Re: can't reclaim disk space on F26 install

2017-08-12 Thread shriya mulay
I had same problem, I did this : Storage Configuration: custom click Done you will see new window where you will see free space left and your previously installed fedora partitions, all I did was to click on each partiton and ticked on reformat option on the right side of the window and then clicke

Re: Google Chrome won't die

2017-08-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 18:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:15:06 -0700 > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Has anyone else seen this? What's going on? > > I haven't seen it that bad, but there is a setting buried > down in the advanced stuff somewhere that says if chrome > should

Re: F25: How to force fsck at boot?

2017-08-12 Thread Chris Murphy
/forcefsck is obsolete Modern file systems are expected to determine themselves if fsck is needed. XFS, ext4, btrfs, all can do log replay at mount time and that fixes the vast majority of problems. On XFS and Btrfs, if log replay has problems, mount will fail and it's expected the user manually r

Re: Google Chrome won't die

2017-08-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:15:06 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Has anyone else seen this? What's going on? I haven't seen it that bad, but there is a setting buried down in the advanced stuff somewhere that says if chrome should really exit or if it should hang around in the background to bog down

Google Chrome won't die

2017-08-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Attempting to terminate google chrome by clicking the "X" window decoration closes sometimes leaves some of chrome's back end in existence. When this happens, further attempts to start chrome fail and parts of the system lock up in strange ways. Entering "$ chrome" into a shell locks up the shell

Re: can't reclaim disk space on F26 install

2017-08-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 August 2017, Dave Mitchell sent: > Any ideas how to proceed from here? > For this install I'm happy to for the current disk contents to be > completely blown away and for Fedora to partition the whole disk as > it sees fit. I also had trouble reusing an old hard drive for

can't reclaim disk space on F26 install

2017-08-12 Thread Dave Mitchell
I'm trying to install F26 on an i386 system with a single 119Gb SSD. It previously had F22 installed, with a straightforward partitioning scheme: sda1 ext4 500Mb /boot sda2 LVMencrypted, and containing /, swap, /home I booted off Fedora-Workstation-Live-i386-26-1.5.iso, and in the

Re: Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > You could play them in a virtual machine, and record the > screen :-). Ah, the analog hole! I could just record it on my smartphone :) Ain't technology grand! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

Re: Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Robbi Nespu
Instead of setup VM, just open swf via browser and record the screen On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:35 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > You could play them in a virtual machine, and record the > screen :-). > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Alessio Ciregia
On Aug 12, 2017 21:36, "Tom Horsley" wrote: You could play them in a virtual machine, and record the screen :-). Fanciful :-) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Tom Horsley
You could play them in a virtual machine, and record the screen :-). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F25: How to force fsck at boot?

2017-08-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 6 August 2017, Ahmad Samir sent: > The root / filesystem isn't force-checked with /forcefsck; you'd have > to use fsck.mode=force kernel boot parameter. I tested that on a > clean > install in a vm. The other filesystems listed in fsck are checked > AFAICS. > > systemd is de

Re: installing Fedora 26 to a SSD

2017-08-12 Thread Tim
Tim: >>> Have we got to the stage where the default install options for >>> Fedora work fine with a SSD, or should I be tweaking something? Rick Stevens: > For many users, LVM is somewhat irrelevant. I use LVM because I often > end up expanding filesystems by adding PVs to the VGs the LVs are >

Re: F25 -> F26 printer problems

2017-08-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2017, Wells, Roger K. sent: > 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 app

Re: Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 August 2017, Ted Roche sent: > I found the following suggestion [1] for converting SWF to MP4 using > gnash and ffmpeg, but gnash doesn't appear to be available in the > Fedora repos any more. If ffmpeg can play/input the SWF by itself, then you should be able to use it t

Re: Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Jack Craig
i've had luck w/ffmpeg, eg, ... ffmpeg -i file.swf video.mp4 hth... On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > Ultimately, my goal is to post some SWF files to Youtube. > > An acquaintance created a series of screen-capture and audio-narration > video tutorials that produced SWF fil

Covert a Shockwave Flash File (.swf) to something useful

2017-08-12 Thread Ted Roche
Ultimately, my goal is to post some SWF files to Youtube. An acquaintance created a series of screen-capture and audio-narration video tutorials that produced SWF files, and would now like to post them to YouTube, which doesn't appear to accept the SWF format. I found the following suggestion [1]

Re: Is yumex working?

2017-08-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/08/17 10:27, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I am facing a problem with yumex: I can't update a system nor install many packages at the same time: an error window opens giving a lot of error messages, mostly about python... I can only use yumex to install or update one or two packages

Re: Is yumex working?

2017-08-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/12/2017 05:27 PM, François Patte wrote: > I am facing a problem with yumex: I can't update a system nor install > many packages at the same time: an error window opens giving a lot of > error messages, mostly about python... > > I can only use yumex to install or update one or two packages...

Is yumex working?

2017-08-12 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I am facing a problem with yumex: I can't update a system nor install many packages at the same time: an error window opens giving a lot of error messages, mostly about python... I can only use yumex to install or update one or two packages Does anyone facing the same problem? Than

Re: F25 -> F26 printer problems

2017-08-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 08:36 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > 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 addres