Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.07.2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It allows the various components to have specific dependencies so they can start as soon as everything is in place. Older mechanisms such as the traditional System V init scripts were much more limited and could only do this with very ad hoc and

Re: Fedora 19 - filesystems slow

2014-07-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.07.2014, George R Goffe wrote: I'm seeing a problem whereby a specific filesystem that hasn't been accessed for some time and is REALLY slow to respond to initial requests. Looks like there is some power management which puts the device to sleep/spin down. Try disabling that. Also

Re: Fedora 19 - filesystems slow

2014-07-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.07.2014, Rick Stevens wrote: I don't know of a way to control either the size of the cache or its retention period. It might be controllable via a sysctl, but I've never tried to bugger things like that. Look at parameters which can control the kernels virtual memory management, e.g.:

Re: Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk ?

2014-06-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.06.2014, Mickey wrote: Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ? No. But I've been using sysresccd all the time, and also for grub repair. Has been working flawlessly. http://www.sysresccd.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: XFS error during mount

2014-06-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.06.2014, Roman Kravets wrote: Jun 27 11:14:38 softded kernel: vmap allocation for size 1048576 failed: use vmalloc=size to increase size. What is it meen use vmalloc=size to increase size? When can I change it parameter? It is a kernel boot parameter, which you can add manually be

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.06.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: What exactly is wrong with yum? It has worked faultlessly and painlessly for me for years, with addons to deal with every conceivable problem. If there is some problem with it, why not simply deal with that problem instead of inventing a completely new

Re: Fwd: FLASH: Internet Storm Center Briefing on Today's OpenSSL Security Patches

2014-06-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.06.2014, Matthew Miller wrote: Fedora has an update that should be rolling out soon. And while we are waiting: http://tinyurl.com/o3glbta -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: FLASH: Internet Storm Center Briefing on Today's OpenSSL Security Patches

2014-06-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.06.2014, Kevin Fenzi wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-6881/gnutls-3.1.20-5.fc19 Is the patch backported to that version? The bug is fixed in 3.1.25, but not in 3.1.20. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.06.2014, Mike Wright wrote: Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux support. [] Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model? Just return the crap to Samsung. Don't waste time. -- users mailing list

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). I've partitioned the new disk. When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one with cp -a (running under a Fedora Live CD) I get a lot of

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.05.2014, Tom Horsley wrote: I've used rsync to do this (you have to go through the gazillion options to get all the appropriate ones though). rsync -avxHSAX will do it all. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.05.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: - mount /dev/sdaX /mnt Where /dev/sdaX is your root partition. Forgot to mention that, sorry! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: Don't you have to correct UUIDs in /etc/fstab on the new disk? Yes. Either that, or adjust the new UUIDs to the old ones. It's done quickly, should have mentioned that. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.05.2014, Temlakos wrote: All I want to do is move the contents of /home. What are the best commands for doing this? If you want to move the whole /home directory as is: rsync -avxHSAX /home/ /new/home -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

2014-05-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.05.2014, Mickey wrote: Don't switch to Firefox, it is having problems of streaming video properly with the flash-Plugin . I have been using Firefox in many years, and didn't encounter streaming problems with Flash videos. Do you have any evidence for your statement? -- users mailing

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

2014-05-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.05.2014, Mickey wrote: I have had problems of Firefox freezes while playing streaming video and locking up computer. Ok. If this is not what you already did: uninstall the flash plugin, download the .tar.gz archive of the appropriate plugin here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Re: SNA Acceleration for Intel Graphics

2014-05-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.05.2014, Justin Brown wrote: Has anyone else been able to enable SNA in Fedora 20 and were any special steps needed? Yes, has been working for me quite some time. 20-intel.conf: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver intel Option AccelMethod SNA EndSection Are you sure that

Re: SNA Acceleration for Intel Graphics

2014-05-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.05.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver intel Option AccelMethod SNA EndSection [htd@kiera ~]$ grep -ie uxa -ie sna /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 4.564] (**) intel(0): Option AccelMethod SNA [ 4.565] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Ironlake

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.05.2014, Alan E. Davis wrote: The biggest question for me is this: is it a kernel issue that I am only seeing two governors, when other OSs see 4? First: I do not run Fedora kernels, and therefore I don't know how they are configured. The problem you describe is most probably caused

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

2014-04-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.04.2014, Javier Perez wrote: My plan is to put the OS on a USB stick In my experience, that's a bad idea. USB-sticks are not reliable over a longer period, and you can expect data loss. and use the whole 2TB for Data. I'd rather not have a PATA SDD, and I do not want to lose one of

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.04.2014, Garry T. Williams wrote: That's not true. Swap will come into play and unreferenced data in the /tmp files will be paged out in favor of claiming that memory for other uses. Did you actually try? [htd@kiera ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/bigfile bs=1M count=3000 dd: error

Re: reading adobe comments on pdf using OSS on F20

2014-04-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.04.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Okular lets you read, alter and add comments (I think, in the English version they are called Reviews) I receive quite often .pdf files containing comments. Evince reads them properly. Okular can be very slow sometimes, even stuck in the middle of a

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.04.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: Received: from localhost (alfred.gayleard.eu [127.0.0.1]) by alfred.gayleard.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4C622D57 for t...@localhost.gayleard.eu; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:15:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alfred.gayleard.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.04.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: The two config files (master.cf and main.cf) are difficult to follow, and the documentation is poor. For a homeserver or single use MTA: 1. leave master.cf alone 2. Define these in main.cf - myhostname - mydomain - myorigin - mydestination

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.04.2014, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: Finally, I got msmtp working but I'm still not really happy (it doesn't rewrite destination addresses for aliased forwards, and that's a big problem with today's spam filters), so I will revert to sendmail in F21. yum install postfix It's easy to

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2014, CS_DBA wrote: In the meantime, does Fedora play well with USB wireless cards/devices? It does. I have similar problems as you describe in this thread (F19), and using an external USB network adapter solved it. I don't have the time to debug the problem. -- users mailing

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 18.03.2014, CS_DBA wrote: In the meantime, does Fedora play well with USB wireless cards/devices? It does. I have similar problems as you describe in this thread (F19), and using an external USB network adapter solved it. I don't have the time

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.03.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: I hope someone would have bugzilla'd the issue :-) I know, you're absolutely right. But the problem seems to be quite complex, and in my case, F20 is already out, so nobody will listen to me anyway without having updated to F20 first :-) -- users

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.03.2014, CS DBA wrote: Here's my question: If I simply backup all directories (including ones like /proc /media, etc) will the following work, or do I need to care about specifically excluding the virtual directories? I would run any backup/restore of the root filesystem only when

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.03.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Well The article pointed to by poc states Yes, you're right. Sorry for the noise! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.03.2014, Matthew Miller wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3413/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc20 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3363/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc19 Do they fix the bug? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: best recipe for building a new kernel on fedora 20?

2014-02-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: uh, no. if that's all you specify, you get *way* more packages than just kernel and kernel-devel -- when my build worked earlier today, i think i counted 11. so that claim is a massive underestimate, but i'll You can do it another way: 1. Take the

Re: best recipe for building a new kernel on fedora 20?

2014-02-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.02.2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: well, sure, but that's definitely not equivalent to building from the official fedora source rpm, which comes with red hat-supplied patches. Unless you're using something very special which depends on those patches, you'll be fine with a vanilla

Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.02.2014, Chris Murphy wrote: - reduce swappiness: /etc/sysctl.conf vm.swappiness=1 vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 I wouldn't do this. If swap is needed, then swap is needed. While vfs_cache_pressure = 50 is the standard, swappiness set to 1 does not mean that the kernel

Re: procmail testing

2014-01-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.01.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: cat d1.letter |procmail You can also re-run existing mails through the whole system, e.g. by piping the mail into formail -ds | procmail. You can do that in mutt by pressing the | and writing the command in the field which opened up. So what is

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.01.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Hibernate takes all the current state and copies it to swap. Thus you need a large swap to handle this. I always create my swap twice my memory size. This is not neccessary. A swapspace equal the amount of RAM is enough to hibernate. -- users mailing

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.01.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: [Hibernation] Note however that Linux support for this is pretty limited/ buggy and I would recommend you don't do it. My whole family uses Linux and has used hibernation regularly. None of us has encountered problems so far... -- users mailing list

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2014-01-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.01.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am looking at going with the flow that a notebook should not need an MTA Any MTA for just one user will do. You won't even notice that it's there. System load and the ability to handle a lot of connections is not relevant in this case. I will

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2013-12-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.12.2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote: But which is the kindest to the system resources, sendmail or postfix? Postfix, definitely. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

Re: Limiting disk usage by journald

2013-12-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.12.2013, Suvayu Ali wrote: [Journal] #SystemMaxUse=1.0G SystemMaxFileSize=1.0G I guess you'll have to activate SystemMaxUse=1.0G to see the effect you're expecting.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.12.2013, Tim wrote: I've always considered having to check your spam for false positives to make having anti-spam filtering a waste of time. It depends. I've been receiving about 30 spam emails daily, on average. A quick look into my spam-folder is enough to check if any serious email

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.12.2013, Tim wrote: [CRM-114..] But you don't trust it enough, not to check... No. Because email loss is strictly not acceptable. I always check back manually. CRM-114, once trained, is pretty good, and it takes no more than 10-15 secs to see if there's real email amongst all the spam.

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [httpd:1889]

2013-12-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.12.2013, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Right now I am FINALLY going to remember to reboot into the offending kernel and see if this happens again. This one came up on LKML today, maybe it's related: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/27/255 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: how to set up my fetchmail on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2013, Michael Schwendt wrote: I run fetchmail with option mda /usr/bin/procmail -t -f - to deliver (and filter) via procmail. hmmm ... i may try that. i assume that, with this approach, i won't need to install sendmail, correct? Correct. Using MUAs like Alpine,

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote: WTF do I have to do? 1. Download the latest Flash plugin 2. Copy libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins 3. Restart Firefox You're done. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: 1. Download the latest Flash plugin http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/ You choose the .tar.gz archive. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote: Yes It worked. Thank you hugely. You're welcome! -- 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: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [httpd:1889]

2013-12-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.12.2013, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Dec 22 20:11:26 afolkey2 kernel: [ 4130.161465] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [httpd:1889] Dec 22 20:11:50 afolkey2 kernel: [ 4154.123765] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [httpd:1793] It's the kernel watchdog bailing out. Do you run

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [httpd:1889]

2013-12-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.12.2013, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: No. All non-virtual on this issue... Ok. How high is the load when this happens? Is there a kernel which doesn't lead to these lockups? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [httpd:1889]

2013-12-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.12.2013, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Is there a kernel which doesn't lead to these lockups? Yes: kernel-3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 Right now I am FINALLY going to remember to reboot into the offending kernel and see if this happens again. If you can reproduce this with a vanilla

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2013, Tom Horsley wrote: Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by default? In 3.12.6 vanilla, it definitely is. [htd@kiera ~]$ uname -a Linux kiera.fritha.org 3.12.6-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 19 16:55:38 CET 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- users mailing list

Re: Faith based partitioning...

2013-12-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.12.2013, Tom Horsley wrote: I see the partitioning interface still hasn't improved in f20. You still simply must go on faith that you might be allowed to make the changes you want sometime after you press a button labeled Done. Yes, that's f*cking annoying... -- users mailing list

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.12.2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just from the above, what is the purpose of running isohybrid in step 1 when you just do a raw copy of the ISO image to the USB drive in step 2? Isohybrid makes the image a hybrid, being bootable from both CD and a USB-drive. -- users mailing list

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.12.2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ah, so it modifies the ISO image in place, does it? Yes, it does. -- 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: systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.12.2013, Greg Woods wrote: I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is resumed from suspend or hibernation. You can place a script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep like this. Replace placeholder with your own script you want to have executed when the system

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.12.2013, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I've installed another hard drive in this computer and would like to be able to install Fedora-20 on it from an exiting F-20-beta iso file already on this same computer. I can't seem to find any instructions for doing this. You could

Re: evince

2013-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.11.2013, Patrick Dupre wrote: The viewing ot the attached file is correct with xpsd and acroread, but is wrong with evince. The correct character is a \Delta with the wrong character for me is \Phi. The document shows up correctly for me, in both evince and okular. -- users mailing

Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-11-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.11.2013, AP wrote: Well I just heard a couple of guys saying rpm hell. Now a days, when rpm works very well, still does it lag behind apt in some ways...? What precisely are you asking for? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-11-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.11.2013, AP wrote: Just wanted to know if rpm is better than apt or vice-versa or both are equal Better/equal in precisely what? ...or why did this bifurcation took place if the Linux is only the kernel...? Because there are different distributions which all think that their own

Re: Issue......

2013-11-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.11.2013, EGO.II-1 wrote: Hello, I'm backI've been through the wasteland of distros...but I couldn't find anything that aided my workflow as well as Fedora. But I have a problem, I have just gone ahead and done a fedup upgrade to Fedora 20.. F20 is currently in alpha-state, as far

Re: good bye - Fwd: list-moderation - Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.11.2013, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: People I find offensive I simply filter out and never see them. It would seem others would do the same I have never understood this problem here on the list. You don't like to read somebodies email? Write a killfile, put him/her in it,

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong.

2013-10-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.10.2013, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Failed to load module nv (module does not exist, 0) Take a look into /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, most probably the uninstaller didn't restore the kernel boot parameters which has been placed in order to get the nv driver to work. Looks like you'll have to

Re: latest F19 version of openssl breaks ssh on i686 machine with old CPU

2013-10-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.10.2013, Andre Robatino wrote: I have an old i686 machine with a Cyrix M II CPU which is (barely) capable of running Fedora. The latest version of openssl (openssl-1.0.1e-28.fc19.i686) breaks incoming and outgoing ssh. There's an update to openssl-1.0.1e-29.fc19, maybe it fixes your

Re: Status of Samsung F2FS support?

2013-10-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.10.2013, Fernando Cassia wrote: I wonder what is the current status with regards to Samsung F2FS boot support. When I first heard about F2FS I thought it'd be a nice solution to finally be able to get a full R/W Linux installed on a pen drive, without tricks like ram drives... To

Re: encription

2013-09-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.09.2013, Patrick Dupre wrote: I did close (after umount and using root) /dev/mapper/luks-61967fe7-9143-45ea-aaf5-2e2697dbfeed but again, when I plug the key back, it mounts the vol without askig the passphrase. So something is caching your passphrase. Now you have to find out what

Re: encription

2013-09-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.09.2013, Patrick Dupre wrote: I would like that it ask me the paraphrase every time that the key in replugged. How can I get this behavior? You have to check if there's something which caches your passphrase, and in this case you should prevent your passphrase from being cached. If this

Re: External USB3.0 HDD not working on Intel H87 (C2)

2013-09-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.09.2013, ppq wrote: Everything works fine on my ThinkPad Edge E135 with F19, so this is how it should look like: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/40764/ Using a live system (F19, too) on my PC, the HDD works a little (i.e. very slow), while dmesg looks like this:

Re: External USB3.0 HDD not working on Intel H87 (C2)

2013-09-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.09.2013, ppq wrote: I also don't think it is a hardware problem because the hard drive works on USB2.0 ports, just not on USB3.0. I think the problem lies somewhere in the kernel xhci-driver. I'm actually compiling the latest git after the merge window closed, and if my problem persist,

Re: Status of fstrim MD-RAID

2013-09-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.09.2013, poma wrote: [1] https://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/337 Discard takes time, of course. I run two OCZ Vertex 4 drives, and deleting a complete kernel sourcetree doesn't take 40s with blocked I/O on my systems (XFS filesystem, mounted with discard). I guess this is mainly

Re: Status of fstrim MD-RAID

2013-09-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.09.2013, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Is that the stock 3.10.11? It's 3.11.1 vanilla (from kernel.org), with some minor modifications (which are all not relevant to mdraid). A search via git reveals that discard has been introduced to raid1 by commit 2ff8cc2c6d4e323de71a42affeb3041fa17d5b10 in

Re: Status of fstrim MD-RAID

2013-09-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.09.2013, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Does the mdraid subsystem relays this command to the actual SSD? What I've found so far is that some patches were submitted upstream (mdraid) for this but don't know if it made to Fedora 19. I don't run a Fedora kernel, but took a short look into

Re: Status of fstrim MD-RAID

2013-09-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.09.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Does fstrim work with md-raid devices these days with Fedora 19 out of the box? I would like to use 2 SSDs (in RAID-1) wondered about trim support. Do you have any objections against the use of discard? Just asking.. which *is* trim Yes.

Re: Status of fstrim MD-RAID

2013-09-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.09.2013, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Does fstrim work with md-raid devices these days with Fedora 19 out of the box? I would like to use 2 SSDs (in RAID-1) wondered about trim support. Do you have any objections against the use of discard? Just asking.. -- users mailing list

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2013, Powell, Michael wrote: If you're one of the lucky few that bought an Optimus laptop after they started adding a BIOS option to select the nVidia hardware, you're quite fortunate, but I wasn't so lucky. I will try native nVidia support in the future, but most likely not

Re: Kernel 3.11 and Fedora 19...

2013-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: [bcache] how could this feature turned on at default? if you think about it you know it's impossible why? because that would mean using a *random??* SSD as cache for *what* devices? Compiling in bcache support *doesn't do anything*. You have to set up

Re: Kernel 3.11 and Fedora 19...

2013-09-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.09.2013, Fernando Cassia wrote: 1. Is there a kernel spec file for Fedora 19 that could be used to compile a 3.11 kernel with the same build parameters as the F19 one? I don't know. You could use the Fedora .config which usually resides in /boot after installing a Fedora kernel. 2.

Re: Kernel 3.11 and Fedora 19...

2013-09-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.09.2013, Fernando Cassia wrote: Im specially interested in that feature of 3.11 I read about last week -whose name I now forget, it wasnt 'lazy writes'' but close to it- that would minimize writes to SSDs and extend their life. I'm not aware of such a feature added to 3.11. In case you

Re: Kernel 3.11 and Fedora 19...

2013-09-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.09.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Btw, what is the default for this option in Fedora, on or off? If the default is on, how to turn it off in the cleanest possible way? Enabling CONFIG_BCACHE alone doesn't do anything to your SSD. You have to set up and register the devices you want to use

Re: Turning off SELINUX

2013-09-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.09.2013, Javier Perez wrote: My beef is given the NSA origin of this software, It could very well have a backdoor to turn itself off under the appropriate circumstances like an NSA-sponsored breach an allow unrestricted access to my system.. Every person contributing to free open

Re: Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.09.2013, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: It used to be that LibreOffice was acceptable, although way from perfect. But recently, it is causing severe headaches. I'm importing and exporting as DOCX in Writer, and I get cases where it crashes persistently when I want to open a document, or in

Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

2013-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2013, agraham wrote: Right now I'm looking for answers and a forum in which to discuss this. If you have *proof* for your statements, go to the Linux Kernel Mailinglist and let them show what you have. You could even send a mail to Linus directly. Here's what I consider to be proof

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2013, Alchemist wrote: Very good discussion. This is an important issue. OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve was added to the http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist, but the question remains open Is the crypto the real problem (=weakest link), or is it something else? I guess that would be the

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.08.2013, ergodic wrote: The UUIDs of the newly partitioned drive will most probably be different from those of the original drive They *are* different, with 100% certainty. Great you mentioned it, this will help to avoid mount problems (and save some time using a rescue disk to fix that

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi Mihai, On 20.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I add to the mix my test results for F19 with kernel 3.10.7 on an ASUS UX31E with its factory 256GB SSD-only mass storage. CFQ scheduler run1: [] All these numbers are pointless, because when I see your

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.08.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: Then, open another one and run fsync-tester. The numbers that count to compare different elevators on your system is the output fsync-tester generates while your machine is generating the bigfile. And while your're at it, you could also consider doing some

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: Here are the program numbers while running the script: CFQ: [] Seems that cfq performs better on your machine, under this workload. Gave it a quick test (using the original fsync-tester from Ted Tso): cfq: htd@kiera test]$ ./fst1 fsync time:

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.08.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: [] And the kernel is vanilla from kernel.org: [htd@kiera ~]$ uname -a Linux kiera.fritha.org 3.10.8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 20 19:53:31 CEST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2013, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and dd the contents back to the SSD? Technically it would work, but you'll most probably encounter a huge performance

Re: AMD

2013-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2013, Richard Vickery wrote: In considering a new computer, one of those under consideration is an AMD chip with Windoze; the salesman suggested that other customers have said that Linux has issues with AMD. Do we have issues with this chip? There are some issues with all chips,

Re: HD to SSD question.

2013-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: It appears that CFQ can sense and adapt to SSD and has little if any loss to other I/O schedulers: http://www.velobit.com/storage-performance-blog/bid/126135/Effects-Of-Linux-IO-Scheduler-On-SSD-Performance They only tested bandwidth, not latency. On

Re: Canadian Spell Check English (Canadian) language

2013-08-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.08.2013, Peter Gueckel wrote: In KDE settings, you can set the spellcheck language to Canadian and the keyboard to English(US). Libreoffice and Firefox have a Canadian English option. I don't think these are dedicated dictionaries for Canadian spelling As far as I know, Libreoffice

Re: F19 keeps crashing on Lenovo Thinkpad T430 (KDE)

2013-08-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.08.2013, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: I upgraded to a new kernel yesterday and today had another hard freeze. Aren't there any tools to investigate what happened? If you are shure that your problem isn't related to a hardware failure, you should first compile a vanilla 3.10.6 kernel

Re: F19 keeps crashing on Lenovo Thinkpad T430 (KDE)

2013-08-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.08.2013, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Skimming through /var/log/messages, it seems to me that my freezes coincide with the following messages repeated many (hundreds? thousands?) times: Aug 12 11:25:59 localhost kernel: [13380.541175] mei_me :00:16.0: reset: unexpected enumeration

Re: F19 keeps crashing on Lenovo Thinkpad T430 (KDE)

2013-08-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.08.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: You should report this via the Fedora/Redhat bugzilla, it's a kernel driver bug. In the meantime, you can fix it by recompiling your kernel with these two deactivated (set to no): CONFIG_INTEL_MEI CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_ME You can, of course, simply blacklist

Re: Enable JavaScript preference checkbox has been removed in Firefox

2013-08-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.08.2013, Ahmad Samir wrote: Personally, I am not with or against this change, but here's their rationale http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill To me, the argumentation presented on this site seems somehow grounded, but is *not* relevant. Javascript and showing pictures could simply be

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird Aug releases

2013-08-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.08.2013, David wrote: Joe did you not read where I said that I was asking for the 'regular Fedora Community users', sucjh as you, and not for myself? And that I was asking because so many other Linux distributions already have them. I already have the latest releases. Updates usually

Re: Continual reboots with 3.10.X and 3.11.X kernels

2013-08-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.08.2013, Richard Shaw wrote: $ rpm -qa kernel kernel-3.9.9-201.fc18.x86_64 kernel-3.9.11-200.fc18.x86_64 kernel-3.9.10-200.fc18.x86_64 Try with 3.10.5 vanilla. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Continual reboots with 3.10.X and 3.11.X kernels

2013-08-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.08.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: why should someone compile his own kernel? Because the problem(s) could be related to one of the Fedora patches. It's quite common for me that different people report kernel related problems here on the list which doesn't occur on my systems. I rarely use a

Re: How do I prevent the kernel module i915 from being loaded?

2013-08-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.08.2013, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I have already appended 'blacklist i915' to /lib/modprobe.d/dist-blacklist.conf but it is still being loaded. What else can I do? On the long run, you could disable all CONFIG_DRM_i915 options in your kernel .config and

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-08-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
Replying to myself, just to drop a note about an old and long time ongoing problem which maybe affects some others here on the list: On 28.07.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: Yes, I am. Because I own 2 totally different machines and are occasionally using another one at work with integrated Intel

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