Re: boot menu does not see Windows after Fedora 27 Install

On 04/26/2018 08:22 AM, PropAAS DBA wrote: I believe it is an EFI system see the blkid output below: It looks like a mixed system. root@localhost ~]# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="f9c9741c-c5c8-4a41-9f5a-0f4f7dba9169" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="2466866a-01" /dev/sda2:

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/18 13:25, Bob Goodwin wrote: When you did the install, did you create a password for root?  If not, then do "sudo passwd" and set one.  The easier method though might be to just use "sudo -i". _ That worked ... [bobg@localhost-live ~]$ sudo passwd [sudo] password for bobg:

Re: Sudo but no su -

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:30:37 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > There *has* to be a root account. By default there is no root > password unless you set one during the installation. I think there > has been talk of removing that option from the installer. All you > have to do is "sudo

Re: Sudo but no su -

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:03:58PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system and > created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I > haveonly user bobg, no root account. Sometimes it's convenient to > keep a work space for root

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/18 13:17, Samuel Sieb wrote: When you did the install, did you create a password for root?  If not, then do "sudo passwd" and set one.  The easier method though might be to just use "sudo -i". _ I will try that. I did the install several times thinking I was having trouble

Re: Sudo but no su -

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:03:58 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system and > created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I > haveonly user bobg, no root account. Sometimes it's convenient to > keep a

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 10:25 AM, stan wrote: I think I remember reading that there will be no default root account after install of F28 or later. Again, I think I remember the workaround was to use sudo, and then create a root account with useradd. You will have to specify the root directory as /root

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 10:53 AM, stan wrote: Thanks for the info. Does there have to be a home directory for the obligatory root account? The tone of the discussions I read was that root user was an anachronism, and linux would be better without it. That's only my interpretation, of course, so it

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 10:03 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system and created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I haveonly user bobg, no root account. Sometimes it's convenient to keep a work space for root and I was unable to do

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/18 13:17, Samuel Sieb wrote: When you did the install, did you create a password for root?  If not, then do "sudo passwd" and set one.  The easier method though might be to just use "sudo -i". _ I will try that. I did the install several times thinking I was having trouble

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 10:24 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/26/18 13:17, Samuel Sieb wrote: When you did the install, did you create a password for root?  If not, then do "sudo passwd" and set one.  The easier method though might be to just use "sudo -i". I will try that. I did the install several

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 11:25 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:03:58PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system and created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I haveonly user bobg, no root account. Sometimes it's

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

On 04/26/2018 06:56 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I was originally trying to get Fedora-on-a-stick working with a USB 3.0 stick w/ a 32GB Class 10 SD card. The performance with a "standard" install was not acceptable and updates took WA too long. Since the performance using the live

Re: boot menu does not see Windows after Fedora 27 Install

Meanwhile other users will tell you how to fix Grub, I can tell you that if you will experience Windows boot malfunctions, just disable Windows 10 fastboot and you will be fine ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: boot menu does not see Windows after Fedora 27 Install

On 04/25/2018 09:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/25/2018 07:43 PM, PropAAS DBA wrote: I just installed Fedora 27 on a server with 2 internal hard drives. Windows was already installed on the first hard drive, I added a second internal hard drive and installed Fedora on the second drive

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +, Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> > The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM) you're >> > using (which is *not* the same as

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

On somewhat of a tangent... I wonder if Fedora Atomic Workstation would be useful for portable Fedora? I would probably fix the problem of updating packages taking forever on Flash memory... Downloading now... Richard ___ users mailing list --

Sudo but no su -

. I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system and created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I haveonly user bobg, no root account. Sometimes it's convenient to keep a work space for root and I was unable to do that, could not do dnf upgrade or

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: plymouth-set-default-theme tribar -R bobg]# plymouth-set-default-theme tribar Although it shows the change to "tribar" it continues to display the original "spinner" when I reboot. Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut?

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:23:28 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > To Todd's point, I noticed in my updates today that rpmfusion had > > ffmpeg updates, so that might solve your problem. > > Yes, that seems to be one way to get there. > > I already had rpmfusion, and this

Re: boot menu does not see Windows after Fedora 27 Install

I'm On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 11:26 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/26/2018 08:22 AM, PropAAS DBA wrote: > > I believe it is an EFI system see the blkid output below: > > It looks like a mixed system. > > > root@localhost ~]# blkid > > /dev/sda1:

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

Is tribar installed? The plymouth set-default does nothing if the theme isn't installed. Anyone know what the plymouth initrd on /boot is for? --- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Sudo but no su -

For what it's worth, systemd emergency/rescue target only accept a root login. Apparently it's complicated getting it to use a user in wheel. Anyway I add two boot parameters as a workaround rather than permanently enabling root. 1 systemd.debug-shell=1 tty9 will have a root shell, no password.

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

stan wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:23:28 -0400 > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >>> To Todd's point, I noticed in my updates today that rpmfusion had >>> ffmpeg updates, so that might solve your problem. >> >> Yes, that seems to be one way to get there. >> >> I already had

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 01:36 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. The growisofs man page states "If executed under sudo(8) growisofs refuses to start." (and explains why). I don't know if there are other commands

H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming lack of H.264 codec support. Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 But none of the packages are currently available: [root@thinkpad yum.repos.d]# dnf config-manager --set-enabled

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 05:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/27/18 08:29, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > I think the majority opinion now is that

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:41:46 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, > claiming lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 > > But none of the packages

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

stan writes: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:41:46 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, > claiming lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 > > But none of

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming > lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 I think that H.264 implementation is somewhat limited (and stale, in addition to not

Re: Sudo but no su -

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:56:22 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > and utterly awesome and loveable) self. what?? what??? -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:38:16 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > If you go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 does it tell you that > your browser has H.264 support? > > Fedora 27 Firefox does. Fedora 28 Firefox does not. Yes, it does. I thought of a reason why this might be

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 05:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, I never have the need to login as root from the graphical interface.  But I do, at times, have the need to issue a series of commands from the command line as root. In those cases sudo is cumbersome.  So, I will use "su -".   So, no matter what

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

Todd Zullinger writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming > lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 I think that H.264 implementation is somewhat limited (and

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

stan writes: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:38:16 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > If you go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 does it tell you that > your browser has H.264 support? > > Fedora 27 Firefox does. Fedora 28 Firefox does not. Yes, it does. I thought of a reason why

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

On 04/26/2018 06:41 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming lack of H.264 codec support. Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 But none of the packages are currently available: [root@thinkpad

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

On 04/26/2018 08:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you enter "about:addons", then click on the "plugins" section, there is probably a disabled openh264 plugin.  Try enabling it.  Do you have the gstreamer plugins from rpmfusion installed?  On F27, I have h264 support without openh264, so I wonder

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/27/18 11:15, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/26/2018 05:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> FWIW, I never have the need to login as root from the graphical interface.  >> But I do, >> at times, have the need to issue a series of commands from the command line >> as root. >> In those cases sudo is

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/27/18 08:29, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 >>> Samuel Sieb wrote: I think the majority opinion now is that logging in as the root user is discouraged. 

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

On 04/26/2018 09:45 AM, Beartooth wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +, Beartooth wrote: >>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM)

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 >> Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> I think the majority opinion now is that logging in as the root user >>> is discouraged.  In almost all cases sudo is sufficient and if

[MySQL & MariaDB in Fedora] MySQL 8.0 release, testers welcomed

Hello everybody! I want to share a quick overview of MySQL and MariaDB packages through Fedora. Brand new releases are available! *Available software and channels:* MariaDB 10.1 - F26 base; F27+28+Rawhide COPR MariaDB 10.2 - F27+F28+Rawhide base MariaDB 10.3 - F27+F28+Rawhide COPR MySQL 5.7 -

Re: Sudo but no su -

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > The home directory for root is /root. Good to know that it will always be there. Habit for me is to use root and su instead of sudo. old dog - new tricks :-) > I think the majority opinion now is that logging in as

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

I was originally trying to get Fedora-on-a-stick working with a USB 3.0 stick w/ a 32GB Class 10 SD card. The performance with a "standard" install was not acceptable and updates took WA too long. Since the performance using the live method with a compressed image was WAY better I was

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. If I need to do more than one or two things as root, it's easier to become root rather than type sudo over and over. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. If I need to do more than one or two things as root, it's easier to become root rather than type sudo over and over. That's what "sudo -i" is for.

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 01:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I suppose that's true, but in that case, there's probably a larger issue involved and you'll likely need a live boot of some sort anyway. I'd find it both faster and easier to switch to a text console, log in as root and do what's needed. Of course,

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: Good to know that it will always be there. Habit for me is to use root and su instead of sudo. old dog - new tricks :-) Same here. If I ever had to work with Ubuntu, one of the first things I'd do is set the root password. As things are now, you're

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

On 04/26/2018 09:45 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +, Beartooth wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM) you're using

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 01:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: Good to know that it will always be there.  Habit for me is to use root and su instead of sudo.  old dog - new tricks  :-) Same here.  If I ever had to work with Ubuntu, one of the first things I'd do is set the root

Re: Sudo but no su -

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:54:08 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. I used > to use that all the time, but gradually I switched over and on my > desktop system, it is extremely rare that I use it. (I think only > when the

Re: Sudo but no su -

On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: I think the majority opinion now is that logging in as the root user is discouraged. In almost all cases sudo is sufficient and if you need to do root things for a while, just use "sudo

Re: Sudo but no su -

> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: > > I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. The growisofs man page states "If executed under sudo(8) growisofs refuses to start." (and explains why). I don't know if there are other commands with the same issue.

[389-users] Experiences with Large Groups (>100k Members)

Hi Everyone, I was wondering what experiences people have had with large groups (> 100k members) in 389 DS? Particularly interested in loading, managing and syncing them. WRT syncing – how do people efficiently sync large groups? Most sync utilities sync at the attribute level; if the changed

[389-users] Re: Experiences with Large Groups (>100k Members)

Thanks very much for your reply Trevor. Just to expand a bit on my bit about sync’ing – We’ve been running on 389 DS for about 5 years now, and it has been solid for the most part. Our LDAP cluster (multi-master replicated providers, hubs, and consumers) is sync’d to from our RDBMS based

[389-users] Re: Experiences with Large Groups (>100k Members)

Michael Ströder wrote: > Fong, Trevor wrote: >> Just wondering what others have encountered with large groups and >> syncing between LDAP <--> RDBMS / LDAP <--> LDAP. > > Simply write a custom script in your favourite scripting language. > It's not that hard. > > If you're familiar with Python:

[389-users] Re: Experiences with Large Groups (>100k Members)

Fong, Trevor wrote: > Just wondering what others have encountered with large groups and > syncing between LDAP <--> RDBMS / LDAP <--> LDAP. Simply write a custom script in your favourite scripting language. It's not that hard. If you're familiar with Python:

[389-users] ns-slapd segfault

Hi all, I am using 389-ds as a part of FreeIPA setup. I've established trust with AD domain but ds server crashes when I try to authenticate with an AD user on a linux system. The version I am using is: 389-ds-base.x86_641.3.7.10-1.fc27 @updates

[389-users] Re: ns-slapd segfault

On 04/26/2018 08:14 AM, Bart wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using 389-ds as a part of FreeIPA setup. I've established trust with AD > domain but ds server crashes when I try to authenticate with an AD user on a > linux system. > > The version I am using is: > > 389-ds-base.x86_64

[389-users] Re: Experiences with Large Groups (>100k Members)

Just an update: I was successful in loading 532k members into a group, in ~45 mins, via ldapmodify by segmenting the ldif into 5 separate add:member sections, of ~100k each. I also set nsslapd-db-locks in cn=config,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config to 40 – not sure which made any

[389-users] Re: Experiences with Large Groups (>100k Members)

Trev, Was going to suggest splitting and batching your imports, good call. We have had over 650k and not had any issues with 389ds. Started back on fedora-ds and migrated along with changes. Replication (master/master) is solid, keeps up with day to day changes fine, very stable. Overall no