eSATA removable drive

I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it. My system is Fedora 11. I added an external eSATA port on my desktop computer by adding a bracket (with an internal cable connected to one of the ordinary SATA sockets on the motherboard.) The SATA controller is an

Re: eSATA removable drive

| From: John Austin j...@jaa.org.uk | Hi | | I have used hotplug hard drives for some time but never used eject What do you do to safely remove the disk? Surely unmount and swapoff, as applicable, but how do you tell the system that the actual drive is going away? That's what I use eject for

Re: eSATA removable drive

| From: Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com | The problem is that the controller you've plugged into (the one on | the motherboard) is not designed for hotswap devices. It's expecting | a hard-installed drive and thus doesn't have the eject support NOR does | it have necessary power supply glitch

Re: RAM shows less

| Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:14:20 +0530 | From: Jatin K ssh.fed...@gmail.com | | On Monday 10 May 2010 08:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: | Jatin K wrote: | | Dear All | | I've a new Dell Inspiton 1564 laptop with 1GB graphics card and 4GB DDR3 | RAM, FC 12 64bit installed on it , but in

Re: gpk-update-viewer vs. yum

| From: BeartoothHOS bearto...@comcast.net | Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:51:05 + (UTC) | | Is it just me?? | | I've noticed, on several machines (PC, laptop, netbook) that if | the machine has no connection, or thinks it has none, the gpk function | claims there are no updates;

Re: eSATA removable drive

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:23:17 -0400 (EDT) This is a bit old. Here's the start of thread in the archives: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-April/370236.html | I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug

DVD writing oddity

I have a shell script that I've been using for years to burn ISO images. I just tried it with Fedora 13, and it acted up in an odd way. It burnt a DVD+R with this command: growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw=/mnt/space-1500/tmp/08mythburn.iso -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=dao When that

Re: DVD writing oddity

| From: Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk | | On 07/12/2010 08:22 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | ... | In other words, the drive didn't seem to have a disk in it, or at | least not one that could be read as a raw bytestream. | | The script ejected the disk; I inserted it again; I ran the cmp again

ctrl-alt-+ doesn't work for me

I am encountering a video bug on my Fedora 13 desktop using the Radeon driver. Once in a while, the screen goes blank in a way that hitting a key or moving a mouse does not undo. I don't think that this blanking is aligned with normal screen blanking. I was given a suggestion. When this

Re: ctrl-alt-+ doesn't work for me

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | ctrl-alt-+ does not work for me on F13. I don't know when it | disappeared. Perhaps when ctrl-alt-backspace was retired. I've created a bugzilla entry for this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631659 -- users mailing list users

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: | Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:47:50 + | From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Followup-To: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition | | Joachim Backes wrote: | |

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

| From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net | I've always had a single /boot partition and it seems to work fine, | with the same grub.conf for different systems. Always is a long time. I've been upgrading my Linux boxes since at least RHL 5.x. A small chance of grief times a lot of instances

Averatec notebook hangs on resume from sleep with Fedora 14

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition | I've got a laptop that currently has WinXP, Fedora 14, Ubuntu 9.10, | Ubuntu 10.10. The Ubuntu 10.10 is using GRUB2 and I'm not liking it. | | The Ubuntu 9.10 can properly resume from a suspend

DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not relevant) so I manually ran network manager (didn't help). Then I rebooted back to Gnome. Wired networking seemed to no longer work. Actually, networking worked but no domain

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

Thanks for all your useful replies. | From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | Do you have the SELinux troubleshooter running? I don't know. The new-to-me Gnome 3 desktop is still quite a puzzle. If I have it running, it didn't signal me in a way that I noticed. Is it part of the default F15 desktop

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

| From: Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com | Well I just tried to run NetworkManager as root and see something | similar, although I also end up with the resolv.conf having bogus data | in it. I can fix F16 to label this correctly if it happens. But we | can not fix this in F15. I'm glad you can

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

| From: Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it | Indeed I'm not interested in passing music on the ipad but ebooks and | pdf files, I'd like to use it as a sort of e-reader. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the security aspects, but dropbox runs on Fedora and on an iPad, so you can share files

F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

I rarely use Nautilus on F19. I'm trying it now. There are a few improvements that seem obvious. It calls itself Files (see about files) but is nautilus (see ps(1) output). Make up your mind. I think files is a terrible name -- it is too generic. Gnome Files might be OK. But I like Nautilus

Re: [GW-C] Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

| From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: | For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk | each time I update ubuntu kernel. | | How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? It is supposed to find it. There

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

| From: Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com | On 12/08/2013 01:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882568 Fedora could not mount | the Ubuntu partition for examination because it wasn't SELinux labelled. | Of course requiring a Ubuntu partition

Re: install fedora via usb stick

| From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com | Anyone know why there are so many complicated ways listed? The LiveUSB creator lets you 1) add to an existing FAT filesystem without losing what's already there 2) create a persistent store so changes you make on the live

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! after recent update of Fedora 20

| From: The Walters sbwalters0...@gmail.com | After a recent update started seeing messages like what is listed below and | now complete lock up. Tried going back 1 or 2 kernels but same issue. I can't help you with the specific problem. It is always good to google an error message. Have you?

Re: Screen Brightness Keys Not Working - Thinkpad W540 Fedora 20

| From: CS DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com | Just setup a Thinkpad W540, most everything is working well. I hope you are aware that there is a BIOS bug that can cause Linux to brick the machine. As in: once it happens, the motherboard needs to be replaced. See this, for example:

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! after recent update of Fedora 20

| From: The Walters sbwalters0...@gmail.com | I have tried the last 2 kernels and the 1st kernel that that was with the | original release of Fedora 20 (I know this was a long shot) but no go. That's as good. | I also | have the last Fedora 19 kernel install from before I did an upgrade to 20

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

| From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com | i never have and never will recommend any 'all-in-one'. They have their place (and sometimes it is hard to find a place for all the bits it would replace). (I have the Brother DCP-7065dn mentioned earlier.) Likes: - I really like duplex

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

| From: Juan R. de Silva juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com | Yes, you need to use Brother's drivers for it. | But what's the problem with it, if they are always available and easy to | install? 1. At some point, Brother will stop supporting the printer. The printer may still be otherwise useful.

Re: Sipwitch in Fedora 14

| From: james tate binary...@comcast.net | | F14/kde | I'm using Twinkle to setup a Profile for sipwitch, can someone tell me | what is; I'll take a stab. I don't use twinkle or sipswitch, so don't trust my answers. | Domain Usually that would be a Fully Qualified Domain Name. Like

Re: Analog video capture

| From: Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com | | On 05/21/2011 07:57 AM, JD wrote: | On 05/20/11 23:11, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: | On 05/20/2011 11:12 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: | JDjd1...@gmail.com writes: | What do you think of this hauppague gizmo? | |

what do you use tracker for?

Do you use tracker? Can you give examples of how you've used it and if you find it useful? Is there a useful guide to exploiting tracker? background / war story I've been oblivious to tracker. I must have had it for some time, but it hasn't crashed so it didn't come to my attention. It

SELinux: colord vs. livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

You'd think those two things would be unrelated: one manages color rendering profiles, the other builds a bootable USB stick from a .iso file. When I was running livecd-iso-to-disk.sh, SELinux popped up a warning. The source process: /usr/libexec/colord Attempted this access: read,search

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

| From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net | I take it you are referring to modern machines? This one was new in '81, I | think. Maybe '82.? I'm confused. What machine built in 1981 or 1982 can run Fedora? A recent enough one that you can file a BZ on (i.e. F17, F18, F19)? Heck, I

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

I'm sorry about my last message. I got into a time warp and replied to a mesage from Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:26:48 -0500! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Perplexed

| From: Roger are...@bigpond.com | I just now used Fedup to update Fedora 18 to 19. It did it's thing quickly and | efficiently and awaited a reboot. | I have both Ubuntu and Fedora on the hard drive. It boots to the Ubuntu grub | from which I select the Fedora install. | I selected Fedora

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

I've been using Fedora and before that Red Hat Linux for over 15 years. I've never trusted any update process. I've always done a re-installation. This time, I thought I'd give fedup a chance. I've done it on three systems. Each mostly worked. The problems were minor and could essentially

Re: Resume problem

| From: Tanguy Eric eric.tan...@gmail.com | The problem was in f18 and now also in f19. The pc seems to go fine in | hibernate but when i try to resume it seems to try to resume and after few | seconds reboot normally. I tried to activate the pm_trace functionality with | |echo 1

updating live CD: does it result in more up-to-date installations?

I have built a USB stick with a Live Fedora 19 on it. I gave it a large overlay to make room for updates. I booted the stick and did a yum update. (Boy was that slow. I think that the Kingston DT101 G2 stick, combined with the USB 2.0 interface, was the cause.) If I install from this stick,

Re: updating live CD: does it result in more up-to-date installations?

| From: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to | On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:16:29 -0400, | D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote: | If I install from this stick, will the installed system be already | updated? | The way things currently work the anwser is yes. The file system is | essentially

Re: [GW-C] Re: Resume problem

| From: Tanguy Eric eric.tan...@gmail.com | Updating my dell gx520 to the latest available bios (A11) does not solve the | problem. For what it's worth, the GX50 is already listed in this quirks file: /usr/lib64/pm-utils/video-quirks/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.quirkdb Here's a not-totally-ancient

Re: [GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

| From: Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com | How did you get past the screen that only lets you pick a whole disk | drive then, as the only possible option after that, click Done? | (Or, as I did the first time I saw it, push the reset button :-). | | No power on earth could get me to click Done

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

| From: Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org | Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a | complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's | nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway. There is a risk: things can be subtly wrong, in such a way

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

| From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net | what he menat was showing the difference between | present and new config file before updates and the | option to merge them - not that the merge is useful | in many cases but *that* is was Debian offers Yes. Perhaps it is my greater time with Red

Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

I carelessly bought a printer/scanner that has a proprietary driver. It worked fine in Fedora 18 and earlier. It doesn't seem to work with Fedora 19. Not much to be done with a proprietary driver, but I'd be happy with any reasonable solution. The printer is a network printer. I have a CentOS 5

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

| From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... I think so. I used fedup to go from F18-19. The printer didn't work. So I did rpm -e cupswrapperDCP7065DN

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | | From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us | | | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) | | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... | | I think so. I guess not. I have now performed step 5b from

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

| From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us | I've been looking for a cheap multifunction printer/kitchen-sink device, | so given your success, I went to amazon and ordered one of the same thing. | Please cross your fingers for me! ;-) ;-) I will cross my fingers. Here's a sort of review

Re: 3.2Gb over 4Gb

| From: Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org | The chipset of that laptop is not capable to address thze whole 4GB RAM. | That's not untypical for systems of that age (Intel T2300). To back this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron#Inspiron_9400.2FE1705 says about the same thing. It

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

| From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net | Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:38:21 +0200 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D319901 | | looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining | which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these | days in context of PRISM and more and

Re: old disk in new system

| From: Randolph Jones jones...@qwest.net | I have 1tb disk with bootable fc14 installed as second disk in new box | with fc19 xfce spin installed in 320gb disk. Sounds reasonable. Did you shut down the fc14 system cleanly last time you booted? Perhaps an fsck is needed. | fc19 sees the old

Re: turning off Screen Lock in F19 GNOME doesn't work

| From: Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de | On 10/15/2013 11:03 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: | Andre Robatino robatino at fedoraproject.org writes: | | Has anyone else noticed that in F19 GNOME, even with Screen Lock turned off, | lately the screen will lock anyway? Is there an

Re: [GW-C] Re: turning off Screen Lock in F19 GNOME doesn't work

I forgot to mention another symptom. Sometimes a warning box would pop up near the bottom of my screen, and then go away. I think it popped up when a screen-save was about to fire, so I didn't see it very often. It said: Unable to Lock: lock was blocked by an application Stupidly, the

Re: Lack of things in Gimp

| From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com | I have a bunch of laptops I would love to have on Fedora, but Fedora doesn't | include the drivers, rpmfusion has them, but the Live-CD and install kernels | in fc18 don't match the driver, I can't D/L drivers because I don't have the | drivers, if I did I

Fedora 18 network printer setup

I have a Brother DCP-7065dn printer scanner connected to my LAN. Sadly, it requires a proprietary driver. I've installed that. http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html I asked the System Settings: Printers to set it up (add the printer). The SS:P found the

Re: Fedora 18 network printer setup

| From: Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com | That's odd. What output does this command give?: | | su -c 'lpinfo -l -v' | | (I'm hoping it lists the network printer there...) Context: my F18 system currently has a working printer setting, installed through the CUPS web interface. When I go to System

yum Environment Groups?

On my Fedora 18 system, when I do a yum group list, I get three lists of groups: Available Environment Groups, Installed Groups, and Available Groups. I understand what the second and third lists are. What is an Environment Group? Why is none actually installed (eg. GNOME Desktop)? The yum

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

| From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net | Am 30.03.2013 04:51, schrieb Richard Vickery: | Those with much more experience in the group and Linux will tell you that this version is no longer supported, and | that you should download the current one if you need help. It sounds rather cold

Fedora 18 software: check for update hangs

When I selected Software and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU. It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour of no progress, I decided that there was

abrt: how can you change bugzilla credentials?

On Fedora 17, I'm getting a few aborts. Before I get to the fundamental problem, I'd like to let abrt file a BZ. The problem is that I mistyped the password when abrt first ran. Now it always uses that wrong password. So it can never succeed. Does anyone know how to change abrt's idea of

Re: abrt: how can you change bugzilla credentials?

| From: Sergio sergiocmailbox-userl...@yahoo.com.br | --- Em sáb, 17/11/12, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com escreveu: | Does anyone know how to change abrt's idea of Bugzilla | credentials? | Go in 'Preferences' and re-configure the bugzilla account. Ah, thanks. I had tried that menu

Re: What to do with warnings like these?

| From: Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl | $ dmesg |grep -i -e warning | [7.211363] ACPI Warning: 0xefa0-0xefbf SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120711/utaddress-251) | [7.212758] ACPI Warning: 0x0428-0x042f

Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

| From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver recommended | by the RH printer tool didn't work for me. | | I've printed to it from Centos 6.5, Fedora 19,

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

| From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | On 04/28/2014 10:44 AM, Javier Perez wrote: | | Is there anything I should know I am not taking into consideration? | | Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% | of its capacity. It will also be much safer than having it on

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

| From: Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com | I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash system is supposed to | give for the OS. Specially given that it is an old system. I could be wrong, but I think - most USB sticks are quite slow. - USB2 sticks are guaranteed to be slow-ish - USB

Re: Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

| From: Lee ny6...@gmail.com | Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers? No. Many don't need proprietary drivers. Some have proprietary drivers. I would guess some don't have Linux drivers at all. As usual, one good resource is

Re: unreportable kernel oops / bluetooth

| From: Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com | I get kerneloops reports that I can't pass on because the kernel is | tained by the virtualbox drivers. ... | Any suggestions about how to debug/fix this? See if you can repeat this without the virtualbox drivers installed. If so: report to

Re: Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...

| From: Michael Hannon jmhannon.ucda...@gmail.com | Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 21:57:20 -0700 This thread is over a month old. I found it when thrashing around to solve my own problem: failure of duplex printing with Fedora 20 on a Brother HL-5150D (connected via USB). Please look at this bugzilla:

Re: Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | Please sign up for bz 1035090 and whine :-) | That may increase the priority for backporting the already-fixed | pdftops. New alternative: try my COPR. I've assembled a version of poppler that seems to fix the problem. And be compatible

Re: Brother HL-5250DN duplex printing: loves me, loves me not, ...

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | See http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/hugh/poppler-fix-f20/ | | I'd love feedback. Thanks for the feedback. We've noticed that we can no longer print envelopes. I wonder why. The printer no longer stops with a blinking light, awaiting a blank

/boot/efi in a dual boot system

As I type this, I'm installing Fedora 20 on a UEFI system which already has CentOS 7 (and nothing else). Should the two systems share /boot/efi? As I understand it, the answer is yes: /boot/efi is universal on a machine. It is where the firmware goes to load things. Not just OS bootloader:

bootstrapping from a USB stick

I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte sectors and then only with MBR disks. I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all the way (3T and 4T sizes aren't good for MBR either). I was thinking that I

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

| From: Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de | I am not sure, but IIRC, Socket 478-era processor all were 32bit and did not | support pae. Socket 478 was for Pentium 4 Northwood processors and some later ones. PAE was introduced with the Pentium Pro. As far as I know, all P4 processors had PAE.

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

| From: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au | Any ideas what the problem(s) might be? It sort of looks like a RAM problem | to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be faulty . . When I have a flaky system, I fire up memtest86+ and let it rip for 12 to 24 hours. I sometimes finds an error. If the memory

Re: bootstrapping from a USB stick

| From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com | On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com wrote: | | I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte | sectors and then only with MBR disks. | | I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks

Re: netflix play on chrome works (finally)

| From: Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com | I see with fedora20 + current chrome stable, netflix now works! And, even works | well with my chromecast. Wow! Will it do Netflix in HD? Most Android devices cannot do Netflix in HD for some (intentional?) reason but some Nexus Android devices can.

4k video fails after update

[This is a very incomplete report. Sorry. I wanted to get this out before I go to bed. More when I have time.] I have a Seiki 4k monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It has been working well for a while. I

Re: 4k video fails after update

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier h...@mimosa.com | I have a Seiki 4k monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm | using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It | has been working well for a while. | After updates from the last week or so, when I boot, I

Re: Input out of Range

| From: Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com | That works up to the point where you try to modify the xorg.conf | file. X pays no attention to xorg.conf most of the time these | days. What does work is getting the EDID from the monitor and | stashing it in a firmware directory where you can use it

Fedora 23 on Asus UX305C / UX305CA ultrabook

The UX305 is an ultrabook that can run Linux (google for discussion). So I bought a couple when the Canadian Microsoft Store had a great Boxing Day sale. (Boxing Day in Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth is a sale day like the US Black Friday. It is the day after Christmas.) It turns out

Re: confusion setting up local email delivery, a war story

| From: Rick Stevens | Can you recall if you installed postfix via RPM? We installed it via dnf. The logging of dnf is a bit confusing but it appears in /var/log/dnr.rpm.log-20160214 "journalctl -t dnf" doesn't mention postfix. "journalctl" , search for "postfix" finds

Re: /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

| From: stan <stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net> Thanks for your useful response. But there are still things that puzzle/annoy me. | On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:22:36 -0400 (EDT) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <h...@mimosa.com> wrote: | | > On my Fedora 23 | > systems, /var/cache

Fedora 23 installation failed and symptoms destroyed

The system is a newly assembled and installing Fedora 23 from live DVD is its first use. The processor is Skylake (I guess that might matter). GPT partitioning and UEFI firmware are being used. Fedora 23 installation seems to work fine until it says that it is installing the bootloader. At

/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

On my Fedora 23 systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full of .rpm files. For example, 2.7G on my desktop. /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages has some too. "sudo dnf clean packages" doesn't seem to change this. What does it change? What is the purpose of

confusion setting up local email delivery, a war story

I wished to set up a Fedora 23 notebook to pick up email via fetchmail. A problem I'd solved long ago on other distros and releases. fetchmail failed because it tried to use SMTP with localhost to do the local delivery and nobody was listening for SMTP. That got removed from the default

Re: btrfs doesn't support filesystem swap

| From: Mark Haney | Ubuntu's using OpenZFS, which is under the CDDL. IANAL, but I don't see | that as a showstopper for Fedora including it in the future. My bet is that those who want to think it is OK

Re: btrfs doesn't support filesystem swap

| From: Rick Stevens | Keep in mind that SuSE is not based in the United States and can, if | they so choose, thumb their noses at US patent and copyright law. Red | Hat IS based in the US and cannot (well, will not) knowingly violate US | law. 1. US has a nasty habit of

Re: Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <h...@mimosa.com> | To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> | Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 15:27:53 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: Re: Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23? | | | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <h...@mimosa.com> | | | I don't know

Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23?

I have a server that I want to use to test Libreswan VPN software. This requires a lot of entropy (for random number generation). Unfortunately, the box, a Dell, has a processor with no RdRand instruction. But it does have a TPM 1.2 module, and that is supposed to be able to generate

Re: Entropy from TPM of Fedora 23?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <h...@mimosa.com> | I don't know how to get the TPM to feed entropy to the Linux kernel RNG. Maybe a clue here: sudo modprobe tpm-rng sudo ./rngd -f -v and now I've got lots of entropy in the pool. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Nautilus search bar slow

(I understand that Nautilus has been renamed "Gnome Files". But ps(1) calls it nautilus, and so does the manpage, so I will too.) I (on Fedora 28) use Nautilus once in a while. There is a handy feature that if you start typing a filename, it will do some kind of search for that filename.

Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

Sometimes when I try to install Fedora, Windows eats my installation USB stick. Fedora is distributed as a .iso (a CD/DVD image). This image is cleverly designed such that if you dump it, byte for byte, onto a USB stick (not into a filesystem), you get a stick that can be booted. I install by

SD slot errors

I've just installed F28 beta on my Cube Mix Plus tablet. It seems to work but a sequence of messages keep showing up in the dmesg outputnevery 10 seconds. [ 537.896013] mmc1: Timeout waiting for hardware cmd interrupt. [ 537.896023] mmc1: sdhci: SDHCI REGISTER DUMP === [

Re: GnuCash 3.0

| From: SternData | Version 3.0 was released the other day. Are there plans to update the | version in the repos? I don't see anything in updates-testing. I'm looking forward to it because some gnucash bugs were caused by using an old version of webkit and 3.0

Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

I have a no-name netbook-style laptop running up-to-date Fedora 29. When I close the lid, fedora almost always puts the notebook in sleep mode. Unfortunately, once in a while, it does not. And then my battery runs

Re: Thinkfan

| From: Robert Moskowitz | I have not done IRC since '98!  Going to have to find a client and remember | how...  :) I use IRC a bit. hexchat (the replacement for xchat) seems OK if you want a GUI client. Perhaps you'd find it less challenging to use this mailing list:

Re: trouble with Fedora 31, notebook, and nvidia

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I bought a used notebook which came with an Nvidia GPU and I haven't | managed to get it to work with Fedora. Sorry, that was a bad summary. I have not been able to get it to work WELL with Fedora. I'm still hopeful. - it hangs with the nouveau driver. (Which

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

| From: Tim via users | If any user should need the enforcement of good passwords, it's the | root user. If your PC was on a LAN where crackers can have a go at | you, this could be very important. It does not take long for someone | to mess up a system if they can get in. It's better to be

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

| From: Tim via users | Samuel Sieb: | >> 3 retries is the usual thing. | Ignoring your particular case, it may stop a bad keyboard, or a typist | who needs to type slower to accurately enter their password. It also makes brute-forcing a little harder. Not a lot.

trouble with Fedora 31, notebook, and nvidia

I bought a used notebook which came with an Nvidia GPU and I haven't managed to get it to work with Fedora. Computer: Dell XPS 15 9580. UltraHD screen. Nvidia GFX 1050 mobile GPU. 1) Fedora 30 installation medium hung. 2) tried Fedora 31 beta. Hung the same way. 3) it seems that nouveau is

Re: DNF Update this morning -

| From: Bob Goodwin | Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:43:38 -0400 | Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row failed: database disk image is malformed I too got this SQLite error. I was able to fix it simply: just sudo mv /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite

Re: Fedora 33 and HDMI KVM switch

| From: Samuel Sieb | On 2/6/21 5:44 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: | >  I'm having an issue running Fedora 33 and an external monitor connected to | > an HDMI KVM switch.  Here is the way it's connected: | > | > Laptop thunderbolt 3 connector -> 4 port USB c to USB 3.0 hub -> USB to HDMI | >

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

Trivial thoughts from reading this thread. Please don't take the triviality as an insult. Perhaps the best way to determine if the problem is from a software update is to downgrade likely packages. In the case of the kernel, you can just boot an older one (assuming that an old enough one is

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