Re: no more graphics mode

2020-06-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-06-04 05:57, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I cannot restart the graphics mode (fc32) You have posted "no more graphics mode" and "No way to have graphics".  Are these the same problem?  Is there a special reason you're doing "startx' as opposed to using a Display Manager like gdm, sddm, or

Re: no more graphics mode

2020-06-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/3/20 4:09 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Is there something wrong with this file? The graphics mode start but nothing happen when I run: X -config xorg.conf.new (generated by Xorg --configure) xrandr say can't open display Is there a reason you need to use an xorg.conf file? That is generally

Re: slow down problem

2020-06-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-06-03 17:43, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 17:28 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Every so often, once every two weeks or so for no apparent reason or program, my computer slows down to about 1/5 speed. CPU overheating? xsensors say all four core are between 35

Re: slow down problem

2020-06-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
>> >> Hi All, >> >> Fedora 32 >> Xfce 4.14 >> >> Every so often, once every two weeks or so for no apparent >> reason or program, my computer slows down to about 1/5 speed. >> Typed letter take time to appear. File system stuff is five >> times slower: tar, dump, etc.. >> >> And I can't find

Re: booting problem

2020-06-03 Thread Douglas Lindquist
I booted from dvd. I used it becuase it had the uefi files on it. I used fdisk to check the install hd. It was still set to gpt but i set it again anyway. I could not find any way in the bios to switch between uefi and bios mode. After I rebooted the normal settings were there but they

Neverwinder Nights on linux (shot in the dark)

2020-06-03 Thread Richard Shaw
I've played the Original Neverwinter Nights since I used to run windows while in college. My son has taken an interest (honestly one of the best games ever). I haven't played it in some time and recently I tried but it just hangs. I have multiple other computers with nvidia or intel based

Re: No way to have graphics

2020-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
Or of that holding process dying it will exit.Usually it will be the last thing being started and won't have an & On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:05 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Do you have a process in xinit and/or xstart that runs forever? You > must have one that "holds" it open, otherwise X

Re: No way to have graphics

2020-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
Do you have a process in xinit and/or xstart that runs forever? You must have one that "holds" it open, otherwise X exits. Usually you do a window manager, or say some trivial program that you won't ever close, if you do close it X will exit. On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 7:40 PM Patrick Dupre wrote:

Re: slow down problem

2020-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
grep -i dirty /proc/meminfo If that number gets high enough the machine will freeze all write io (dirty_ratio/bytes) until it gets down to the dirty_background_bytes/ratio. If you hit this, how long that is is how long it takes to write out (background_ratio - ratio) * ram I have had good luck

Re: slow down problem

2020-06-03 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 17:28 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Every so often, once every two weeks or so for no apparent > reason or program, my computer slows down to about 1/5 speed. CPU overheating? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 12 16:57:42 UTC 2020

No way to have graphics

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I do not understand. This installation does not want to run in graphics mode anymore. It seems that the X session starts correctly, but for some reasons, just immediately leave the session. I checked from another installation (also fc32), every thing is fine. I tried both in root mode and

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-03 19:56, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: You can always create a symbolic link to it and place the link and call the link whatever you want ° Yes, I saw that in a google search, I also tried  mount --bind which worked. -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA

slow down problem

2020-06-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Fedora 32 Xfce 4.14 Every so often, once every two weeks or so for no apparent reason or program, my computer slows down to about 1/5 speed. Typed letter take time to appear. File system stuff is five times slower: tar, dump, etc.. And I can't find anything wrong. iotop and top both

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-06-03 15:02, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-06-03 17:06, Terry Polzin wrote: I believe that gets generated at mount since the device UUID in embedded in the path ° Ok, that was a clue, I had mounted it using the long "name" in my Thunar file manager. I unmounted that and foune that it

Re: no more graphics mode

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Is there something wrong with this file? The graphics mode start but nothing happen when I run: X -config xorg.conf.new (generated by Xorg --configure) xrandr say can't open display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
you might be able to do this: echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete that will remove the sdX device, to get it back you would need to reboot or do a" echo "- - -" to the "scan" device under the device that controls it to bring it back. You may need to also use smartctl and/or hdparm (if this usb

Re: Strange dnf behavior or UFU (user foul up)?

2020-06-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/3/20 1:41 PM, George R Goffe via users wrote: Description of problem: Attempting to upgrade this system. First try revealed errors with "nut" and "gnutls" so I reran the command adding --exclude='nut-*' and --exclude='gnutls*'. This retry listed several other packages with problems.

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/3/20 1:36 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: /I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk /I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk" but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake

Re: booting problem

2020-06-03 Thread Stephen Morris
On 4/6/20 12:53 am, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:52:05AM -0400, doug.lindqu...@atlanticbb.net wrote: I recently tried to install Centos 8 on my 3tb uefi hd that already had Fedora 32 and Windows 10 on it. The Centos installation did not finish because it could install

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-03 17:06, Terry Polzin wrote: I believe that gets generated at mount since the device UUID in embedded in the path ° Ok, that was a clue, I had mounted it using the long "name" in my Thunar file manager. I unmounted that and foune that it was also listed in "mount" as /dev/sdc.

Re: no more graphics mode

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
I am attaching the log file > > Hello, > > I cannot restart the graphics mode (fc32) > > startx > > xauth: file /home/pdupre/.serverauth.2495 does not exist > > > X.Org X Server 1.20.8 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: 5.5.10-200.fc31.x86_64 > Current

no more graphics mode

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I cannot restart the graphics mode (fc32) startx xauth: file /home/pdupre/.serverauth.2495 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.20.8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: 5.5.10-200.fc31.x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux Teucidide 5.6.15-300.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 11:24 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 08:33 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 02Jun2020 10:57, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I have a powered USB dock with a couple of SATA drives configured as > > > RAID1, and used only for nightly backups.

Re: Multiboot question

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 20:21 +, Steven Usdansky via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 12:07 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > > > Indeed, though I assume that some people are using the lame HK system > > because they have no alternative (don't ask me why). Why else would > > anyone use it?

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Bob Goodwin wrote: /I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk" but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Terry Polzin
I believe that gets generated at mount since the device UUID in embedded in the path On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:57 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > /I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at > /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk > > I would like to change

USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Bob Goodwin
/I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk" but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake and render it inaccessible. Can that be

Strange dnf behavior or UFU (user foul up)?

2020-06-03 Thread George R Goffe via users
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a system here and am having some difficulty with dnf. Could I get some help or tips or suggestions please? Below is what I would enter in a bugzilla.redhat.com bug report. I thought I'd check here first in case I've done something stupid. Thanks, George...

USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Bob Goodwin
/I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk /I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk" but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake and render it inaccessible. Can that be

Re: Multiboot question

2020-06-03 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
> On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 12:07 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > Indeed, though I assume that some people are using the lame HK system > because they have no alternative (don't ask me why). Why else would > anyone use it? > > poc Sorry. I just use my browser and wasn't aware of the need to quote to

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > > It is not much of a useful security measure, since root can su - user > and take a look see anyway. It's more for protecting against root-level services and not a malicious admin running as root. -- Jonathan Billings

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
It is not much of a useful security measure, since root can su - user and take a look see anyway. On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 10:13 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > $ sudo lsof /raid > > lsof: WARNING: can't stat()

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2020-06-03 17:11, Jonathan Billings wrote: This is just a red herring. lsof, running as root, can't poke around in the gvfs mounts for a user. The FUSE mounts for gvfs is locked down so only users can get at them, as a security measure. lsof looks at all processes, including the gvfs

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 11:11 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > $ sudo lsof /raid > > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs > > Output information may be incomplete. > > lsof:

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > $ sudo lsof /raid > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs > Output information may be incomplete. > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc >

Re: booting problem

2020-06-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:52:05AM -0400, doug.lindqu...@atlanticbb.net wrote: > I recently tried to install Centos 8 on my 3tb uefi hd that already had > Fedora 32 and Windows 10 on it. The Centos installation did not finish > because it could install the boot loader.  It ended up screwing up

Re: perl-Math-GSL

2020-06-03 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 08:12, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Yes, > Thanks. > It works. > > This is the only option that I found to deploy my package. > I could not fix perl-Math-GSL-0.40 to have it matches GSL 2.6 > > Probably Leto will fix the issue sometimes > > Indeed, there are plenty of perl

Re: perl-Math-GSL

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Yes, Thanks. It works. This is the only option that I found to deploy my package. I could not fix perl-Math-GSL-0.40 to have it matches GSL 2.6 Probably Leto will fix the issue sometimes Indeed, there are plenty of perl packages that are not maintained for fedora, this is really annoying.

Re: perl-Math-GSL

2020-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:21:43 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I could not compile perl-Math-GSL-0.40 because this package does not deal > with gsl 2.6 > Thus, I installed gsl 2.5 independently of gsl 2.6 (gsl-2.6-2.fc32.x86_64) > and I was able to build the rpm package which requires libgsl.so.23 >

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 08:33 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 02Jun2020 10:57, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have a powered USB dock with a couple of SATA drives configured as > > RAID1, and used only for nightly backups. The (minimal) manual for the > > dock tells me it will power down after

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 06:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-06-02 23:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 10:17 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > you might want to > > > > > > run a lsof and see if anything has open files on it, and if nothing > > > > > > has open files on

perl-Math-GSL

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I could not compile perl-Math-GSL-0.40 because this package does not deal with gsl 2.6 Thus, I installed gsl 2.5 independently of gsl 2.6 (gsl-2.6-2.fc32.x86_64) and I was able to build the rpm package which requires libgsl.so.23 I put a link to this library (provided by gsl 2.5) in

Re: Multiboot question

2020-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 12:07 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 00:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Please remember to quote context when replying on HyperKitty, > > otherwise your message cannot be understood without firing up a web > > browser. > > Or a threading email