Re: video card questions

On 03/05/2018 12:17 AM, François Patte wrote: 1- When there are two video cards on a computer, an integrated one and another one, how can we know which video card is used by the system? "glxinfo" will tell you which device is currently being used for 3D graphics. In my case, it includes

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On 03/06/18 12:10, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 08:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> do you consider the footer >> >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> equally "unnecessary as bad weather"? > An

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 08:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > do you consider the footer > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > equally "unnecessary as bad weather"? An unsubscribe address, if a robot responds

Re: change user id

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 19:45:48 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/05/2018 07:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks! If you don't fill in the Root section, then root is not set. I do > > that since the time we have had this option and set myself up as a > > superuser. > > > I had no

Re: change user id

On 05Mar2018 19:45, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/05/2018 07:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks! If you don't fill in the Root section, then root is not set. I do that since the time we have had this option and set myself up as a superuser. I had no idea it would let you do that, and

Re: change user id

On 03/05/2018 07:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks! If you don't fill in the Root section, then root is not set. I do that since the time we have had this option and set myself up as a superuser. I had no idea it would let you do that, and personally, I consider it a bug.

Re: change user id

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 19:20:42 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/05/2018 04:38 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I guess that this has to do with the fact that I am logged in (to do this). > > How do I get around this point? There is no root on the system but I do > > have sudo access. > >

Re: change user id

On 03/05/2018 04:38 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I guess that this has to do with the fact that I am logged in (to do this). How do I get around this point? There is no root on the system but I do have sudo access. Part of installing Fedora is setting the root password, and anaconda won't let

Re: change user id

I've done this many times but always from root. With no root account, I would: 1) create a 2nd user 'test', set a password, and make 'test' a sudo user 2) logout and login as 'test' 3) let's say the user to change is 'bob' with id 1000 grep bob /etc/passwd   should yield:

Re: dnf crash

On 03/05/2018 12:28 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Firstly, am I doing something wrong when I issue the command in a shell and get the segmentation fault but no error message or stack trace messages? No, the problem manifests in various ways. I only got a stack trace because I used gdb on it.

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:55:09 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second time > > prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary as bad > > weather, I believe,

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On 03/06/18 09:30, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:55:09 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >>> I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second >>> time prominently into some auto-generated list

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:55:09 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second > > time prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary > > as bad weather, I believe,

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/06/18 07:12, Temlakos wrote: > On 03/05/2018 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/05/18 23:24, Temlakos wrote: >>> [Temlakos@temlakos Other]$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/mqbcEw7AkU8 >>> [youtube] mqbcEw7AkU8: Downloading webpage >>> ERROR: Unable to download webpage: >> service not >>>

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second time > prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary as bad > weather, I believe, because are there really MUA's out there > nowadays, without the capability to display

Re: video card questions

On 03/05/2018 03:17 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, 1- When there are two video cards on a computer, an integrated one and another one, how can we know which video card is used by the system? I don't know of a laptop on which you could have two video cards, but on a desktop, it's easy: the

Re: change user id

On 05Mar2018 18:38, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am on a single-account F27 system with an user id 1000. I want to change this user id. From what I understand, I should do the following: sudo usermod -u 54321 However, when I do this, I get: usermod: user is currently used by

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:05:05 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 21:39 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500 > > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:21:43PM +,

Re: is there any value to pruning /udev in /etc/updatedb.conf?

On 03/06/18 04:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: > > PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." > > not sure if /udev ever existed in fedora, but i think it's safe to > say, it's not there now and probably won't be any time in the near > future. and even

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 07:39 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > what commands does one use with youtube-dl? It's a command line tool. There's a few ways I've used it: 1. Give it the web page address of a youtube clip: youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoI57NeMwCc 2. Give it the code number of

change user id

Hi, I am on a single-account F27 system with an user id 1000. I want to change this user id. From what I understand, I should do the following: sudo usermod -u 54321 However, when I do this, I get: usermod: user is currently used by process 866 I guess that this has to do with the fact

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On 03/06/18 08:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 21:39 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500 >> Matthew Miller wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:21:43PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: talking about a link

Re: cups sucks!!! Epilogue

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 07:44 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Have you considered implementing the other Microsoft way, which I'm > not sure how to do as I'm not a network technician but which a number > of organizations tend to do, and that is when the client does a > network browse for network

[389-users] Re: ACI to allow group to access one attribute

> > I would like to note that all those acis where defined by default > during installation and initial configuration of 389, I didn't added > anything manually. > I understand now that is lot better to have an explicit list of > allowed attributes than negative blacklist. > If I get it

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 21:39 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500 > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:21:43PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > talking about a link to the individual message, which IIRC we never >

Re: dnf crash

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 08:04 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > That works, but '*/Droid\ Sans*' (i.e. with a literal space) segfaults. > > A '\' inside single quotes is *not* an escape, use "*/Droid\ Sans*" for that. Maybe so, but it still segfaults ... poc

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

On 03/06/18 05:08, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 5/3/18 7:36 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/05/18 04:18, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> As a matter of interest, which version of the nvidia drivers are you using? >> >> 390.25-3   And I don't use wayland as performance in KDE is horrible > > From the

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/2018 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 23:24, Temlakos wrote: [Temlakos@temlakos Other]$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/mqbcEw7AkU8 [youtube] mqbcEw7AkU8: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: (caused by URLError(gaierror(-2, 'Name or service not known'),)) This

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

On 03/05/18 16:47, wwp wrote: I already gave you a clue about how to do that in another email (even, twice). 1) select the emails to filter 2) Tools/Filter selected messages That will do it, provided that your filter rules don't expect messages to be unread or new (since they are from a former

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

Hello Bob, On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:35:04 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 03/05/18 10:11, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > OK, let me serve you the piece of cake :-) > > > > 1. Configuration -> Filtering > > 2. Give the filter in question a name (any name will do) > > 3. Hit the

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

On 03/05/18 10:11, Erik P. Olsen wrote: OK, let me serve you the piece of cake :-) 1. Configuration -> Filtering 2. Give the filter in question a name (any name will do) 3. Hit the upper define button to define the condition on which the filter should act. 4. If you for example want to filter

Re: dnf crash

On 06/03/18 07:28, Stephen Morris wrote: On 5/3/18 12:55 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' This is consistent, and also happens on a second machine. Both run f27 fully updated. The following does work: $ dnf

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

On 5/3/18 7:36 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 04:18, Stephen Morris wrote: As a matter of interest, which version of the nvidia drivers are you using? 390.25-3   And I don't use wayland as performance in KDE is horrible From the negativo17 repositories I'm using the source code for the

Re: dnf crash

On 06/03/18 02:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 22:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 20:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 05/03/18 23:35, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf

is there any value to pruning /udev in /etc/updatedb.conf?

just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." not sure if /udev ever existed in fedora, but i think it's safe to say, it's not there now and probably won't be any time in the near future. and even though it doesn't *hurt* to have extraneous directory

Re: cups sucks!!! Epilogue

On 6/3/18 5:24 am, David A. De Graaf wrote: On 03/03/18 20:20, Stephen Morris wrote: On 3/3/18 9:01 am, David A. De Graaf wrote: The cups system in Fedora 27 has taken a giant step backward from prior versions in that browsing no longer works automatically.  In F26, if the cups-browsed

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:21:43PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > talking about a link to the individual message, which IIRC we never > > had in the old version either. I mean a static pointer to the > >

Re: dnf crash

On 5/3/18 12:55 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' This is consistent, and also happens on a second machine. Both run f27 fully updated. The following does work: $ dnf provides '*/Droid*' But this one crashes: $

Re: video card questions

Hi François Please see the following links that might be useful: https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Prime https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Carte_graphique_ATI_-_AMD_Radeon_:_installation_des_pilotes_libres In relation to a proprietary driver that would depend on the card you have. Can you tell me

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/18 23:24, Temlakos wrote: > [Temlakos@temlakos Other]$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/mqbcEw7AkU8 > [youtube] mqbcEw7AkU8: Downloading webpage > ERROR: Unable to download webpage: not > known> (caused by URLError(gaierror(-2, 'Name or service not known'),)) This is telling you that DNS

Re: cups sucks!!! Epilogue

On 03/03/18 20:20, Stephen Morris wrote: On 3/3/18 9:01 am, David A. De Graaf wrote: The cups system in Fedora 27 has taken a giant step backward from prior versions in that browsing no longer works automatically.  In F26, if the cups-browsed service was enabled and started, all the

Troubleshooting random hangs

Hi, I have been having random hangs on my new Ryzen workstation (Ryzen 5 2400G + B350 mobo). My hardware is supposedly properly supported on 4.15+ kernels. But I have been unable to boot with any of the ones in the repo. That said, I can boot with older kernels, but the desktop hangs randomly.

No internet on resume

Hello, I am having a problem with Fedora 27 KDE, when I suspend and resume I have no internet, and there is an error in dmesg about which I get a notification: do_IRQ: 5.37 No irq handler for vector This did not always happen. I first noticed it in kernel 4.15.3, and it stopped happening in

Re: dnf crash

On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 22:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/05/18 20:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > On 05/03/18 23:35, Tim wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > > > While it mostly works, this specific command fails: > > > > > > > > $ dnf provides '*/Droid

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/2018 10:09 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 23:00, Temlakos wrote: On 03/05/2018 09:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a fatal error: "Name or service not known." How do I get past that?

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

On 2018-03-04 at 12:10:38 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 03/04/18 11:28, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On 2018-03-04 at 10:49:02 Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >> I wanted to try Claws-Mail but after several days of sporadic attempts > >> to filter messages into my usual directories I am ready to admit defeat >

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/18 23:00, Temlakos wrote: > On 03/05/2018 09:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: >>> I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a >>> fatal error: >>> "Name or service not known." How do I get past that? >> >> Do you think it is

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-03-05 16:00 GMT+01:00, Temlakos : > On 03/05/2018 09:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: >>> I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a >>> fatal error: >>> "Name or service not known." How do I get past that? >> >> Do

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/2018 09:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a fatal error: "Name or service not known." How do I get past that? Do you think it is possible for anyone to answer that question without your

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: > I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a fatal > error: > "Name or service not known." How do I get past that? Do you think it is possible for anyone to answer that question without your giving specific examples of what you've

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/2018 08:22 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 20:39, Temlakos wrote: All right: what commands does one use with youtube-dl? Is that a command-line application? I suspect I might already have it in my system--but I thought "dl" meant "dynamic linking," same as in MS Windows. Does "-dl"

Re: dnf crash

On 03/05/18 20:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > On 05/03/18 23:35, Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >>> While it mostly works, this specific command fails: >>> >>> $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' >> >> Is that first asterisk slash sequence the right characters, in

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/18 20:39, Temlakos wrote: > All right: what commands does one use with youtube-dl? Is that a command-line > application? I suspect I might already have it in my system--but I thought > "dl" > meant "dynamic linking," same as in MS Windows. Does "-dl" mean "download" > instead? > If so,

Re: does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

On 03/05/18 20:10, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/05/18 19:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> so if red hat builds bash based on the source as it is, then that >>> variable is still commented out and the man page is misleading. >>> thoughts? >> >> Both

Re: dnf crash

On 05/03/18 23:35, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' Is that first asterisk slash sequence the right characters, in the right order? Yes, the pattern is a standard wildcard

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/2018 02:25 AM, Javier Perez wrote: I switched to youtube-dl It was too much pain trying to make VDH to behave. All right: what commands does one use with youtube-dl? Is that a command-line application? I suspect I might already have it in my system--but I thought "dl" meant

Re: dnf crash

On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > While it mostly works, this specific command fails: > > $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' Is that first asterisk slash sequence the right characters, in the right order? I'm on an older release, but if I try your command, and similar

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 11:00 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've never found a mail client that could do filtering worth spit. I found that YAM (Yet Another Mailer) on the Amiga was good, back in the day... I'm continually amazed at how crap software can be at running on some gigahertz multi-CPU

Re: does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/05/18 19:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so if red hat builds bash based on the source as it is, then that > > variable is still commented out and the man page is misleading. > > thoughts? > > > Both ~/.bash_logout and /etc/bash.bash_logout are

Re: does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

On 03/05/18 19:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so if red hat builds bash based on the source as it is, then that > variable is still commented out and the man page is misleading. > thoughts? Both ~/.bash_logout and /etc/bash.bash_logout  are honored on my F27 system. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ !ssh ssh

does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

was reading "man bash" and ran across this: "When an interactive login shell exits, or a non-interactive login shell executes the exit builtin command, bash reads and executes commands from the files ~/.bash_logout and /etc/bash.bash_logout, if the files exists." i was totally unaware of

[389-users] Re: ACI to allow group to access one attribute

> I need to see the aci's on your server to help more. Can you please > send me (either to the list, or directly to my email) the output of: > > ldapsearch -x -b "your basedn" -D 'cn=Directory Manager' -w -H > ldaps:// '(aci=*)' aci > > That well help me answer the question as to what is causing

Re: dnf crash

On 05/03/18 08:50, John Pilkington wrote: I know this thread is about dnf, but I've seen exactly this font problem. mythtv will be looking for /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf which may be a real file derived from the mythtv distro or may be a link to the system fonts location like

Re: dnf crash

On 05/03/18 05:31, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 05/03/18 15:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 12:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/04/2018 05:55 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' This is consistent, and also happens on a

video card questions

Bonjour, 1- When there are two video cards on a computer, an integrated one and another one, how can we know which video card is used by the system? 2- I have a laptop with an ATI/AMD card, is there a proprietary driver available on fedora (like this exists for nvidia cards). Thank you. --