Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

check this. As you can guess, Samuel was right. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here."

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

nose this problem. Of course, even after getting it to work, all I learned is that the machine is fine, just not the VGA. At least, I learned a lot about serial consoles. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.ca

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

hine. The USB end of the cable is attached to ttyUSB0 on the laptop. I have tested ttyS0 by connection elsewhere using straight serial and it works as it should. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "A

[libreoffice-users] Copying a Calc worksheet loses column widths

edure so I wonder why it no longer works. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "We consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." -- Franklin

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

ng to think adding a video card would be the right answer. (The current connector is on the motherboard.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Country music is just folk music for righties and

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

- Load Kernel Module drm. sddm-helper-start-wayland[99236]: "No backend specified, automatically choosing drm\n" sddm-helper-start-wayland[99236]: "kwin_wayland_drm: drmSetClientCap for Atomic Mode Setting failed. Using legacy mode on GPU \"/dev/dri/card0\"\n" >Do you se

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

ctl start sddm) and no errors were reported. I don't see anything useful in the log except the service start. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine, CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Everything that can be invented ha

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

th a different system), just to see if the problem is a configuration error in Fedora. I now realize that by the time Fedora starts, that process is done. Maybe I should be asking if there is a way to get serial access before Fedora. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvi

Access the serial console on Fedora

t220 # Again, lines are split and condensed here only for readability. After all this, I get no output on the putty connection and no response when attempting any entry. I've also tried the other listed baud rates. Is there any obvious step I've missed? Is there a better way to do this

Re: command line smtp mailer?

ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >Anyone have a favorite command line outbound (smtp) >email program that is easy to use? You could look into nmh, the "new mail handler", originally from RAND. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

completion before I copied the output. That's a different issue, not terribly important, but annoying. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy becaus

Re: dnf downgrade dependencies

>On 3/13/25 10:20 PM, Dave Close wrote: >> I've decided I'm unhappy with one of the changes made by the most >> recent version of LibreOffice, 24.8, and I want to try going back to >> the previous version, 24.2, which is part of the FC40 repository. >> B

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

cerned by the result of using -c; that doesn't seem related to the problems with the card since it claims not to have found any bad blocks. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The mind is a wond

dnf downgrade dependencies

others! And it thinks the removal of these packages requires downgrading others, including mod-perl! I suppose I can simply download the older LibreOffice packages and then use rpm to replace them. But there could be some authentic library dependencies. Is there a better solution? -- Dave Close, Co

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

nt that no bad blocks were found. Jeffrey Walton replied: >Throw the old SDcard away, and use a new one. I intend to. But this isn't a problem with the card. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

e2fsck malfunction?

ion after. So it appears that asking e2fsck to check for and mark bad blocks causes it to destroy the superblock(s). Is there another explanation? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Some ideas ar

Re: startx

5:49 1.16s ?xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- dave tty2 20Feb25 7days 1:08m ?xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- ... Just ran "startx" in two virtual terminals. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Tact is insulting a man without d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

Try "dnf remove nano-default-editor". -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "'Always' and 'never' are two words you should always remember

Re: security: wted?

n check: 0:23:46 ago on Thu 13 Feb 2025 10:05:51 AM MST >. >Error: No matching Packages to list >bash.9[~]: >- - - - - - >duck-duck-go and google gave me nothing useful. > >What is "wted", and is there a security problem? You didn't try but I did: # dnf pro

Mail stoppage

6.google.com > by mail-pl1-x646.google.com > 2025-02-12 14:07:33 -0800 elapsed time 28d 19:12:54 > from ack.nmap.org > by ack.nmap.org > 2025-02-12 14:13:24 -0800 elapsed time 0d 00:05:51 > from ack.nmap.org > by compata.com -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Wh

'comm' and 'sort' incompatible?

My searches don't reveal any previous complaints. Trying the same thing on my Raspberry Pi (bookworm) does not exhibit the problem. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Th

Window position after restart

I thought there was a KDE setting to restore window positions when restarting but I can't find it. I usually have many windows open on a half-dozen virtual desktops but after a restart all of them come back on the first virtual desktop. Very annoying. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

Re: F40 to F41 upgrade

libreoffice, firefox, and cups, were deleted because they were dependent on something. Of course, the log doesn't say what dependency they had. The log shows: Install 84 Packages Upgrade7921 Packages Remove 414 Packages Downgrade10 Packages -- Dave Close, Co

F40 to F41 upgrade

ting those that had been installed and are still available as part of F41.) All the missing ones have now been added back manually and things seem to be working properly. But I'm holding my breath. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.c

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

om Firefox for a while, seeking a better browser, but always found some issues with others. And I avoid Chrome. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know;

Re: Fedora 41 systemd or its dependencies now includes qemu

do not include qemu. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.&

Re: F41 DNF bogus error

itional relative to the >commands. Until "install" is encountered on the command line, there >*Is no* "--skip-unavailable" option. Likewise, it might not accept >"-y" *after* "install". Thank you. I have read about the change to parameter sequence

F41 DNF bogus error

Unknown argument "--skip-unavailable" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments. Obviously, DNF should not tell a user to use an option that isn't actually available... -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 7

Re: CentOS - what to use now that CentOS 7 is EOL

does and does not do, exactly how it does those things, and test results. If I buy a piece of software as complex as a database, I get something called "getting started" and that's it. How can you prove they didn't do what they promised when they never really promised anything? --

Re: dnf-system-upgrade to Fedora 41 is Ok

Is it still true that stock F41 does not include the ability to run X11? I'm stuck until Wayland has a way to invoke Firefox from a cron job. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Tact is insulting a man without d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359his knowing it." dhcl...@alu

Re: dnf disable-repo???

ng --disablerepo="WineHQ packages" >No repository match: WineHQ >No repository match: packages 'dnf repolist' will tell you the correct names. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "You can only be young once d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359but you can be i

Re: Screen saver no longer working

Andreas Fournier wrote: >After a recent update I noticed that the screen no longer goes dark >after a time of inactivity. I checked the settings and they are as >before.  > >Any way to get it back working? I confirm that I've seen the same behavior. F40 x86_64 KDE. --

Bluetooth mouse not working

likely cause? Fedora 40, i86-64, KDE, all fully updated. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

you were trying to evacuate from a wildfire? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Life would be tragic d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359if it weren't funny." dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu-- Stephen Hawking -- ___ u

Re: Secondary SSH

at seem relevant. (Of >course, $PPID and similar variables are different.) Can anyone suggest >what could be the issue? Or what other tests might be helpful? The solution was provided through the openssh mailing list. I've added an alias to my system and will use it when connecting from

Re: Secondary SSH

Jeffrey Walton wrote: >At this point, I would visit each machine and: > > mkdir -p ~/.ssh > chown -R dclose:dclose ~/.ssh > chmod -R o-rwx ~/.ssh That would be guaranteed to cause failure. For example, my private keys cannot have 0777 permissions! -- Dave Close, Com

Secondary SSH

e1 -> sudo on machine1 -> user@machine2 :: WORKS I've examined the output of the set command for all of these situations and can't find any variables that are different that seem relevant. (Of course, $PPID and similar variables are different.) Can anyone suggest what could be the issue?

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

mpletely fix the contents of /boot until after I had deleted /boot/efi entirely. (Well, actually, just moved it elsewhere. To be deleted eventually.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Politics

System settings animation

annoyed me for a long time and still does. It ignores that I've turned animation off everywhere I can. Moving from one item in the list to the associated page and back again insists on sliding the page, slowly. Is there a way to disable this behavior and return to a sane presentation? -- Dave

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

sinto /boot/ and blscfg entries >in /boot/loader/entries/. That worked! Thanks! Now I'll try to go back through my logs and try to see when sdubby got installed and why. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "There is no security on this earth. d...@compata.com,

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

Barry Scott wrote: >> On 12 Aug 2024, at 03:40, Dave Close wrote: >> >> # df -h /boot >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda6 974M 549M 358M 61% /boot >> >> It is held at least three kernels in the past. >That does

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:30:14 -0700 Dave Close wrote: > >> # dnf -y reinstall kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 > >> So, what happened to kernel 6.10.3-200? RPM -V says the package is >> complete but the files are not there! > >

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

John Pilkington wrote: >On 11/08/2024 18:30, Dave Close wrote: >> I can't make sense of this output, can you? >> >> # rpm -q kernel-core >> kernel-core-6.9.9-100.fc39.x86_64 >> kernel-core-6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 >> kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 &

DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

-200? RPM -V says the package is complete but the files are not there! -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." -- Voltaire -- __

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

no good alternative and sometimes I don't realize the deficiency until after purchase. I tried Waydroid. As you say, it looks nice and many apps work. But some selection points were simply not responsive for me. Maybe a bug, maybe intentional, but the effect made Waydroid useless for me. --

Re: different behaviors for anaconda depending on iso files

Mike Wright wrote: >The manpage is confusing in this regard. It offers this: > > -a|--activate y|n|ay > >So, is that -a y and -a ay ? Dunno... Using parens to help clarify, that should be read as, ( -a | --activate ) ( y | n | ay ) -- Dave Close, Com

[CentOS] Re: Phantom name server

plified nsswitch.conf to just "host: files dns" and the problem seems to be resolved. (Time will tell.) Changing the TLD will take some time and care but that seems like a good idea. Thanks! -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "You get whatever accomplishment d...@comp

[CentOS] Re: Phantom name server

return] resolve dns myhostname /etc/hosts contains only the usual localhost stuff and one entry for a related company with no public name available. "ps -ef" does not reveal any process name containing "dmasq". -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359

[CentOS] Re: Phantom name server

NING: .local is reserved for Multicast DNS You are currently testing what happens when an mDNS query is leaked to DNS". So, is it possible that this issue is a result of using ".local" as a pseudo-TLD for the local network? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "There is no secu

[CentOS] Re: Phantom name server

ymlink. It contains only a single reference to the local BIND9 and a search statement with one argument. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "What right does Congress have to go d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359 around making laws just because they dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

[CentOS] Re: Phantom name server

d running? Try restarting that. Simon Matter wrote: > Doesn't systemd do some kind of its own name resolution thing these days? > > Maybe someone else can say more about this. Thanks. But nscd is not running. Perusing all the active systemd services, I restarted systemd-resolve

[CentOS] Phantom name server

t rebooted C8 but I'm prepared if necessary. Is there something else I should do before rebooting C8? Is that even likely to solve the problem? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Fairness i

Re: /boot too small

n the Fedora documentation web site. I'm sure many of us will want to adopt this approach. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "'Always' and 'never' are two d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359words you should always remember dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

Email Balkanization (was Re: Fora vs. mailing lists)

to be at least semi-intelligent. Since people read email using a web interface that hides much of the information useful for identifying spam, it seems to me that those web systems should make the use of proper encryption techniques to identify senders and recipients easy when that is appropriate. --

Re: gpg decrypt from a script

Alex wrote: >Also, I'm not new to Linux administration, but somewhat new to sshpass. >Does it only work with ssh passwords or public keys as well? You don't need sshpass if you have the private key matching the public key already stored on the server. Just use ssh. --

Re: VMware woes

oded, for reasons unfathomable. I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way: Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech

Re: VMware woes

intended.} -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." -- Nelson Mandela -- ___

Re: Log file *detailed* content description

ssage on my own system. My question was, when someone connects to my system, which key in my authorized_keys file were they using? That seems to have been a more difficult question. But see my next message. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Log file *detailed* content description

ssh2: RSA SHA256:QSyKp5SJ8gJFcYtbtb9SQ1axtqSg7fEoQBiZf3kPXgU what is the meaning of the RSA value listed? Is it a "fingerprint"? How can I compare it to the various keys on my system? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "

Re: Starting Wayland-KDE on FC39

ayland starts again! So, obviously, something is different in FC39. I'll spend some time checking but it is no longer urgent for me. All of the other machines I have that now run FC39 and can successfully start Wayland have AMD Radeon graphics while this one uses an Intel 82Q35 (i915 firmware

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

ermissions, etc, I determined I was unlikely to find the problem. I took the coward's way out and downgraded the machine to FC38. After that, the problem is gone! I'll leave it at FC38 for a while while watching for any online comments that might provide a clue to a real solution. --

Re: Starting Wayland-KDE on FC39

René J.V. Bertin and Duncan responded to my note. Thank you to both, that is great information. I'm working through the ideas now but thus far haven't found a solution. I won't repeat the whole exchange at this point, waiting until I have something to add. -- Dave Close,

Starting Wayland-KDE on FC39

me understand why this is failing. There are some online references to a problem with the /dev/dri/card0 device but they are ancient and don't seem relevant. This machine is intended to run an application that only works on Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestion

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

sing "startw". I agree that this is not likely a plasma problem. It's the reference to /dev/dri/card0 that concerns me. There must be some reason why this device is needed but can't be found. For what it may be worth, I'll attach the complete output (if that is accepted on

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

0 >device but they are ancient and don't seem relevant. > >This machine is intended to run an application that only works on >Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions >would be very helpful. If it matters, this machine was never installed with the KDE spin.

Starting Wayland FC39

that only works on Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions would be very helpful. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to in

Re: iPad file backup?

good WAP and a separate router that can really do what a router should be able to do. The ERX I mentioned does not include any wifi (though I think Ubiquiti does make more expensive units which do both). -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: iPad file backup?

y not invest a surprising small amount in a real router like the Ubiquiti Edgerouter X? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Computers are useless. They can on

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

Barry Scott wrote: >What exactly did you do that got this error message? >How can I reproduce this? To me, the first important question is, is the file actually defective (17 improperly formatted lines) or is the message bogus? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 43

Re: Thunderbird 115 FC 38

Adam's message seemed just fine when I saw it using exmh. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's wher

multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

ot;save", but when was the last time anyone here used a manila folder or a floppy disk? (Don't tell me about "hover" to discover the meaning of some silly picture. That's just extra work, and tedious besides when searching through dozens of pictures for the one needed.) -

Re: startx equivalent for Wayland

ou want to run. e.g. gnome-shell Thanks. So there is no equivalent of /etc/sysconfig/desktop? Personally, I prefer KDE. I can eliminate most of the "icons" and similar junk and just manage using things I can read (though it does take some effort to disable that stuff). -- Dave Close

startx equivalent for Wayland

there is no package that includes such a command and I can't find any other weston command that looks likely. Surely I can't be the only one wanting to start from a command line? (The target is a system running 64-bit F38 fully updated.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog vs systemd

ased on the Message-id. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "A man who says, 'I have learned enough and will learn no further,' should be considered as know

Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog vs systemd

ably out of concern by the disk storage occupied by the journal. But as I recall, the documentation said only that changing this would reduce disk usage, not that it would stop the journal from running entirely. And if it were still running, it should still be able to pass data to rsyslog. -

Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog vs systemd

md[1]: Switching root. systemd-journald[205]: Journal stopped But those lines also appear after boot on the other machines and the log then continues without even a gap in time. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...

[rsyslog] rsyslog vs systemd

I'm learning. Most of the time, I'd really prefer to read plain text logs. What else can I check to see why this one machine doesn't get the logs? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Nothing wilts faster than laurels d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359that have

Exmh blocked by browser

rowser opens as expected but exmh is blocked until I close the browser's window. I get the same behavior even if I try to return to the original browser. What could I be doing wrong? Fedora 38 x86_64, exmh 2.9.0 -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Nothing wilts faster than laurels d...

Broken browser? Or broken website...

-thou attitude. Unfortunately, fedoraproject.org is not the only place I've encountered this abomination. What gives the administrators of these places their special rights to control the rest of us? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Beep when moving between Xterms

windows. I've looked through all the settings for both KDE and Xterm and can't find anything obvious which would account for this behavior. Can someone enlighten me, please? This is Fedora with plasma-desktop-5.27.3-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

Re: Automatic PSK wifi on boot

y ${name} 802-11-wireless-security.psk "password" \ 802-11-wireless-security.psk-flags 0 After booting and before starting KDE (which I do using startx because I like seeing boot messages), the connection is up. And still up after KDE is running. No wallet imp

Re: Automatic PSK wifi on boot

en you're >not logged in, nor is the KDE wallet daemon, which means a KDE wallet >cannot be required for connecting to a WiFi network at boot... Of course. But that could impact the connection editor since it is running in KDE. So maybe I should address this question to Network Manager supp

Re: Automatic PSK wifi on boot

tworkManager/system-connections. Somewhere I read that psk-flags should be 0 to store a password but the connection editor always sets that to 1. It's possible that the problem stems from the KDE wallet. I haven't set it up and find it annoying that it seems to be required.

Automatic PSK wifi on boot

do I put the password so NM can see it? And what other settings have to be there so it even tries to see it? If it matters, I'm trying this on a Fedora 37 clean install. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.c

Task manager behavior

or. I've looked in the task manager settings and all other system settings that seem possibly relevant. If there is a way to disable this behavior, please tell me how. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltec

Re: Long links in konsole, truncated at EOL when hovered or clicked.

(<>)? I've found that some MUAs handle those better. If it works for you, you could try to get your correspondents to conform. (Good luck.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "M

Performance difference

kB6170592 kB VmallocUsed520416 kB 527988 kB Percpu 15488 kB 14464 kB DirectMap4k351100 kB 363212 kB DirectMap2M 3254272 kB 3219456 kB -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

sortm error analysis

whitespace. Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:47:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 03:49:19 -0700 Can you see a problem with these dates? If not, how can I figure out the cause of sortm's complaint? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@comp

Inconsistent behavior of core utilities

I am working with a set of programs developed by others, many of which have special characters in their names. I may eventually want to change their names but that would have to wait until I understand them better. In the process of trying to gain that understanding, I've encountered some strange a

Re: Recent KDE changes

me that this ought to be possible to set on the same window where I specify the number of desktops. Instead, I hunt all over until a kind person reveals the hidden trick. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "You can only be young once d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359but you c

Recent KDE changes

cons-only" task manager is not a portent of the future of KDE as that would mean I'd need to find another environment. Sorry for the rant. I didn't start out to write so much. All I really wanted was some way to configure a keyboard shortcut to select the next virtual des

Re: New task manager

vides no way to change the icon or to add options to the command invoked. Trying to do those things through the widget properties function leaves the OK button gray no matter what I've tried. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Modesty is a virtue, yet one gets further without it." --Hugo de Vries

New task manager

? (I *hate* icons.) 2. How do I unlock the widgets on the new task manager? The tool list no longer seems to include that function and I don't find it elsewhere. I am able to add new widgets but I can't modify the properties of those already added. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine

Re: Startup recovery

. Yep, I've come to the same conclusion. This laptop initially had a small SSD. I've added another larger one but the partitioning isn't optimum anyway. I suspect that /root ran out of space overnight and led to all this trouble. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine C

Re: Startup recovery

lvs" post that info. The Attr column will show if it is >activated or not. Not activated on boot. Thanks for the help and advice. But I think John is right, it's time to start over on this laptop. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Whenever you have a secret, d...

Re: Startup recovery

another machine. Currently, the only seemingly serious error I see is that zram0 swap isn't starting. The swap LV is properly configured so this doesn't seem that it should be a /home dependency. I've currently reached a point where the network starts so my next task will be to verif

Startup recovery

ster in the morning so further investigation will continue after I return. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Quantum computing is a marvelous way to show the non- intuitive nature o

Re: NFS mount

t thought was that the error message, "Protocol not supported", could be improved. But it is exactly correct. What was missing for me was any clue as to how to address the error. Perhaps something in the man page would have helped. Over and out. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA &quo

Re: NFS mount

2049 > mount.nfs: prog 15, trying vers=2, prot=6 > mount.nfs: trying 192.168.44.20 prog 15 vers 2 prot TCP port 729 > mount.nfs: mount(2): Protocol not supported > mount.nfs: Protocol not supported > >I can't find anything relevant in any system log. The final message

Re: NFS mount

ve even tried with my firewall disabled but no luck. > >Two questions: first, why did you suspect the firewall and second, have >you re-enabled it? I didn't suspect it, just being paranoid. And yes, of course. The client is internal, it doesn't face the Internet. -- Dave Close, Compa

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