Re: Anybody succeful as normal user in F22 with (x)sane together with an USB scanner?

2015-06-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.06.2015, Joachim Backes wrote: Anybody has similar problems? Could be a permission problem. You could try an udev rule to set it accordingly. Put this in a file under /etc/udev/rules.d: SUBSYSTEM==usb, ATTR{idVendor}==04a9, ATTR{idProduct}==220e, MODE=0666 -- users mailing list

Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.05.2015, jd1008 wrote: I will be getting back to the vendor and try to get my money back. Before you do, would you mind posting the output of lsusb -v -d 0e8d:7610 and the last ~15 lines of the dmesg output after plugging in the device and having done a dmesg --clear prior to that.

Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.05.2015, jd1008 wrote: [ 192.473984] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=7610 This is the RT2860 chipset, and not an RT55xx. AFAIK, it's not yet supported. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Is there any way to go back to 21?

2015-05-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.05.2015, David Cary Hart wrote: [] 1. Never upgrade the day a new major version is released. Wait at least two or three weeks. Let others encounter and report the showstoppers, and give the developers appropriate time to fix them. 2. Restore your backup. Baaah! :-) -- users

Firefox and ciphers

2015-05-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, latest Fedora Firefox supports these ciphers: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 128 Bit ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA 256 Bit ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA 128 Bit ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA 128 Bit ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA 256 Bit DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA 128 Bit DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA 256 Bit RSA-AES128-SHA 128 Bit

Re: SD cafd read only -

2015-05-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.05.2015, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have an micro SD card that has turned read only. I have been trying everything I can find to clear it for several hours. Time to backup your data and to buy a new one. This happens when your SD card is gone bad. There's no way to

Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.05.2015, Erik P. Olsen wrote: The OP hasn't bought it yet :) Hell, you're right! Sorry :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.05.2015, jd1008 wrote: Mini AC600 High Performance 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi Wireless USB Adapter Can you please post the output of lsusb -v for this adapter? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: pdftk

2015-05-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.05.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: You can only wait for a few more weeks while the alternative pdf-stapler is approved. Or you can use poppler-utils, and you could also install F19 (the latest Fedora with a working pdftk) on an USB stick. That's what I did to tailor my documents. It's

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.05.2015, Rolf Turner wrote: The seeming necessity for upgrading arises from a pressing need to upgrade R to version 3.2.0. When I try to build this version I get a load of error messages (basically coming from gcc I think) like unto: connections.o: In function `gzcon_write':

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.05.2015, Rolf Turner wrote: I am currently running Fedora 17. Which is of course antediluvian. But everything I have seen on this list with respect to upgrading terrifies me. Disasters seem to lurk everywhere and I haven't the skills to cope with disasters. Fedora upgrade mostly

Re: The spamming servers

2015-05-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.05.2015, stan wrote: I don't see a defense against such exploits as long as people can install software on their systems. The alternative is Mac on steroids, only the software that big brother approves of and allows you to use. The choice is yours. Either you stick with straight

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-05-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.05.2015, Manfred Lotz wrote: I even don't know if adding a resume statement is something which should be done automatically. It should, when formatting a partition as swap or when detecting swap-space on installation. But that's not the main problem why hibernation isn't working

Re: Hibernate: Sleep verb not supported ??

2015-04-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.04.2015, sean darcy wrote: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.login1.SleepVerbNotSupported: Sleep verb not supported Is your swap page big enough and enabled? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Hibernate: Sleep verb not supported ??

2015-04-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.04.2015, Heinz Diehl wrote: Is your swap page big enough and enabled? s/page/partition; -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-04-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.04.2015, stan wrote: Maybe this will help? http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt Been there, done that. Without any success. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-04-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.04.2015, Richard Hughes wrote: Writing a 16GB file to swap takes forever In my case (16GB RAM) it takes about 4 secs. Only memory actually in use gets dumped. Page cache and bros. are discarded and buffers are flushed before compressing the memory content. and most hardware can go days

Re: Youtube-dl problem/question

2015-04-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: Even without modification, it does not work. What you need is somebody who lives in Germany and could make a copy for you, or a non-transparent proxy. Most of the free proxies are transparent and expose thus your original IP to the web server, which isn't what you

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-04-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.04.2015, Pete Travis wrote: Do consider the audience you sent this mail to, though. It isn't the power management subsystem developer community.. This is what I have been recommended to do after reporting a S2D bug on the Linux kernel bugzilla: Posting to the PM mailing list should be

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-04-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.04.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: OK, if you see my post, F is now (since F20) designed by default to not resume from hibernate. Now, THAT would be interesting to know what exactly has been done to achieve this behaviour! In my case, the machine resumes just fine from S2D about 6 times out

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-04-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.04.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Btw, do you have this issue with CentOS (they run 3.10 kernels). The problem occurs with the latest Fedora kernels as well as with vanilla 3.19.x and 4.0.0. I'm on F21 on this machine (XFCE spin). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

2015-04-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.04.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: When did it start. For me, my problems started with kernel 3.16 or so (and that too, only on some machines). On my Asus Laptop, both S2R and S2D has been working flawlessly ever since (running Arch) - both with old and new kernels. On my PC, S2R works, but

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: Also, I am losing files!!! Sorry for this long listing, but I think something is seriously wrong with the hibernation code. Does S2R work for you? Anyway, I have debugged some S2D problems in the last months, and my gut feel says you're most probably right. The

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: So, use maxcpus=1 during first boot and 2nd boot? The machine is a quadcore XEON, reducing it to a single-core is not really something I want. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.04.2015, John Schmitt wrote: Using maxcpus=1 in your grub command line is an ugly work-around, I agree. It simply doesn't work.. However, if your machine is waking up from sleep or hibernate, using maxcpus=1 on your grub command line is going to apply only until your frozen system

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: I hibernated and next day I powered up. My previous session was not restored; i.e., Logged in as normal login and had to start all the apps all over again. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt -- users mailing list

Re: base Partitions for Linux

2015-04-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.04.2015, Adel ESSAFI wrote: Could some one tell me what are the partitions that should necessary be installed on the main hard disk on which Linux is installed ? i,e, that should not be placed on a mountable partition! While others may have sustantially different opinions: you should

Re: base Partitions for Linux

2015-04-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.04.2015, Tim wrote: Is the second one (efi) actually a partition, or just a directory inside /boot? It is a partition of its own, and must be FAT formatted. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.04.2015, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: To me this looks as if port forwarding is all-right but Postfix does not react (?!?) Take a look into the postfix log. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.04.2015, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: but I can't receive mails from outside. Do you have any DNS-record for your machine, is it reachable from the outside world? If yes, you'll most likely have to forward the mail-port (usually 25) to the internal IP your mailserver is listening on, as

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.04.2015, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I have some old laptop running debian. Can I do something with it - without setting up another mail server on it? :-) Yes. Take it with you to a friend and run a tcptraceroute to your mailserver. It will tell you exactly where it stops. -- users

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.04.2015, Tim wrote: Personally, I hate webforums, they're so chaotic and cumbersome to use. I participate in around a dozen mailing lists, and I can do that because messages come to me. I couldn't do anything like that if I had to visit a dozen different websites. I'd like to second

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.03.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: OK it's a little annoying when you provide so little information from the very start about what you're trying to do, and what the setup is, Here's what lsblk says before formatting: AME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.03.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: If /dev/sda uses MBR, it doesn't really have a UUID, it might have a serial number. It's MBR, and it didn't have a UUID before. I think think needs more troubleshooting, rather than bringing out the hammer before the problem is identified. Feel free to

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.03.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: OK I think I found the problem. The Fedora kernel doesn't come with nilfs2 kernel module. At least, a default Fedora 22 installation doesn't include it. I don't use any distribution kernel. My kernel has nilfs2 - definitely. A manual mount works perfectly,

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.03.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: I don't think systemd has any concept of filesystems (volume formats). It gets all of this from libblkid, udev, and the kernel. So I'd say one of those three things is confused, and then confuses everything else. Didn't have much time today to further

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.03.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: OK it's a little annoying when you provide so little information from the very start about what you're trying to do, and what the setup is, and now you're not even using a Fedora kernel. My original posting was kinda sort of does this ring a bell?.

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.03.2015, jd1008 wrote: uuid is the way to go!!! But not on the top-level physical device. No way in h*ll should /dev/sda have any UUID. What happened was that systemd tried to mount /dev/sda on /home rather than /dev/sda4, which of course can't work.. -- users mailing list

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.03.2015, Heinz Diehl wrote: Looks like a serious problem with nilfs-tools. s/tools/utils; -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Strane UUID problem

2015-03-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, F21, fully updated, no longer boots cleanly. After to tries, I found the culprit: suddenly, the physical device (/dev/sda) has got a UUID, and it's the same as the one /home has. So no wonder that /home can't be mounted. I have not the slightest clue what could have given /dev/sda a UUID.

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.03.2015, Ron Morse wrote: I don't know about removing a UUID, but you can assign a new one with GParted. Yes. But I was curious what could have assigned a UUID to /dev/sda. And I found it. Making a nilfs2 partition on /home the evening before, lsblk -f reported the same UUID for

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2015, stan wrote: How do you remove the old kernels so that they don't pile up indefinitely? Manually? Yes. Just delete the related files in /boot and the sourcetree in /usr/src. Or does this automatically replace the last version that was compiled and installed this way? No.

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2015, Tom H wrote: You don't need to run make as root. Yes, as I already stated. Only the install of the modules and the kernel itself has to be done as root. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2015, stan wrote: Heinz, what does cat /proc/cgroups show? [htd@chiara ~]$ cat /proc/cgroups #subsys_namehierarchy num_cgroups enabled cpuset 2 1 1 memory 3 1 1 devices 4 74 1 freezer 5 1 1 net_cls 6 1 1 blkio

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2015, stan wrote: An afterthought. I notice that you are compiling the kernel as root. I do my build in the rpmbuild system as a user, so the compile is run as a user. Do you think that would matter? For the kernel to get properly installed, you have to be root. Precisely, there

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2015, stan wrote: Would you be willing to give a recipe that you use? i.e. what steps do you perform to do this? 1. Download a kernel tarball from kernel.org 2. Unpack it into /usr/src 3. Copy .config from the latest Fedora kernel into the kernel toplevel sourcedir (it is stored

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.03.2015, Tom H wrote: I don't know what the difference is between not compiling cgroup suppport into the kernel and compiling it in but disabling all controllers but it looks like that your assumption that cgroup support isn't required is wrong. Thanks for pinting this out! You are

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.03.2015, stan wrote: Lucky you! Lucky? The machine was fully unusable. Are you using F21? Which kernel? Yes, this machine is on F21. [htd@chiara ~]$ uname -a Linux chiara.fritha.org 3.19.2-rc1-bfq #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 16 16:16:07 CET 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It's a

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.03.2015, stan wrote: I think cgroups are integrated into Fedora, and so the CFS with cgroup is required. Thus, BFS will probably not work in Fedora, as it has no support for cgroups. CFS is not required at all, and so are cgroups. Any kernel with the BFS patch applied will run just

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.03.2015, Martin Cigorraga wrote: Just a minor clarification: when compiling, the -j flag should point to a unit above your available cores in order to fully utilize all of them. Curious what would happen, I remembered this mail when compiling a new kernel today. A nice -n 19 make -j

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.03.2015, stan wrote: When I build firefox nightly with -j6, just at the end of the export phase, and before the compile starts, I see all 6 cores maxed out. Once the compile starts, it is back to a single core equivalent. The Gentoo users seemed to suggest that this was a flaw in the

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.03.2015, stan wrote: So, cgroups seem like another dead end. It depends on the machine used and the amount of processes. While cgroups limit more than just CPU power, you could try with BFS (which does not use cgroups). http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/3.0/3.19/ -- users mailing list

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2015, stan wrote: What is the point of -j6 or -j8 if the make can't spawn additional processes with their own limits, and thus take advantage of more resources that are available? The point is simply that you can exactly determine how many processes should be used. What is it that

Re: Raid vs rsync -

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.03.2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: I would always encourage separate physical disks as backup partitions. If the OP has flaky power, maybe having them offline when not in use, would also be a good idea. I second that, this is a very important advice! In addition, use a good lightning protector

Re: helved packard pavilion 500

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2015, Angelo Moreschini wrote: I am not sure if 1 TB is enough for use Windows and Fedora. It is more than enough. I encountered a problem also trying to run on this computer the SystemRescueCd Choose an alternative kernel when booting sysresccd. -- users mailing list

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2015, stan wrote: I don't see why this is necessary. The system is showing 470% idle. So the kernel cpu scheduler shouldn't need to limit the job to a single core maximum usage. I just tried a simple make on an 8-core machine. There was exactly one compile process, and it's 100%

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.03.2015, stan wrote: But, when I run a compile job with -j6, in order to allow all six cores to be used, it limits the total amount of usage to 100% of a *single* core. So, it might use all six cores, but the sum of the percentages on those six cores is always around 100% of one core.

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.03.2015, ergodic wrote: Wouldn't be better to use -j with no argument? It's a matter of taste. I compile my kernels with a nice value of 19 (lowest priority), because mostly I have to do other work while compiling a new kernel. I've never tried -j. How many processes does it open on you

Re: yum update problem with vlc

2015-03-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.03.2015, jd1008 wrote: --- Package vlc-core.x86_64 0:2.2.0-1.fc21 will be an update -- Processing Dependency: libgpg-error.so.0(GPG_ERROR_1.0)(64bit) for package: vlc-core-2.2.0-1.fc21.x86_64 yum update --exclude=vlc* -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: [ F21 ] How to remove GNOME

2015-03-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: $ rpm -qa gnome\* | wc -l 18 FWIW: this is an installation from the XFCE spin, with additional devel and administration packages: [htd@chiara ~]$ rpm -qa gnome\* | wc -l 13 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [ F21 ] How to remove GNOME

2015-03-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote: You want to remove Gnome, and then what? Without Gnome, you do not have an X desktop. Using i3, he doesn't need one. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: [ F21 ] How to remove GNOME

2015-03-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2015, Heinz Diehl wrote: You want to remove Gnome, and then what? Without Gnome, you do not have an X desktop. Using i3, he doesn't need one. s/one/a DE/; X is always needed of course.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Is systemd failing to wait for USB now?

2015-03-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.03.2015, Tom Horsley wrote: Is anyone else getting random USB failures at boot? I'm using an APC UPS as well, and a USB mouse and keyboard. Have not encountered a single problem yet. F21, fully updated. [root@chiara ~]# lsusb Bus 004 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Bus 004 Device

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk drive. -- users mailing list

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on diskettes (20 of 'em!) I second that! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work is already done and the Anaconda folks are willfully disabling things. Not at all. An example could be something

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.02.2015, jd1008 wrote: Myself, I always know how to tell anaconda I will manually partition the drive, without resorting to external tools. But I cannot assume that ALL other people have the know-how to manually partition their drives. A simple solution would be to do whatever is

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.02.2015, Pete Travis wrote: Because that's that I want isn't a good way to ask for someone else's time. I didn't ask for someone else's time, but for an explanation why there is a custom mode which indeed isn't custom . I do not want somebody to implement something which fits my special

F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, booted from the F21 XFCE spin and tried to create four primary partitions: /boot/efi swap / /home However, this seems to be impossible. When choosing the last of the four partitions, the F21 installer automatically generates a /dev/sda5, within an extended partition (sda4). No matter what I

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: There's no actual advantage of primary partitions on linux anyway. Extlinux depends on primary partitions, but GRUB doesn't. The thing is that I no longer have the freedom to do what I want when installing (unless I've missed something crucial). If there is

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Matthew Miller wrote: The installer UI is intended* to present meaningful decisions, and make those choices easier and more straightforward.. When I chose custom partitioning, I actually chose to do things on my own, which however won't be the case. That's weird. There's the

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Tom Horsley wrote: Instead, I install in a virtual machine where anaconda is free to trash the virtual disks in any way it sees fit, then I copy the virtual images to partitions I create myself adjust the grub.cfg and fstab files and boot using the configfile option of a

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always succeed in their penultimate goal which is to

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.02.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: The problem I am having is that the stapler version at the URL is called stapler-master.. In the .spec file, you have a line like this: Source0:https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler/archive/master.zip I think this is a security hole, because

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? KeePassX has strong encryption, is easy to handle and has user-configurable hash iteration to delay brute force attacks. For me, it seems to be perfectly suited. -- users mailing list

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: imagine if the word ISN'T a word that's found in the dictionary.ANY dictionary.would that qualify it as being a bit more secure? Here's the math behind it, so you can calculate for yourself: The password strength (entropy) is calculated

F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, I've built countless computers in the last 20 years, but none with the nowadays modern UEFI bioses. Unfortunately, my main machine seems to have gotten some problems after the last lightning storm, and it's time to renew the whole thing. On the SSD, there's a fully updated F21, which I'd

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Ananda Samaddar wrote: My brand new laptop allows you to switch to legacy mode. The only way to find out is by accessing the settings which should be same as for old BIOSes eg it's F2 on my laptop. Thanks a lot for your answer! The new mainbord will be an Asus H97-Pro (or

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: 1. Power on the system, press F2 as soon as the logo screen appears Thanks a lot, will do! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: ..the simple trick is to push each letter over by one! That's it! ROT1 (or ROTX, where X is any number) is a common part of most of the dictionary attacks, very easy to implement and causes near zero CPU load. So your ROT'ed password has not a single

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I agree that a human might not be able to crack it but even a PC would have a hard time if you use phrases, foreign words, and the like. Please search the net on dictionary attack in combination with words like feasibility, speed and the like. You

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, g wrote: granted, with w98se, such was not a great problem, except that he had also encrypted a lot of files. It totally depends on how much entropy a password has, assumed the crypto used is strong and not flawed (e.g. proper implementation of AES, serpent, twofish and the

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Stuart McGraw wrote: When I tried to do a yum upgrade today (which includes a new kernel) it failed with a message that my boot partition space was short by 6MB. What can I do to fix or mitigate this problem? Remove all kernels except one which you have verified to be

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I use Figaro's Password Manager. I don't know how good it is (and would like to hear about that) Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with it, so I can't answer here. .. but it does give me a lot of options in creating the password. This plays a minor role,

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Your only practical option is to remove the oldest kernel, which should allow you to update, and change the installonly_limit setting in /etc/yum.conf Yep! And maybe he can live with two kernels installed. On my system, they take less than 200 MB. Could

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.02.2015, Tim wrote: Please search the net on dictionary attack in combination with words like feasibility, speed and the like. You will be blown away by reading what can be done. Of course that kind of implies that you have something that will let you continuously try different

Re: f21 + kernel 3.18.xxx + nouveau fails

2015-02-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.02.2015, Neal Becker wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190715 It appears to be a problem with drm. All earlier kernels (for years and years) have worked. Can you please boot with drm.debug=1 and post the output? -- users mailing list

Re: f21 + kernel 3.18.xxx + nouveau fails

2015-02-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.02.2015, Neal Becker wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190715 After reading your logs again, I have a feeling that your bug is a duplicate to this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/982889 A workaround is in reply #5. -- users mailing list

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: I removed pluginreg.dat and restarted firefox but about:plugins said I still had the 310 version installed. It wasn't until I rebooted linux that firefox reflected the correct version, which is why I thought it might be the ldconfig cache. I could have

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.02.2015, inode0 wrote: I'd just take a few flash free days until adobe gets it fixed to be a little safer. Flash has been a security nightmare for ages, it will never get any safer.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: I already have this repository configured and had installed the 440 version quite some time ago (it seems we need to specify the exact version as this repository seems to have the 64 bit and 32 bit versions), but firefox had always said the installed

Re: Strange Firefox behaviour

2015-01-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.01.2015, Ahmad Samir wrote: Note that if the home page is left blank via the preferences GUI browser.startup.homepage gets set to about:home, and the same issue happens but instead about:home is loaded instead of start.fedoraproject.org , so it's probably an upstream issue, I am not

Strange Firefox behaviour

2015-01-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, Firefox has three different possibilities in Edit - Preferences - General to chose from what should happen when Firefox starts: 1. Show my homepage 2. Show a blank page 3. Show my windows and tabs from last time When using 3., for a short time the default home page

Another systemd annoyance

2015-01-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, tried to safely bring down a crashed Fedora 21 machine today, but M-sysrq didn't do anything. After bringing the machine up again, the logs showed that M-sysrq functionality was disabled. After investigating further, it seemed that only Sysrq-S (emergency save) was actually working. In

Re: fedora 21 booting error with 3.17 3.18 kernels-SOLVED- still need info

2015-01-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.01.2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: I rebuilt the swap partition, did the swapon, and added that UUID to /etc/fstab. Still errored out with same error. I removed the 3.18.3-201 kernel headers module, reinstalled them, and now it works. where is that old swap info kept, if not in

Re: Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.01.2015, Gary Stainburn wrote: After running the tar zcvf ... run the command tar ztvf . to test it again. And 1 day later you get a bad sector containing a part of your compressed archive, and your whole backup is gone (and according to Murphy's law, your harddisk

Re: CurrentPendingSector

2015-01-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.01.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors First, you should backup the whole drive, if it contains important data. Then, you could do a smartctl -t long /dev/sdc and see if it completes without error. Most probably, you'll need a new

Re: Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.01.2015, Mickey wrote: But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the Tar files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on the crashed drive. Never ever compress backup data which contains valuable data. One single bit flip will render your whole

Re: Saving screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.01.2015, jd1008 wrote: I've been using ssr-0.3.2-1.fc21.x86_64 screen recorder and it works very well. Strange. I have all the standard Fedora repositories configured, but there is no ssr package available. [root@keera ~]# yum search ssr- Loaded plugins: langpacks Warning: No matches

Re: Load Kernel Modules Failure

2015-01-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.01.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: Immediately after booting from the grub menu in F21 the first message I get is 'Failure to start Load Kernel Modules'. Does anyone know what this message means and how I rectify it? Welcome to another systemd madness! First, check if systemctl status

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