Re: Managing Menu choices on the desktop in F21

2015-03-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 15:07 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > In the *.desktop file, there is a line that controls the submenu > placement; it looks like this: > Categories=Education;Geography;Science; > > Howver, in this case OpenJUMP has also become it's own Category. > > I would like to eliminate

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Jeez, but that sounds such a crap encumbrance. Even just a log out >> and log back in again is a severe nuisance. It's beginning to sound >> a lot like Windows; built for morons, by morons. Michael Schwendt: > How do you restart already running processes after an upgrade of > system libr

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:01:36 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 16:42 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > If you update libraries a running program uses, it won't get the new > > libraries until it is restarted since it's already got a copy. In > > fact, I think any program that s

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 16:42 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > If you update libraries a running program uses, it won't get the new > libraries until it is restarted since it's already got a copy. In > fact, I think any program that starts and wants that updated library > will get the old version as it's

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 17:38 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: > > So why does Fedora provide a command called "needs-updating"? > > needs-restarting? Oops, that's the one. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/25/2015 03:39 PM, Martin Cigorraga wrote: Hello Richards, Quite interesting to actually talk to someone who actually has his hands dirty and can talk about this issue :) I remember reading a Lennart's post on his blog about a future when packages will be installing in their own spaces and

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/25/2015 03:52 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: Yes, I know that.*My* response was to another user's question of why Fedora has a needs-updating program (which you removed), which I could not find, but I*did* find a needs-restarting program Ah. It looked to me as though you were simply exp

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/25/2015 06:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/25/2015 02:38 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: >> >> needs-restarting? >> > > Yes. It's part of yum-utils and will give you a list of every program > (except the kernel) that needs to be restarted because of an update. starting > will throw a large number

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hello Richards, Quite interesting to actually talk to someone who actually has his hands dirty and can talk about this issue :) I remember reading a Lennart's post on his blog about a future when packages will be installing in their own spaces and all of this managed by systemd. Now my question (

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/25/2015 02:38 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: needs-restarting? Yes. It's part of yum-utils and will give you a list of every program (except the kernel) that needs to be restarted because of an update. It will throw a large number of spurious errors about not being able to examine parts

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/25/2015 04:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 13:34 +, Richard Hughes wrote: >> On 25 March 2015 at 13:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Even for updates to running >>> programs, or the DE itself, rebooting is often not necessary. >> >> If you find a reliable ra

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Roger Heflin
you now need "nofail" as an option so the automatic systemd crap will not stop on a missing fs. And I have also noticed that once systemd parses the fstab file changing it won't work, you have to reboot it to get it to figure out you removed it. There is probably a way to cancel what systemd is d

5tFTW: Fedora conferences this summer, writing release notes, brainstorming a better onramp, and a GSOC reminder (2015-03-25)

2015-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for March 25th, 2015: Join us at Flock (and

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 13:34 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 25 March 2015 at 13:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Even for updates to running > > programs, or the DE itself, rebooting is often not necessary. > > If you find a reliable race-free way of working out which packages can > safely be

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:33:24 -0600 Ronal B Morse wrote: > You might have to update dracut, too. > > I'm not sure what the relationship between dracut and RAID configuration > is. Are RAIDs entered into the initramfs? I don't know if any raid config info is in there, but it definitely needs add

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/25/2015 11:33 AM, Ronal B Morse wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:05 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times... I have to

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/25/2015 11:05 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times... I have to go in & comment out all entries except / and /home ( ass

Managing Menu choices on the desktop in F21

2015-03-25 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, After installing F21 on a x64 desktop, I proceeded to also install non-RPM software. For these types of software to appear in the menus, there are *.desktop files in the directory: /usr/share/applications The software that I installed is OpenJUMP, a java-based GIS package somew

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:05 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400 > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it > > won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times... > > I have to go in & comment out all entrie

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 15-03-25 07:36:08, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 25 March 2015 at 04:22, Tim wrote: > > Jeez, but that sounds such a crap encumbrance. Even just a log out > and > > log back in again is a severe nuisance. It's beginning to sound a > lot > > like Windows; built for morons, by morons. > > Michael

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it > won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times... > I have to go in & comment out all entries except / and /home ( assuming > it can find them), then it boots

Can audio driver configure audio jacks

2015-03-25 Thread David Highley
Can the linux audio driver configure the audio jacks on an ASUS H971 Plus motherboard? There are three jacks on the bord that are either line out, line in, mic or front, center, back speakers. I need the latter configuration and understand that this is driver configured on Windows platforms. I'm ru

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/25/2015 07:26 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I was apparently missing something like the raid1 kernel > module in the initramfs in my fedora 21 partition, but > I disabled the mdmonitor service and removed the raid > filesystem from the /etc/fstab, yet the system still > could not boot. It spent se

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:06:27 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > The last part of your question implies that you're asking grub to > predict if some program started at boot time is going to reference that > RAID or not. It was well past grub, the kernel was booting up and enumerating all the disks in ude

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/25/2015 04:26 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I was apparently missing something like the raid1 kernel module in the initramfs in my fedora 21 partition, but I disabled the mdmonitor service and removed the raid filesystem from the /etc/fstab, yet the system still could not boot. It spent several mi

hourly yum cron

2015-03-25 Thread Doug H.
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 16:30 -0500, anlarye wrote: > Every hour I get the same notice from a default yum cron job. > > /etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron: > > Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: > Current : Thu Mar 19 23:01:22 2015 > Downloaded: Thu Mar 19 1

Re: gdm -- failure - or corrupted - Re: fedora 21 -- 2 different gpu --bmc/ipmi ASPEED -- Nvidia GTX760-- how to select primary

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Abbey
Hi Jeff, Thank you for the note. In the future I'll attempt what you wrote; to remove a package rather than reinstall. I needed to find a solution and get the systems to the users so I simply used the kdm. I discovered with kdm that the main display uses #2 (ctrl-alt-F2) and the other consol

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Richard Hughes
On 25 March 2015 at 13:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Even for updates to running > programs, or the DE itself, rebooting is often not necessary. If you find a reliable race-free way of working out which packages can safely be updated at runtime, please let me know. Also, any solution that reli

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 12:07 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:52:11 +1030, Tim wrote: > > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > >> So updating any package, no matter how trivial, means rebooting? > > >> Speaking as someone who has never been a Gnome user, thanks for the > > >> clarifica

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 17:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/24/2015 05:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > So updating any package, no matter how trivial, means rebooting? > > Speaking as someone who has never been a Gnome user, thanks for the > > clarification. KDE certainly does not do this. I d

Re: hourly yum cron

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:42:40 -0500 anlarye wrote: > Yes just started on the 19th of march I'd try rpm -q -f /etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron -i and see if the package that created that file was installed on the 19th. I certainly don't have that file on my system. -- users mailing list users@l

Re: hourly yum cron

2015-03-25 Thread anlarye
Yes just started on the 19th of march On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 16:30 -0500, anlarye wrote: > > Every hour I get the same notice from a default yum cron job. > > > > /etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron: > > > > Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it i

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Richard Hughes
On 25 March 2015 at 04:22, Tim wrote: > Jeez, but that sounds such a crap encumbrance. Even just a log out and > log back in again is a severe nuisance. It's beginning to sound a lot > like Windows; built for morons, by morons. Michael is right. Updating online works 99.8% of the time. The 0.1%

Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Horsley
I was apparently missing something like the raid1 kernel module in the initramfs in my fedora 21 partition, but I disabled the mdmonitor service and removed the raid filesystem from the /etc/fstab, yet the system still could not boot. It spent several minutes trying to recognize the raided disks th

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:52:11 +1030, Tim wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan: > >> So updating any package, no matter how trivial, means rebooting? > >> Speaking as someone who has never been a Gnome user, thanks for the > >> clarification. KDE certainly does not do this. I don't know if any other > >> DE

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/25/2015 12:18 AM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 17:33 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> quite frequently I can update packages without restarting anything, so >> forcing a restart would be overkill. > Thus far, I can only remember finding Firefox to foul up if you try to > keep using