Re: Why old Pan?

On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:35:44 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 2:17 PM Beartooth via users > wrote: >> >> On Fedora 40, updated daily, I see: >> >> rpm -q pan pan-0.149-4.fc38.x86_64 >> >> but pan 0.160 is out. And there is an

Why old Pan?

On Fedora 40, updated daily, I see: rpm -q pan pan-0.149-4.fc38.x86_64 but pan 0.160 is out. And there is an active list, available via Gmane. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:44:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC): > >>> Beartooth wrote: > >>>>Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not >>>> display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:55:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, I Beartooth wrote: >> Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not >> display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also >> gives me a lin

Seamonkey not displaying pix

o replies. I tried dnf reinstall seamonkey (with seamonkey not open), but that didn't help. It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!)

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote: >> It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb >>Question : How do I look up what it calls them? > > If you know the path to the

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:44:54 +, Barry wrote: >> On 26 Mar 2024, at 16:42, Beartooth wrote: >>It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb >> Question : How do I look up what it calls them? > > I don’t think Fedora packages most of them.

VDQ finding dnf names

tried to install some others for her, using dnf. It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

s every mailing list I'm a member of. I love that. It's > very accessibility-friendly. > > I hate using fora. [...] There was some mention above of Gmane and its old troubles. This note is just to make sure everybody here does know Gmane has been alive and well

Re: HP12C Emulator?

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:41:57 -0500, Mark C. Allman via users wrote: > On 1/6/24 13:52, I Beartooth wrote: >> Is there an emulator of the HP12C for Fedora? (I'm running F39 >> Mate on a laptop and a PC.) I've found sites claiming there are >> emulators for variou

HP12C Emulator?

ne. The trouble is that I'm such a pack rat. It would help not to carry it too anytime I'm already carrying a perfectly serviceable Fedora machine. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. --

Re: rfkill??

On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:28:31 +, Barry wrote: >> On 31 Dec 2023, at 18:00, Beartooth wrote: >> >>  >>Updating F39 just now on a laptop, I got a request for root to >> authorize rfkill. I had just also updated F39 on a PC, with no such >> request. (

rfkill??

down. Is there something I should do next?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: unwanted login

On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:35:35 -0300, George N. White III wrote: [] > Kernel.org has been working clean up power management, see > . Buggy > ACPI implementations have been causing problems with wake from sleep, > etc. Some ve

Re: unwanted login

in, are applications still open or are you starting from > what would be a normal initial login state? Oho! I may easily be misapprised of the terms. It hasn't happened today (still on the machine with the problem, but only matescreensaver installed), but iirc they're sti

Re: unwanted login

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:18:40 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Beartooth >>> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and >>> over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at >>> home.) Fwiw, I'm running xsc

Re: unwanted login

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:44:16 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 8/29/23 07:44, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:58:47 +, Richard wrote: >> >>>> Date: Monday, August 28, 2023 19:09:43 + From: Beartooth >>>> >>>> >>>>

Re: unwanted login

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:20:50 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 19:09 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and >> over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at >> home.) Fwiw

Re: unwanted login

On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:58:47 +, Richard wrote: >> Date: Monday, August 28, 2023 19:09:43 + From: Beartooth >> >> >> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over >> and over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sol

unwanted login

One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at home.) Fwiw, I'm running xscreensaver under Mate. Where and how do I reconfigure? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User

Re: VDQ mate terminal (F37)

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 02:26:32 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 15:53 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> I must be getting more senile than I thought. I've lost the little >> row of words on the top border of my mate-terminal (under F37, if it >> matters)

VDQ mate terminal (F37)

I must be getting more senile than I thought. I've lost the little row of words on the top border of my mate-terminal (under F37, if it matters) "File Edit View Search ... etc" and I can't find where to turn it back on. -- Be

Re: Xscreensaver forever in F37

On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:02 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 16:21 +, Beartooth wrote: >> >> When I first get to my study in the morning, my monitor >> is >> not dark, but still displaying some choice of xscreensave

Xscreensaver forever in F37

When I first get to my study in the morning, my monitor is not dark, but still displaying some choice of xscreensaver. It always used to stop and leave the monitor to rest. How do I get that behavior back? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little

Re: strange error instead of update on F37

On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 10:42:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/25/2022 10:28 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> This is on a thinkpad several years old, with another machine right >> next to it having no trouble. > > This is an error at the other end. Try again and it should work.

strange error instead of update on F37

ink? repo=fedora-37&arch=x86_64 [OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection reset by peer in connection to mirrors.fedoraproject.org:443 ] []# This is on a thinkpad several years old, with another machine right next to it having no trouble. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

t isn't me. That's some slight consolation. But how do I know what repo it's getting all these mandatory instant updates from? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:18:03 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: > 2022-10-11 18:09 UTC+02:00, Beartooth : >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:14:56 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: >> >>> If he did install it outside of Fedora, wouldn't it be better to >>> uninstall it and install

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

x since it was iirc 'phoenix' and Fedora since it was RH7; I can't begin to recall all the tweaks I've tried since the Nineties. So do I have this right? I should run 'dnf remove firefox', then 'dny install firefox'. Reboot between? -- Beartooth

VDQ : Ffx updates

't lift an electronic finger till it gets its way. Does this make some esoteric sense that I don't see? If not, how do I eliminate or take control of its irritating habit? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious lit

Re: Cursor jumping

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 10:22:56 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 4/8/22 10:15, I Beartooth wrote: >> There seems to be some setting somewhere in recent releases (I'm >> running F35) that causes the mouse cursor to jump around when it hits >> certain positions. How do I turn

Unlogging

Recent releases (I"m running F35) seem to log me out at certain times, regardless of what I'm doing. I want not ever to get logged out. How and where do I set that? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of w

Cursor jumping

There seems to be some setting somewhere in recent releases (I'm running F35) that causes the mouse cursor to jump around when it hits certain positions. How do I turn this off? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of whe

Re: Pan updates

On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 06:35:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 27/12/2021 01:45, Beartooth wrote: >> I'm OK, thanks! Just surprised. >> >> I'd love to help, but my .sig means what it says (and I'm ancient >> of days). > > Well, according t

Re: Pan updates

he maintainers of the Fedora package > (linked on that page) if you are very desperate for the new version and > make your case, or perhaps volunteer to help out. I'm OK, thanks! Just surprised. I'd love to help, but my .sig means what it says (and I'm ancient

Pan updates

Pan 0.149 is just out; but I get $ rpm -q pan pan-0.147-1.fc35.x86_64 -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

What the blazes?

~]# What now?? -- Beartooth Implacable, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning? -- JRR Tolkien ___ users mailing list -- users

Small-time factoring?

ld be nice to have a factoring applet -- which wouldn't need to be vast nor intense enough to come anywhere near cryptographic use, but just as a mildly entertaining time waster. My guess is that it exists, and is either already in Fedora, or can be handily installed. Anybody know

Eliminating i686

nearly ninety other items. I noticed that all of them also ended in .i686; so I told it to go ahead. Was this a real dumb-cluck trick, or should I do the like on my other machines? -- Beartooth not quite clueless ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On Tue, 01 Dec 2020 04:15:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> My bad. There is no drop-down. The whole display is greyed out, >> except for the colored line at the bottom showing its progress; and >> when that finishes, the only thing not greyed out is "quit". > > You will see that greyed out con

Re: Dragora bollixed?

ottom showing its progress; and when that finishes, the only thing not greyed out is "quit". -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 07:37:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 29/11/2020 05:10, I Beartooth wrote: >> I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem >> I'm >> asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier. >> >>

Dragora bollixed?

something? Or is the exhaustive form deprecated?? If so, is there a replacement? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Hooray. -- Partitioning?

> On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: [...] > When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately > booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another > surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda with

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Surprise!

On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: > I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [] > This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October > 30, about a transactio

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:24:25 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [...] >> This is the mac

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:42:01 -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >>> >>> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish >>> machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. >>> >>>  

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > How to test for a 64 bit CPU: > >

Have I bricked a PC?

apparently not connected with the BIOS, if there still is one. Is there hope? What info do I need to post?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lis

Re: F32 => F33 Error: Transaction test error: [unseen space]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:55:11 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/30/20 9:47 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> >> Running ]# dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=33 >> --allowerasing >> >> gets me a transaction test error saying >> >> At leas

F32 => F33 Error: Transaction test error: [unseen space]

only 4 MB used. Partitioning seems simple till I have to use it, and then immediately bewilders me. What do I have to do?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is

Re: Problem with CLI upgrade 32 -> 33 : SOLVED

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:42:14 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:25:28 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> I go through the usual sequence (twice on one machine, once >> on another), and end up with : [] >> Is it me?? > >

Problem with CLI upgrade 32 -> 33

talled package qgis-3.12.1-4.fc32.x86_64 - qt5-qtbase-5.14.2-5.fc32.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - qgis-3.12.1-4.fc32.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable

Re: Add repo?

On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:47:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:40:08 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> I've just discovered that dnf on one of my machines (a Thinkpad, >> but I've forgotten where it keeps its model number) is lacking >&

Add repo?

I've just discovered that dnf on one of my machines (a Thinkpad, but I've forgotten where it keeps its model number) is lacking rpmfusion; and I can't seem to figure out how to add it. How do I do it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remembe

Re: Seamonkey settings??

On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:33:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/5/20 1:20 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:50:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> [...] >>>>> Edit -> Preferences ? >>>> >>>>Sounds good -- except that I

Re: Seamonkey settings??

e, and how would I unhide it? What does it look like? I see three lines: a line with the reload button and the location; a line with "Home", "Bookmarks", etc.; and a line of tabs. Is any of those it?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User R

Re: Seamonkey settings??

On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:08 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 18:54:20 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> Where are the settings for Seamonkey? > > Edit -> Preferences ? Sounds good -- except that I don't see Edit ... -- Bea

Seamonkey settings??

Where are the settings for Seamonkey? I'm running seamonkey-2.53.4-1.fc32.x86_64 under F32 fully updated. I've right- and left-clicked all over it, and I can't seem to get into any configuration worth doing. What am I missing? TIA! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite

i686 in F32??

.i686 in addition to another that was .86_64. I have just done a dnf upgrade, which installed libFAudio-20.09-1.fc32.i686 and libFAudio-20.07-1.fc32.i686. Should I now do dnf remove *.i686? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

/etc/dnf/dnf.conf I see only this: [main] gpgcheck=1 installonly_limit=3 clean_requirements_on_remove=True best=False skip_if_unavailable=True I'll make a separate post for the rest, with effusive thanks for the clarifications. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power Use

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

s again. I know that "HOME" in all upper case has a standard meaning, and I suppose "TERM" must, too. But I can never remember what it is, nor where to look it up. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:02:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/3/20 11:59 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> IF (big if) I understand aright, the answer is that there are >> various colors in command output, such as ls making folders differ from >> files; all are fine except one. &g

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

lor settings dialog can be included in > the image. I can never remember the name of the canonical site for that, nor the command, although they make sense while I see them. However, I don't know if the site would preserve colors sent to it, or make them f

Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

he bold color by default. Am I making sense this time?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Download pix?

I took a couple pix with my Kyocera clamshell phone, which now I want to download to a computer running Fedora 32, so that I can email them. The computer sees the phone when I connect them with a cable. What do I do next?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

ler drive. But I didn't understand, and it wouldn't tell, what was wrong with those arrangements. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues Sclerotic Squirreler, Double Retiree, Linux Evangelist ___ users ma

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

Yesterday, I Beartooth wrote: >> The whole PC is now a backup; so I'd have no hesitation to DBAN it, >> install F32, and recopy data from my >> present #1 machine. I did think it seemed to have surprisingly little >> storage when I did that df -h; but if I understan

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:18:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/8/20 9:35 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> It's not a file. It appears to be an lvm volume, kind of like a >>> partition. It's mount

Re: Interfaces

nsight ever followed up on? (I believe the guy died not long after writing that.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:39:28 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > Seems almost nobody is using the command line. > GUI for everything. > I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task. :-) I gave that a fresh thread, called Interfaces. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Cluel

Interfaces

ith the CLI'd've lost me. -- Beartooth Implacable, Double Retiree Historian of Tongues from Way Back ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: ht

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/7/20 10:42 AM, I Beartooth wrote: >> Going into the GUI, right clicking and choosing priorities, I see: > > What gui? Right-clicking on what? Sorry. Mate. I clicked on the desktop icon for Computer, t

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

remember: how, other than by df -h, do I get a machine to tell me its capacity? If the file *could* grow to 1.8T, is that some kind of software limit, or does it imply that the machine actually has at least 1.8T? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precio

What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

f the others, might it be reasonably safe to keep one for constant use and the others as supporting specialists of some sort. Advice? Comments? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little idea where

Re: Prevent locking screen

d that. Thanks, Tom! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Prevent locking screen

How do I tell Fedora (currently 32 fully upgraded) never to lock the screen?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Lost Mate-panel : SOLVED

On Fri, 01 May 2020 20:16:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: > Upgrading an E-series Thinkpad, a year or two old, running Fedora 31, > via CLI, the upgrade kept failing with complaints about i.686 -- till I > did "dnf remove mate-*.i.686" -- then it completed, or seemed to. This &

Arora browser failing under F32

stall; that completed normally, but didn't help. The little box reporting trouble showed, but said nothing, and also closed without offering either to dump any data or to send anything to RedHat. The same happened on another F32 machine, but not on one running F31. -- Beartooth Staffw

More 686 woe

panel-1.24.0-4.fc32.x86_64 This is AFTER running with ' --skip-broken --allowerasing' -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailin

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

On Thu, 07 May 2020 16:46:49 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On May 7, 2020, at 16:42, Beartooth wrote: >>I'm pretty sure the Fedora machine I want to use to put something >> onto a thumb drive doesn't have the thumb drive software installed to >> do so. But

Browser list?

a/dnf can use. I also thought, only just now, to try searching 'browser' in dnfdragora, and did find a couple, which I installed and will play with. Anybody know any others? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious li

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

On Thu, 07 May 2020 13:44:11 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/7/20 1:41 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> I'm pretty sure the Fedora machine I want to use to put something >> onto a thumb drive doesn't have the thumb drive software installed to >> do so. But I've

VDQ Thumb drive software

I'm pretty sure the Fedora machine I want to use to put something onto a thumb drive doesn't have the thumb drive software installed to do so. But I've searched dnfdragora up one side and down the other without finding it. What is it called? Pretty please? -- Bearto

Re: Lost Mate-panel

On Tue, 05 May 2020 13:01:12 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> All right, I now have it booted into F32 Live, with a Mate- >> terminal open. > > I've never use the Mate live boot. Did it have an install option when > it started up? If not, check the menus for an install option. It has

Re: Lost Mate-panel

On Tue, 05 May 2020 11:46:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/5/20 11:43 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 05 May 2020 10:37:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >>> It sounds like you started the the upgrade process but it failed part >>> way through. I think doi

Re: Lost Mate-panel

k a guess at "re-install" and got it wrong -- trying to re-do what I had. Can I actually do something like "dnf re-install xyz"?? What do I put for xyz when it's a whole OS?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little

Re: Lost Mate-panel

ried the upgrade; it reminded me to refresh, and I did; it installed inxi, whatever that is. Then it hit the upgrade problems again, and this time suggested "--allowerasing"; so I added that to " --skip-broken." It stopped with the problem of sudo, systemd, and sy

Re: Lost Mate-panel

creen? Yes. I opened a terminal which gave me this prompt: [beartooth@localhost-live ~]$ > Can you login? Yes, with a lot of little boxes complaining about various applets and offering to remove them. I told it not to. Then I did su - and it took my regular root

Re: Lost Mate-panel

Doing this back and forth between two machines is very awkward, and doing it with the KVM switch was worse. If I could make the live medium run Pan, I could jump back and forth with the workspace switcher. Is there a way to do that? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power

Re: Lost Mate-panel

On Sun, 03 May 2020 14:41:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/20 10:49 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sat, 02 May 2020 14:24:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >>> I'm not familiar with Mate, but try opening the file browser. At >>> least on Gnome, the availabl

Re: Lost Mate-panel

o you or anyone on the team, I'm willing to be walked through whatever it takes; I owe Fedora and all its people big time. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users ma

Re: Lost Mate-panel

On Fri, 01 May 2020 20:16:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] > > Do I go looking for a live distro that may let me mount the Thpd's > hard drive and try to fix the panels somehow? > > Do I just call it a total loss and install F 32 from a freshly > do

Re: Lost Mate-panel

On Fri, 01 May 2020 14:03:10 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/1/20 1:16 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> Since the upgrade reboot, when I KVM to the Thinkpad, I see blank >> flashing panels on each monitor. There is no terminal emulator >> anywhere. >> I've tried a cou

Old Red Hat bugzilla pwd

t had occasion to use it in years (Yay Fedora!), and have no clue any more what my old password may be. Is there a way I can legitimate myself and have that password (or if need be, the whole old account) deleted, so that I can report a new oddity? Should I just report it here? -- Beartooth Staffw

What are pcscd and sys_nice??

Upon trying to open a 5-line URL at NYT, I just got an alert saying, "SELinux is preventing pcscd from using the sys_nice capability." I tried searching, and got nothing specific to SELinux nor Fedora; what I did find is way over my head. -- Beartooth Staffwright,

Lost Mate-panel

unt the Thpd's hard drive and try to fix the panels somehow? Do I just call it a total loss and install F 32 from a freshly downloaded iso on a thumb drive? Is there a third way? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious

Re: F32, Mate, i686 vs, 86_64

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:56:04 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/29/20 1:41 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> Can I somehow remove all of one with a single command? (I expect >> more such conflicts.) > > Something must have brought the 32-bit libs in, do you have wine > instal

F32, Mate, i686 vs, 86_64

I'm getting failure because of conflicts in Mate-panel between i686 and 86_64. Can I somehow remove all of one with a single command? (I expect more such conflicts.) How do I tell which a given machine should be pared down to? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not

Re: dnf list color bad

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:06:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/28/20 9:14 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:12:49 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:43:36 +0200, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: >>>> >>>>&g

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