On Sun, 2024-05-26 at 18:57 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> Try removing rhgb and quiet options from the kernel command line by edit it
> in grub.
> Do you see more information?
I can't see any reason to keep those options, at all. Unless you like
staring at a screen wondering what's going on while
Tim:
>> Is there a good write-up on this?
Andre Robatino:
> There's
> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gnome-suspends-after-15-minutes-of-user-inactivity-even-on-ac-power/79801
> which I have bookmarked.
>
Yes, I've seen that. I've already linked to it in this thread.
I meant that
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 18:37 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> This thread has been on before but I lost it. I need my system to run
> long simulations without my intervention. It keeps going to a reboot
> intermittently. The program has recovery that all is not lost with a
> shutdown
On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 09:49 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> These are the changes that I made to keep machine from not sleeping by the
> default setting.
> # cat /etc/systemd/sleep.conf
> # This file is part of systemd.
> #
> # systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 11:02 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> This smells of Captive Portal and MAC Randomizations.
I had a ISP-supplied router that behaved that way. I'd continuously
have to re-authenticate my phone with it. And I don't mean while going
around the house using it, you could spend
Tim:
>> For some networks, it's simply going to be the DHCP server assigning
>> you an IP to a MAC address it knows about (hardware details about your
>> network). This will get messed up if your hardware supplies random MAC
>> addresses each time it makes a connection.
Ranjan Maitra:
> I
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 17:32 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> I have a strange issue after upgrading a laptop (Dell XPS 13, 2013
> edition). That is that I am connected (whether through WiFi or
> ethernet cable) to a university network which claims after the
> upgrade that the laptop is no
Tim:
>> ISPs get a hard "NO" from me and have to be very forcefully moved
>> onto the next step on their script...
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Depends on the ISP. Mine (zen.co.uk), are a smallish outfit and their
> tech support is very good. Any time I've had to call them I've been
> able to quickly
Tim:
>> If it's an ISP-supplied one, it's a good chance that a hard reset
>> will return things to the ISP-configuration rather than manufacturer's
>> default. It's a risk, but that's the general way they work here
>> (supplied pre-configured to suit their little foibles).
Patrick O'Callaghan:
>
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 00:10 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> I would never suggest a hard reset of an internet modem since that is
> highly likely to require ISP intervention afterwards, if not a return
> and replacement.
If it's an ISP-supplied one, it's a good chance that a hard reset will
return
On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 00:33 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Now I don't see how that affects your inability to login to the router
In bridge mode it's virtually a pass-through from input to output as
direct as it can be, becoming just some kind of media converter (from
ISP using fibre/cable/DSL to
On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 18:13 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I had a stubborn laptop like you are describing. I bought it new. I
> could not update the UEFI or select a different boot device until I
> booted into Windows and updated Windows. My takeaway was... some OEMs
> seem to do some tying of
Tom Horsley:
> So, my question is: How to override DNS the same way, but only for
> my hardwired ethernet connection, while allowing me to disable that
> connection and use my hotspot in time of comcast outage?
>
> Heck, it would be even better if I could use both at the same time,
> the local
On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 21:40 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a fedora38 server with postfix-3.7.9 (although this problem
> has existed for a long time) that fails to start because I believe
> the server has multiple interfaces.
>
> ifconfig shows just the primary ethernet interface, but "ip addr"
On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 08:27 -0700, richard emberson wrote:
> Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question:
> "How to increase size of /boot partition"
> I had the same problem.
>
> As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, long time:
> "This type of layout and partition sizes is
On Mon, 2024-05-13 at 05:35 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> One of the other things I like about remote assistance
> software is that I can doodle on the screen. I love to
> make a YUGE red arrow to what they say does not exist
> on their screens. I love to hear them say "oh".
I hate
ToddAndMargo:
>> Anyone know of a source that gives the number of users of
>> Fedora vs CentOS vs RHEL?
George N. White III:
> Anyone can make up numbers. There may be good numbers for RHEL
> installations, but not numbers of users (at my former work lots of people
> had RHEL logins that were
On Wed, 2024-05-08 at 11:08 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
> It occurs to me that my new 'dual-boot' problems with F40 KDE might be
> related to this, but I'm not clear how I could test it. I've posted
> both here and on the kde list.
>
> I have two screen-devices, HDMI tv and vga monitor. By
On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as
> part of their network, and when handing out the same IP to a new
> host, re-uses the saved hostname.
I've yet to come across a home gateway that handles name
On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 22:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> "Support" isn't binary. I have a 10-year old MSI motherboard and get a
> slew of ACPI errors every time I boot. They don't seem to affect
> anything but they're there. I presume that a more modern mobo would
> have fewer of these, if
On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 08:28 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> Over the years, linux has had workarounds for hardware
> idiosyncrasies. I think some of those workarounds are being dropped
> or lost as support for newer hardware is added with new and improved
> code.
>
> You should not be
George N. White III:
> In some cases, "established behaviour" means text files using ASCII
> character sets, which creates problems for the majority of the world,
> and should be considered "broken". In this day and age, we need to
> pay attention to text encodings.
The notion of "plain
On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 21:20 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> If you are worried about missing a software package, you can make a
> list of installed rpms on the USB drive and use it to confirm the new
> install isn't missing anything that was on the USB.
When ever I did an install, any further packages I
Tim: (re xeyes)
>> My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those
>> mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure.
>> Well, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see what I was
>> doing with the mouse at any time.
Michael Hennebry:
>
Tim:
>>> Did that xv security issue get sorted out before the release?
Patrick:
>>AFAIK that was fixed almost immediately after it was announced.
Kevin Fenzi:
> You mean xz? xv was a pretty cool (but not open source) image viewer
> back in the day. :)
Yes, I did mean that. Oops...
> as far
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 16:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes?
My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those
mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure.
Well, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've updated to F40. Everything works as expected, (I don't have an
> Nvidia card at present so YMMV). I do have some comments on the new
> KDE/Plasma but I'll post on the Fedora KDE list after a bit more
> testing.
Did that xv
On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 19:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to
> implemented.
No xeyes? Who doesn't want a pair of googlie eyes goofily staring at
their mouse pointer?
Actually, I do have a pair of them on this PC, I
Joe Zeff:
>> In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never yet run across a .pdf
>> file that Linux's default viewer couldn't read. What is it about those
>> files that requires Windows to read?
George N. White III:
> a) fillable forms that explicitly say they must be completed using
On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 13:47 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
> However, given that absolutely everyone today has compute power
> on their desk and everyone has a gpu for things like compositing instead
> of what was available back when X was designed
Bullshit!
--
NB: All unexpected mail to my
Tim:
>> Let's be clear, we're not talking about annoying changes to how the
>> desktop looks, that can be put up with. But when you find essential
>> software and/or hardware doesn't work anymore, or doesn't exist
>> anymore, and support libraries are incompatible, that's a deal-breaker.
>>
>>
On Sun, 2024-04-14 at 09:49 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
> Then in corporate life, I needed to ensure a stable development
> environment.
This is one of the big problems with computers in the work place. You
may have single-task computers which you want to work, and not mess
around with. You may
On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 07:59 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> What I do see, though, is that we have both NetworkManager-wait-
> online and systemd-networkd-wait-online. Why do we need both of them?
>
> I simply disabled systemd-networkd-wait-online, and that seems to
> solve the problem.
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 23:20 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Perhaps more importantly, why can't that happen in the background? Why
> does gdm care if the network is connected?
It'd need to be *if* people are using a network share for their
homespace, or other "expected to be there" directories.
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 22:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've been made aware that it takes two minutes for systemd-networkd-wait-
> online.service to spin its wheels, before giving up with a squeal:
>
> Apr 09 22:03:30 shorty.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Starting
>
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 10:57 +0200, Walter H. via users wrote:
> always get 500
Loading that link is working fine here, too. I didn't try to log in,
though.
For what it's worth: Always put your *entire* message in the message
body, don't split it across the subject line and the message.
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On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 17:15 +, John Pilkington wrote:
> The rpmfusion nvidia howto says it may take 5 minutes to build. That's
> a long time to wait with no obvious progress during a reboot.
Many years ago I had to put up with that (different hardware now).
But, I didn't hide the textual
Tim:
>> Brute force and ignorance is a tried and tested method. Trying to be
>> clever with boot menus, and carefully selecting specific partitions
>> while installing, often goes awry. Not to mention the times you come
>> across an installer that only wants to do a full takeover of your
>>
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 17:58 +, Beartooth wrote:
> Sure enough, my own machine has (with apologies for formatting):
>
> btth@localhost:~$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> btth@localhost:/etc/yum.repos.d$ ls
> brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_.repo google-chrome.repo
>
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 16:41 +, Beartooth wrote:
> I normally have two or three browsers open. Most have been
> installed for so long I no longer remember what dnf calls them.
>
> My wife, who also runs F39, has been having trouble with the ones
> she has, and I have yet to
Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an
>> NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall
>> it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is
>> unchanged. Makes it a lot easier when I do the
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 11:45 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> You will almost certainly not be able to connect between devices on a
> commercial wifi network. They don't want folks to attack other machines
> on the network. It would be a huge scandal if a hotel allowed a guest to
> connect to
On Tue, 2024-03-19 at 09:00 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> But I will never buy another HP again. They screw you on the ink, and
> they are apparently using DRM so you can't use third party ink. Screw
> that. Never again.
It's a shame we can't override such shenanigans with custom drivers.
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It shortly became clear that the user experience of interacting with
> Discourse via email was significantly worse than a traditional mailing
> list, so a bunch of us set up a new list
> (evolution-us...@lists.osuosl.org) where we
Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums):
> why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you
> when there's a reply?
Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email
notification? Essentially you get a "someone left you a message"
message, no details on what the
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:32 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> However, realize that you spend a long time setting all that up.
> The subscriptions, filtering, how things look in your email client, etc.
> For someone new or just wanting to ask a question or two, lists are
> horrible.
I say forums
Thomas Cameron:
>> I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
>> forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Joe Zeff:
> Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
> them do you actually need to look at each day?
Firstly, I thoroughly agree with all of
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +, Barry wrote:
> The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
> these days.
I flatly refuse to use webforums. They're extremely inconvenient.
Email comes to me, I can go through it in my spare time as I see fit.
Websites waste my
** *
* **
some tumbleweeds drift through
So, is everything working fine, or did a new release break everyone's
systems so badly they can't email any more? ;-)
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Tim:
>> A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
>> still remaining and handle it itself.
Joe Zeff:
> And how do you suggest that it detects it?
Other programs manage it, dunno what's so magic about it. It's not a
problem that *I* need to solve.
After a reboot, cron &/or
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in the
> ".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file
> "192.168.1.218:+7103". Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start.
Software really ought to
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 08:54 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Every once in a while, Thunderbird just loses its mind. No idea why. But
> I will generally just rename my ~/.thunderbird directory to something
> like ~/.thunderbird.old and launch Thunderbird again.
Is Thunderbird one of those apps
Tim:
>> I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB
>> sticks.
Go Canes:
> Once upon a time you could use "plop boot manager" to boot off of USB
> devices if the motherboard didn't provide support. Of course this
> meant that you had to have something that could boot plop,
Samuel Sieb (re: lost & found directory):
> That directory is also special. There might be consequences for
> recreating it. I don't know if it's accessed by name or inode.
I would imagine there'd have to be reserved space in the partition so
it doesn't otherwise fill up 100% making it
Tim:
>> I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then?
home user:
> That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and
> incomplete.
>
> I installed windows-7 first, probably from a CD purchased from a
> local (near Washington, D.C) store.
>
> Then using either a CD
On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 13:58 -0700, home user wrote:
> No other computer.
> No live boot. Tried making one multiple times with multiple sticks
> and multiple ports. Even a local youngish professional programmer
> (specializing in embedded and micro) could not figure it out.
I'm curious how you
On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 07:43 -0500, Tim Evans 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 admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error:
>
> "Service Unavailable
>
On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 22:04 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> I expect it's that motherboard firmware knows how to activate two kinds
> of input devices - PS/2 via the emulation of the legacy chips that date
> back to the 1980s, and USB. A PCIe device is neither of those. It's
> not just a matter of
ToddAndMargo:
> Just found this on their web site:
>
> "***Don't support CMOS or MS-DOS"
>
> Even if it did not arrive dead, it would have still
> required the OS to boot. Lesson learned.
>
From what I'd read, that ought to be the case with any PCI-E based
card. Apparently the slots
Tim:
>> I'm kind of surprised someone still has PS/2 keyboard/mouse that they'd
>> like to keep using.
ToddAndMargo:
> One word. It is a "Unicomp". Best typist keyboard ever made.
I was always partial to the IBM Selectric typewriter keyboards. But,
these days, I'm using $30 mechanical gaming
On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 20:22 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> I too would much rather have a working PCIe card, though I have found
> USB-to-PS/2
> dongles generally more reliable. I haven't bought one in over a decade, so
> can't
> recommend against any in particular that don't work.
*Some* of those
On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 19:05 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> What is updating files without a command and writing these entries?
Had you done any manual updates anytime before you shutdown? Perhaps
they were completing their install.
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uname -rsvp
Linux
DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Wasn't the original quote "With great power there must also come
>> great responsibility" ?
José Matos:
> Yes, and it first appeared in the comics before the movies. :-)
It's a wee bit older than that...
"Voltaire, the French author first coined the phrase “with great power
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 20:21 -0700, home user wrote:
> A footnote leads me to believe that a tool "H2testw" could detect bad
> sticks and maybe fix them.
I wouldn't trust any ability to "fix" them. If they've faked the size
identification, they'd have no qualms about selling reject memory
chips,
On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 08:12 +, Strahil Nikolov via users wrote:
> I do control the DHCP and the DNS servers in my network and I did
> manage to make the DHCP stop proposing 'domain-search' and yet
> NetworkManager (after OKD update and my interventions with
> /etc/resolv.conf systemd-resolved
On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 07:31 +, Strahil Nikolov via users wrote:
> That's true but right now I have no control over OpenShift/OKD
> behavior.
Bug report... If it's a software fault, they may fix it. If it's not,
they may point out where a configuration problem is.
> I even managed to make
Thomas Cameron:
>> I'm reading articles saying procmail is dangerous and unmaintained
>> (https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/).
Wolfgang Pfeiffer:
> Quote from the page above - seems to be old and, to put it mildly,
> wrong:
> "procmail is unmaintained. The "Final
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 15:50 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Well, I am a BOFH, you know. Letting him find out the hard way was the
> easiest way to get rid of the git, especially when you consider that the
> tech he connects to when he calls back to clean up his mess won't be
> anywhere near as
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:57 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller who wanted to know
> if he could use MS Home Web Server (I think it was) to set up a
> website. (If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be doing it.) I
> tried to explain the risks,
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 00:02 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Add to injury, if they get hacked and they pencil
> whipped, they become responsible for all costs
> involved. Telling them that their grandchildren
> will need lawyers does not phase them.
You would think that "you hate your
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 16:39 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I needed a password eight characters long
> I picked "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
>
> Okay, that was a "Dad Joke" but it probably is a really
> strong password and easy to remember. I recommend run on
> phrases to my
ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Multi-Factor Authentication is a technique to try to get around
>> the users response to the obnoxious nature of passwords.
>> Whether or not it improves things or just manages to
>> further annoy the poop out of the users is up for debate.
& this:
> Certain
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 02:56 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> This all goes back to using easy passwords. And the
> same passwords on different sites:
>
> https://www.nist.gov/itl/smallbusinesscyber/guidance-topic/multi-factor-authentication
>
> "In fact, databases of known breached
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 17:54 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> c) Something you are, such as a biometric. This method
> involves verification of characteristics inherent to the
> individual, such as via retina scans, iris scans, fingerprint
> scans, finger vein scans, facial recognition, voice
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 22:08 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> not really, because, the knowledge of user and password is somewhere else;
There are a lot of people who'll have an unsecured phone, because it's
a pain to them.
> so neither the person who stole your phone (the 2FA device) nor you
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 20:00 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> buy an iPhone ...
>
> exact this what you want is the other way of it sense;
>
> 2FA = 2 Factor Authentication
>
> example you login on a site, there you have the knowledge of
>
> user and password
>
> and then the 2nd factor,
On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 01:43 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> CUPS driver ays is has two sides and puts it as
> "sides=one-sided" for the default.
>
> But I can find anywhere in my print properties
> of my programs to put it at two sides.
Try printing from a different program, e.g. a word
On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 01:18 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Fedora 39
>
> I do not have a stinkin' smart phone.
Me neither, I keep mine nice and clean. My friend has one that feels
like it's been slid along a public toilet floor.
Pet hate, some service that asks people to scan a QR code
Tim:
>> Which I received base64 encoded, for reasons unfathomable.
Dave Close:
> I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way:
> Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
These days, 8-bit mail ought to be able to traverse the internet
unscathed (not need
On Fri, 2024-01-12 at 21:33 -0800, Dave Close wrote:
> Speaking of email clients modifying received messages ...
>
> {This message was not written in HTML. If you are reading it as such,
> the presentation is dishonest and not what the author intended.}
Which I received base64 encoded, for
Sherman Grunewagen:
>> When I send a message to the list, the "From" field has my
>> name and e-mail addr. But when it appears on the list, it's
>> been magically changed to "fedora users".
>> Some posters have their name preserved in the
>> From: field. Is there a list setting that controls
On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 12:19 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I assume the installer chose the block size, since I basically did a
> "next, next, next" installation. Should I have chosen something different?
I didn't choose block sizes, just some partition sizes in bytes on my
systems. So I'd hope
On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 12:50 +, Andre Robatino wrote:
> If you're talking about "Mouse & Touchpad" under Settings, "Single
> Click" and "Double Click" both work with the left button, but neither
> do anything with the middle button, though I'm not sure if they're
> supposed to since I never
On Fri, 2023-12-29 at 11:48 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> There are usually lots of dangling symlinks, so you may want to clean
> up the dangling links.
This kind of thing (lots of annoying post-install fix-ups) is why I
gave up doing upgrades, many years ago.
I do fresh installs, where the
Tim:
>> I could upload a screenshot of how it rendered if you want, and if
>> widening your browser window doesn't help you, but since it may be
>> private data I don't want to make the situation worse. Your call...
Walter H:
> that was the solution but I wonder why this is just now;
>
> I run
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 14:35 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I might print something once a week (if that), I've got a USB connected
> Brother laser printer. I now see ipp-usb running all the time at about
> 3% cpu and using about 2.6 meg of memory. Why is it using cpu all
> the time when I'm almost
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 14:21 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> Have you tried this?
> https://hosting117696.a2f78.netcup.net/xchg/_banking.zip
>
I've downloaded a zip file from that link just now. Directly
downloaded, no page involved during the download process.
If I then try loading the
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 06:34 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> with Windows this problem doesn't exist with Firefox, I tried
> Firefox with Fedora, CentOS, Debian and there exists the Problem;
>
> faking the useragent with Linux, no solution
Did you also fake the operating system info, too?
Tim:
>> Certain suspend modes require a suitable power supply, too. They don't
>> switch off fully, some power circuits are required to stay up, and
>> supply sufficient current to the motherboard. It also requires all the
>> hardware to support suspending, some will not wake up, or wake up in a
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 14:26 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Don't suspend. I find it is hit or miss whether things work correctly
> with ACPI Sleep States (S0 - S5). In particular, S3 and above.
I got the impression that only laptops seem to have reasonably well
working suspend, and suspect that
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 09:13 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> And my question about _only_ mono fonts being available in Ghome's
> terminal (while other terminals choose any font) ?
I don't recall Gnome Terminal handling proportional fonts well at any
time. They were chooseable, but the
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 17:07 -0600, Thomas Cameron via users wrote:
> The files should inherit either the label of the directory they're
> created in, or if a specific context has been set for a filename, it
> should get that context.
>
> Normally, if something's incorrectly labeled, you can
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 16:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It should not be possible for a userland process to cause this, which i
> why I thought it could be OOM.
Hmm, I've had a mpv playing a video file hard lock-up a system several
times (dunno if it was a corrupt video file, or another
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 23:42 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II:
> Problem was a bunch of the selinux errors it was showing talked
> about resetting things but it mentions FILETYPE and then gave a
> ton of options for that value, and I had no clue which one should be
> applied.
Generally, if it's
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 17:28 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II:
> Will try turning selinux back on at some point, and see if it comes
> back or not. Just working fine with the selinux disabled. Wish the
> messages actually gave more info.
Once you've run with SELinux off, you then have to do a lot of
Tim:
>> I have one of those two-bay USB - SATA hard drive gadgets, it has
>> clone drive function that works all by itself. I've used it a few
>> times for relatively pain-free drive cloning.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> I have one of those, which I use in a RAID1 configuration for my Borg
> backup.
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 20:34 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Looks to me like I have a bad product. Or am I missing something?
The obvious question: Do you have different discs to try it out with?
Do you have a non-burnt disc to try? Such as a pressed disc that came
with some hardware, it
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 16:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I made some effort to anticipate disaster by copying my /, /boot and
> /boot/efi partitions to a spare drive (and modifying its /etc/fstab
> appropriately), but it didn't work. No doubt I would have needed to
> update the EFI
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 13:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Crossed my fingers and did it. All good.
Close your fingers and cross your eyes, flash the firmware for a big
surprise...
Reminds me that I ought to get a spare drive, I just used my spare one
in something. When it comes to system
Tim:
>> Running a game as root?! Not a good idea!
Frederic Muller:
> Well it didn't run either way... hence my question. As I said I thought
> it would be the executable in a kind of database.
In general, you do everything that affects *you* as your own user.
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