Re: cursor theme?

2023-04-28 Thread Tom Horsley
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

cursor theme?

2023-04-28 Thread Tom Horsley
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? ___ users

Re: Updating grub after dnf-system-upgrade

2023-04-27 Thread Tom Horsley
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

Re: Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tom Horsley
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

Re: Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tom Horsley
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

Why is updatedb running now?

2023-04-26 Thread Tom Horsley
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

Re: Last round of update nailed my networking

2023-04-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:44:07 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Keyfiles vs. ifcfg > > https://fedoramagazine.org/converting-networkmanager-from-ifcfg-to-keyfiles/ I converted when there was no longer default support for ifcfg files unless I installed

Re: My first f38 bug: uname doesn't work

2023-04-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:58:45 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > One idea for tracking things down which aren't stored in a > place which is reasonable to grep, is a uname script which > overrides the default uname command I was going to do that, but I found the old f37 uname command runs fine on f38,

Re: My first f38 bug: uname doesn't work

2023-04-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:49:08 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > s/uname -p/uname -m/ > > shouldn't be too much of an issue. Right, just have to locate the 47,321 scripts which have some variation of that command in them. No problem at all :-). ___

Re: My first f38 bug: uname doesn't work

2023-04-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:18:21 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > It's not a bug. :) That's a matter of opinion. :-(. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

My first f38 bug: uname doesn't work

2023-04-25 Thread Tom Horsley
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2189656 God knows how many scripts I have that use "uname -p" to get the architecture name, but it now returns "unknown" instead of "x86_64". I guess I'll replace uname with a script that invokes the real uname unless it is called with the -p option,

Re: Last round of update nailed my networking

2023-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:02:12 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > 10: more info: 11: In some version of fedora, my br0 started getting a random MAC address but in the previous fedora, it inherited the MAC address of the physical ethernet port I connected it to. As a result, my DHCP server gave

Re: Aaugh! F38 mplayer, ffmpeg, etc. install errors

2023-04-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 23:41:18 - Andre Robatino wrote: > See https://rpmfusion.org/CommonBugs (Fedora 37 section). I fixed this by > swapping ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg as indicated, then mplayer was installable. Thanks, I didn't see any f38 common bugs, and I didn't have this problem when I

Aaugh! F38 mplayer, ffmpeg, etc. install errors

2023-04-23 Thread Tom Horsley
Anyone know what is up with this: [root@zooty /]# dnf install mplayer google-chrome 4.9 kB/s | 3.6 kB 00:00 Error: Problem: problem with installed package libswscale-free-6.0-4.fc38.x86_64 - package ffmpeg-libs-6.0-6.fc38.x86_64 conflicts with

Re: Certbot error

2023-04-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 15:10:58 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > BTW 'certbot certonly ..." also failed. I'm 99% sure this is a problem > with my Apache installation. Well, the apache documentation is only 11,371 pages, so it should be easy to find :-). That's basically why I'm using dnsmasq now

Re: New website hides torrent downloads?

2023-04-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:26:04 +0200 Luna Jernberg wrote: > https://torrents.fedoraproject.org/ > > They can be found here :) I guess I'll bookmark that since they no longer have a link to it (and hope they don't change the name :-). Thanks. ___ users

New website hides torrent downloads?

2023-04-22 Thread Tom Horsley
Is it just impossible to locate the f38 torrent downloads or are they abandoned now? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Is there some way of getting interactive access to a Fedora boot menu to a computer on the same LAN?

2023-04-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:59:41 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > I am guessing this is not possible since the network is not even running > yet . . could a mini-network of some kind be possible for the menu? I believe grub has support for VNC access (google probably describes it somewhere),

Re: Broken by the grub startup after have move whole the system from one SSHDD more small to a SSD more big by a software acronis

2023-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
There are disk UUID values scattered around in all sorts of grub files as well as (probably) the /etc/fstab file. You need to find and fix all of those to use the new disk uuid. Boot off a live image to get a working system, run blkid to get the uuid values for the new disk then mount the new

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Tom Horsley
This is unlikely to be the problem, but it is a fun story: Many years ago there was a bug in the KVM kernel code that failed to correctly context switch all the registers in virtual machines. In this case, the somewhat obscure debug registers. So if I was running debugger tests inside a virtual

Re: Upstream for libvirtd?

2023-04-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 13:43:10 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Anyone know where "upstream" is for libvirtd? I quick check of the rpm shows this: [root@zooty ~]# rpm -q -i -f /usr/sbin/libvirtd Name: libvirt-daemon Version : 8.6.0 Release : 5.fc37 Architecture: x86_64 Install

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:39:25 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Icons, icons, icons! I can't find a damn thing by icons. Yes! A stop sign and an envelope are pretty much it for icons that make some sense, after those two it is all guesswork (and I wonder how the envelope will age with no one sending

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:40:35 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > The Fedora memtest86+-5.31 is broken and they have > been informed of how to get the newer 6.10 version to > work, but have done nothing. I don't even try to use the fedora one, I just go to the web site and download

Re: Chattering Keyboard?

2023-03-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 14:36:36 -0500 Tim Evans wrote: > Don't see any journalctl ofutput of interest. Other than going out to > find a new keyboard, other suggestions welcome. Thanks Probably new keyboard, but I remember once having characters constantly repeating and found it was

Re: DNF upgrade. Not sure what's up here.

2023-03-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 12:52:49 -0800 Scott Beamer wrote: > So what exactly does "/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references > path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → > /run/sddm; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly." > mean, and how do I fix it?

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 14:01:37 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I would like to RAID two of my disks, and I was wondering if the > recommendation is to do software or hardware RAID? I'm pretty sure software is better. You don't get weird hardware implementations which make your disks inaccessible if

Re: port 3780 UDP?

2023-02-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:36:54 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > How do you get ss to tell you the program name? That's what running as root and using the -p option is supposed to do. On my system for instance, I see this: sudo ss -l -p -n | fgrep 22 one of the lines that appears is: tcp

Re: port 3780 UDP?

2023-02-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:49:16 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Who would be trying to write to that? Try "sudo ss -l -p -n | fgrep 3780" that might tell you what program is listening on port 3780 (if any) then you could use rpm -q -i -f /program/name to see what the heck it is.

Re: shutdown

2023-02-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:38:34 +0100 Patrick Dupre wrote: > But does it means that it will boot when the power will be back? That's how it works on my systems (where it functions correctly - not all motherboards get it right). Sometimes this surprises me if I'm working on a system and plug it in,

Re: shutdown

2023-02-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:16:05 +0100 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Actually, this will be done more or less automatically if I do not > do anything, except that the shutdown will be hard when the power > will be turned off. A lot of BIOS have settings for things like "boot at power on". You could shut

Re: sigil ebook editor?

2023-02-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 23:17:12 +0100 Andras Simon wrote: > I don't know, but wouldn't you be better off editing it by hand, using > your favourite text editor? I've done a lot of that, but now I want to do things like insert chapters and split files which requires a lot of getting manifests and

sigil ebook editor?

2023-02-01 Thread Tom Horsley
Wanted to see if I could edit a slightly busted epub and found that the version of sigil in the fedora repos is very old. Any chance it will be updated soon? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: is root realy root ?

2023-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:31:43 - old sixpack13 wrote: > rm -rfv /root/.cache/doc > rm: cannot remove '/root/.cache/doc/by-app': Operation not permitted That is (if I recall) an annoying fuse or special device file of some kind created by some annoying xdg or gnome something that I spent a long

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:51:36 -0700 home user wrote: > The string "Videos" was not found anywhere in what the "mimes" website > mentioned. Videos is just the name the .desktop file for the application says to call it so you won't know the actual name :-). Poking around in my

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:05:38 -0700 home user wrote: > Thank-you in advance. Definitely don't thank me, but this page I wrote up long ago might be a place to start increasing your confusion enough to be sure you'll never understand how to get it to do what you want :-).

umbrello?

2023-01-15 Thread Tom Horsley
I've been getting update errors all week with umbrello conflicting with various kde libraries. Usually errors like that go away in a day or two, but since it kept happening, I finally asked "What the heck is umbrello anyway?" and discovered it is a tool for making UML diagrams. I've never had any

Re: No nameserver found after kernel upgrade

2023-01-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 20:39:49 +0100 lejeczek via users wrote: > I wonder now, if it is possible, nowadays, to "bypass" > systemd's resolver - except if a separate DNS server is ran > locally. Just disable (and mask for belt and suspenders) systemd-resolved. Then edit

Re: grubby --set-default LOLs at me

2023-01-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:40:18 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > But at boot the grub menu still highlights the most recently installed > kernel, and that's what boots by default. If you can stand looking through the scripts that are used to build the grub.cfg (I think they may live in /etc/grub.d)

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Just because they are a cache doesn't mean they are necessarily safe to > delete while running. Most applications take care of managing their > cache files. I used to try and deal with avoiding backups of "unimportant" stuff until I

Re: /run/media

2022-12-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:39:06 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Almost surely true. I had exactly the same problem with a USB mounted > hard drive. I put an entry for it into /etc/fstab and have had no > problems.. > > $ cat /etc/fstab > ... > LABEL=Rosewill /srv/Rosewill/ ext4 nofail,defaults

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:53:59 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > compared to, say, Arch On the other hand, I can't count the number of things I've found well documented in the Arch web pages that were utterly confusing in every other particle of documentation I found elsewhere, so it is good that

Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on WD SSD drives?

2022-12-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:51:01 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Generally speaking, when things work, don't fiddle with them. Firmware > is much more tricky than configuration files. It's harder to undo, if > you can at all, if it goes haywire. I had a motherboard once that wasn't operating properly

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 16:05:38 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > nmcli connection migrate > > > > to move all the ifcfg files to "keyfiles". > > Oh, nice! They did implement something for that. I waited one release cycle to try it in the hopes that any possible bugs might be resolved by then.

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:53:13 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > My systems are using a combination of legacy and new configs with no > problems. If you install f37 from scratch, you have to install NetworkManager-initscripts-ifcfg-rh.x86_64 to get NetworkManager to pay any attention to the old style

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:12:44 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Which gui are you using? I use nm-connection-editor and have had no > issues with any network types I've setup. Which buttons are you finding > disabled? That's the gui I was using. According to my old notes I could never figure out how

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:49:26 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have all my network configured in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ > which is probably were most of the issue lies Those ifcfg files aren't even supported in a fresh install of fedora these days. As attempting to avoid

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:19:02 + Barry wrote: > That like my router config. Except I use systemd-networkd not networkmanager. > Its been stable over lots of fedora releases. Right up till the release when they decide to eradicate it because everyone must use NetworkManager :-). That's why I

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 19:30:32 -0600 Roger Heflin wrote: > Add a chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf as the last step to be save. You will > have to -i it if you want to change the file later. That may work on Fedora, but the last time I tried it on Ubuntu, the system refused to boot past trying to

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:38:43 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > 3) create your own resolv.conf file Not good enough. In the /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file under the "[main]" section add a line like so: [main] dns=none Otherwise a DHCP lease renewal will replace resolv.conf yet

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:45:38 -0700 home user wrote: > For some time now, I've seen another process/user "mandb" running at the > same time as or after the akmod processes at the end of (sometimes > after) "dnf update". That's updating the man page database the "man" command uses. It only runs

Re: Named keeps dying on me

2022-12-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:21:34 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Your in frustration, Has resolv.conf changed? Sometimes DHCP comes along on lease renewal and rewrites sutff. Somewhere there is a NetworkManager option to make it leave resolv.conf alone (always takes me an hour to find it

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:16:43 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > I have a server PC running 24/7, so I use it instead. Me too. I used to use bind, but it became impossible to configure when they started enforcing DNS encryption, switched to dnsmasq and wondered why I ever bothered to fool with bind

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:40:57 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > However, various people have found that it also puts the kybosh on > normal DNS look-ups. Joe being just one. Me! Before I retired, I installed loads of virtual machines to use for testing software on various distros. Without fail, DNS

Re: How do I identify a bluetooth device in bluetooth add device?

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:43:43 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > why? Because bluetooth is the most persnickety unreliable temperamental protocol ever invented? Sometimes you have to put the device you are trying to connect to into some special mode before it will show up, and the way you do that

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:09:06 -0500 Bill C wrote: > But is there a src.rpm installed and not showing? Another weird thing about source rpms is they don't go in the rpm database. It would be less confusing if they didn't call them "rpm"s. ___ users

Re: How do you unsparsify a qcows2 file?

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:55:15 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I wonder if qemu-ing convert will convert from > qcows2 to qcows2? I will see! Yep, that's how I always sparsified my files before the virt-sparsify tool existed. Write zeroes till you run out of space (thus making all the free

Re: How do you unsparsify a qcows2 file?

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:33:15 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > This it? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/sometempfile Seems like that would work. Might need to do it as root in case the kernel doesn't allow an ordinary user to use up all the free space on a disk. And don't forget "rm /sometempfile"

Re: How do you unsparsify a qcows2 file?

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 04:57:08 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Anyone know how to unsparsify a qcows2 file? Boot up the virtual machine and write zeroes to a temp file on that disk till you get out of space errors is one way. Basically stop after the first step of sparsifying :-).

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:42:44 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Do you have any AKmods installed? If it's rebuilding something when a > new kernel boots, versus romping straight into it at other times, that > might explain a timing difference. I always let the akmods finish building before I reboot,

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:29:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: > cdrkit-1.11-50.fc37.src.rpm. which is what everyone else has. How can I > get this installed from a local directory, even though it's a source > rpm. Others have had this question, but IDK how they resolved it. For source rpms you

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:58:07 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Odd that it's kernel reboots only. I wonder if there's some timing > issue that's different then? My best theory is that the kernel doesn't properly reset the device from scratch, but assumes it was left in some state which the old

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:39:12 -0600 Roger Heflin wrote: > My logi wireless keyboard/dongle works to get into the bios. So there > would not appear to be any driver needed to operate it, so that would make > me suspect the reboot is more of the cause than anything else. Yea, it always speaks to

Re: Dealing with "Emergency Mode"

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
You might get more information to show up if you remove the "rhgb quiet" options on the kernel boot line, then a message that comes out just before it decides to do the emergency boot might have useful information. I agree that the most common problem that causes this for me is failing to create

Re: genisoimage source

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
rpm -q -i genisoimage Will print the name of the source rpm (if you look close :-). Sometime the source rpm name is radically different than the binary of one bit of it. Then you should be able to dnf download --source source-rpm-name ___ users

Re: Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 15:13:37 -0500 Go Canes wrote: > but perhaps > you would have fewer issues using a non-external-hub port Nah, it happened just as (in)frequently when I had it plugged directly into the computer. I moved it to the hub after I got tired of having to walk around to the back of

Dongle not talking again

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
Just got kernel 6.0.12-300.fc37.x86_64, and after rebooting to get it loaded, my Logitech wireless keyboard dongle wasn't talking. Unplugged it, plugged it back in, and the keyboard works again. Every few months this happens on a kernel update (not on all kernel updates though). At least I have

Re: Better way to refresh the Display?

2022-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:30:51 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I don't know if this is relevant, but how is the KVM connected to the > display? I had one that would remove the HDMI signal on inactive > display inputs, even when they were physically connected, which made > the system think the

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 10:40:34 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Which first tries the hosts file, then mdns, then aborts if nothing > found (I believe, going by the comments in the rest of the file). The > list of things in that line is illogical, to me. Why would have have > two more things listed

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
I tidbit I remember encountering with pipewire: If you reinstalled, but kept your existing home partition, you may have systemd "user" services disabled or masked that pipewire requires. One way to check this is to create a brand new user, login as new user and see if (with all the default for

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 12:47:14 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > Suggestions? I've been there, the main problem is there are something like a dozen different services which may or may not be cacheing DNS information, and you have to figure out which ones are running and lookup how to make that one clear its

Re: Sycing to Memotoo w SyncEvolution post-Fedora 37 upgrade

2022-12-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 11:06:28 -0500 (EST) Max Pyziur wrote: > Any guidance would be appreciated; thank you. I have no idea what any of that software is, but if it uses rsync and/or ssh under the hood, the new ssh encryption restrictions might not be able to talk to an older server. For an older

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
This post claims the --allowerasing option is needed to do the swap from pulse to pipe. https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/how-do-i-switch-from-pulseaudio-to-pipewire-and-back/27441 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: vlc and mp4 or mkv

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 3 Dec 2022 18:40:04 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: > I can't get handbrake to work at all on windows. IDK if there's a linux > version or not. I'm pretty sure there is a fedora version in the rpmfusion repos at least. Yep, rpmfusion: rpm -q -i HandBrake-gui Name: HandBrake-gui

Re: Upgrade to f37 left system in messed up state

2022-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
I've had dns problems when multiple programs were fighting over /etc/resolv.conf, thinking leases had timed out when they hadn't and other annoying conflicts. Might want to monitor the resolv.conf file and see if it is changing out from under you when it goes from working to not working.

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:03:54 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > It could be helpful to see if the "trash" is still present in the previous > kernel. Also, with the new kernal do you see a readable message in > the place where you were getting "trash"? It was definitely still there in

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
I added a note to the bugzilla yesterday: Since I got the update to kernel 6.0.9-300.fc37.x86_64, I don't see any trash on the screen (in the one boot I've done so far, hopefully in future boots as well). ___ users mailing list --

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:55:02 -0700 stan via users wrote: > I took a look at your attached output in that bugzilla, and I don't see > any random characters in that output. Talking about the screen shot or the journal dump? The random trash doesn't show up in the journal, the screen shot is the

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:31:02 + Barry wrote: > Is the gibberish always in the same place in the boot sequence? > Is the gibberish the same each time? Hard to know for sure, but it seems randomly placed, though it looks kind of like the same sort of gibberish everywhere it appears.

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:26:56 + Barry wrote: > I would guess hardware problem. > What GPU does the system have? > > can you share a screen shot somewhere showing the issue? There is a screen shot attached to the bugzilla. It would be a very unusual hardware issue since it doesn't happen when

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:14:22 + Barry wrote: > I have multiple systems upgraded and do not see this. > Suspect not one is looking but you. > Is the binary stuff in the dmesg output as well? Doesn't seem to be, just shows up on the screen. I submitted a bugzilla just for the heck of it (but it

Re: Can't create msdos partition table without advanced partitioning?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:56:52 -0500 Chris Murphy wrote: > I only advise doing this if there's a problem (firmware confusion) with GPT. I don't know if there would be a problem or not, I just wanted to do everything the way I always did it because the way I install fedora (to reduce down time) is

blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
New f37 install. Turned off rhgb and quiet boot options. Now interspersed with the "normal" boot messages, I get blocks of strange gibberish characters spewed on the screen from time to time, like something just wrote a bunch of random binary data. Doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it sure is

Re: F37 workstation live

2022-11-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:59:41 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: > What should I be doing here? The innards of the iso image were different from f36. I can boot the .iso file itself directly from a grub2 entry with a little work. I've got a directory named "images" in a partition with the UUID of

Re: boot fedora 37 iso image file from grub2?

2022-11-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:47:22 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > If I try the same thing with the Fedora 37 iso image file (looking up > the CDLABEL to use via the isoinfo tool), it doesn't work. Figured it out. I loop mounted the iso file and found a grub.cfg file and interpolated th

boot fedora 37 iso image file from grub2?

2022-11-20 Thread Tom Horsley
For Fedora 36 this magical nonsense works to boot the iso image file stashed on a usb stick: set data_usb_uuid="7ad8f114-5b24-47bb-86c6-0b229519d76c" function set_data_usb_root { insmod ext2 insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod part_msdos load_env bootvid set

Can't create msdos partition table without advanced partitioning?

2022-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
Installing fedora 37 from workstation live iso to a virtual machine. I couldn't find any way to partition a blank disk with a msdos partition table without using the advanced manual partitioning. Did I miss something, or is that the way it works now?

Re: It's a brick :-<(

2022-11-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I used the instructions at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive To make a multi-boot USB stick that holds many different ISO images and can boot from them off the USB stick. It is very handy and I have several images like memtest86+ and systemrescuecd as well as fedora and

Re: Lost NFS Export

2022-11-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:08:12 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The problem seems to happen because nfs is started before amito can be > resolved: I usually solve problems like this by putting "amito" in /etc/hosts (and making sure networking believes it should look at /etc/hosts).

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:17:35 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc > grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms > because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. An efi install of grub2 needs more info than just a disk drive. Here is my note

Re: New kernel install had issues. (6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64)

2022-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:26:16 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > So something about a complete power down seems to have made it better. And I tried rebooting again, and that is working now as well. So the power cycle does seem to have made it all better. I guess I'll find out in a few d

Re: New kernel install had issues. (6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64)

2022-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
Slight weirdness for me too. Probably the first time since I installed 6.0.5 I tried to play a youtube video and got no sound (HDMI via rpmfusion nvidia driver). I tried to reboot to go back one kernel version and see if sound worked there, and the reboot blanked the screen, but then was stuck. I

Re: New kernel install had issues. (6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64)

2022-10-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:54:28 -0700 Doug H. wrote: > Everything seems to be working, so I don't need any help, but wanted to > report this just in case. As an additional report, I did a dnf update this morning, got the same kernel, and had no problems at all. Must be one of those things mankind

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:36:13 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm not saying that you > should look at the hardware first, but don't ignore the possibility. The algorithm I always try to employ (though I often forget :-) is "check the dumb stuff first". Don't go downloading the source to try to find the

Re: Bugs in wine. Any alternatives?

2022-10-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:37:46 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > In the case of Wine, I really do need to have it working. > > UNLESS I can find a subsitute. You have any suggestions? I've have never once gotten anything at all to work under wine. That's why I run a windows virtual machine

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Tom Horsley
Obviously the next step is to merge the Discourse server with systemd! :-) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

2022-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
> > claws converts all messages to text, and it takes a plugin to view > > html > > mail.  So, that probably meets this requirement. And I don't have the plugin installed in my claws-mail, so if I really think I want to see an html mail, I can use "open with" (but 99.9% of it I just throw away).

Re: Trying to install from ISO via grub.cfg - almost there?

2022-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:27:24 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > Can anyone suggest what the problem is and how to resolve it? Don't recognize this problem specifically, but I have a USB stick with a bunch of iso files on it and a grub configured to let me boot any of them. I used the info

Re: xmodmap

2022-08-24 Thread Tom Horsley
Don't know about wayland, but on X11, I have a script in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/99-mystuff.sh which runs when X starts and uses the xinput tool to set mouse buttons, not sure if the xinput tool is the right one for keyboard mapping these days. ___

Re: 32 bit pam-libs?

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 10:52:42 -0500 Javier Perez wrote: > Still no resolution? I did a dnf erase on the old 32 bit lib and let it take a couple of things with it, and haven't had a single problem since then. I don't know why the 32 bit lib was installed, but removing it let the update proceed and

Re: Long timeouts on logging out/shutting down

2022-08-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:44:43 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Aha! Now where do I change that? There is a user.conf file right next to the system.conf file in the /etc/systemd directory. It has almost all the same parameters, and I always change both files when changing something to make sure

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