Re: F38 and new GDM behavior

2023-04-23 Thread Ron Yorston
Jeffrey Walton wrote: >After 15 minutes of cleanup GDM suspended the machine with an active >SSH connection. I was bitten by this too. Left my system logged in to a GNOME desktop carrying out some backups, went out for a walk, came back to find the machine unresponsive. As you say, this is new

Re: Fedora 37: libvirt/qemu/kvm not work property with kernel 6.1.8-200.fc37.x86_64

2023-02-02 Thread Ron Yorston
Dario Lesca wrote: >When I try to install a new VM with virt-manager, (es Rocky Linux 9 or >Fedora 37 WS) from a verified ISO file, the live setup do not start and >the installation procedure is blocked before displaying the graphical >environment. ... >Is this a know issue? There is an issue

Re: kvm vs firefox issue?

2023-01-26 Thread Ron Yorston
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 currently in testing.) Here's a SuSE bug report:

Re: Launching Nautilus makes F37 'hard crash'

2023-01-08 Thread Ron Yorston
Frederic Muller wrote: >This is happening with the latest 2 kernel versions (just updated and >the same is happening). I thought I wouldn't be the only one and the bug >would magically disappear... well it seems not. It's probably this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216895

Re: OpenVPN breakage

2022-06-04 Thread Ron Yorston
There's a bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2093069 which includes a link to a test build of OpenVPN which fixes the problem I was having. Ron ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

OpenVPN breakage

2022-06-02 Thread Ron Yorston
Today OpenVPN was updated from 2.5.6-1 to 2.5.7-1 and my VPN connection broke. The log says: nm-openvpn[8655]: --cipher is not set. Previous OpenVPN version defaulted to BF-CBC as fallback when cipher negotiation failed in this case. If you need this fallback please add

Re: resurrecting old laptops

2022-05-24 Thread Ron Yorston
jim wrote: >I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware I'm using CentOS 7 on an Asus Eee PC 701. RHEL 7 doesn't have an i686 version but CentOS supports it as an altarch. Advantages: - it has all that familiar Red Hat goodness; - unlike CentOS 8 it'll be supported until

Re: wifi connection problem.

2022-03-30 Thread Ron Yorston
François Patte wrote: >Is it a known bug and what causes this dysfonction? I understand it's a problem with the kernel. If you still have kernel-5.16.14-200.fc35 installed booting with that should avoid the issue. The forthcoming kernel-5.16.18-200.fc35 might have the fix. Cheers, Ron

The restorecon problem is coming back

2020-05-25 Thread Ron Yorston
On 6th May an update to selinux-policy for Fedora 32 (3.14.5-38.fc32) caused all filesystems to be relabelled. In my case this took over twelve hours. I was not happy. It appears the developers have a workaround for the problem but the update that applies it will cause all filesystems to be

Re: night light mode

2018-12-02 Thread Ron Yorston
Alessio Ciregia wrote: >I don't know, but I've noted that if geolocalization is disabled in privacy >settings, automatic (sunset to sunrise) night light doesn't work. And it >sounds like a bug, or at least I don't remember such behavior on F28 There have been interactions between night light and

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-28 Thread Ron Yorston
Matthew Miller wrote: >If you can find a reproducer, a bug report for this would be helpful. I think this one covers the issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1648274 As noted there, there's no need to muck about with the cache or the --refresh option. Simply running 'dnf

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Ron Yorston
Matthew Miller wrote: >While I can't disagree with the general sentiment, I certainly hope Fedora >isn't being pigeonholed into "bleeding edge". Fedora also certainly "just >works". Except when it doesn't. In the week since F29 was released I've been bitten by cron not working (1639381) and web

Re: GnuCash's new reconciliation behavior

2018-06-04 Thread Ron Yorston
Sam Varshavchik wrote: >Ron Yorston writes: >> On my system with gnucash-3.1-3 transactions in the reconciliation dialog >> appear in some order which defies logical anaylsis. > >This is nothing more than change for the sake of change, No, I think it's just a bug. I

Re: GnuCash's new reconciliation behavior

2018-06-04 Thread Ron Yorston
Sam Varshavchik wrote: >It seems that after clicking a transaction, to mark it as reconciled, what >happens now is that not only does the little checkbox next to the >transaction gets set, but the entire transaction gets shuffled to the bottom >of the transaction list, so that all reconciled

Re: Scroll Bars with Arrows Wanted

2018-01-25 Thread Ron Yorston
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 12:13 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: >> I've always found that clicking in the scroll bar area will move it >> in >> the direction of the mouse arrow. Doesn't that work for you? > >Only too well! Clicking on the scroll bar area can move the window >many

Re: Delta RPMs -

2017-08-25 Thread Ron Yorston
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Re: Delta RPMs -

2017-08-25 Thread Ron Yorston
Gordon Messmer wrote: >I don't see a "drpms" directory in the fedora 26 "updates" directory. >It's still present for f25 and f27. I haven't seen any notices about >that, so it might be a failure. I'm asking in the #fedora IRC >channel. I'll file a bug later if needed. Did you get any response?

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-15 Thread Ron Yorston
Sudhir Khanger wrote: >I restarted the system. And also tried restarting abrtd. In that case I'm out of ideas. Sorry, Ron ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-15 Thread Ron Yorston
Sudhir Khanger wrote: >That didn't help. I am continuing to see the abrt notification. Did you restart abrtd? systemctl restart abrtd Ron ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-15 Thread Ron Yorston
Sudhir Khanger wrote: >Jul 15 10:35:05 workstation abrt-dump-journal-oops[1256]: Reported 2 kernel >oopses to Abrt >Jul 15 10:35:06 workstation abrt-server[5959]: Can't find a meaningful >backtrace for hashing in '.' >Jul 15 10:35:06 workstation abrt-server[5959]: Option

Re: Umount USB

2015-08-12 Thread Ron Yorston
Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: F22 gnome, this option is just missing, it was here in F20. It's in Fedora 22 Gnome also. I'd say you either have something broken in the installation/upgrade, or the removable isn't actually mounted, or you've found a

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-23 Thread Ron Yorston
Gordon Messmer wrote: Use dnf repolist -v to find out, in the future. It will print the date from the metadata you have, and the URL of the mirror from which it was retrieved. OK, today 'dnf repolist -v' tells me: fedora: using metadata from Wed Jul 22 08:38:59 2015. rmy: using metadata from

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-23 Thread Ron Yorston
Ron Yorston wrote: What immediately seems odd is that 'dnf --refresh check-update' pulled in a new version of the rmy metadata (which hasn't expired) but not the updates metadata (which has). Of course, today it didn't need to download new updates metadata because it hadn't changed. That wasn't

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Ron Yorston
Suvayu Ali wrote: That said, I sometimes do not understand what's the harm in getting updates few hours later. dnf already tells you how old the metadata is when it starts, you can choose to get the latest metadata if it is too old. So what's the big deal? I certainly get the impression that

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Ron Yorston
Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 07:20:11PM +0100, Ron Yorston wrote: I certainly get the impression that dnf tells me about updates less frequently than yum did. It also seems to pull in metadata less frequently. Keep in mind that we only push updates

Re: Firefox 34 bookmark sidebar scrolling has changed

2014-12-07 Thread Ron Yorston
Tony Nelson wrote: Thank you. Do you know of any settings for other Gnome3 changes I might wish to undo? Well, I don't know what *you* might want to undo, but here's the script I run after installing F20. Some of the settings can be modified in gnome-tweak-tool but I find it more convenient to

Re: Firefox 34 bookmark sidebar scrolling has changed

2014-12-07 Thread Ron Yorston
Fred Smith wrote: I've just done a Centos-7 install on one of my netbooks, and then I installed the Mate desktop so I wouldn't have to fume and curse Gnome. Mate is much more friendly. but I noticed that some few programs even in Mate still use the silly new scrollbar behavior, and adding that

Re: Firefox 34 bookmark sidebar scrolling has changed

2014-12-05 Thread Ron Yorston
Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I noticed the same thing with Evolution, long ago, that I can't simply page up and down by clicking above or below the scroll bar, any more. It jumps to what's essentially a random spot, since you have no way to actually pick a specific part of the message

Re: frippery extension in fedora 20

2014-01-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Patrick Dupre wrote: I cannot update frippery extensions (application menu, etc..) in fedora 20 I cannot remove them either. The Frippery extensions are available for F20, as a tar file or RPM from my website[1] or via the GNOME Shell Extensions website[2]. How did you originally install them?

Re: gnome-classic-session

2014-01-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am looking through what extensions are available for gnome via yumex, and I find gnome-classic-session. I haven't tried gnome-classic-session in F20 yet though I have looked at it in F19. The one feature I missed is the ability to put application launchers in the top

Re: Systemd Freezing on NetworkManager or Display Manager

2013-11-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Mark Bidewell wrote: I am using Fedora 19 on older hardware, and about half the time systemd freezes on boot. Typically the console messaging is pointing at Network Manager but occasionally kdm or gdm. I can switch to another console and log in and

Re: GNOME Classic Extensions

2013-09-16 Thread Ron Yorston
Jorge Fábregas wrote: Thanks for the reminder Tim. It helps but I stll can't find it. It seems the Frippery Bottom Panel extension would do it but it doesn't work with GNOME 3.8. I'm the author of the Frippery extensions. The Bottom Panel should work with GNOME 3.8, though not in Classic mode.

Re: Install Updates Restart on a laptop

2013-02-03 Thread Ron Yorston
Rahul Sundaram wrote: It isn't. This feature works by downloading all the updates beforehand I prefer to control when the download happens. This turns off the automatic download: dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/updates/auto-download-updates false and then offering you the

Re: F17 Gnome3 workspace names

2012-05-31 Thread Ron Yorston
Greg Woods wrote: Poked around a little, gsettings list-schema shows that the schema maybe should be org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences, so I tried that: [greg@diamondage greg]$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences workspace-names ['Local','E-mail','Web','Virtual','Systems',Misc']

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Ron Yorston
Leonardo Silveira wrote: how do i add the shutdown button on gnome menu? My GNOME Shell Frippery[1] has an extension that makes shutting down the system work more like GNOME 2. In fact, it has a number of extensions to make things work more like they do in GNOME 2. Ron [1]

Re: Four Tweaks for Gnome 3

2011-06-02 Thread Ron Yorston
Lars E. Pettersson wrote: Sadly the things mentioned in the links earlier in the thread does not solve my issues fully. Have you tried my GNOME Shell frippery extensions? http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html While you lot have been chattering here I've been busy releasing

Re: RPM signing problems on Fedora 15?

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Yorston
Julian C. Dunn wrote: I just upgraded to F15 and now I'm having problems signing my custom RPMs. Am I losing my mind here: demeter:~/rpm/SPECS$ rpmbuild --sign twirssi.spec rpm: --addsign: No such file or directory ?? and demeter:~/rpm/SPECS$ file

Re: Comparison of Desktop Environments in F15?

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Yorston
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 12:28 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: you're much better off throwing resources into an existing active project (whether its Gnome 3/shell, KDE, unity, lxde, etc etc). And so the attempt to pervert XFCE into Gnome 2 will begin... ;-p My plan is to pervert GNOME

Re: OOo and delta RPM

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Yorston
Jonathan Dieter wrote: There's a bug in the push scripts where it only generates deltas against GA and not updates. So if you downgrade to GA OOo and then update you'd get deltas. Obviously *not* a good solution. We thought we'd fixed the bug, but obviously have missed something. We're

OOo and delta RPM

2010-11-24 Thread Ron Yorston
Is there a problem with openoffice.org and delta RPMs? I've just done a yum update on F14 and all the OOo packages were downloaded in their entirety, whereas about 30 others came in as deltas. And it's not like OOo is small. And this is the second update in a week. If it's going to carry on

Re: Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]

2010-04-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Greg Woods wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:34 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: Im curious why you use virtualbox and not kvm/libvirt/virt-manager that are included by default in fedora? Im just trying to work out what is lacking in the default offerings that you go to a third party. I can't