Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 12.07.2014 01:10, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Hi On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I have no idea what HW is a problem; or if it's even the hardware. Could be a race condition due to the different software packages. Different modules being started by systemd,

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Rolf Turner sent: > (1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird > spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders > and subfolders. You might want to try and find out if those times coincide with your system opera

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ?

2014-07-11 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 11 July 2014, Mike Wright sent: > Usually there is no mouse after this happens. A "return" returns me > to the login screen and I can choose one of the different desktops > from there, all of which work. Do you have a second test login to try out, one without any configura

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread poma
On 12.07.2014 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote: ... ***Is*** there anything that can be done about it? If so, what? Please keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind. I need a *recipe* --- "Do this, and then this, and then this " I understand a fair bit of Linux jargon, but there is a *

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/12/14 12:51, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxul.so: >> libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 >> Couldn't load XPCOM. > > Naturally I have no idea what this really means, or what if anything can be > done about it. > > ***Is*** there

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread poma
On 12.07.2014 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote: On 12/07/14 14:44, Ed Greshko wrote: P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance. It should not matterbut that is a very old version. So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that Iam running a very el

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 14:44, Ed Greshko wrote: P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance. It should not matterbut that is a very old version. So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that Iam running a very elderly version of Fedora (17, to be explic

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Doug
On 07/11/2014 11:12 PM, poma wrote: On 12.07.2014 02:27, Rolf Turner wrote: So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that I am running a very elderly version of Fedora (17, to be explicit). I don't dare try to upgrade my Fedora version, given what I have read on this list

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread poma
On 11.07.2014 08:51, Fred Erickson wrote: $ systemd-analyze blame 37.724s plymouth-quit-wait.service 29.148s accounts-daemon.service 27.960s firewalld.service 27.861s avahi-daemon.service 27.720s chronyd.service Just to make you feel better abou

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread poma
On 12.07.2014 02:27, Rolf Turner wrote: So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that I am running a very elderly version of Fedora (17, to be explicit). I don't dare try to upgrade my Fedora version, given what I have read on this list about the problems that are involved

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/12/14 08:27, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 12/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> Are you talking about imap folders? If so, the subscription information is >> kept on the server side. So, for example, when I use T-Bird on a Virtual >> Machine and define my existing email account all my subscr

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread poma
On 12.07.2014 02:27, Rolf Turner wrote: On 12/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/14 07:54, Rolf Turner wrote: This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* kno

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 12:20, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/11/2014 04:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Has anyone any insight into why this unsubscription phenomenon should occur and how one might prevent it from occurring? That's a good question. Have you tried asking here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/product

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/14 07:54, Rolf Turner wrote: This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive, cranky, cryptic, bu

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/11/2014 04:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Has anyone any insight into why this unsubscription phenomenon should occur and how one might prevent it from occurring? That's a good question. Have you tried asking here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird -- users mailing lis

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 12:04, Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/11/2014 04:54 PM, Rolf Turner issued this missive: This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive,

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/12/14 07:54, Rolf Turner wrote: > > This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and > without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many > contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive, cranky, cryptic, but above > all *knowledgeable*) I

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/11/2014 04:54 PM, Rolf Turner issued this missive: This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive, cranky, cryptic, but above all *knowledg

OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive, cranky, cryptic, but above all *knowledgeable*) I thought I would ask here. The question is a

Re: making fc20 backup

2014-07-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/11/2014 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive: On 07/11/2014 03:21 PM, Jackson Byers wrote: What I am still very uncertain : how to handle, ie backup, dirs like /dev, /proc, /sys, /srv /media, /run Don't. I'm not sure about /sys and /srv, but the rest are created by the system at boot

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I have no idea what HW is a problem; or if it's even the hardware. Could > be a race condition due to the different software packages. Different > modules being started by systemd, in different order > Is there a bug report? Rahul

Re: making fc20 backup

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/11/2014 03:21 PM, Jackson Byers wrote: What I am still very uncertain : how to handle, ie backup, dirs like /dev, /proc, /sys, /srv /media, /run Don't. I'm not sure about /sys and /srv, but the rest are created by the system at boot, and all you would do by "restoring" them would be to

making fc20 backup

2014-07-11 Thread Jackson Byers
What I am still very uncertain : how to handle, ie backup, dirs like /dev, /proc, /sys, /srv /media, /run In the past (f14,f16) I have muddled through these somehow, but always felt I wasn't doing it quite correctly. I recall some advice e.g., just create the dir, /dev, but not its contents.? o

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Balint Szigeti writes: « HTML content follows » On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 06:49 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ed Greshko writes: > On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote: > > Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I    > know it handles the boot screen and the

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Another way is to use cloud images to bypass the installer entirely. Download a qcow2 image, do a yum update to bring it up to date, then make snapshots of that for each VM, point each VM to a different snapshot, and within each VM regenerate machine-i

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. What's the filename of th

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 11, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Gareth Williams wrote: > >> There's an argument for totally ignoring NVRAM. rEFInd, an EFI boot manager, >> produces its boot entries dynamically from fstab, a static configuration >> file, and the contents of /boot. It ignores NVRAM, there's no constantly >> mo

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-11 Thread Gareth Williams
There's an argument for totally ignoring NVRAM. rEFInd, an EFI boot manager, produces its boot entries dynamically from fstab, a static configuration file, and the contents of /boot. It ignores NVRAM, there's no constantly modified grub.cfg on the EFI system partition when kernels are updated

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. > I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer > refuses to proceed. What's the filename of the ISO you're using? What are the steps

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ?

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/11/2014 12:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: I am loathe to yum remove, yum install. The remove wants to take 554MB of packages with it and I'm not willing to gamble that I'll have a usable system afterwards. It's possible that yum reinstall may work, but I'd suggest that you do a backup RIGHT

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/11/2014 12:42 PM, James Hogarth wrote: Since the only way to test bandwidth is to fill the connection until you hit a limit on a serious note please do not do this at hotspots... You will cause severe performance degradation for every other user during your testing... For that matter, i

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 10, 2014, at 11:39 PM, Gareth Williams wrote: > On 11/07/14 06:24, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:56 AM, "Williams, Gareth" >> wrote: >> >>> My question therefore is: Does anaconda do something else after running >>> 'efibootmgr' to make it permanent? Or: Why can anacon

fix a broken gnome desktop ?

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Following a recent kernel update I rebooted and can no longer use Gnome3. I receive this error: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. All extensions have been disabled as a precaution." Usually there is no mouse after this hap

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread James Hogarth
On 10 Jul 2014 18:19, "JD" wrote: > Very useful tools, especially while at hotspot cafe's. > Are there any free public servers for ttcp and iperf? Since the only way to test bandwidth is to fill the connection until you hit a limit on a serious note please do not do this at hotspots... You will

live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. At one time this was possible. I needed lot of copies of f14 to use as virtual machines so I installed to hard disk and on com

Re: *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-11 Thread poma
http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_t430 https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-intel/bugs/all http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems#All_bug_reports ... output of the dmesg command ... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=xorg-x11-

Re: *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-11 Thread poma
On 11.07.2014 17:23, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, On trying to boot, Fedora crashes on my Lenovo Thinkpad T430 with this message: Booting 'Fedora (3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64) 20 (Heisenbug)' [ 2.718947] [drm:cpt:cpt_serr_int_handler] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun Actual

Re: *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-11 Thread Balint Szigeti
I didn't have chance to try but I think the latest kernel fixes it: > $ rpm -q --changelog kernel-3.15.4-200.fc20|more > * Mon Jul 07 2014 Justin M. Forbes 3.15.4-200 > - Linux v3.15.4 > - Fixes CVE-2014-4715 (rhbz 1115767 1116362) > - Fixes CVE-2014-4699 (rhbz 1115927 1116477) > > * Tue Jul 01

*ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-11 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On trying to boot, Fedora crashes on my Lenovo Thinkpad T430 with this message: Booting 'Fedora (3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64) 20 (Heisenbug)' [ 2.718947] [drm:cpt:cpt_serr_int_handler] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun Actually, all kernels after 3.13.10-200.fc20.x86_64 are cr

Re: Camera mounting

2014-07-11 Thread lee
Ian Malone writes: > On 10 July 2014 09:49, lee wrote: >> Ian Malone writes: >> On 10 July 2014 01:10, lee wrote: >>> You trust computers too much. >>> >>> No, I'm pragmatic in what can be trusted. If key components of your >>> system are compromised then what are you protecting

Re: F21 Cant login

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Chambers
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 13:36 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 01:07 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > > Just installed F21 via NFS, using KDE as my workstation. It booted up to > > the login screen, but it won't login. Have tried both GUI and terminal and > > neither will logi

Re: Cinnamon / tint2

2014-07-11 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Balint Szigeti wrote: > I don't think so you can get rid of the tint2. This is the panel 'manager'. > You won't have panels without it. Tint2 is an independent panel. I see no relation between Cinnamon and Tint2. I have not used Cinnamon but they use their own pan

Re: F21 Cant login

2014-07-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 01:07 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > Just installed F21 via NFS, using KDE as my workstation. It booted up to > the login screen, but it won't login. Have tried both GUI and terminal and > neither will login, whether regular user or root. > > Mike Chambers > F21 is unrelea

Re: Cinnamon / tint2

2014-07-11 Thread Pal, Laszlo
Thanks. That's strange because when I kill tint2 my panels works better :) Anyway, it seems the issue may related to nvidia proprietary drivers, so I've moved to nouveau. Hopefully this will solve the problem. L: On 11 July 2014 14:11, Balint Szigeti wrote: > On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 15:58 +0200,

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 14:10 +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > Balint Szigeti writes: > > > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 06:49 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > > Ed Greshko writes: > > ... > > >> Some kind of a hardware-dependent race condition in plymouth. > > > Could you give me more infor

Re: Cinnamon / tint2

2014-07-11 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 15:58 +0200, Pal, Laszlo wrote: > Hi, > > In one of the previous update some clever guy made tint2 as dependency > of Cinnamon... I don't know why, but it seems making my favourite > environment much more unstable than earlier. At least handling the > systray is a complete m

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 06:49 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Ed Greshko writes: > > > On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote: > > > Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I > > know it handles the boot screen and the user interaction during boot. > > > Does it mea

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 10 July 2014, CS_DBA sent: > Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download > speeds i'm getting? Download a file, time it, and do the math... ;-\ On a serious note, some ISPs do give you a speed test that you can do by downloading a large file from the

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Greshko writes: On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote: > Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I know it handles the boot screen and the user interaction during boot. > Does it mean, if I remove this package I can't examine what happened during the boot o

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 06:11:49 +0100 Balint Szigeti wrote: > hello > > Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? > I know it handles the boot screen and the user interaction during > boot. Does it mean, if I remove this package I can't examine what > happened during the

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 11/07/14 08:27, Balint Szigeti wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 13:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote: Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I know it h

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread J.Witvliet
(Sorry for TP) Measuring speed can be a pig. On the net there are a bunch of sites, claiming they can do this. However, some require that you have to install all sorts of crap-ware, you to enable eye-candy. Furthermore, what do you need to know? Latency or bandwidth, up-stream or down-stream? An

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-11 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 11/07/14 08:27, Balint Szigeti wrote: On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 13:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote: Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I know it handles the boot screen and the user interaction during boot. Does it mean, if