Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:05 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Yes, I knew about what gparted can do. I had tried it > on a 1tb drive, and it still took at least 2 hours. > Maybe there was an issue with the sata internal bus??? We'd need dmesg to have any idea about that. Anytime I've done only an fs shrink o

Re: Cooling a laptop

On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 15:21 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > I am looking for a laptop cooling pad the fans of which are > "relocatable" so that I can position them to blow into the > air port hols/slots on the bottom of the laptop. This looked interesting: Cooler Master NotePal U3 Laptop Cooler Review http

Re: Cooling a laptop

On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 15:21 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > I am looking for a laptop cooling pad the fans of which are > "relocatable" so that I can position them to blow into the > air port hols/slots on the bottom of the laptop. Never seen one of them, but I do have one with a very large fan that covers

Re: current laptop recommendations

On 2015-01-09 06:43, Ian Malone wrote: Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced battery life and the wifi switch playing up are st

rpm -V - verifying packages

Hello, I don't know if I found a bug with upgrade or if there is a strange issue with rpm. I have upgraded from F19 to F21 on a machine. The upgrade worked quite well. Due to the nVidia driver changes, I installed the nVidia driver from nVidia instead of the normal rpmfusion as the 340 dr

Re: swapping

On 01/17/2015 03:54 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: then basically - I wanted OUT!. I feel your pain. I used to really like computers, until we networked them all together, and security became something we had to care about. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On 01/17/2015 07:14 PM, John Mellor wrote: You do not need to mess it up, unless you are actually using all 2TB of the disk. Use gparted to shrink the existing partitions as required. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:11 PM, jd1008 > wrote: On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chri

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

You do not need to mess it up, unless you are actually using all 2TB of the disk. Use gparted to shrink the existing partitions as required. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp >> >> It

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On 01/17/2015 06:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: The nand flash sinks completely into the multi-flash reader/writer, nothing to protrude. So I think this is a good solution for my situation. Seems reasonable I guess. I really do not want to back up

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > The nand flash sinks completely into the multi-flash > reader/writer, nothing to protrude. So I think this > is a good solution for my situation. Seems reasonable I guess. > I really do not > want to back up 2TB drive, repartition it to create >

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp It looks like it support swapfiles. I still don't think a sparse file backing a loop device as a swap device will work for suspend to disk, but it may just be a matter of creativity. If this is a laptop I t

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp It looks like it support swapfiles. I still don't think a sparse file backing a loop device as a swap device will work for suspend to disk, but it may just be a matter of creativity. If this is a laptop I think you're better off with swap on the interna

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

On Saturday 17 January 2015 11:14:33 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > I assumed firewalld was one of the facilities made feasible by systemd? > > If it has nothing to do with systemd, what exactly is its advantage? > I am not how what that question means. My meaning was: if firewalld is associated to s

Re: Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

On 2015-01-17 02:25, poma wrote: On 17.01.2015 05:51, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-01-16 00:55, poma wrote: On 16.01.2015 07:20, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their laptop after installing the wrong video driver. They can boot into eme

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On 01/17/2015 03:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:22 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 01/16/2015 07:11 PM, John Morris wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:26 -0700, jd1008 wrote: In older "traditional" practices, swap space was normally about twice the ram size. Today, with some systems

Using old Creative CT-4810 sound card in F20 ??

I'm trying to get an old Creative CT4810 sound card working on my F20 machine. I've disabled, in the BIOS, the built-in sound hardware, plugged the creative card into a PCI slot, booted up and lspci shows no sound hardware. I tried removing and reinstalling the alsa packages that were currently in

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Chris, > Thanks for your quick resonse! > > I do have /work in my /etc/fstab: > /dev/sda3 /work ext3 >defaults1 1 Consider 2 for the last column, since it's not the root filesystem

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:22 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 01/16/2015 07:11 PM, John Morris wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:26 -0700, jd1008 wrote: >> >>> In older "traditional" practices, swap space was normally >>> about twice the ram size. Today, with some systems having >>> 64 and even 128GB

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler on Fedora?

On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:08:42 +0100 Felix Schwarz wrote: > > Am 17.01.2015 um 21:13 schrieb Ranjan Maitra: > > and the PyPDF2 is this one: > > > > https://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/ > > There are a few requests for PyPDF2 in bugzilla. As I mentioned a couple of > times I'd like to see a new pac

Cooling a laptop

I am looking for a laptop cooling pad the fans of which are "relocatable" so that I can position them to blow into the air port hols/slots on the bottom of the laptop. If anyone could please point me to one, would be very very appreciated. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler on Fedora?

Am 17.01.2015 um 21:13 schrieb Ranjan Maitra: > and the PyPDF2 is this one: > > https://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/ There are a few requests for PyPDF2 in bugzilla. As I mentioned a couple of times I'd like to see a new package for that instead of upgrading pypdf itself. You should be able to find

PyPDF2 and stapler on Fedora?

Hi, I was making an rpm for these two for my personal use, but it just occurred to me that this may be available in some Fedora repo I am not aware of. So I thought I would ask before spending more time on. The stapler package that i am referring to is not the one already in Fedora. It is this

Re: swapping

Right - I think I might start looking at Ubuntu! Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Jan 2015, at 14:10, poma wrote: > >> On 17.01.2015 12:54, Andrew R Paterson wrote: >>> On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Selinux requires at l

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 18:22: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:35 PM, poma wrote: On 17.01.2015 14:31, Marco Guazzone wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:39 AM, antonio wrote: Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 09:16: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone wro

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:35 PM, poma wrote: > On 17.01.2015 14:31, Marco Guazzone wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:39 AM, antonio >> wrote: >>> Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 09:16: >>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone wrote: > > Hello, > >>

RE: Nagios 4?

> How come Fedora repos include Nagios 3.5 and not 4? > Version 4 seems to have been released in Oct 2013... Why don't you use that as motivation to see what Icinga 2 has to offer. Without getting into a pissing contest about an emotional attachment to either, see what Icinga 2 has to offer as I s

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

Hi On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > poma wrote: > > > firewalld != systemd :) > > I assumed it was one of the facilities made feasible by systemd? > If it has nothing to do with systemd, what exactly is its advantage? I am not how what that question means. firewalld h

Re: Blocking POODLE

> Thanks for the suggestion. Changing the min (and fallback-limit, > because I didn't know what that did) to 10 does not cause a failure to > connect. So either (a) the server change didn't take or (b) the browser > change didn't take or (c) I need to do something else in the browser to > force S

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

poma wrote: > firewalld != systemd :) I assumed it was one of the facilities made feasible by systemd? If it has nothing to do with systemd, what exactly is its advantage? You mentioned that you no longer have to unload/reload kernel modules with firewalld. But I assume that this is done (in th

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

On 17.01.2015 16:37, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> Am I right in thinking that there are two entirely different >>> versions of firewall in Fedora-21? I've been looking at >>> > >>> >>> and it seems I have

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

Ed Greshko wrote: >> Am I right in thinking that there are two entirely different >> versions of firewall in Fedora-21? I've been looking at >> >> >> and it seems I have to choose between systemd (dynamic) firewall >> and

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

On 17.01.2015 14:31, Marco Guazzone wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:39 AM, antonio wrote: >> Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 09:16: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone >>> wrote: Hello, I have connectivity problem since the last two updates of

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

On 17.01.2015 15:23, poma wrote: > On 17.01.2015 14:41, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Am I right in thinking that there are two entirely different >> versions of firewall in Fedora-21? I've been looking at >> >> >> >> and it seem

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 14:31: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:39 AM, antonio wrote: Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 09:16: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone wrote: Hello, I have connectivity problem since the last two updates of NM. Specifically, w

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

On 17.01.2015 14:41, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Am I right in thinking that there are two entirely different > versions of firewall in Fedora-21? I've been looking at > > > > and it seems I have to choose between systemd (dyn

Re: Adding shortcut to desktop

Il giorno ven, 16/01/2015 alle 18.35 -0500, Alex Regan ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have a fedora21 desktop that I'm building for my father-in-law and > have installed gnome-tweak-tool to enable icons on the desktop. Now, I'd > like to add an icon on the desktop to automatically start a qemu > insta

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

On 01/17/15 21:41, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Am I right in thinking that there are two entirely different > versions of firewall in Fedora-21? I've been looking at > > > > and it seems I have to choose between systemd (dynamic

Re: swapping

On 17.01.2015 12:54, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of >>> the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what

Fedora-21 firewall advice?

Am I right in thinking that there are two entirely different versions of firewall in Fedora-21? I've been looking at and it seems I have to choose between systemd (dynamic) firewall and iptables (static) firewall? I'm pre

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:39 AM, antonio wrote: > Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 09:16: > >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have connectivity problem since the last two updates of NM. >>> Specifically, when I boot the system and I l

Re: swapping

On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of > > the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what > > it's good for. > > If you do not use file s

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

Chris, Thanks for your quick resonse! I do have /work in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda3 /work ext3 defaults1 1 I will run the e2fsck -f on it very soon,, Regards, Kevin On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > It is ext4 on /work OK so it's not root, which means you can just umount it and run e2fsck without booting from alternate media. I can't tell from the journal output, which appears incomplete as it has no mention of the fsck at all, why you'

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/17/15 16:55, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> I should have mentioned also, that after fsck is completed, the >> following messages is displayed: >> Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type: >> "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, >>

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

It is ext4 on /work journalctl -xb returns: -- Unit user@0.service has finished starting up. -- -- The start-up result is done. Jan 02 02:41:40 amd systemd[1]: Sent message type=signal sender=n/a destination=n/a object=/org/f Jan 02 02:41:40 amd systemd-logind[499]: Got message type=signal sender

Re: Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

On 17.01.2015 05:51, Robin Laing wrote: > On 2015-01-16 00:55, poma wrote: >> On 16.01.2015 07:20, Robin Laing wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their >>> laptop after installing the wrong video driver. They can boot into >>> emergency mode bu

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello, > I had installed Fedora 21. Each time I boot the system, > fsck is running, which takes almost 5 minutes. > > What is the reason ? Can I avoid it ? It sounds like the file system isn't cleanly unmounting in a fairly bad way, because n

Re: C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors? - Realtek RTL8811AU USB WiFi

On 17.01.2015 04:02, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 01/16/2015 08:38 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 01/15/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: >>> On 15.01.2015 08:50, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a driver for a wifi usb device that I need to compile because there are no drivers in the kernel, which h

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

On 01/17/15 16:55, Kevin Wilson wrote: > I should have mentioned also, that after fsck is completed, the > following messages is displayed: > Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type: > "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, > Give toot password for maintenance > (or press Control-D to

Re: MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin

On 17.01.2015 03:10, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > On 16-01-15 19:44, poma wrote: >> >> >> This works for me. >> >> $ cp /etc/mc/mc.ext ~/.config/mc/ >> >> $ sed -i 's/\/usr\/libexec\/mc\/ext.d\/doc.sh open pdf/\ >> xpdf ${MC_EXT_FILENAME} >\/dev\/null 2>\&1 \&/g' ~/.config/mc/mc.ext >> >> $ grep xpdf ~/.c

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: internal(r8152): transmit queue 0 timed out

On 17.01.2015 00:57, sean darcy wrote: > On 01/16/2015 07:09 AM, poma wrote: >> On 16.01.2015 10:37, Hayes Wang wrote: >>> poma [mailto:pomidorabelis...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 4:25 PM >>> [...] > This looks like a USB problem. Is there a way to get usb (or > Networ

Re: fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

I should have mentioned also, that after fsck is completed, the following messages is displayed: Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type: "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, Give toot password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue) On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Kevin

fsck each time booting the system in Fedora 21

Hello, I had installed Fedora 21. Each time I boot the system, fsck is running, which takes almost 5 minutes. What is the reason ? Can I avoid it ? Regards, Kevin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

Marco Guazzone ha scrito il 17/01/2015 alle 09:16: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone wrote: Hello, I have connectivity problem since the last two updates of NM. Specifically, when I boot the system and I log in in the graphical environment (XFCE in my case), the NM applet continu

Re: swapping

On 01/16/2015 04:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: If your computer is single-user anyway, why does it need a security subsystem? Sometimes it protects you from badly-written software. My desktop uses BOINC to run various projects for the World Community Grid. One project started throwing up con

[SOLVED] Re: [F21] NetworkManager won't connect

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Marco Guazzone wrote: > Hello, > > I have connectivity problem since the last two updates of NM. > Specifically, when I boot the system and I log in in the graphical > environment (XFCE in my case), the NM applet continuesly animates, > trying to connect to my netw