Re: Samsung SSD firmware

2023-12-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.12.2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > "Will or may delete all the data"? WTF does that mean? Exactly that. > I do have backups of my data, but what are the chances I'll have to > reinstall the system if I do this? Unfortunately, nobody knows.. --

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.05.2019, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Basically, an "all your extensions are belong to us" situation. You can enter about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to "false" until the problem is fixed. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Xfce 4.14?

2019-04-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.03.2019, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > 4.13 has been a pain in my neck: > Libre Office pulses at me > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14863 [] Don't know anything about the other bugs you've listed, but this one is a well-known bug in gtk3 - not XFCE.

Re: F28 - Thunar crashes regularly

2019-03-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2019, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Thunar crashes regularly. Over time, Thunar has turned into a real mess. Just use Nautilus, as I do. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

2018-03-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.03.2018, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've never found a mail client that could do filtering worth spit. I pull using getmail. Then, procmail sorts the mail into different directories which I read using mutt. Have been doing this over two decades, and it works as intended.

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.02.2018, Max Pyziur wrote: > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora > (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html There's a plethora of different packages. You can either

Re: Libreoffice 100% CPU usage

2018-01-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.01.2018, Alessio wrote: > It is curious: if you open Tools -> Options, the CPU usage drops down. > Until this action, the CPU usage stays around 100%. First, FWIW: no problems here with Libreoffice and F27 on three different machines. A shot in the dark: what happens when you disable the

Re: Fedora 27, slow sata hdd access

2018-01-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.01.2018, InvalidPath wrote: > I have a suspicion it's still NTFS just because I > have no other device to offload the data too in order to reformat as > something better. You can check with "lsblk -f". ___ users mailing list --

Re: F25 -> F26 printer problems

2017-08-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.08.2017, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > It has already been fixed in qpdf-libs-6.0.0-7 > Confirming. I also ran into this problem and ran into this thread. I > can confirm that the latest qpdf from the repoes does, in fact, fix my > (this) problem with printing to both of my printers.

Re: F25 -> F26 printer problems

2017-08-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.08.2017, Wells, Roger K. wrote: > However within the "Printers" application available from Gnome "All > Settings" the 4630 "Printer Details" shows the printer address as > "localhost" (even though Cups shows the correct address) and any attempt to > print from an application, e.g.

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

2017-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2017, ni...@redchan.it wrote: [] ___ /| /| | | ||__|| | Please do | / O O\__ not |

Re: livecd-iso-to-disk issue

2017-07-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.07.2017, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I have an 8GB USB 3.0 key drive on which I want to install F26 Live > with room for an overlay and a home directory. I used > > livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 2048 > Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso /dev/sda >

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.07.2017, Heinz Diehl wrote: > To me, v40 is far superior to v35. Fortunately, there's a way to > switch back to v35 behaviour. s/superior/inferior; ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to us

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2017, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Do you know why the font display looks broken with the new v40 engine? > Is that a bug in the freetype library or something that has to be > fixed in all applications? It's not a bug, it's meant to be a feature :-( https://tinyurl.com/ybf3fkwv >

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2017, Neal Becker wrote: > where are you setting this? Global environment variables belong into /etc/profile, and local ones into .bash_profile in your home directory. Here's the diff to re-enable subpixel rendering (simply uncommenting the option): diff -urN

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2017, stan wrote: > It was so easy, I just changed it. It doesn't seem to have made any > difference, maybe after the next reboot. As far as I can see, the different hinting levels do no longer have any effect since freetype-2.7. Have to dig a little deeper into the sourcecode to

Re: Anyone with a working GTX 960 video card in f26?

2017-07-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2017, Earl Ramirez wrote: > I have the following display cards on my laptop and experienced the > same thing until I blacklisted nouveau from the grub argument Nvidia graphic adapters with both a 950 and 960 chip work fine here using nouveau. However I'm using the Fedora XFCE spin

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.07.2017, Patrick Laimbock wrote: > Will give that a try. Thanks for the tip. In addition, to get really sharp fonts, you'll have to delete the slight hinting set as default in /etc/fonts/conf.d and enable full hinting. Just delete the link to 10-hinting-slight.conf and create a new one to

F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, for those who love razorsharp fonts just like me but got the new v40 interpreter coming with freetype-2.7 enforced on them when installing F26: the good old v35 interpreter is still there (and I hope it will be forever). You can use it by setting the environment variable

Re: /var/cache

2017-07-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.07.2017, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I have directory > /var/log/journal which seems large: [] Just delete all under /var/cache and reboot. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Latest VLC version

2017-07-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.07.2017, Mark wrote: > Is it just for me that VLC has stopped working with latest upgrade? Encountering the same behaviour.. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: ACPI errors revisited

2017-06-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.06.2017, John Pilkington wrote: > I'm confused. I would suggest you compile a bog standard vanilla 4.11.7 or 4.12-rc7 first. If the errors persist, you could report them directly to the Linux kernel mailing list. Most probably, the lkml people can give you a comprehensive answer, thus

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.06.2017, stan wrote: > It doesn't have a gui that I know of, but I use pwgen from the Fedora > repositories. It warns that the passwords are less secure than fully > random passwords Pwgen uses /dev/urandom, so the statement that those passwords are less secure than "fully" random

Re: Strange thunderbird behaviour on a reaceived email: not all attachments are readable.

2017-05-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.05.2017, Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, without seeing the raw message my guessing of the cause has come > to an end. Right-click on the mailbox, choose "Properties -> General information -> Repair folder". ___ users mailing list --

Re: Strange thing...a hidden kernel, a stealth kernel!!! running on my Fedora 25.

2017-03-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.03.2017, renaud.l...@gmail.com wrote: > I run Fedora 25 on my laptop,on a dedicated partition,other OSs on other > partitions,and a strange thing happens: [] You can have as many kernels in grub.conf as you like. That does not mean they have to exist. So can you actually boot from

Re: Gigabyte GeForce GT 740

2016-12-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.12.2016, Ahmad Samir wrote: > I have an nVidia gtx 770 and it works well on F25 GNOME with the > proprietary driver (from the negativo17 repo). When I tried the open > source nouveau driver it had some issues (e.g. vertical sync). With the proprietary nvidia driver, you can improve

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Heinz Diehl wrote: > I'll take a closer look at the remaining F24 system, where this wasn't > of any problem. I bet it has to do with the file mentioned before. For those who care: looked into it, and the file /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf simply

Re: Nvidia drivers on F25

2016-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.11.2016, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Got it, thanks. Turned out that dnf needed refreshing. It was 3 days > old (since I updated to F25). I almost never needed to refresh manually > on F24 so I don't know if this is a change or a temporary hiccup. FWIW: I have encountered the same thing.

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Fred Smith wrote: > So, there's no need to go hacking amongst system config files! The option you mention is not present in F25/XFCE, but in the "Appearance" menue. Anyway, hacking in the system config is definitely needed, because there are programs that presumably do not obey

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I haven't noticed any changes in font rendering. Perhaps this is something > specific to your video hardware. No, it's definitely not. I have the same phenomenon on (now) three different machines. One has nvidia graphics, one AMD and one Intel Ironlake.

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Tom Horsley wrote: > /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf Thanks a lot, you saved my day! But it was not the 10-autohint.conf. When I looked into the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory, I noticed a file called "10-hinting-slight.conf". After changing it to perform "hintfull", all is

F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, updated two machines from F24 to F25, and now the fonts configured in Applications -> Settings -> Appearance are no longer on the same level of sharpness/clarity as they were in previous Fedora releases. It is considerably visible in Thunderbird and Firefox. While there was no problem to get

Re: F25: Howto remove wayland from Fedora Workstation (gnome)

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Ed Greshko wrote: > I do not believe that Xfce has been updated to support wayland. Thanks, you're right. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Firewall methods for fedora25

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Alex wrote: > firewalld just doesn't seem to be appropriate for anything more than a > desktop. I'd appreciate any ideas on how you build a firewall for > fedora servers, particularly as it relates to interoperating with > fail2ban and standard Internet services. Just disable it

Re: Desktop icons on Fedora 25??

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.11.2016, Joe Zeff wrote: > Thank you. I stopped using Gnome when I heard what Gnome 3 was going to be > like, and you just gave me another reason not to go back. Me too ;-) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F25: Howto remove wayland from Fedora Workstation (gnome)

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.11.2016, Matthew Miller wrote: > On the login screen, click the little gear. Choose "GNOME on X11". Is there a similar method for XFCE? The new font rendering is simply disgusting, especially in Firefox and Thunderbird. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Filesystem for backup system

2016-10-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.10.2016, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Ext4 is probably a better option for a filesystem with a large number of > small files. XFS > continues to be slower for metadata operations. It was, some years ago. This is no longer the case. ___ users

Re: F24, changing Thunar (Xfce) default archive manager

2016-08-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.08.2016, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Now of course, why cannot thunar work as it did in F22? Well that is for > some other time... Frankly, though I've been using XFCE a long time, I don't use Thunar. In my opinion, Thunar has a bunch of nasty bugs that never get resolved. I'm perfectly

Re: F24, changing Thunar (Xfce) default archive manager

2016-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2016, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > This shows both xarchiver and engrampa with xarchiver first, and the status > is 'user set'. I cannot see a way to reverse their order or make engrampa > the default archive manager. Hmm, maybe you just have to uninstall xarchiver? -- users mailing list

Re: bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

2016-07-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.06.2016, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686 > >to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686 > > > > bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired. > That is odd. For some reason, the version was downgraded, so you

Re: codec missing....

2016-02-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.02.2016, François Patte wrote: > Encoder (codec none) not found for output stream #0:0 > What is missing? dnf install flac flac-libs -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: patch listed as missing

2016-02-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.02.2016, Heinz Diehl wrote: [] Daah, today's not my day. Should have used a spelling & grammar correction, sorry for the broken English :-( -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: patch listed as missing

2016-02-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.02.2016, thibaut noah wrote: > So i have no way to use this patch on 4.4.2 since i have no way to run it, > i'm already lost with patching my kernel i can't build my own package. How to build a recent "Fedora kernel for the unexperienced": 1. Grab recent -stable from kernel.org and

Re: patch listed as missing

2016-02-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.02.2016, thibaut noah wrote: > I got the patch from here : > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/73697/acs-override-patch-on-fedora-22/ > A modify version which is the most recent version of this patch i could > find. Here's the same patch ported to 4.4.2, avoiding the level 2

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

2016-02-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.02.2016, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > And it's impossible to add a workaround instead of taking options away? A simple counter would do.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

2016-01-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.01.2016, Rolf Turner wrote: > sudo yum install texinfo > > Package texinfo-4.13a-16.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version > > Nothing to do Try with the associated texinfo-devel package. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.01.2016, Raman Gupta wrote: > Pdf-stapler at least provides the select/cat capability of pdftk, > which mcpdf does not. You can do the most with PDF-shuffler, in a graphical way. [htd@chiara ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pdfshuffler pdfshuffler-0.6.0-7.fc23.noarch -- users mailing list

Re: firefox 42.0 does not play youtube video

2015-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2015, taharka wrote: > Hmm must be distro specific, FF 42 & 43 play youtube videos just > fine here on opensuse 13.2 ;-) After all, I think you're most probably right. Just checked FF 43 on a Wind*ws machine, and all works well. -- users mailing list

Re: firefox 42.0 does not play youtube video

2015-12-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2015, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > I have noticed suddenly goes crashing when you are using html5 only. > When it trying to change the load of the stream simply on my lappie > crashing every time, and kills firefox. The same here, on different machines. And it continues with FF 43, while

Re: Firefox does not play Rutube videos

2015-12-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.12.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > And indeed, they ship 11.2.202.554: > # rpm -q adobe-release-x86_64 flash-plugin > adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch > flash-plugin-11.2.202.554-release.x86_64 Remove all flash rpms from your distribution. Donwload the plugin directly from Adobe. All you

Re: kernel 4.3.1?

2015-12-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.12.2015, Tom Horsley wrote: > I see kernel 4.3.1 has been officially released: > Will it show up in the repos soon for fedora 23 (or 22)? You can compile it yourself quite easily. But don't use 4.3.1, it has a bug affecting X.509 certificate handling that can lead to a non-bootable

Re: How to install fresh kernel from rawhide

2015-12-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.12.2015, Michael Kuryshev wrote: > what's the proper steps to install kernel (modules, headers, etc) from > rawhide. I don't know. > And I want to keep 'em updated, without breaking any other stuff or > pulling another rawhide packages. Then, I would suggest you download 4.3.x from

Re: encrypting /home partition post-install

2015-11-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.11.2015, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Seat belts are also useless for >99.9% of car passengers. :-) The little > inconvenience is accepted because > they may turn useful one day. LVM can not possibly be life-threatening, in opposite to a non-used seatbelt, which is why your argument is bogus

Re: encrypting /home partition post-install

2015-11-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.11.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I really don't understand why Fedora is still foisting all the overhead of > LVM on everyone, by default. I would tend to think that for typical use > cases, LVM brings absolutely nothing value-added. I'd like to second that! Mentioned the same issue

Re: Changing systems

2015-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2015, Mike Chambers wrote: > Could I take 2 HD's out of 1 computer, move them to a different > computer, obviously having to reinstall grub and such, would they work > without having to do much of anything else?   If the kernel has the drivers necessary for your new system, it should

Re: xorg 1.18 released

2015-11-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.11.2015, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > I had already switched to Fedora 23 before I found out about the problem(s). Me too. But I've always one machine left, in case of trouble. And I have complete backups of all machines, thus reverting to a previous state is just a matter of 30 minutes.

Re: xorg 1.18 released

2015-11-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.11.2015, Tom Horsley wrote: > I find the safest and easiest way to do this is keep my fedora 22 > partition the default and wait for f23 to get all the support I need > before switching :-). Yep! Have just reverted all four F23 machines to F22. Too many annoying bugs at the moment. Have

F23, Thunar crashes when doing copy & paste

2015-11-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, after updating to F23, Thunar crashes when copying/pasting a file. This is the error message which shows up in the logs: Thunar[1653]: segfault at 2 ip 7f87c2a2c07d sp 7fff45204d98 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.1[7f87c29f8000+5] Donwgrading to latest F22 Thunar doesn't

Re: F23, Thunar crashes when doing copy & paste

2015-11-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
This must be "cut & paste", not "copy & paste". Sorry! On 07.11.2015, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > after updating to F23, Thunar crashes when copying/pasting a > file. This is the error message which shows up in the logs: > > Thun

Re: Is upgrading to fedora 23 safe?

2015-11-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.11.2015, Gary Artim wrote: > 3 servers and 1 desktop work flawless doing this, > 8 servers to go: > >dnf clean all >dnf update -y >systemctl reboot >dnf system-upgrade download --release=23 >dnf system-upgrade reboot Just updated 2 laptops and 1 server from F22 to 23,

Re: Firefox suddenly defaults to flash again on youtube

2015-11-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.11.2015, Matthew Miller wrote: > Have you gone to https://www.youtube.com/html5? The thing is, Firefox now _always_ uses the flashplayer, unless I go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and switch to the html5 player. Html5 works flawlessly, but is no longer the default player. -- users

Re: Firefox suddenly defaults to flash again on youtube

2015-11-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.11.2015, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 03 November 2015, Heinz Diehl sent: > > Where is the config option, switch or whatever changes the default > > player in firefox back to html5 again? > What's the difference between the two user profiles? Accepting/refusin

Firefox suddenly defaults to flash again on youtube

2015-11-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, the subject says it all. It came out of nowhere, the only thing I remember is having used youtube-dl on this machine a singe time today. Firefox used the HTML5 player on youtube, now flash is back as the default player, and nothing helps to get rid of it. No downgrade, no upgrade, only the

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.10.2015, Antonio M wrote: > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso file?? isohybrid image.iso cat image.iso > /dev/sdx -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Parole needs H.264 decoder to play this file

2015-10-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.10.2015, Paul Smith wrote: > "Parole needs H.264 decoder to play this file. > What can I do to fix the problem? dnf install gstreamer-ffmpeg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: fedora 23

2015-09-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.09.2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > the only issue I have with a clean install, is reinstalling all of the > packages I add... it is a pain... Do a diff on the output of "rpm -qa", truncate the filenames to the essentials and feed that to the package manager. Worked for me. -- users

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Alex wrote: > I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason > kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be > related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. I've never used any distribution kernel, and on my F22, there is no

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Paul Smith wrote: > "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already? If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: > What is the exact error message(s) you are getting?? Where in the boot > process is it failing? It's not me having problems.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Paul Smith wrote: > What can I do to repair the filesystem? Go to http://www.sysresccd.org and download the sysresccd image to another machine. Then burn in onto a CD and boot from it. If you have the syslinux tools installed, you can run isohybrid sysresccd.iso and then copy

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > There is one command easy with pdftk: > pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf > that I cannot have with pdfshuffler. This can easily be done with pdfshuffler. Just load the .pdf, mark page 3 and 4, right click and choose "export selection". > pdftk, is a

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > It did not find any good alternative. dnf install poppler-utils pdfshuffler These tools together can replace most pdftk functionality. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: dnf --refresh reverts to older metadata (was: Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates)

2015-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2015, Michael Schwendt wrote: The feedback in the ticket I've opened is not encouraging so far. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4866 Maybe it's time to take a look at how other distributions do it. Arch's pacman has worked for me without any trouble a long time.

Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2015, Ahmad Samir wrote: I am not sure what exactly is happening on your system, but I'd try enabling MSE with h264, make sure these are set to true: media.fragmented-mp4.enabled media.fragmented-mp4.exposed media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled media.mediasource.mp4.enabled Thanks

Re: Fedora 22: unable to send mail

2015-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2015, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Sending mail from both webmail accounts (on the servers) works as expected. Any ideas? First, I would test if you can reach the mailserver at all: telnet smtp.gmail.com 25 If this succeeds, then nstall tcptraceroute (or something similar) and run it

Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2015, Ed Greshko wrote: Is this really supposed to be a video? [] The music plays along with a static photo on all platforms I tried. The thing is: it only plays when the two config options mentioned before are set to false. But then, not a single video on Youtube can be played

Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2015, Ed Greshko wrote: Well, I set both of those to true and the link you provided played just fine as well as any video that I could find so far. So now the question is: why does it play for you, but not for me when both options are set to true? Both options default to false in

Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, F22, latest Firefox 40. With standard configuration, I can't play any highres video on Youtube (720 or 1080p). When setting media.mediasource.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled to true as recommended by the Mozilla Community, highres videos play just fine. BUT some other videos now do

Re: dnf --refresh reverts to older metadata (was: Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates)

2015-08-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.08.2015, Michael Schwendt wrote: A day later, no matter how often I run dnf update --refresh, it never gets access to the newer metadata from yesterday again. Not the 76 packages as shown earlier in this thread, only the older 50. Jupp! It's exactly what I'm encountering since moving

More dnf annoyance

2015-08-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, F22, in short: first running dnf --refresh upgrade shows some new packets. Then dnf clean all followed by dnf --refresh upgrade shows the same packets to be updated, and *some more*. Dnf hasn't been working properly since F22, while I had not a single problem with yum ever. Still I have to

Re: More dnf annoyance

2015-08-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.08.2015, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: So two update commands at different times give different results? If two update commands issued directly after another qualify as at different times, then yes. In fact, there was not more than max. one minute between the two. Dnf hasn't been working

Re: More dnf annoyance

2015-08-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.08.2015, Michael Schwendt wrote: Yet two completely separate contacts with Fedora's metalink server. Trouble-shooting these kinds of problems would need to include a closer look at what mirrors you are assigned to in both cases. Ok, I see. So what command should I use to keep my

Re: Umount USB

2015-08-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.08.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: In fedora 22, when a USB key is connected, a icon comes It was the same in fedora 20, but now there is not way to unmount it, while before it was always possible. F22, XFCE spin: there's an unmount option, which works for me. -- users mailing list

Re: backup snapshot

2015-08-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.08.2015, Diogene Laerce wrote: Is there a trick I don't see here ? Because if the backup of those directories is enough for a full restoration of a system state, this method is far more efficient than the others, isn't it ? If you backup all your partitions with rsync, all you have

Re: backup snapshot

2015-08-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.08.2015, Diogene Laerce wrote: After a sad experience with a system update, I would like to ask if there is a software on Fedora or more generally on Linux which would allow me to make a complete snapshot of the system ? rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target -- users mailing list

Re: No Audio in F22

2015-08-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.08.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on what I can look at to work out why there is no sound? What do you see when you directly call alsamixer in a console, e.g. alsamixer -c 0? Is the volume turned on/up? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: FAIL: Thunderbird: Replying to thread

2015-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2015, Greg Woods wrote: Stop right there. This unfortunately sounds like a well-known Google-ism. If you send mail to a mailing list that you are on, it does not put the message in your Inbox. Though I'm not a Thunderbird user, I wonder why it shouldn't be able to store a copy of

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.07.2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: I'm sorry but clean all is not necessary at all! clean metadata or clean expire-cache should be sufficient. Ok. That said, I sometimes do not understand what's the harm in getting updates few hours later. dnf already tells you how old the metadata is

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.07.2015, Rick Stevens wrote: Open mouth, insert foot. While what I did did result in the chrome update, a dnf clean metadata;dnf update did come up with 21 more items to update--even though it said the metadata was 45 seconds old. Welcome to the club.. -- users mailing list

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2015, Radek Holy wrote: IIUUC, this is not completely true. I believe that once both PackageKit and DNF are integrated with the new CAShe [1], we will *be able* to improve this situation [2]. I hope this will be done *fast*, because I have to clean all *everytime* checking for

Mouse wheel acceleration problem

2015-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, after updating F21-F22, I noticed immediately that the mouse wheel has got some nasty acceleration. Example: I open a large pdf document, and as soon as I begin to scroll, I'm on the last page. After that, scrolling works at normal speed. The same happens when scrolling a website in Firefox:

Re: Mounting HD from Live CD

2015-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.07.2015, Aaron Gray wrote: Cheers Mike. I did try mounting previously but did not work will try again tomorrow. If you want proper help, please post the output of your mount attempt, e.g. mkdir /test mount /dev/sdX /test Where X is the proper partition/device number. -- users

Re: To the aeskulap guy

2015-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2015, tangen...@hushmail.com wrote: You can take the src rpm from Fedora 21 and use the command: rpmbuild --rebuild src rpm. This generates a version of aeskulap to Fedora 22. It works in several times. It doesn't. Aeskulap may compile, but won't work because the Dicom Toolkit

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.07.2015, John Austin wrote: dnf --nogpgcheck --releasever=21 install aeskulap-0.2.2-0.19beta1.fc21.x86_64.rpm On my F22 machine, this ends up with: Error: package aeskulap-0.2.2-0.20beta1.fc21.x86_64 requires libdcmdata.so.3.6()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed Btw:

Re: F22: rebooting to emergency mode

2015-07-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.07.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: And after that, over the weekend if you can afford to be without the use of this computer, run memtest86+ as long as you can stand it. Sometimes it takes days for problems to show up. Most often, mprime95 is a better alternative and fails within a short

Re: How to NetworkManager

2015-07-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.07.2015, René Harder Olsen wrote: How to make a new mobilbroadband connection in Network Manager, I can't find any WAN connection in Network Manager it only offers the following options VPN,Binding,Hold,Bridge and Vlan and I don't believe that's right for what I am trying to do. Would

Re: Toshiba support in the kernel.

2015-06-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.06.2015, stan wrote: That's the hard part of compiling a custom kernel; eliminating all the irrelevant modules and functionality. I've looked, and there doesn't seem to be a program that scans the system, and only turns on hardware modules for the system scanned. make localmodconfig

Re: F22 useradd??

2015-06-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.06.2015, Beartooth wrote: I have F22 with xfce4 up and running fine on my #2 PC; but I can't find the GUI form of useradd for it. I tried to RTFM for the command line, but I'm clearly misunderstanding something. How do I get to the users and whatever function that I'm used to

Re: F22 unusable - system freezes on login

2015-06-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.06.2015, Matthew Woehlke wrote: I don't know offhand how to set up serial login Set up the console and output in grub.cfg: serial --speed=115200 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal_input serial terminal_output serial Then tell the kernel to use it (grub.cfg, as a kernel

Re: rpmfusion down

2015-06-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.06.2015, g wrote: It's not just you! http://www.edgreshko.com looks down from here. His email suggests the domain is greshko.com, not edgreshko.com. The former resolves just fine. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

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