On Thu, 23 May 2024 19:43:25 -0300
soles.g wrote:
> the first
> I did two installations of Fedora40
> on the same hard drive.
I have absolute no idea if this works for efi installations,
but on my MBR based system, I have a stand alone grub partition
in /mainboot, and it has a simple grub.cfg
On Fri, 17 May 2024 11:13:15 -0400
Alex wrote:
> That's what I was looking for, and thought it would fix it, but alas, it
> didn't.
I have done complete kludgery to solve problems like this by disabling
the service that won't start at boot, then adding rc.local entries
to use "at" to start the
Yesterday there were a couple of hours long xfinity cable outages and
I decided to try to connect over 5G via my phone's hotspot and the
built in wireless on my computer's motherboard.
It could connect, but I couldn't see anything on the internet, I suspect
because I beat NetworkManager into
On Wed, 15 May 2024 19:05:45 +0200
Meikel wrote:
> I do not want to manually choose the kernel each time when I boot the
> computer. What can I do?
You can check out the nvidia drivers from rpmfusion.org and see if they
work better. See https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
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On Wed, 15 May 2024 05:18:11 -0700
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> New install of Fedora 40. It is unclear what program should be run to
> create plocate.db.
If you run
rpm -q --list plocate
among the files it lists is
/usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.service
If you look in there you'll find
Things I noticed after installing fedora 40. Nothing too bad,
got everything working OK after a few fixes.
No sound at all, not even any sound devices listed. Poking around in
google I eventually found the advice to do this:
rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber
reboot
That worked. I can watch
Just got completely switched over to Fedora 40 and was dismayed to
discover gnome-control-center reporting no sound devices at all.
Not the onboard built in sound, and not the HDMI sound I wanted.
After much googling, I found this web page:
On Thu, 9 May 2024 19:15:20 +0100
Barry Scott wrote:
>All options are configured in the [Journal] section:
Yep, but it is concatenating all the different bits and pieces
it picks up from the journald.conf.d directory, so is the [Journal]
in the default file enough to imply [Journal] for
On Thu, 9 May 2024 14:22:19 +0100
Barry Scott wrote:
> Yes. See man journald.conf
I did see the man page, it wasn't clear (not to me, anyway).
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On Tue, 7 May 2024 14:19:46 -0400
Felix Miata wrote:
> > Where are journal settings configured these days?
>
> /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ for overrides & customizations.
So if I put a .conf file in that directory, does it also need
to have the [Journal] line at the beginning? Like so:
On Tue, 07 May 2024 21:38:47 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> # rpm -qf /etc/systemd/journald.conf
> systemd-255.4-1.fc40.x86_64
>
> Try running 'rpm -V systemd'.
Everything seems normal, I think they just did some kind of voodoo
to the rpm so it owns the file if it exists, but it doesn't
On Tue, 7 May 2024 14:19:46 -0400
Felix Miata wrote:
> /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ for overrides & customizations.
A directory which also doesn't exist :-).
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On Tue, 7 May 2024 14:09:57 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I have a bunch of journal setting I normally change in
> /etc/systemd/journald.conf.
>
> In fedora40 there doesn't appear to be such a file.
It gets more confusing. If I do (in fedora 40) a
rpm -q --list systemd
/etc/systemd/j
I have a bunch of journal setting I normally change in
/etc/systemd/journald.conf.
In fedora40 there doesn't appear to be such a file.
Where are journal settings configured these days?
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On Mon, 6 May 2024 16:15:00 -0700
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> I'm curious what the configuration for that looks like. Does the host
> use the bridge interface as well?
Yep. I make the physical ethernet port on the host be a part of the
bridge (and force the bridge to use the same MAC address as the
On Mon, 6 May 2024 16:28:18 -0600
Sbob wrote:
> Is this true? Is there some way to easily replicate the way VMWare does
> it so I can just tell a VM to use an IP that is accessible from another
> server?
I know nothing about VMWare, but I use a bridge for all of my
KVM virtual machines, and as
This is just curiosity since I fixed it by installing nvidia drivers
from rpmfusion, but here's what happened:
When I installed fedora 40 workstation, I saw that the nouveau drivers
(for the first time in years) had correctly decided to run at the
native 3840x2160 resolution of the TV I use as a
On Fri, 3 May 2024 13:55:49 -0700
richard emberson wrote:
> So, how can I increase the size of the /boot partition? Many partitions,
> like /tmp, are bigger than they need to be.
Might be worth a reinstall from scratch. I always make just a single /
partition and let all those other things be
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:36:45 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Wayland is still pretty immature when compared to X11. It would be nice if
> Wayland was more mature before we are forced to switch to it.
That seems to be the standard linux "improvement" path. Get rid of something
everyone uses,
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:56:44 -0600
Joe Zeff wrote:
> And so will I along with everybody using Xfce as I don't know if there
> are even any plans yet to make it Wayland compatible.
Has Wayland (or the compositor, or whatever they imagine is responsible)
got the ability yet to remap keyboard
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:52:10 -0600
home user wrote:
> kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64
Possibly relevant, but I don't know what it means for sure:
My system gets regular updates. I've never had a yadda-yadda-100 kernel,
all mine are -200. Currently I'm running 6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64, all the
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:12:08 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> When something does not (can not?) build correctly, can you just boot
> to an earlier kernel until the problems with the current kernel
> modules are fixed? Or does rebuilding akmod break past kernels?
I've certainly just booted old
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:09:26 -0700
Doug Herr wrote:
> I don't have Nvidia currently and can't remember where you find those logs.
/var/log/akmod/akmod.log
If it doesn't say something about "Success" near the end, then it didn't
build correctly.
I usually do a tail -f on that file when running
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:05:51 -0400
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> [root@jack ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda
That is the way you install grub for old MSDOS partitions.
To install grub with GPT and use EFI, it needs different
arguments. Something like:
grub2-install --target x86_64-efi --removable
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:49:32 -0400
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Which scanner/copier does everyone use, that works out of the box with Xsane?
> Printing would be nice but I already have an HP that does the job for me.
I've got a CanoScan LiDE 300 which surprised me by working with xsane
out of the
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:23:04 +
Barry wrote:
> You log in once only, the login is remembered in a cookie.
> Just only and close the tab as needed.
On some forums, not on others.
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:19:27 +0100
wwp wrote:
> Tried fora a a while when I was forced to and finally gave up with 80%
> of them
So who's working on a web forum/email interface that is totally independent
of the web forum so the forum couldn't stop you from using email even
if they wanted to?
On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:06:44 -0500
Neal Becker wrote:
> running /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome gives:
I just ignore any gibberish it prints and do the update again,
always seems to work for me.
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:46:15 -0500
Neal Becker wrote:
> The GPG keys listed for the "google-chrome" repository are already
> installed but they are not correct for this package.
After getting this many times, I finally figured out I need to
manually run /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome to get new
On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:47:26 +
olivares33561 via users wrote:
> Any ideas
You probably checked this, but sometimes when I install a new kernel
it seems to forget what I had the sound output set to and switches to
an output which no speaker is connected to. I have to run the control
panel and
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:23:41 +
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It has nothing on the classic IBM message:
>
> Wrong Error
I always liked IEF020I: DCB erropt=ABE and/or no SYNAD exit specified
(which I eventually learned meant the damn operator mounted the wrong tape).
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What on earth does that mean? Is there a contest to see who can
generate the least useful error message? :-).
My best guess is that it is trying to use ipv6 and I have ipv6
turned off? Or is it trying to use a bridge I have that isn't
normally connected to anything?
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I previously noted that ipp-usb was constantly running using (not too
much) cpu time, but constantly cluttering up the running process list.
I finally decided to experiment and just did "dnf erase ipp-usb" which
only removed that one rpm, then I rebooted (just to make sure).
I no longer have
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500
Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and
> the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and
> glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are present. Does
> anyone have any idea
On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:38:57 -0500
Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I tried looking for "css" "libdvdcss" and "dvd" and got some responses
> but nothing that I recognize. I used "dnf search" btw. I have the
> rpmfusion repo installed. What is the rpm? I an looking for source if I
> can find it.
One
On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 22:51:39 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> did not help
They keep changing what kinds of algorithms and keys are allowed
to work because of security reasons. You said you just did an upgrade,
so perhaps your ssh is now incompatible with the ssh server on the
remote system. Try
On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 10:47:43 +1030
Tim via users wrote:
> A thought springs to mind: Any jobs stuck in a queue?
Nope. I do have a usb scanner plugged in as well, don't
know if ipp-usb talks to it as well, but I use it even less
frequently than the printer.
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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 never printing? If I remove it, will I
be able to print the old
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:04:27 -0600
John W. Himpel wrote:
> What I don't know is where in the filesystem I should put the .py files
> so that certbot will find them and I don't have to reinstall everytime
> there's a python version upgrade.
Don't know. I always find the latest
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:03:01 -0700
Sbob wrote:
> Hi;
>
>
> I'm running Fedora 39, I have installed qemu / libvirt / kvm
>
>
> I have found many guides on setting up bridged networking but none have
> worked. Can someone point me to a proper guide?
>
For what it is worth (possibly not much)
I have definitely had video driver bugs crash my system, usually
while running a web browser which seems to push every button
in the video drivers :-).
In fact every time I try using the nouveau drivers, that usually happens
somewhere between 2 hours and two days later, then I install the nvidia
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:40:05 -0600 (CST)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Suggestions?
This is fedora putting their own lame bits of ffmpeg in fedora. This
works for me:
dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
that swaps out the lame fedora stuff and gets everything from rpmfusion.
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:03:14 -0600
Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> Is there a way to set this up so that it can work reliably on every window?
I'm pretty sure the answer is "no" unfortunately. How windows operate
on keystrokes and mouse buttons is up to the individual apps.
Some apps can be
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:46:33 -0500
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> if ($hostname != $myhostname) then {
I tried this just running it through the rsyslogd syntax check (-N1 opt)
and it complained about using "myhostname" and asked if I didn't
actually mean "$myhostname" :-).
The documentation on
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:46:33 -0500
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I'd probably do this in the newer "advanced" format (AKA
> RainerScript) instead of the "obsolete legacy" format. I
> believe this would do what you want:
I'm just adding a bit to the .conf file that ships with the
rpm, and it is using
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:09:26 -0500
Go Canes wrote:
> Any chance there is a rule for logging SMART messages that is taking
> precedence?
A good thing to check. I'll see if I can decrypt the .conf file
and figure that out. Thanks.
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I've got an old PC running Truenas as a local server for backups,
videos, etc.
I've got another PC I consider my "main" system running rsyslog.
On this PC I have tried (mostly successfully) to direct remote
syslog messages from the Truenas system to logfiles in a subdirectory
on my main system.
Incidentally, I've updated my bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249379
The problem appears to be wayland, I thought I had tested under
x11 and wayland, but gnome was sneaking a wayland session
into existence behind my back. When I really managed to start
in x11 for sure,
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 11:46:21 -0700
Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/12/2023 11:33 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> > On that mailing list, yes.
>
> Don't you think that opening a Bugzilla would be a Good Idea?
I started this thread with a mention of this bugzilla:
I reported strange things with emacs earlier, but I thought it might be
something wrong with my partially configured system.
Nope, it is just plain busted. I've added this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249379
I guess I'll have to try building from the fedora 38 source
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:03:07 +0100
Ger van Dijck wrote:
> Question : How to solve this problem ?
After running
dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
on my system, I installed with no problems. Here are the
rpms with ffmpeg in the name I have:
ffmpeg-libs-6.0-16.fc39.x86_64
I have by no means finished tweaking my fedora 39 boot partition,
but the last time I was booted there, emacs was a complete mess.
It seemed to take forever to respond to keystrokes. Scrolling the
screen would leave random characters in various places which would
disappear if I moved the cursor
On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:42:59 +
ja wrote:
> From someone on this list?
>
> dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
>
> Replaces the incompatible stuff in the fedora repos with the "normal" stuff
> from rpmfusion.
I've got that in my notes as one of the first things I do now (after
Just noticed this while testing my multi-boot USB stick with scads
of ISO images:
In Fedora 39, the boot spends an annoying amount of time imagining
that it can wait for a network to be up, but the physical ethernet
port is connected (via crossover cable) to a device which will definitely
not be
> But, why can('t) Windows 10's "Add Printer" dialog find it?
In the cups web page http://localhost:631/admin there is a checkbox
for "share printers connected to this system", perhaps it isn't
checked, or your windows system is on a different subnet?
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:30:02 -0500
Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Is the source code for COPR packages available anywhere?
rpm -q -i
Will print info about that package, with one of the lines it prints
starting with "Source RPM"
Incidentally, the source rpm name is the name you need to use
in bugzilla
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:21:16 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I just booted into kernel 6.5.6-200.fc38.x86_64 and it doesn't seem
> to display the annoying banner any longer, so I'm guessing it is
> something "helpful" linux has done (I was previously using kernel
> 6.5.7
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:18:17 -0500
Roger Heflin wrote:
> Is your TV a Smart TV and is it connected to the internet in some way?
Yea, I asked the same question on a samsung forum to find out
if some samsung update is responsible, but since I just tried booting
the previous kernel, the banner
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:59:31 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I use my samsung TV (QN90B) as a monitor. Until today, when I turned
> it on, the picture would come right up and I could use it immediately.
> Now, for some reason, a big banner appears at the top of the screen
> telling me it
I use my samsung TV (QN90B) as a monitor. Until today, when I turned
it on, the picture would come right up and I could use it immediately.
Now, for some reason, a big banner appears at the top of the screen
telling me it is connected to HDMI 4 and saying what resolution it
is displaying (and the
In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners
compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function
device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300
and was shocked and amazed when it just worked out of the box.
P.S. The epson isn't quite as bad
Don't know if it is relevant, but a few weeks ago google chrome
utterly refused to update due to some mysterious error it printed
meaningless gibberish about.
I uninstalled it completely, and downloaded new rpm from scratch from the
google download site. I installed it again, and it has been fine
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:47:19 -0400
Alex wrote:
> It's not that old, and certainly doesn't have many hours on it. Are there
> any other ways I can try to access it before determining it's defective?
Trying usb devices in other ports and other systems is always a good idea,
don't know if it will
On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:10:55 -0500
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > "The certificate on the secure gateway is invalid. A VPN connection will
> > not be established."
That usually means the server at the other end has an expired certificate.
That seems to happen quite frequently because the previous
On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:54:34 -0400
Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just installed fedora38 over my previous fedora install but didn't
> save my network config that included a bridge to allow for local IPs for my
> virtual machines. Is there a network tool that I can use to create a bridge
> so I can
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:02:18 -
Andre Robatino wrote:
> Rpmfusion's vlc needs updating to be compatible with live555.
Yep, after checking where things were installed from on my system,
I saw that vlc was already installed from rpmfusion, so I set
the priority of all rpmfusion repos to 1 and
I've been getting this dnf error for several days now:
Problem: package vlc-core-1:3.0.19-0.3.fc38.1.x86_64 from @System requires
live555(x86-64) = 2023.03.30, but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install both live555-2023.06.20-2.fc38.x86_64 from updates and
On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:11:07 +0930
Tim via users wrote:
> Aren't there options for that in the keyboard preferences any more? Is
> gnome tweaks still around, does that offer anything?
As near as I can tell (the last time I looked, anyway), wayland has
completely eviscerated all the ability to
On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 05:59:05 +0200
Franta Hanzlík via users wrote:
> The problem seems to be somehow caused by ~/rpmbuild being a symlink (
If a symlink is the problem, you could always set up a ~/.rpmmacros
file with the line:
%_topdir /path/to/real/rpmbuild
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:45:32 -0400
bruce wrote:
> Looking at/over a couple of laptops and thought I'd ask the list for input.
I just watched a video about the "framework" laptop, pretty much
infinitely upgradeable and repairable and supports fedora. If I
had any use for laptops, that's the one
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:18:32 +0200
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> - WOL listening only after a shutdown; if the power goes away and comes back
> WOL doesn't work anymore (the BIOS was just "playing dead" waiting, but
> needing power to keep this state)
That's the main reason I started using home
On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:52:04 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Suggestions welcome.
Not necessarily a useful suggestion, but I always found wake on lan
support to be very spotty and unreliable. I've got all the systems
I want to turn on remotely set to boot at power up and use home
automation
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:45:38 -0500
Richard Shaw wrote:
> Yeah the akmods MOSTLY worked fine.
I never had any problems as long as I waited for the module build
to finish after installing new kernel before I rebooted.
tail -f /var/log/akmods/akmods.log
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:25:23 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> systemctl --user --list-unit-files
Wups, list-unit-files (no -- in front of it).
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:02:55 +0200
ogio.spam wrote:
> Also services are not related to specific user, so I think it's not a
> good way to start.
systemctl --user --list-unit-files
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:55:10 -0400
Neal Becker wrote:
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/Avoid-Nouveau-Linux-6.3
I give nouveau a chance every time I install a new fedora, eventually
(2 hours, 2 weeks, it varies) I get a video crash and frozen
desktop, then I install the rpmfusion nvidia drivers.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 19:41:34 +0200
Ralf Corsépius wrote:
> You mean, after a 15 years period of deprecation
Yes, I always examine ever single shell script I have and google
for any potential deprecations for every command I use every time
there is an update.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:08:16 +0200
Ger van Dijck wrote:
> How do I proceed ?
I asked that a while back, and got this advice which worked for me:
dnf sawp ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
Replaces the incompatible stuff in the fedora repos with the
"normal" stuff from rpmfusion.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000
Stephen Morris wrote:
> fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used
for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they don't
like it. They've done the same with
On Fri, 26 May 2023 12:39:18 -0500
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Any suggestions?
May or may not help, but I'd tend to use ps to get a list of all
processes running after reboot, then start webex and do another ps
of all processes to see how much junk webex starts.
Then after exiting webex, see if any
On Tue, 23 May 2023 19:02:05 -0400
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> There's only one true editor for developers:
>
> emacs
>
> Everything else is a pale imitation of emacs' awesomeness.
Truth!
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On Mon, 22 May 2023 12:02:19 -0600
home user wrote:
> If the problem happens again, I'll open a new thread.
I don't know if it already appeared somewhere in this thread, but I
think there is a DNF option you can set in the dnf.conf file to limit
the number of old kernels it will keep around.
On Mon, 22 May 2023 19:37:41 +0200
Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote:
> Can someone help me solving this problem?
Not really help exactly, but I seem to recall we had to use that
for work for a while. I think I gave up getting it to operate on
fedora directly and used a Windows virtual machine so I
On Mon, 15 May 2023 18:33:17 -0400
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> It's hard to see how that update fits within a stable
> release
Especially if they can automate "fails to install" notices, you'd
think they could also automate preventing the update from being
pushed to stable :-).
Usually this sort of stuff clears up in a couple of days, but I've
been getting these errors for around a week now and wonder if they
will ever go away?
[root@zooty ~]# dnf -y update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:22 ago on Mon May 15 17:08:58 2023.
Dependencies resolved.
Problem 1:
On Wed, 10 May 2023 17:38:43 -0400
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Anyone have any tips for defeating this rudeness, short of a brute force
> approach.
I don't know if this counts as brute force, but you could run an ssh-keyscan
command on cron. That sends real data back and forth to server without
On Sat, 6 May 2023 14:24:53 -0700
ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to get Amazon Kindle books off
> an android tablet and onto Fedora?
You can download them directly from amazon, one of the options
in your media library advanced options is download for installation
via usb. That
On Fri, 05 May 2023 21:14:40 -
Andre Robatino wrote:
> It might be the systemd OOM killer.
Good thought, but no messages that look like OOM. In fact, nothing in the
log looks like anything other than a normal shutdown. No I idea why I got
logged out. I guess there are some things man was not
I'm in my FVWM session, I run dnf update to get new kernel and other
updates installed, I watch akmod update the nvidia driver, and I'm
about to type reboot to get new kernel when suddenly *poof*, I'm
logged out and the sddm login screen is displayed.
Is this some "helpful" change that's been
On Tue, 2 May 2023 10:13:04 +0200
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> I will never understand why people are so inclined to restart from scratch
> with a new install every time.
I treat it as an opportunity to get rid of stuff I no longer use.
I also keep the previous release around on a different
On Mon, 1 May 2023 18:23:08 -0500
Roger Heflin wrote:
> I have something like this in my rc.local for similar reasons.
> ( sleep 30 ; cd /someplace ; ) &
I'm surprised that works. I used to have that sort of thing
directly in rc.local, then they converted the code that runs
rc.local to a
On Mon, 01 May 2023 13:39:29 -0700
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> And the problem remains. Further advice would be welcome.
Without ever managing to determine what the problem was, I have
sometimes resorted to disabling the service, then making an
rc.local script that uses the "at" command to start
On Mon, 01 May 2023 03:38:22 +0930
Tim via users wrote:
> I gave up doing upgrades, many years ago, there was so many problems
> with it
I think it has gotten better. When I upgraded my main system, I kept
the old one as an emergency backup and tried to keep it identical
to the main system so I
I'd wager there are shell scripts using fgrep that were written on
the first pdp-11 unix and are still in use today, but appeasing
someone's OCD is more important than backward compatibility for
tens of thousands of systems all over the world. OK fine, I know
I'll lose any argument here, so I've
On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:31:03 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> Is there a supported cursor theme I could
> switch to more like bluecurve?
Answering my own question:
DNF search showed there weren't too many cursor themes to search
through one by one. I've settled on Oxygen_White after installing
I see fedora has finally dropped bluecurve, but the default adwaita cursors
are still incredibly ugly. Is there a supported cursor theme I could
switch to more like bluecurve?
Is there a page anywhere previewing the themes that are available?
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:47:58 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> (I have open questions about systems that claim both BIOS and UEFI,
> but I have not been able to find answers. If I need to back up a bit,
> then please say so).
This may or may not be helpful, but when I make a "universal" boot
USB
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:49:46 -0600
Joe Zeff wrote:
> And if you're not going to be using a GUI, why install one in the first
> place? Wouldn't it be easier to do a server install that doesn't have one?
On systems I use like that, I kind of like the GUI installed so I
can run GUI tools via ssh
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:32:25 -0400
Tim Evans wrote:
> And, for those like me using F38 for a firewall or who otherwise need
> their systems to not suspend EVER, down a ways in this document:
>
> # systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target
> hybrid-sleep.target
If I'm just
I copied /usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.timer to
/etc/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.timer and changed
RandomizedDelaySec from 12h to 2h which is supposed to mean
it runs sometime between midnight and 2am.
It did work that way of fedora 37, yet with the same changes
in fedora 38 it is
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