Nvidia Mess

Since upgrading to F42 in the Spring, I have seen apparently random GDM lockups. In these situations, system could be sshed into to kill the processes and reboot. Finally decided to look into this and--long story short--it turns out I did not have the RPMFusion Nvidia drivers installed All

Re: Fedora MATE - how to remove/hide "Shut Down" button from System menu?

On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 05:29 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > There are three of us connecting to that machine, we are all friends, > no one has any intentions of harming it or turning it off on purpose. > But the "Shut down" button is right next to "Log Out", and it has > happened to us

Re: Fedora MATE - how to remove/hide "Shut Down" button from System menu?

On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 14:40 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > I thought removing or disabling the OFF button would be a fairly > simple and obvious thing to do. You would think so, too... Half the problem is that *that* part of the menu is whole system rather than per-person (i.e. people c

Re: Fedora MATE - how to remove/hide "Shut Down" button from System menu?

On Sun, 2025-09-07 at 22:19 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > We have a x86_64 Linux Mate machine, located at a remote place, and > several users occasionally log in via x2go, and start MATE sessions. > I need to prevent the user from being able to shut down this remote > machine - the op

Re: djvu file

On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 21:33 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Actually, I was looking for a toll like xournalpp > I tried okular, but the text editing is a bit strange > eg text reediting, text moving, color change If your DjVu file is anything like most PDF files, which is quite likely, the

Re: New computer recommendation?

On Thu, 2025-08-28 at 08:40 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Big manufacturers are moving away from generic parts. Connectors have > always been troublesome. Soldered on RAM reduces problems as long as > the initial configuration was adequate for future needs. Manufacturers have > become ver

Re: Restarting a crashed desktop

On Wed, 2025-08-27 at 11:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > So much for AI ... I always say it stands for Artificial Idiot. But when it comes to using it with a search engine for results, it might as well stand for "Ask an Idiot." When I search for something and AI summary appears in the res

Re: better back-up?

Tim: > > I tended to do system updates (e.g. move from Fedora 33 to 34) by > > unplugging the old drive, installing a new system onto a spare drive. > > Getting it working, experimented around with it in a safe environment > > where no file was important. Reinstall if

Re: better back-up?

Tim: > > In either case, once you put any drive in a case (pun intended), you > > are reliant on that enclosure supporting SMART. Some USB enclosures do > > not, they are a barrier to direct access to the drive needed for SMART > > interrogation. home user: > Th

Re: Rebooting after power off

On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 09:08 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I have to push the switch ON/OFF of the PC to enter into > the booting process (the PC does not start by itself). > I though that it was may be due to a PC flat battery that I finally changed. > I checked the starting booting from

Re: better back-up?

On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 11:56 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I just use the recommended dist-upgrade option in dnf. It has never > failed me. I do of course have backups Just In Case. That's what > they're for. My experience with upgrading over the last version has always involved debugging som

Re: Running script after resuming suspend

On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 08:04 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I need to restart a process after suspend > > As root, I created an executable script in > /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep: I would have thought somewhere in /etc/systemd/ for user-created things. > case "$1/$2" in > pre/*) > ;

Re: better back-up?

On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 11:54 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The number one rule of backups: if it's not automated then it's a > problem, not a solution. I use Borg (via Borgmatic) in a nightly script > to backup what I care about. > > I've never lost data in this setup, but of course YMMV. Not

Re: better back-up?

Tim: > > Personally, I still have more faith in harddrives than SSDs for data. home user: > Why? I'm not skeptical; this is a sincere question. > > My sense is that with a hard drive, there's a real chance of getting > advance warning (via S.M.A.R.T.) when it'

Re: better back-up?

Tim: > > When looking at speeds, don't forget to check whether you're being > > quoted megabits or megabytes per second. home user: > 'B' (upper case) means bytes. > 'b' (lower case) means bits. > If I'm wrong, tell me! Correct, but doesn

Re: better back-up?

On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 21:05 -0600, home user via users wrote: > these have a read/write speed of about 180 MB/sec. That's too slow. When looking at speeds, don't forget to check whether you're being quoted megabits or megabytes per second. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1

Re: better back-up?

On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 08:27 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Just inserting a USB key in a Windows system changes something that > changes whole drive checksums. And a similar thing with Android phones. Plug something in, that you only intended to read from, and you can find that it's added do

Re: better back-up?

On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 15:36 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Also, the speed for LTO-9 (400MB/sec) is less than USB-3.2. It's yet one more reason why many backups are automated. They can be scheduled to do things all by themselves after hours, or during idle moments. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3

Re: better back-up?

Tim: > > For people that want to upgrade over the top and keep existing data > > (preferring to have to re-import from a backup), I think the simplest > > solution is a two drive PC. > > > > One drive is your OS and programs, the other drive is your data. home us

Re: better back-up?

On Thu, 2025-08-21 at 20:48 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I had one desktop only. A semi-annual OS upgrade pretty much destroyed > the OS. Subsequent attempts to re-install, then install, the OS wiped > out the rest of the hard drive. A local friend gave me a used desktop > (windows-10)

Re: better back-up?

On Thu, 2025-08-21 at 23:37 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Maybe the sdxc cards fill your requirements. > Most have a write protect switch It's not really an actual write protect, just a plastic tab that something in the reader looks for (same as floppy discs), it can be ignored, or falsely mis/detec

Re: better back-up?

On Thu, 2025-08-21 at 16:15 -0600, home user via users wrote: > * Something went wrong with a back-up to a USB-3.0 stick this past May. > Most everything was recovered, but not everything. I was told that the > stick itself was probably not what failed. There are a few other more > likely cau

Re: application finder

e a solution? Check that your bin directory is in your path. $ echo $PATH Check that scripts have the executable bit(s) set. Depending on file ownership, and who's running it, you may need the X bit set for all users. ls -l bin -rwxrw-r-x. 1 tim tim 222 Aug 30 2022 testingscript

Re: selinux relabel doesn't work anymore

On Thu, 2025-08-07 at 16:11 +, Joe Average wrote: > - is there a marker set somewhere indicating "filesystem is already > proper relabeled" ? Yes... But only in as much as "/.autorelabel" is deleted by the process when it's finished. There's no other **the drive is fine at the moment** flag

Re: OT: systemctl staus lines that show failed? How to clean?

Stephen Morris wrote: >> Just to test this on my system I issued the command >> "systemctl status * | grep -i fail in konsole Michael D. Setzer II: > Just a quick note: There is and issue with the use of the *. > Sometimes it replaces the * with the files that are in the current > directory rath

Re: non ascii character

On Sat, 2025-08-02 at 15:17 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue > editing this file you could corrupt this document. Is the warning giving you an unnecessary scare? Do you *need* it to be 7-bit ASCII? Almost everything handles 8

Re: automount

On Thu, 2025-07-24 at 10:20 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > "auto-mounted" versus manually mounted. This is not really an issue, > just trying to understand. Do a bit of searching for: fedora automounting udev rules and ignore the AI results, there's every chance that they're complet

Re: automount

Tim: >> Also, your message didn't say *how* you were auto-mounting. AutoFS? >> With or without /etc/fstab entries, etc? Patrick Dupre: > There is nothing in /etc/fstab > As I said, it just "automount" when I plug the USB SSD (like a key). Then most l

Re: automount

On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 22:19 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sdd1 34 32767 3273416M Microsoft reserved > /dev/sdd2 32768 1568767 1536000 750M Microsoft basic data > /dev/sdd31568768 11808767 1024

Re: Working with secureboot

On Wed, 2025-07-16 at 13:39 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > My understanding was that it was a new password entry Todd Zullinger's earlier post said: >> You should already have the key, which is stored at >> /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der. The "code" that >> GNOME provides is the

Re: Working with secureboot

On Tue, 2025-07-15 at 01:00 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Didn't get very far > :~# mokutil --import /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der > input password: > input password again: > Failed to enroll new keys Just in general, and WITHOUT (!) telling us the password, are you sure it'

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate for ext4 systems [SOLVED]

George N. White III wrote: > > > Circuit breakers were in a locked closet. Tim: > > Is that legal? How would you cut power in an emergency? George N. White III: > In emergency, leave the building and let professionals deal with it. I > suspect panels > were locked

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate for ext4 systems [SOLVED]

On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 10:49 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Circuit breakers were in a locked closet. Is that legal? How would you cut power in an emergency? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate

On Fri, 2025-07-04 at 23:33 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > About my issue. I do not want to hibernate, but just suspend. Then you do not need to make a swap partition (or file), only hibernate needs that. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UT

Re: sleep/suspend

On Fri, 2025-07-04 at 11:31 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Jul 4 11:01:41 Sappho systemd-logind[1868]: Error during inhibitor- > delayed operation (already returned success to client): Unit > sleep.target is masked. I don't know if that line in your log (with sleep.target is masked) in i

Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

On Tue, 2025-07-01 at 11:38 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > I have a strange problem in that many of the fonts on firefox look > weird and unreadable: an example is at https://ibb.co/bjCGrZNm (This > is a website https://plumz.me/archives/14050/ I found out when I > searched on DDG with th

Re: evince crashes X server

On Wed, 2025-07-02 at 12:08 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > I see I have some Xorg updates to install, and that's running in the > background now. I'll test again afterwards. I installed all the updates available to me, and my system still works fine, so no change at my side. -

Re: evince crashes X server

On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 09:40 +1000, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > Fedora 42 updated regularly, recently 5 days ago. > > $ uname -a > Linux e7.eyal.emu.id.au 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun > 19 15:00:25 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux tim@fluffy:~$ uname -a Linu

Re: hibernate

On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 15:01 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > My laptop does not hibernate. > systemctl status sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target > hybrid-sleep.target It might have been a good idea to show us the results... > Then > > systemctl hibernate > > But it is still r

Re: evince crashes X server

ome Xorg updates to install, and that's running in the background now. I'll test again afterwards. On an old CentOS box (with the same motherboard) I get: [tim@rocky ~]$ grep drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 49375.908] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 49375.963] (II)

Re: Post upgrade

On Sat, 2025-06-28 at 15:43 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > How can I recover the list of packages which have been removed? I'd try dnf history -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC w

Re: network configuration

Patrick Dupre: > > I guess that it is waht I want. > > But I do not see this option of profile, or save profile in NM Marco Moock: > It is called connection. You can create one in nm-connection-editor and > set the values you want. > > Then you can bring them up or down with nmcli or via the GUI

Re: F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

On Fri, 2025-06-27 at 13:47 -0500, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: > Tangential, but have you looked at: > > https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_42&p=mail&f=1 > > The guy who runs that site does a pretty amazing job of telling you > *what* to do. He doesn't tell you anything about th

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

Samuel Sieb: >>> How are you trying to mount it? Tim: >> Plugging it in and trying to mount it like any other USB stick. Samuel Sieb: > How exactly and what happened? Plugging it in, and seeing if something turned up in the file browser, as usually happens when plugging in

creating install media for Fedora server (42)

Is it no-longer possible to use dd to write an install ISO to a flashdrive, or is there something wrong with the ISO (which passes the checksum tests)? If I do this command: [root@rocky fedora42]# dd if=Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-42-1.1.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress 2923241984 bytes (2.9 GB) co

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 22:34 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I used to encounter this on occasion when I refreshed my desktop to > one with 64GB of RAM. My take was, the cache manager could hold a lot > more in RAM before [asynchronously] flushing the write to disk. > > Try adding a `sync` to the co

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

Tim: >> And it can't be mounted. Samuel Sieb: > How are you trying to mount it? Plugging it in and trying to mount it like any other USB stick. I ended up burning a DVD and installing from that. So, now, it's just an mental exercise to figure out why it didn't want to w

Re: Fedora 42 fonts problem.

On Sat, 2025-06-21 at 08:35 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI > This might help. Welcome to the world where computer geeks did everything wrong... For years we specified computer font sizes in pixels, and pixels meant exactly one thing (the dots that mad

Re: USB BluRay Drive Wrongly Identified

On Fri, 2025-06-20 at 01:51 +, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > I have a BluRay drive that used to work with Fedora. I haven't used > it for a while, but tried it today, and it's being treated as a SCSI > drive. As a result, k3b (say) reports that it can't find an optical > drive. Similarly, asun

Re: Community support?

On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 10:54 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > My "From:" address always comes back as "Community > support for Fedora users". Is this on purpose? > If not, is there a way to get my name on it instead? Your actual address is included as a CC, so people can directly reply to yo

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Mon, 2025-06-16 at 09:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > What format do you prfefer? > > Re: SOLVED - waterfox rpms? > SOLVED Re: - waterfox rpms? > Re: waterfox rpms? = SOLVED > > Or just anywhere? Don't type things in front of RE: you get weird behaviour with some mail cl

Re: local network

efully. Tim: >> If the network is configured well, it's not random assignment. But >> checking what device is connected, whichever port it's on, and >> giving that device a particular IP you want it to always use. > This is the default configuration of the

Re: local network

On 6/14/25 10:04 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > USB device > > 10.42.0.254 > > | <-- Top half in same IP range > > | as themselves (first three > > 10.42.0.1

Re: local network

On Sat, 2025-06-14 at 20:28 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I tried to fix a small issue that I have. > PC A is connected to internet through a USB port. > This PC A has 2 RJ45 cards, connected to 2 PC: B and C. > Both interface are in shared to other computers > > The problem is this one.

Re: After upgrade to F42, mutt + postfix no longer able to send email

Tim: > > Actually list them individually. You'll most likely find that one of > > them is a binary, and the others are symlinks to it. Ranjan Maitra: > Thanks, here you go: > > $ ll /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 32K May 8 19:00 /usr/bin/s

Re: After upgrade to F42, mutt + postfix no longer able to send email

On Wed, 2025-06-11 at 21:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Interestingly, the F42 machine has: > $ locate sendmail.postfix > /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix > /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix > /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix Actually list them individually. You'll most likely find that one of them is

Re: After f40->f42 upgrade, NAT is not set up.

Tim: > > So far as I'm aware, NAT has never been set up automatically, you > > always had to set it up in some way. Joe Zeff: > If you really need NAT, you probably need a router, and that's one of > the things are good at. In general, I'd agree it's the si

Re: After f40->f42 upgrade, NAT is not set up.

On Fri, 2025-06-06 at 20:45 +1000, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > After looking everywhere, and digging into my iptables rules and > such, I discovered that NAT is not being set up. > > I added a rule to my firewall script > iptables-legacy -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE > eth

Re: ssh forward agent

Bob Marčan: >>> BTW, it's "sudo -i" Tim: >> No, it's not. When I said I typed "su -" I meant that I typed "su -". Chris Adams: > Which is what "sudo -i" does, without the superfluous "su -". And you > can use &quo

Re: ssh forward agent

Tim: >>>> Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use >>>> sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing. If I have to do a series of >>>> things, I will "su -" and do them all as root. It's just too tedious Bo

Re: ssh forward agent

poc: >> "sudo bash" will not run the login resources. Bob Marčan: > That's exactly what I want. "su" without the dash after it will do that, too. But horses for courses applies (*you* do what *you* need). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 202

Re: ssh forward agent

Tim: >>> Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use >>> sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing. If I have to do a series of >>> things, I will "su -" and do them all as root. It's just too tedious >>> to d

Re: ssh forward agent

On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 11:50 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > passwordless sudo seems quite risky to me (and seems to defeat the > purpose of sudo). Yes, and no... If I "sudo something" the password I'm going to type is my own, which I already know. Though it does offer an "are you sure" m

Re: systemd-automount

Barry: >> The options include noauto François Patte: > Thank you for this remark! I changed to auto and and it doesn't go up > either I wonder if your network is up and ready for use by this stage. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_6

Re: iso from usb stick

On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 06:52 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a functioning/bootable USB drive. I want to make an > ISO out of it but do not want the extra space included > that dd gives I think you'd have to play with sizing: Shrink the partition of the working drive down to what it

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 20:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Also see > > and the section, "Configure a Virtual Host for the domain". When following such instructions, you have to be careful about the choice of where y

Re: iso from usb stick

On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 07:47 +, Oliver Ava wrote: > To install an ISO from a USB stick, you’ll need to use a tool like > Rufus or BalenaEtcher to make the USB bootable—just copying the ISO > file won’t work. Neither of them are anything I've heard of. Certainly, you can't just copy the ISO fil

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

Barry: >>> My guess is because almost everyone uses VirtualHost sections. Todd Zullinger: > > And chage the file there means you now have to track future > > changes to it yourself rather than picking them up via the > > normal package updates. Michael D. Setzer II: > Don't understand this? Looke

Re: Getting "gpg: WARNING: No valid encryption subkey left over." sometimes running dnf

Michael D. Setzer II: > dnf install /usr/bin/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey Installed it. > /usr/bin/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey --dry-run Did a test run, that should show you what it would do, but not actually do it (that dry-run option) > /usr/bin/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey Actually ran it. > When I ran it cleane

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 15:19 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > To reduce the size of Certificate Revocation List (CRL), and recover > quickly from a compromised host. Conventional wisdom is, browsers > don't download CRLs or OCSP, so a short validity closes the gap in > browser behavior. That's the fi

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 09:53 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > If so, it looks to be entirely optional: > > Our longer-lived certificates, which currently have a > lifetime of 90 days, will continue to be available > alongside our six-day offering. Subscribers will be able > to opt in

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

Samuel Sieb: > > If you want a recognized certificate, you either have to buy one or you > > can use certbot to get a free one from https://letsencrypt.org/. You > > need to remember to renew it regularly. I think they're valid for 3 > > months at a time. That's what I use. Patrick O'Callagh

Re: dvd contents show in chinese

On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 17:28 +, Amadeus WM via users wrote: > I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school > years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine > under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in > Chinese (

Re: f40->f42 upgrade conflict: /usr/sbin/rhino vs /usr/bin/rhino

On Sun, 2025-05-18 at 23:55 +1000, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > I still wonder which package actually uses rhino as everything seems > to work after I removed it. There are tools for discovering what files belong to which package, and what dependencies there are. But... You may find that a too

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem[SOLVED]

On Sat, 2025-05-17 at 19:20 +0200, François Patte wrote: > The problem was not fedora updates but systemd-resolved.service when > DoT is activated. I can't say why! > I needed to use dns servers configured with DoT, so I activated this > service in systemd-resolved.service and firefox and thunderb

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

Tim: >> In the end I used the server install, it used a different method of >> booting up (I don't recall the details, just that it's not the same). >> Then installed a desktop, post-install. I'll probably have to do the >> same thing when I get around

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 16:53 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Got the left port to boot F38, but not F42. > I reenabled UEFI secure boot and Boot Menu seems to list it. > When I press enter, instead of booting, > it does not complain, it just takes me to Startup Menu. > Round and round I go. I just

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 00:07 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I finally found this: > http://www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05166986.pdf > Still do not know what to do. > Cannot get either F38 or F42 to boot. > Legacy Boot Order was grayed out until I found > Secure Boot Disable/Legacy Boot Enable. > I thi

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 21:12 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I burned a DVD. > cmp says the DVD is good. > Test and boot fails. > Boot without testing succeeds so far as I can tell. > Not sure whether installing from it is a good idea. The last time I installed Fedora (40, I think) I had to use th

Re: F42 Server Installer problems

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with > the windows manager for 1.2T free space. > > Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for > custom install won't enable. Only the

Re: is xroach safe?

On Sat, 2025-05-10 at 01:40 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a rather large monitor. I can't find my mouse at > times. I just installed oneko and the kitty chases the > mouse as you described. It is actually very helpful. On Mate, there's an option that if I hit the CTRL key the mo

Re: is xroach safe?

Tim: > > Another desktop toy I remember was Meko. It was a kitten that'd chase > > your mouse pointer around. Then sit down and clean itself when the > > mouse was idle, and fall asleep. Samuel Sieb > "oneko". That one is in Fedora. Yes, I realised I got

Re: is xroach safe?

ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Any way to tell if this is infected or just a fun game? (I used it > years ago on Solaris. Total fun.) > > https://fedora.pkgs.org/41/rpm-sphere-x86_64/xroach-12.6.97-2474.1.x86_64.rpm.html > I always thought of it more of a prank than a game, considering that you

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment

On Sat, 2025-05-10 at 06:50 +0300, Earl Ramirez wrote: > I don't use Deepin but I find this a bit interesting and would like > to share it with those that use it. > > https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/opensuse_ditches_deepin/ I was always surprised that a Chinese desktop gained any traction

Re: [SOLVED] suppose I remove nvidia card?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > "avoid all these problems"?? Note, I said "Unlike many reports I've > never had problems or reasons to switch." > > There may be some advantage to the downloading packages provided by > the distribution rather than by rpmfusion but my rose

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 16:05 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am still trying to figure out a way to get customers to > actually read their backup report. I put the freakin' > statues in their eMail's subject line. They don't ever > have to read the body. But no. Can't be bother

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 03:51 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Quick fixes if your Firefox slows down, > . Hmm, just looked at some of that, there was a bit of a how to tie your shoelaces feel to it. -- uname -rsvp Linu

Re: Resolving names

On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 08:21 -0500, Patrick Dohman wrote: > Sorry it seems that a pet alligator is actually a lot of work ;) LOL, quite an apt description -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailb

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 22:26 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Since last update, my firefox and thunderbird are going more and more > slowly: they take 3 mn to start, when I click on a link in a mail it > takes about 2 mn to get it in firefox (which is already started). > > firefox 137.0 thunderbir

Re: recovering back-up.

Tim: >> There is a "ddrescue" tool with that kind of thing in mind. home user > Having looked at the man page, I couldn't make sense of how I should use > these for this situation. See if this page is any different from what you've read, then try discussing

Re: recovering back-up.

On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 21:12 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a > USB 3 stick. Too late now, but never consider a USB stick as a back-up. It's flakey technology. I only use them as sneakernet tech. I don't know if "dd" can b

Re: Resolving names

Tim: >>> If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that >>> would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: >>> >>> option domain-name "internal."; >>> >>> It's going by proper standards that a domain name

Re: Resolving names

Follow-up... On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 11:53 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that > would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: > > option domain-name "internal."; > > It's going by proper standar

Re: Resolving names

Tim: > > You could certainly whack ".internal" onto the end of your hostnames to > > make up a FQDN without issues. And even though it's a long thing to > > type, you can make use the search domain feature so it's configured > > into the networking pa

Re: Resolving names

Samuel Sieb: >> That shouldn't work. A name without a domain isn't valid. You >> need to set things up so there's a domain (and don't use >> local!). You can have a default domain, so that bare names will >> automatically be tried with the default domain. Javier Perez: > Sorry. It works. I do

Re: securing this workstation.

Tim: > > I do suppose that more than one of us should have noticed it and told > > the original poster about it. > > > > I skimmed over it and didn't really notice it. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Not really my point. AFAIK billi...@negate.org said he's un

Re: Postfix

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 14:50 +0300, jarmo wrote: > systemctl status postfix > ○ postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; disabled; > preset: disabled) > Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d > └─10-timeout-a

Re: Postfix

Tim: > > Bearing in mind that even *then* there have been cases of the network > > not actually being up and running before being declared it was. I'm > > beginning to think we need either a post-boot target, or at least an > > improvement on the network is up decisio

Re: Postfix

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 16:12 +0200, Benny Lyne Amorsen wrote: > The recommended solution is to trigger service start off incoming > connections, if possible. This is less ideal for things like Postfix > which might need to send traffic before they receive it. On this computer we don't break the law

Re: securing this workstation.

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 11:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You seem to be blaming the list for the user's alleged mistakes. I > don't see the logic. I do suppose that more than one of us should have noticed it and told the original poster about it. I skimmed over it and didn't really notice

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