Re: MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/20/24 3:35 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed.  So, I decided to

MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-20 Thread Tim Evans
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to reboot. Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre-installed and an empty second HDD. I

Re: F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-19 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/17/24 11:40 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail.  That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx

F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-17 Thread Tim Evans
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx'.) External mail is handled by my hosting

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-05-09 13:59, Tim Evans wrote: Since (I think) the gnome-software app is flat-pack based, have I messed anything up by running its upgrade instead of the dnf/rpm-based one? There are no flatpacks installed by default.  The gnome-software app

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 4:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-05-09 12:50, Tim Evans wrote: Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade.  'dnt clean' does not remove these. dnf system-upgr

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, The key is automatically imported when followin

Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade. 'dnt clean' does not remove these. Is it safe to manually clear out this subdirectory? (FWIW, I tried the now-recommended GUI

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/26/24 16:21, Beartooth wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote: It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? If you know the path

Re: Failed to start jobs message from today's F39 update

2024-03-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/13/24 14:42, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/13/2024 12:33 PM, Mike Wright wrote: I couldn't find any way to pass grep options to -g but grep itself has -A and -B for showing "n" number of lines After or Before the matched context. If you need to pass options to grep, consider piping the output

Re: star office

2024-02-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/22/24 16:40, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: No to ask too stupid a question, but do we have an RPM of Star Office in the repos? Seems like we have the libraries, but not the main program # dnf list | grep -i star | grep -i office libstaroffice.x86_64  0.0.7-11.fc39 @fedora StarOffice is

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-21 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/20/24 08:57, Tim Evans wrote: On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:     The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;     httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompt

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing; httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompted to log in to the server a

New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but wanted a broader look ] I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the existing backups). The old server wrote its data (including

Print Errors with HP-1300 LaserJet

2024-02-16 Thread Tim Evans
Recently connected a very old HP-1300 LaserJet printer to my Fedora 39 workstation, via USB cable. CUPS found and configured the printer as "HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended)." Print jobs are okay, but with every job I get an extra page, with the following error message

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-09 Thread Tim Evans
, it On 12/8/23 12:56, Tim Evans wrote: Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS). Now, with a brand new laptop, with fresh install

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/8/23 13:18, John Mellor wrote: btrfs send?  Its very similar in operation to zfs send on Solaris and Freebsd.  The data stream can be pushed over ssh to another machine running btrfs receive pretty easily.  Maybe follow

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/8/23 13:16, Roger Heflin wrote: I use rsync with a --backup-dir=/${DIR}/backup/${MONTH}/${DIRDATE}/ and a bunch of --excludes for directories/files that I don't need backed up. Thanks, Roger. Actually, I have a dim recollection of having set up a thing called 'rnsapshot' to a NAS

btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS). Now, with a brand new laptop, with fresh install using btrfs filesystems, I find 'dump'

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/2/23 15:48, Tim Evans wrote: Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce

Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Tim Evans
Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows partition to

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/21/23 20:12, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/10/23 21:59, Neal Becker wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 7:46 PM Tim Evans wrote: On 10/10/23 18:38, Tim Evans wrote: > Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for > the past week or so, h

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/10/23 18:38, Tim Evans wrote: Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome.  Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the latest version (google-chrome-stable-115.0.5790.11

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/10/23 19:11, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Tim Evans said: Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the latest versi

Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the latest version (google-chrome-stable-115.0.5790.110-1.x86_64). If you click this button, it tells

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-24 Thread Tim Evans
On 8/24/23 17:01, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, I want remote siblings to be able to upload large numbers of photos from their iPhones (using my existing ZeroTier network as the preferred connection mechanism) to my Fedora server or Fedora workstation - so I can do a lot of

Re: Off topic -- but a slow list day

2023-08-02 Thread Tim Evans
On 8/2/23 13:35, bruce wrote: Hi. Doing some research on email list providers?. Most seem to charge based on emails sent, as well as the size of the contact/email list. Does anyone have any experience dealing with any of these providers? And, if you do, does anyone have any pointers to "cheap"

Re: Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-31 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/30/23 22:45, John Mellor wrote: You don't mention what GUI is installed.  Assuming that you are using the default Wayland and not X, per a recommendation from one of the Fedora people, I installed thunderbird-wayland package and then changed the app startup to use thunderbird-wayland

Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-29 Thread Tim Evans
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue. When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first.

Re: nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/4/23 14:37, Neal Becker wrote: Just updated my server F37->F38.  The display doesn't start (black screen after boot). journalctl shows many messages like: May 04 14:32:00 nbecker8 kernel: nouveau :01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of FAULT at 616330 [ PRIVRING ] nouveau?  This was

Re: Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 4/26/23 17:13, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:21 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: Tim Evans wrote: This was an in-place dnf upgrade. The existing setting in Gnome shouldn't have been changed, right? The default did change which affects the gdm user. Unless you're logged

Re: Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 4/26/23 14:12, Barry wrote: On 26 Apr 2023, at 19:04, Tim Evans wrote: Upgraded my firewall machine F37->F38 today, with no apparent errors or issues... EXCEPT that I found it on power suspend twice in the first hour after finishing the upgrade. Checked power settings and fo

Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
Upgraded my firewall machine F37->F38 today, with no apparent errors or issues... EXCEPT that I found it on power suspend twice in the first hour after finishing the upgrade. Checked power settings and found "Automatic Suspend" ON and set to 15 minutes' idle time.

Re: F37 - dnf update error

2023-04-25 Thread Tim Evans
On 4/25/23 08:21, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Still no fix on this. How do I notify the proper people about this?  For me, it is gthumb that is triggering the dependency. As someone else pointed out: # dnf -y --exclude='*heif*' update ___ users

Re: Chattering Keyboard?

2023-03-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/5/23 14:36, Tim Evans wrote: $ uname -a Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar  3 17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Looks  like I have a chattering keyboard.  Idle terminal looks like someone's repeatedly hitting .  Ditto on virtual terminal

Chattering Keyboard?

2023-03-05 Thread Tim Evans
$ uname -a Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 3 17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Looks like I have a chattering keyboard. Idle terminal looks like someone's repeatedly hitting . Ditto on virtual terminal. keystrokes being duplicated in

Re: WiFi flakiness after recent upgrades

2022-03-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/20/22 10:50, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I have an elderly Dell XPS 13 laptop (L321x); it seems that after a recent software upgrade, the Wifi has become intermittant. As a fallback, I have a USB ethernet connection to cabled switch that is delivering steadily. All other wifi

Re: View HEIC format photes?

2022-02-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/4/22 08:31, Todd Chester via users wrote: Hi All, Does Fedora have a viewer that will import an Apple HEIC format photo? Imagemagick https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Hundreds of These on Recent F35 Kernel Updates

2021-12-16 Thread Tim Evans
Have noticed hundreds and hundreds of messages like this over the past two or three F35 kernel updates (via dnf): hardlink: cannot link /usr/src/kernels/5.15.7-200.fc35.x86_64+debug/./net/mptcp/Kconfig to /usr/src/kernels/5.15.5-200.fc35.x86_64+debug/./net/mptcp/Kconfig.hardlink-temporary:

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/23/21 13:58, Roger Heflin wrote: This is the magic decoder ring web page. The most recent cards that I think were kicked out are anything with a GK* in the code name (kepler). So any kepler cards seem to stop at 470.X. And GF* stopped a while ago at 340 I think. If your card just

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 19:32, Ed Greshko wrote: Actually, the exclude was needed when the akmod-nvidia-340xx package was in the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.  Without the exclude the akmod-nvidia-340xx would get downgraded to the broken version. I just removed the exclude from my configuration

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 18:59, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/21 3:36 PM, Tim Evans wrote: exclude=akmod-nvidia Why do you want to exclude that if you have an akmod-nvidia package installed?  Don't you want to get updates? As we have been discussing, older Nvidia cards aren't supported with current drivers

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 17:42, Ed Greshko wrote: If akmod-nvidia-340xx installed and works.  Check /var/cache/akmods/akmods.log for output such as All good. It would be exclude=akmod-nvidia-340xx Great, thanks. ___ users mailing list --

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 16:47, Ed Greshko wrote: GeForce GT 730 is supported by akmod-nvidia-340xx. I am not sure if this has been pushed to rpmfusion-nonfree.  But the version that works with the newer kernels is nvidia-340xx-kmod-340.108-15.fc35. You may have to "dnf

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/13/21 11:10, Ed Greshko wrote: To switch back to nouveau, just "dnf erase akmod-nvidia-39xx". This will revert the changes to the linux boot parameters. # dnf remove akmod-nvidia-470.74-1.fc35.x86_64 Dependencies resolved.

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/13/21 10:01, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 13, 2021, at 09:52, Tim Evans wrote: What would be the process to do this, Ed? That is, how to switch from Nvidia to nouveau? You don’t need to do anything. That’s what is installed by default, and is part of the Linux kernel. Thanks

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/13/21 09:15, Ed Greshko wrote: On 13/11/2021 22:07, Robert McBroom via users wrote: The other alternative is to use the nouveau driver. What would be the process to do this, Ed? That is, how to switch from Nvidia to nouveau? Thanks. ___

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 9/15/21 10:19 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was 78.something.) Some are just annoying; one is major. First, annoying. Starting a new message, the Send

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-16 Thread Tim Evans
On 9/16/21 15:41, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 17/09/2021 01:52, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 9/16/21 12:55 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: >>> What exactly do you mean by "I'm set up"? >>> If a compose an original new message to >>> not-myself-but-to-valid-em

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-16 Thread Tim Evans
e and (2) on a reply, the Send button is greyed out, but clearing Bcc doesn't do anything to the Send button. In BOTH cases, the Send button--whether it appears active or not--does nothing. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
d messages; address auto-complete fails, so the address book data would appear to be inaccessible. Perhaps version 91 did some conversion on the old address book that can't be reversed by downgrading. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 9/15/21 8:19 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >> I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came >> down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was >> 78.something.)

Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
be opened for browsing. FLASH: after all this Send totally fails, even though button appears active, so this saved draft was called up and sent from phone. -- Tim Evans|5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ use

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Evans
. That sounds superficially similar to Android's A/B system update method. Is there work being done on getting this into Fedora? Sounds like Sun's Live Update, circa 2002. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864| Owings Mills, MD 21117

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Evans
thing has just come up in the past week or 10 days, so wonder if something has changed in packagekit? And, FWIW, I fought and lost my first UNIX/Windows battle 30 years ago. sorry to have crossed into this No Man's Land once again... -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court 443

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim Evans
/hughsie/2019/02/14/packagekit-is-dead-long-live-well-something-else/ What's the benefit of letting packagekit chew up CPU here, even if I implement the limits Chris suggests? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117

packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-21 Thread Tim Evans
on with the system other than Thunderbird e-mail and Chrome browser. This seems to go on, with CPU percentage growing over time, and it rebooting cures this, but it comes back after the system has slept overnight (lid closed). packagekit is gnome-packagekit-common-3.32.0-7.fc34.x86_64 -- Tim

Re: IP-routing fails after upgrade F33->F34

2021-06-12 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/29/21 12:54 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/4/21 8:33 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: Hi All, I'm using one of my Fedora machines as a router between 2 networks. The two network devices on the machine are called enp0s25 and tun0. On F33 it worked as expected. However, after an upgrade to F34 It looks

Re: IP-routing fails after upgrade F33->F34

2021-05-29 Thread Tim Evans
, have you resolved this? Anyone else seen it? Wanting to upgrade my F33 router/NAT/firewall system. Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864

Re: Trying to set up samba SERVER

2021-05-18 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/18/21 12:44 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: @Dell-Studio ~]# systemctl start smb.service Failed to start smb.service: Unit smb.service not found. Indeed smb.service is not in /usr/lib/systemd/system systemctl enable... -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394

Re: IP-routing fails after upgrade F33->F34

2021-05-07 Thread Tim Evans
, when you say "upgrade to F34," by what means did you do the upgrade? Specifically, did you: # dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=34 # dnf system-upgrade reboot Or did you use some other method? -- Tim Evans | 5 Ches

Re: systemd-resolved floods the logs

2021-01-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 1/5/21 11:10 AM, Jerome Lille wrote: This machine uses a VPN service that is always on. The file /etc/resolver.conf has just one line with the nameserver from the VPN You do mean /etc/resolv.conf, right? -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court

'smbclient' Crashing on Fedora 33

2020-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
shell then prompted me to file a bugzilla, which I have done. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900232 "[abrt] samba-client: remove_do_list_queue_head(): smbclient killed by SIGSEGV") Anybody have further suggestions, please? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut

Re: Thunderbird changes to tree view - added icons taking up space

2020-10-12 Thread Tim Evans
ector style"? Just takes up screen space and distracting.  Anyone know how to turn these off? +1 -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing lis

Re: Extensions Panel on Gnome Menu Doesn't Do Anything--SOLVED

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/4/20 10:44 AM, Tim Evans wrote: The drop-down gnome shell menu in F32 (upper right hand corner of the desktop) has a new "Extensions" panel now.  It's very prominent, with an extra large @-like icon. Unfortunately, it does nothing other than change from black to blue whe

Re: Extensions Panel on Gnome Menu Doesn't Do Anything

2020-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/4/20 11:54 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:45 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: The drop-down gnome shell menu in F32 (upper right hand corner of the desktop) has a new "Extensions" panel now.  It's very prominent, with

Extensions Panel on Gnome Menu Doesn't Do Anything

2020-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
thing else? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: Move files into storage device -

2020-04-04 Thread Tim Evans
connections. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: Password trouble

2020-02-24 Thread Tim Evans
you wanted to change root's password. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis

Re: NFS not connecting -

2019-12-07 Thread Tim Evans
,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) /nfs4exports/data 192.168.2.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) My mount command:  [root@Workstation-1 bobg]# mount 192.168.2.128:home1 /media/nfs Wouldn't this be? mount 192.168.2.128:/nfs4exports/home1 /media/nfs -- Tim Evans

Re: Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen [SOLVED]

2019-11-21 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/20/19 1:51 PM, Tim Evans wrote: I reported this at the time I upgraded my two systems to F30, and find that it's still true with F31. On my main (desktop) machine, there are two users, one of which (me) is flagged as the administrative user; the other is a mere mortal.  My userid

Re: Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen

2019-11-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/20/19 2:27 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/19 10:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: While the extra click on "Not shown" is not a major big deal, I'm unable to figure out how to flip-flop the two userids on the systems so that the primary user appears on the login screen. What is t

Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen

2019-11-20 Thread Tim Evans
d userid is displayed as the default login on the login screen. While the extra click on "Not shown" is not a major big deal, I'm unable to figure out how to flip-flop the two userids on the systems so that the primary user appears on the login screen. Suggestions/discussion welcome.

Re: Samba broken pipe -

2019-07-26 Thread Tim Evans
will continue looking at permissions. Thanks for the response, Check your free disk space. I remember logins with similar errors from the olden days on AIX. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117

Iptables->Firewalld Upgrade: Really Necessary?

2019-07-19 Thread Tim Evans
firewalld looks very simple and quick. Why shouldn't I do it? If necessary, I can post an anonymized copy of the iptables ruleset on pastbin, but really looking for higher level advice. Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD

Re: GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-29 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/17/19 11:00 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have experienced similar issues with two different F29->F30 upgrades via dnf.  Although what happened wasn't identical on both upgrades, the results were the same: After upgrade/reboot, the GDM login screen does not show the primary (previously exist

nvidia-kmod Build Fails on Recent F30 Debug Kernels

2019-06-29 Thread Tim Evans
was skipped? Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Hplip.

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Evans
3, in _find_and_load File "", line 965, in _find_and_load_unlocked ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ui5' $ -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117

Re: GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-17 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/17/19 3:42 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 17.06.19 17:00, Tim Evans wrote: of flag, but they are apparently created on login, rather than being permanent.  On both systems the primary userid (UID 1000) is shown as: SystemAccount=true Have you checked /etc/login.defs? Thank you, Ulf. Don't

GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-17 Thread Tim Evans
Modification time on these files is same as the userid's last login, and manually changing the SystemAccount flag has no effect; it's set back on next login. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mi

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/15/19 12:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/19 8:59 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Yes, several times.  I have also successively: (1) restored the contents of /var/lib/AccountsService/users from my last F29 backup; (2) moved the newly created userid's file completely out of that directory; and (3

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/15/19 11:21 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/19 6:59 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/14/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:07 PM, Tim Evans wrote: # cat tkevans [User] Language= XSession= Icon=/home/tkevans/.face SystemAccount=true There's the problem, change that to false.  I wonder

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:07 PM, Tim Evans wrote: # cat tkevans [User] Language= XSession= Icon=/home/tkevans/.face SystemAccount=true There's the problem, change that to false.  I wonder if this is such an old install (originally) that the userid is below 1000

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 7:28 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:04 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/14/19 6:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Make sure you have the package "chrome-gnome-shell" installed. Now installed.  Have rebooted, and nothing changed.  While accesssing the extensions home page, Goo

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 5:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 1:25 PM, Tim Evans wrote: First (minor), after final reboot, I was forced to create a new user, which is now the default user on the login screen.  Existing userid is still there, accessible via the "not listed?" link. Everything

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 6:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 2:46 PM, Tim Evans wrote: The applications menu drop down is an (apparently-not-working-in-F30) Gnome extension.  Browsing to extensions.gnome.com generates "We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system" error. Gnome-twea

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 4:25 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Second (MAJOR), once logged into my normal account, the graphical desktop no longer shows an "Applications" drop-down; all I get is the "Places" dropdown with no immediate way to start applications. Answering myself... The applica

F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
. Do you want to search for an application to open this file?" Now, Alt-F2 brings up a window that says "Enter Command." Typing "xterm" or "thunderbird" or "google-chrome" into this box does start the application. (So, at

Re: Fedora 30 chuckle for the day

2019-05-02 Thread Tim Evans
hat's what it always meant the 47,000 times it happened to me :-). The classic one is of course: Not a typewriter -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing lis

Re: Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-25 Thread Tim Evans
/headers in place, I could force the module to build and it all worked great from there. It appears my "Solved" message from yesterday morning did not make it to the list. Here's what I wrote in response to francis.montag...@inria.fr > > Hi. > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 09

Re: Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-24 Thread Tim Evans
a-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64 Have I not installed all the required packages? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing lis

Re: Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/23/18 5:21 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/23/18 1:51 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Dec 22 22:21:38 osprey nvidia-settings-user.desktop[3812]: ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded I don't see why you have the "falling back to Nouveau" in the subject since I don't see that in the logs

Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-23 Thread Tim Evans
(/dev/input/event17) Dec 22 22:21:38 osprey nvidia-settings-user.desktop[3812]: ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded Is something missing? What else to look at? Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117

Re: OT: Xtra-PC?

2018-11-29 Thread Tim Evans
belive they even sell this thing. as others have mentioned... dd any linux or other... chromeos to a $10 usb stick and have at it So, has anybody stuffed a whole Raspberry Pi into a thumbdrive? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings

OT: Xtra-PC?

2018-11-29 Thread Tim Evans
Looking to help a family member extend the life of a failing laptop. This would appear to be a bootable device that essentially turns a PC into a ChromeBook-like thing. Anyone tried it? Worth $35? https://getxtra-pc.io/blog-turn-your-old-slow-computer-to-like-new-again/ Thanks. -- Tim Evans

Re: Plymouth/Graphical Startup Fails on F29

2018-11-11 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/11/18 4:38 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 10/11/18 23:39, Tim Evans wrote: On 11/10/18 3:12 PM, John Pilkington wrote: I don't have f29 experience, but if you have previously used a proprietary mVidia driver and want to use nouveau, I suggest reinstalling nouveau and trying again

Re: Plymouth/Graphical Startup Fails on F29

2018-11-10 Thread Tim Evans
, and they were working under F28. Does 'dnf' installing the Nvidia driver do all the kernel stuff that's involved? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users

Plymouth/Graphical Startup Fails on F29

2018-11-10 Thread Tim Evans
d Nouveau driver (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.15-6.fc29.x86_64) isn't working here. There are no Nvidia-specific drivers installed. Next steps? Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 __

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/7/18 5:52 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: This is the dismount part of my script: sync; sync umount $StickTarget Calling sync twice? Dates back at least (in my memory) to VAX 11/750, BSD 4.2 days. -- Tim Evans

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Tim Evans
drives which did 400GB in 8 hours. Try this: # cd /drive1 # find . -print -depth | cpio -pdm /drive2 -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864

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