Re: install polymake

2017-10-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/06/2017 05:08 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Subject: Re: install polymake On 10/06/2017 09:24 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I try to install polymake, I get. dnf install polymake Repository mgeups has no mirror or baseurl set. Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:29 ago on Fri 06 Oct 2017

Re: install polymake

2017-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Subject: Re: install polymake > > On 10/06/2017 09:24 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > When I try to install polymake, I get. > > > > dnf install polymake > > Repository mgeups has no mirror or baseurl set. > > Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:29 ago on Fri 06 Oct 2017 04:34:53 PM > > CEST. >

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/06/2017 04:46 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/06/2017 04:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> In my experience, hardware deliberately waits till >> the worst possible time to break. For instance: You've >> just loaded a new operating system, and suddenly >> nothing works right. Because the hardware k

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/06/2017 04:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > In my experience, hardware deliberately waits till > the worst possible time to break. For instance: You've > just loaded a new operating system, and suddenly > nothing works right. Because the hardware knows > you'll be sure the new OS is the problem, i

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Tom Horsley
In my experience, hardware deliberately waits till the worst possible time to break. For instance: You've just loaded a new operating system, and suddenly nothing works right. Because the hardware knows you'll be sure the new OS is the problem, it chooses that precise moment to break. I have seen

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/06/2017 03:26 PM, George N. White III wrote: Cables and connections were always a problem area for hardware; now we need to think about whether problems are due to RF "interference", which could be a too strong RF signal from some other device, or poorly designed hardware that is not reje

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread George N. White III
On 6 October 2017 at 17:23, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/06/2017 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> >> He sent me the log directly and I've included the relevant lines below. >> It definitely looks like a hardware problem. It keeps disconnecting, >> maybe some connection inside is loose. >> > > I woul

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/06/2017 03:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/06/2017 02:54 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Yeah. As a hardware engineer that has, over many years, transitioned to >> a software engineer, I always assume my software is buggy. I can't >> believe how often it turns out it's hardware like a bad cable or

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread fred roller
I am with Tom. My 64Gb thumbdrive works Okay. The BUS is all wrong for the necessary throughput to give you fully comparable performance. USB (Universal Serial Bus vs. Parallel etc etc) but if you don't mind the performance hit the thumb drive, be it standard install or live install does well en

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/06/2017 02:54 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Yeah. As a hardware engineer that has, over many years, transitioned to a software engineer, I always assume my software is buggy. I can't believe how often it turns out it's hardware like a bad cable or something. My rule of thumb is "If it always happ

Re: install polymake

2017-10-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/06/2017 09:24 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I try to install polymake, I get. dnf install polymake Repository mgeups has no mirror or baseurl set. Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:29 ago on Fri 06 Oct 2017 04:34:53 PM CEST. Error: Problem: conflicting requests - package polymake

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/06/2017 01:23 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/06/2017 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >> He sent me the log directly and I've included the relevant lines below. >> It definitely looks like a hardware problem.  It keeps disconnecting, >> maybe some connection inside is loose. > > I wouldn't be su

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/06/2017 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: He sent me the log directly and I've included the relevant lines below. It definitely looks like a hardware problem.  It keeps disconnecting, maybe some connection inside is loose. I wouldn't be surprised. I can remember, back in the '80s, when many

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/05/2017 02:09 PM, Antonio M wrote: I have the log (tnx for help anyway) from 20:00:00 and forward: but the full log is 225 lines and I suppose that I cannot load here.. He sent me the log directly and I've included the relevant lines below. It definitely looks like a hardware problem. It

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread Tom Horsley
Maybe you are using the wrong USB device? My sandisk "extreme USB 3.0" 64GB stick gets transfer rates comparable to a hard disk when used in my computer's USB 3 port. I haven't ever installed fedora on it, but I copy large ISO images on and off all the time with surprising speed. __

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/05/2017 03:30 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > My last laptop had ESATA but there doesn't seem to be any ESATA SSD's > > available anymore, it looks like one company made one but they're > > discontinued. > > Newegg lists several ESATA SSDs.

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/05/2017 03:30 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Rick Stevens > wrote: > > On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: > >> Anybody have some success stories they can share?

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-06 Thread murph
I had similar sounding problems with a bluetooth mouse, turns out that the power management was shutting it down. Take a look at tlp or powertop if you are using them, and see if you can put a powerdown exception for your dongle. On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Antonio M wrote: > sometimes I loo

install polymake

2017-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
When I try to install polymake, I get. dnf install polymake Repository mgeups has no mirror or baseurl set. Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:29 ago on Fri 06 Oct 2017 04:34:53 PM CEST. Error: Problem: conflicting requests - package polymake-3.1-3.fc26.i686 requires perl = 4:5.24.1, but no

Re: EXTERNAL: This morning's update & bluetooth

2017-10-06 Thread Frank Elsner
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 10:10:11 -0400 Wells, Roger K. wrote: [ ... ] > Also just discovered: > Network drives (cifs) that were in use are no longer mountable on the > 4.13.4-200 kernel. > Reverting back to 4.12.14-300 and all is well again. Same here. Took me some time to revert. Could not imagine

Re: EXTERNAL: This morning's update & bluetooth

2017-10-06 Thread Wells, Roger K.
On 10/06/2017 09:45 AM, Wells, Roger K. wrote: Computer is Thinkpad x260 Uname -a: Linux rwells-x260 4.13.4-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 28 20:46:39 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Just updated from 4.12.14 I was using two Bluetooth devices, mouse & speaker, when I started the updat

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2017-10-06 Thread Mike Wright
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This morning's update & bluetooth

2017-10-06 Thread Wells, Roger K.
Computer is Thinkpad x260 Uname -a: Linux rwells-x260 4.13.4-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 28 20:46:39 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Just updated from 4.12.14 I was using two Bluetooth devices, mouse & speaker, when I started the update. After the update neither would connect. Rebo

Re: Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 12:56 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > Hello Patrick > > Il giorno ven, 06/10/2017 alle 11.01 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha > scritto: > > > > Put this in your kernel boot line: > > > > > > modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rd.blacklist=nouveau > > > > > > The kernel will use the interna

Re: Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Ambrogio
Hello Patrick Il giorno ven, 06/10/2017 alle 11.01 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto: > > Put this in your kernel boot line: > > > > modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rd.blacklist=nouveau > > > > The kernel will use the internal GPU from the motherboard. > > Just to be clear, you need to blacklis

Re: Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 10:56 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 10:16 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > > Hi all, > > as trying to solve my problems with Unusable Fedora 26 I would be know > > if there is a possibility to start with X without using nouveau. > > > > I remember (but may

Re: Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 11:43 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 10/06/17 10:16, Ambrogio wrote: > > Hi all, > > as trying to solve my problems with Unusable Fedora 26 I would be know > > if there is a possibility to start with X without using nouveau. > > > > I remember (but maybe I'm wrong) that if

Re: Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 10:16 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > Hi all, > as trying to solve my problems with Unusable Fedora 26 I would be know > if there is a possibility to start with X without using nouveau. > > I remember (but maybe I'm wrong) that if there is no nouveau available, > X can use the intel

Re: Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Joachim Backes
On 10/06/17 10:16, Ambrogio wrote: Hi all, as trying to solve my problems with Unusable Fedora 26 I would be know if there is a possibility to start with X without using nouveau. I remember (but maybe I'm wrong) that if there is no nouveau available, X can use the intel card but without feature

Re: What's wrong with new kernels

2017-10-06 Thread Ambrogio
Thankyou Ed Il giorno ven, 06/10/2017 alle 15.54 +0800, Ed Greshko ha scritto: > > I have uploaded the file "tainted.c". > > You can get it here. > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/qA368k5o2qMRXhJxNWJktQ > > Compile it with "gcc -o tainted tainted.c" and run the resultant > binary and t

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-06 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I do not get why chronyc should run and create such a racket at 100% > CPU. chronyc is used by a NetworkManager dispatcher script to switch NTP sources online or offline when the network configuration is changed. Maybe there is a bug

Is it possible to start without nouveau?

2017-10-06 Thread Ambrogio
Hi all, as trying to solve my problems with Unusable Fedora 26 I would be know if there is a possibility to start with X without using nouveau. I remember (but maybe I'm wrong) that if there is no nouveau available, X can use the intel card but without feature from NVIDIA GPU. If there is a way,

Re: What's wrong with new kernels

2017-10-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/06/17 15:04, Ambrogio wrote: > Il giorno gio, 05/10/2017 alle 12.58 -0700, Samuel Sieb ha scritto: > >> Be aware that blacklisting just stops the module from being loaded >> automatically. If there's something directly running insmod or >> modprobe >> on it, then it will still get loaded.

Re: What's wrong with new kernels

2017-10-06 Thread Ambrogio
Il giorno gio, 05/10/2017 alle 12.58 -0700, Samuel Sieb ha scritto: > Be aware that blacklisting just stops the module from being loaded > automatically. If there's something directly running insmod or > modprobe > on it, then it will still get loaded. The simplest option would be > to > just