Re: livecd-creator -

2018-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/22/18 08:09, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 02/21/18 18:56, Matthew Miller wrote: >> Do you literally want a CD, or do you want USB media? > > I have a computer that does not want to run from a fedora-27 thumb drive that > I > used to install fedora on this the computer I am typing this on. I would

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/23/18 05:27, Stephen Morris wrote: > From the responses I am getting it seems that the meaning of 'taints the > kernel' > has morphed into something else? Here is the definitive list of what taints the kernel.  This is from the 4.14 documentation but is also valid for 4.15 kernels. https

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/23/18 05:59, Ed Greshko wrote: > The numbers in the list correspond to the bit positions in the value supplied > by "cat > /proc/sys/kernel/tainted" That actually should have said "number - 1" corresponds to the bit position in the value returned by the cat

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/24/18 10:21, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 23/2/18 8:59 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/23/18 05:27, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>  From the responses I am getting it seems that the meaning of 'taints the >>> kernel' >>> has morphed into something e

Re: why does virtualbox keep all my old /lib/modules directories around?

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/24/18 15:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > not sure why i never noticed this before, but even though updating > my fedora box keeps only the last three versions of the kernel, i have > a couple dozen /lib/modules directories each representing an older > version of the kernel going back to 4.11.

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/24/18 12:43, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Ed. Is there any documentation anywhere on what each bit represents? You mean other than the URL I've supplied at kernel.org and the comments within tainted.c ? > > > With bit 13 being set reflecting the loading of an unsigned module into a > ker

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/24/18 22:03, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat > etc.. > > I'd like to simply remove the 1st part ztcloud_nfs_parsezt from the > files, renaming the files

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/24/18 22:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 02/24/18 22:03, bruce wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: >>> ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat >>>

Re: why does virtualbox keep all my old /lib/modules directories around?

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/25/18 02:51, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> i honestly don't recall how they came to be there, but i rarely >> install anything on my fedora system *not* via an actual .rpm package. > I don't know how Virtualbox works, but perhaps some version > in the past installed via

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/25/18 09:46, Stephen Morris wrote: > [   10.395281] razermouse: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. > [   10.395344] razermouse: module verification failed: signature and/or > required > key missing - tainting kernel > [   10.874905] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > [  

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/25/18 09:57, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 24/2/18 11:12 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/24/18 12:43, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> Thanks Ed. Is there any documentation anywhere on what each bit represents? >> You mean other than the URL I've supplied at kernel.or

Re: Yumex Getting Bus Connection/Network Issues

2018-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/18 06:17, John Pilkington wrote: > I have always found the yumex gui a helpful source of package info too - but > at > present on f26 yumex-dnf tells me that 'dnf is locked  by another process. > Yum-extender will exit.' > > I suspect that process is 'Discover', but Apper, dnf-dragora and

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2018-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/18 07:48, Celso Viana wrote: > Is there no more "grub2-mkconfig" in Fedora 27? dnf is your friend egreshko@meimei system]$ dnf whatprovides *bin/grub2-mkconfig Last metadata expiration check: 0:56:28 ago on Mon 26 Feb 2018 06:54:20 AM CST. grub2-tools-1:2.02-22.fc27.x86_64 : Support

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/18 12:24, stan wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:52:31 + (UTC) > Amadeus WM wrote: > >> That's what I've been looking for, seems to be working. Thank you >> very much! > You're welcome. > >> I'm glad I wasn't using IMAP. > No kidding. Not sure why you say that.  I don't use claws-mail

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/18 18:39, Stephen Morris wrote: >     I have forgotten whether I'm running gdm or kdm, and I've forgotten where > to > look to find out, but since the last system update I did two days ago, when > the > display manager is displaying the list of user who can log in, cursor > movements an

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/18 18:47, Ed Greshko wrote: > ll /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service   will point to what you're > using. systemctl status display-manager also will tell you -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/18 20:45, Amadeus WM wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:14:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 02/26/18 12:24, stan wrote: >>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:52:31 + (UTC) Amadeus WM >>> wrote: >>> >>>> That's what I've been looking f

Re: OT: digitally signing a PDF file in Fedora

2018-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/18 04:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Is there a way to digitally sign a pdf file in Fedora. I have noticed that my > colleagues on Windoze and Mucks all append their signatures using "Digitally > Signed by...and time" presumaby using Acrobat, but is there a way to do this > with something i

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/18 04:53, JD wrote: > > > On 02/26/2018 01:42 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 02/26/18 15:16, wwp wrote: >>> I won't go further here, it's not only off-topic but also not replying >>> to the original topic of this thread. You're welcome on the Claws Mail >>> users mailing-list or IRC channel

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-02-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/28/18 04:37, Stephen Morris wrote: > I might be getting confused with Ubuntu, but I thought there was a .conf file > somewhere that held the specification of the default display manager that > could > easily be edited to swap between any of the available display managers that > you > happen

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-02-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/28/18 05:37, Stephen Morris wrote: > > If I remember correctly, I think in F25 or F26 lightdm was the display > manager used > by default No. It depended on the "spin" or Desktop you installed.    If you installed "Workstation"  aka GNOME it has always been gdm.  If you installed the KDE

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-02-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/01/18 05:16, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 28/2/18 10:11 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/28/18 04:37, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> I might be getting confused with Ubuntu, but I thought there was a .conf >>> file >>> somewhere that held the specification

Re: digitally signing a PDF file in Fedora

2018-02-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/01/18 09:35, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/27/2018 12:37 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: >> You can use Libreoffice for digitally signing PDF's >> (Not only the pdf created by L.O., but also existing PDF's) > > Could you please describe the process for doing this? > Depending on how you have LO

Re: digitally signing a PDF file in Fedora

2018-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/18 03:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 09:49:46 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/01/18 09:35, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 02/27/2018 12:37 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: >>>> You can use Libreoffice for digitally signing PDF's >&

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

2018-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/18 07:23, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm not sure what your point is. Why would our respective mail > providers matter? List traffic is sent out by the list software, not by > the OP's provider. And for the record, the message in question is not > in my spam folder. I also have no reco

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

2018-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/18 08:09, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 03/01/2018 03:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I'm not sure what your point is. Why would our respective mail >> providers matter? List traffic is sent out by the list software, not by >> the OP's provider. And for the record, the message in question i

Re: digitally signing a PDF file in Fedora

2018-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/18 09:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I see, thanks! I will try and see the online help for LO. Thanks for the tip, > though. OK, I found the "trick". You need to install libreoffice-pdfimport which also pulls in libreoffice-draw for this to work.  Yes, you open an existing document and it

Re: Alternative of Workrave

2018-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/18 11:54, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Do anyone can suggest me alternative of Workrave that work with Fedora 27 > Gnome? Don't use those type of programs.  But using a google search of "workrave alternatives" and then checking the repos got me "rsibreak" for one.  I suppose you could consider

Re: Firefox and Privacy Notice

2018-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/18 16:00, Alessio Ciregia wrote: > I don't know if it has already been discussed, but in Firefox, in > about:preferences#privacy, "Allow Firefox to send technical and > interaction data to Mozilla" and "Allow Firefox to install and run > studies" are enabled by default. > Ok, I trust Mozil

Re: Firefox and Privacy Notice

2018-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/18 17:33, Ed Greshko wrote: > I have a fresh install of F27.   All of the boxes you mention are un-checked.  > I > didn't touch FF much since I mainly use Chrome.  So, I think they must have > been > unchecked by default.  I don't recall if I was asked my prefer

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/04/18 08:25, Stephen Morris wrote: > My issue starts with gdm, with gnome shell taking up to 800% of the cpu and > causing, ctrl+alt+F2 to switch to another login to time out, and if I launch > gnome > from gdm the issue with gnome shell continues and causes gnome itself to lag. > If I > lo

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/04/18 09:57, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Ed, I tried Gnome under Wayland and Xorg and as documented in the > problem > description, even though gnome shell lags with gdm, when gnome under Xorg is > started the lag disappears. The only difference in my case is that the issue > was > not c

Re: gedit and unsaved files

2018-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/04/18 11:13, Gordon Ewasiuk wrote: > Howdy List, > > I had a text document open in gedit when a power outage hit. This is a > file that I hadn't saved or named yet so it was still an "Untitled > Document 1" but was loaded with content. > > Does gedit autosave open files anywhere? > > I che

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-03-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/04/18 16:16, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Ed, I made that change and it rectified the lagging issues with gdm and > gnome. Now to work out why dkms hasn't compiled the nvidia driver under the > new > kernel. FWIW, the lagging issues may be a byproduct of your video driver. Anyway, whil

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

2018-03-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/04/18 22:46, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 08:57 -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

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-03-04 Thread Ed Greshko
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 -- If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there sso many of them?

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-04 Thread Ed Greshko
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 second machine. Both run f27 fully >> updated. >> >> The following does

Re: does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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

Re: does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 mislea

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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, I

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 d

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 res

Re: Display Manager Lagging After Last Update

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 performa

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 to the individual message,

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 thou

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 downlo

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 a

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

2018-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
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 >> >> equ

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

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/06/18 18:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/06/18 04:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: >>> >>> PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." >>> >

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/06/18 20:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > and others with hardlinks. I may be out of line here.  It is just that I too am curious. A short while back you asked

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/06/18 22:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so there's probably more admittedly trivial questions coming, but > only because i'm being forced to look more closely at things than i > have in a long time. OK.  Then I feel compelled to ask the following in the spirit of full-disclosure. In answ

Re: IPv6 assistance

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/18 03:50, Chris Caudle wrote: > I am looking for some help getting IPv6 configured properly on a Fedora 27 > system. > I have one system which was installed fresh with Fedora 27, that system is > working properly, it receives both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned by my > router (running la

Re: IPv6 assistance

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/18 07:04, Chris Caudle wrote: > Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. > I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both > IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but that distribution has dhclient > provided by dhclient-4.2.5-58.el7.c

Re: IPv6 assistance

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/18 07:04, Chris Caudle wrote: > Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. > I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both > IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but that distribution has dhclient > provided by dhclient-4.2.5-58.el7.c

Re: IPv6 assistance

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/18 11:16, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/07/18 07:04, Chris Caudle wrote: >> Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. >> I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both >> IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but

Re: IPv6 assistance

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/18 11:23, Ed Greshko wrote: > And this is running > > /sbin/dhclient -d -q -6 Ah, Hah! After a time that process exited.  And this did show up in the journal. Mar 07 11:20:37 f27gq.greshko.com NetworkManager[740]:   [1520392837.1581] dhcp6 (enp0s3): state change

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how to > do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of commands like > "dnf search" or "dnf info" to just a selected set of architectures. Sure.  I'll give you a hint.  Just "exclu

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 20:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how >>> to do something simple -- i want to restrict the out

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 21:26, Ed Greshko wrote: > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf --excludepkgs=*686 info 389-admin And if you never want to see i686 packages you can just put the needful in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf Saves typing. -- I believe all research assistants should be paid for their time. signature.

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 22:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > curiously, while "dnf --help" mentions that option, it does not > appear anywhere in the man page: > > $ man dnf | grep excludepkgs > $ In reality excludepkgs is the same as exclude.   Probably "exclude" is preferred,  I just happen to remember i

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file > /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing binary executable > /usr/bin/rpm2cpio? The best place to ask would be at one of the resources list here  http://rpm.org/community.html -- I believ

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/10/18 05:39, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file >>> /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing binary executable >>>

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/10/18 05:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > yes, i grok that, but given the existence of the rpm2cpio > executable, is there any additional functionality provided by that > script? why is it there? what purpose does it serve above and beyond > the rpm2cpio program? You really should go ask the

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/10/18 05:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > or perhaps i'm just curious about the purpose of package components. > seriously, And for these types of questions, which are so narrowly focused, you really should be going to the folks that supply it to multiple distros.  Your kinda like asking

Re: how to keep NetworkManager alive after lid close ?

2018-03-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/11/18 00:43, sean darcy wrote: > Fedora 26. Xfce. Power Manager is set to Lock Screen when Plugged in if > laptop lid > closed. And thatn works, does not suspend or hibernate. BUT, NetworkManager is > stopped. NM starts when the lid is opened. > > How can I get NM to stay alive when I close

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/11/18 09:24, Stephen Morris wrote: > I can't find the documentation any more, but I have found documentation on > how to > use copy the create the target as a hard link or as a soft link. It is > possible I > have incorrectly remembered what I had read, or it is possible over time that > t

Re: how to keep NetworkManager alive after lid close ?

2018-03-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/11/18 07:17, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/11/18 00:43, sean darcy wrote: >> Fedora 26. Xfce. Power Manager is set to Lock Screen when Plugged in if >> laptop lid >> closed. And thatn works, does not suspend or hibernate. BUT, NetworkManager >> is >> stopped.

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/12/18 09:41, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Robert, so basically what you are saying is that if you use that > parameter, > the output is rounded up to the nearest integer representation (in this case > Gig) > rather than displaying it as a fraction? For example, for a file that is 600 > M

Re: SELinux is blocking lightdm login to Xfce

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/12/18 17:35, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 27, x64 > > Xfce 4.12 > > lightdm-1.25.1-5.fc27.x86_64 > > With SELinux set to Enforcing, I can only log into Xfce as root. > > If I set SELinux to Permissive, I can log into anyone. > > SEAlert is quite. > > In the Audit log, I get: > >  

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 04:26, Stephen Morris wrote: > Just further to this is it a bug with du that the -a parameter which is > supposed to > list all files not just directories, does not list files prefixed with a '.'?: Of course not. Compare the -a opt of ls with that of du in their man pages. ls     

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 05:20, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Ed, I'll check the doco out, I was just expecting the command to do > exactly > what the help info said, output the information for all files, not just a > subset. It *does* do exactly what the man page says.  You just have to understand the "c

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 05:20, Stephen Morris wrote: >> > Thanks Ed, I'll check the doco out, I was just expecting the command to do > exactly > what the help info said, output the information for all files, not just a > subset. It *does* do exactly what the man page says.  You just have to understand the

Re: SELinux is blocking lightdm login to Xfce

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 05:54, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Will try in a minute OK, but you may need to follow the more inclusive solution provided by Lukas if you are using samba. -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: SELinux is blocking lightdm login to Xfce

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 05:57, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 03/12/2018 03:08 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> You can try "restorecon/home/tony/.xsession-errors".  You may have to do >> that as >> root. > > didn't work.  Rats! You may want to run the troubleshooter to see

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 05:47, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/13/18 05:20, Stephen Morris wrote: >> Thanks Ed, I'll check the doco out, I was just expecting the command to do >> exactly >> what the help info said, output the information for all files, not just a >> subset. >

Re: SELinux is blocking lightdm login to Xfce

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 06:13, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >> /usr/bin/sealert -b >> Is quiet If I put the AVC's you mention in the original post in a file type=AVC msg=audit(1520843479.104:515): avc:  denied  { create } for pid=7554 comm="lightdm" name=".xsession-errors" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0

Re: How do you reset Selinux back to default?

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 07:02, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > How do you set SELinux back to default and start over? You mean for the entire file system?  If so, "fixfiles onboot"  will setup the machine to relabel on the next reboot. See the "fixfiles" man page. Alternatively, you can "touch /.autorelab

Re: How do you reset Selinux back to default?

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 09:28, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 03/12/2018 04:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/13/18 07:02, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> How do you set SELinux back to default and start over? >> >> You mean for the entire file syste

Re: SELinux is blocking lightdm login to Xfce

2018-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/18 13:57, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Thank you all for the tips.  I wrote down about five of them, > so I would not forget.  SELinux baffles me at times. Good to hear all is working now. One thing I just realized I was remiss in mentioning.  There are times where you will have selinux preve

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/14/18 04:44, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I'm now completely confused. The command du -abh /home/steve/workspace is now > displaying the information directories beginning with a '.' and at least some > files > beginning with a '.' without having issued the shopt command. The command you're sh

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/14/18 05:22, Ed Greshko wrote: > The later command is basically creating a list of files (a shell function) > and doing > a "du" on each file individually. Here is another example to show you what is happening [egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls stuff  test  test1  test

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/14/18 08:20, jdow wrote: > "ls .?*" is another "ls -A" equivalent. Hummm.   Not really?   Since .. is matched and depending on where you are in the file system you may encounter this [egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls -A .hidden  stuff  test  test1  test2 [egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ l

Re: No network on first try

2018-03-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/15/18 04:49, Martin Wagner wrote: > I've got a Fedora 27 desktop that has a slight network problem. > > I'm using VPN and I used nm-connection-editor to configure it so that > the VPN activates when eno1 activates. That worked fine in Fedora 26. > But after upgrade to Fedora 27 the network d

Re: sound problem

2018-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/18 16:06, François Patte wrote: > Le 15/03/2018 à 22:05, stan a écrit : >> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:03:32 +0100 >> François Patte wrote: >> After 3, when sound is working, open pavucontrol, go to the output devices tab, and click the green checkmark on the device that you w

Re: No network on first try

2018-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/18 00:36, Martin Wagner wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 16:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> You've said you have things set to activate a VPN connection for the >> ethernet >> interface, yes? >> >> What type of VPN are you using? I don't have my V

Re: No network on first try

2018-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/18 05:49, Martin Wagner wrote: > On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 04:33 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/17/18 00:36, Martin Wagner wrote: >>> On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 16:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> You've said you have things set to activate a VPN co

Re: dnf Upgrade Produces GPG Error

2018-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/18 18:04, Stephen Morris wrote: > >     I've just attempted to do a sudo dnf upgrade to install the 343 updates > that > are available, and after downloading all the packages it got a GPG error and > terminated. Has anyone else seen this and is able to provide some guidance on > what > I

Re: dnf Upgrade Produces GPG Error

2018-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/18 18:26, Ed Greshko wrote: > Package flash-plugin-29.0.0.113-1.fc27.x86_64.rpm is not signed > The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful > transaction. > You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'. > Error: GPG

Re: dnf Upgrade Produces GPG Error

2018-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/18 21:51, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 17/3/18 9:44 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/17/18 18:26, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Package flash-plugin-29.0.0.113-1.fc27.x86_64.rpm is not signed >>> The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful &

Re: dnf Upgrade Produces GPG Error

2018-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/18 08:41, Stephen Morris wrote: > When I used dnfdragora to remove the 28.0.0 version from negativo17 and > install the > 29.0.0 version from Adobe's repository, it told me the Adobe version was a > downgrade from the installed version, which I didn't understand. I have now > managed > t

Re: dnf Upgrade Produces GPG Error

2018-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/18 11:57, Stephen Morris wrote: > You are right, I wasn't looking at it from that perspective, I was > approaching it > from the perspective of dnf being able to decide which was the best package > to use > if there were multiples providing the same functionality. I may have to > disabl

Re: system-module-load fails to load but.... nevertheless loads!

2018-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/18 19:38, François Patte wrote: > At every boot I can see this message: system-load-modules fails to load > vboxpci, vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt, vboxdrv but when system is up, lsmod > shows these modules as loaded! Could you examine your logs and post the actual messages?   And, are you usin

Re: system-module-load fails to load but.... nevertheless loads!

2018-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/18 21:29, François Patte wrote: > Le 18/03/2018 à 13:31, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 03/18/18 19:38, François Patte wrote: >>> At every boot I can see this message: system-load-modules fails to load >>> vboxpci, vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt, vboxdrv but when system i

Re: alternative to skype

2018-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/18 04:20, JD wrote: > > On 03/18/2018 11:46 AM, fred roller wrote: >> you have g-voice they do not.  similar to skype acct to acct or acct to >> other. I >> use g-voice for a voice mailbox because of its ability to transcribe to text >> and >> send to my phone.  I do know that you can ca

Re: sound problem

2018-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/18 06:27, stan wrote: > It was a guess, using alsa conventions. I couldn't find any pulse > examples that set the sink so I could see what convention they use. FWIW, I have a ~/.pulse directory.   Within it there is a file called 741a5ee204e44a41982409c7e07d04de-default-sink which conta

Re: sound problem

2018-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/18 06:44, Ed Greshko wrote: > FWIW, I have a ~/.pulse directory.   Within it there is a file called > 741a5ee204e44a41982409c7e07d04de-default-sink which contains Oh, strangely?, I found that on one system the directory was ~/.pulse while another has a set of files in ~/.config

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/18 07:32, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Anyone know where I can find the SPRM for these guys: > > https://people.redhat.com/bnocera/libmtp-rhel-7.5/ > > Reference: >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527735 >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356288 The current ve

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