" on the CIFS mount on a tree that has many files, and then reboot again, all without issue. Thanks to all for the help! (see

Re: FYI - Issues with kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 and KDE

2023-01-09 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 4:36 PM Roger Wells wrote: > FWIW, I started another thread on this list that I think is related. > With this kernel (and the one before (6.0.16-200) the machine completely > freezes when I mount a particular CIFS mount. > Requires power switch to shut down. > However I

Re: FYI - Issues with kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 and KDE

2023-01-09 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 3:39 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > Do you have any CIFS mounts? I was going to say "no", but to be sure I checked. And I do indeed have a cifs mount (for some reason my brain always wants to think of it as a NFS mount). And that triggers my memory of recent discussions on this

Re: FYI - Issues with kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 and KDE

2023-01-09 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 3:10 PM Neal Becker wrote: > There were a bunch of kde updates on my machine today along with the kernel > update, maybe something there caused an issue? I checked for KDE/Plasma updates as part of the same "dnf update", and there weren't any, so the kernel update was the

FYI - Issues with kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 and KDE

2023-01-09 Thread Go Canes
I had issues after updating to kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 this past Sunday. Two dissimilar systems (a Dell XPS 15 laptop and a scratch-built media PC) both locked-up hard when booting - never got as far as the login screen. I thought I had some older systems that were OK, but today I ran into

Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with Windows 10, but doen't show windows as boot option??

2023-01-08 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 9:37 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > At present, if I tried to boot legacy, it came up with not > bootable with the boot flag on UEFI partition (sda3), set > boot flag to (sda2) windows partitions, and can not boot > and use F12 to select legacy boot, and it will

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

2023-01-05 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 4:38 AM Walter Cazzola wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Go Canes wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: > >> These and are two examples. Basically all the new unicode characters that > >> permits to spe

Re: [Fedora] Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

2023-01-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: > These and are two examples. Basically all the new unicode characters that > permits to specify, for example, the skin color or the gender. FWIW, this works for me with konsole5-22.12.0-1.fc36.x86_64. I've never changed the default font,

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-19 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:36 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > On linux's modern tools. I have always had to use loopback with > dvdbackup. It seems to want a device not directory to copy from. I can > attach a ISO or just copy from the dvd. For example, dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 ... or whatever your

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > How do you get it to convert a directory of VOBs and such into a mp4? For all I know there may be a tool somewhere that will do an entire disk, but I've always done it one title set at a time using steps as indicated in prior posts.

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:08 PM Tim via users wrote: > VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip > VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature > VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature > VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:44 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image > of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it > is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the convert options with > vlc. I get a short

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to > accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? > Converting to an mp4 would be the simple answer, but not a simple task > as I am finding. Assuming you

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:45 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain > by example. Why do you want to create an empty ISO file? The way I do it is: - create a normal directory - put the contents of the DVD in said directory; i.e., if

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:03 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > losetup /dev/loop0 FILE to mount the loopback, > > mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/loop0 > > and detach and xxd -g1 FILE. Use mkiso to create FILE, and then you can hexdump FILE directly. You can also then "mount FILE /mt" (or similar) if you want

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:41 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > > IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig > and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, > > losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, > > And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; > > Now I have tried this

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 6:45 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > My best theory is that the kernel doesn't properly reset the device > from scratch, but assumes it was left in some state which the old > kernel didn't leave it in. But that's just a wild guess (and I've never > worked up the energy to try

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 2:46 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > Just got kernel 6.0.12-300.fc37.x86_64, and after rebooting to > get it loaded, my Logitech wireless keyboard dongle wasn't > talking. Unplugged it, plugged it back in, and the keyboard > works again. > > Every few months this happens on a

Re: [OT] regex help

2022-11-27 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 6:26 PM Mike Wright wrote: > if column 1 is a "}" the line is a match > if column 1 is a " " and column 2 is not a " " the line is a match Untested - not sure if the "}" needs to be escaped. egrep '^(}| [^ ])'

Re: It's a brick :-<(

2022-11-17 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 3:09 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I find myself in need of a bootable rescue disk that provides (at least) disk > diagnostics and disk wipe programs. (I have a F36 thumb - I assume that it > has neither) Sometimes I use the "rescue" option from Fedora install media - I

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-11-01 Thread Go Canes
When using dd for copying or erasing disks, I typically use bs=1M. For erasing disks I prefer to use the shred utility - multiple passes with various patterns and it displays progress. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: New kernel install had issues. (6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64)

2022-10-30 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 1:00 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:54:28 -0700 > Doug H. wrote: > > > Everything seems to be working, so I don't need any help, but wanted to > > report this just in case. > > As an additional report, I did a dnf update this morning, got the same >

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 3:31 PM Jake D wrote: > > Stab in the dark - within the chroot jail maybe it knows about the > > mounted *tree* but it doesn't know about the mounts themselves? In > > other words, by doing the mounts outside of the chroot, you are > > updating /etc/mnttab in the "Live

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 2:32 PM Jake D wrote: > I’ve managed to chroot (a very dumb word) thru a LiveUSB session, with the > following commands: > > >>cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p6 fedora_crypt > >>mount /dev/mapper/fedora_crypt /mnt/ -t btrfs -o subvol=root > >>mount

Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

2022-10-25 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 3:29 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 10/25/22 07:23, Go Canes wrote: > > Also, before even starting, you should confirm the target machine has > > hardware support for virtualization, and that it is enabled. > > Oh poop. Did not think of

Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

2022-10-25 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Is there a way to tape a native Windows hard > drive and port it to qemu-kvm? I'm sure there are several. My basic process when I have done this in the past - create a copy of the physical disk on an external drive - you

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 5:10 PM Barry wrote: > I have seen KDE plasma be unable to reboot after dnf update. > It’s happen often enough that I do updates from the plasma update app or by > ssh from another machine. FWIW, I've run Fedora with KDE for years on multiple laptops, I normally do a

Re: 32-->36?

2022-07-31 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 7:51 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a customer who FINALLY agreed to have me upgrade > his Fedora 32 server to 36. > > Can I jump directly, or do I have to go one or > two revisions at a time? If possible, I would clone the system (use a different host name and

Re: root account

2022-07-27 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:05 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Check into one of the KeePass variants. > > It has nothing to do with the specific password manager. I'm talking > about banks that block the browser from filling in fields on their web > page. I have have one that won't even let me

Re: uname -a

2022-07-27 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 8:21 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > [...] >menuentry 'Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) (on /dev/sda6)' > --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option >

Re: root account

2022-07-27 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 5:22 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > [...] Those same banks won't let me use my password manager to > create a genuinely random password and remember it for me. Check into one of the KeePass variants. ___ users mailing list --

Re: How do I ask dnf for the current revision of Wine, when ...

2022-07-03 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 6:21 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > # dnf "--setopt=excludepkgs=wine*" whatprovides 'wine*' You want << --setopt=excludepkgs='"" >> <--- EMPTY - to override the exclude you have in the config file. Your command is excluding any package whose name starts with

Re: How do I ask dnf for the current revision of Wine, when ...

2022-07-03 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 4:30 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > $ su root -c "dnf --setopt=excludepkgs=wine* whatprovides wine*" That should really be "dnf --setopt=excludepkgs='' whatprovides 'wine*' " ...otherwise shell globbing could get in the way. ANd you want excludepkgs to be *empty*.

Re: How do I ask dnf for the current revision of Wine, when ...

2022-07-02 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:17 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 7/1/22 17:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 7/1/22 17:50, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >> I am afraid to take the exclusion out as if Wine > >> gets accidentally upgrade to 7.0 and I have > >> no downgrade, it will take my

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