Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/01/18 11:27, Ed Greshko wrote: > I think I'll take some time later today to setup a NFS server and mount a > partition > from another system to see if it causes an issue with the update. FWIW, I have enabled the nfs.service on the VM and exported and mounted a partition on a remote system

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/01/18 11:32, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > My rpcbind service seemed to have been enabled in 2011. Its current vendor > preset > is "disabled". So, I guess, it wouldn't be enabled today, by default. Was it > enabled by default in 2011? No idea. What does disabling it would mean, with > respect

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Greshko writes: On 01/01/18 06:19, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tom Horsley writes: > >> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:45:12 +0800 >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> > Everything went smoothly with no delay >> >> I tend to suspect that the rpcbind delay was caused >> by having NFS exports and the NFS services r

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/01/18 06:19, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tom Horsley writes: > >> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:45:12 +0800 >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> > Everything went smoothly with no delay >> >> I tend to suspect that the rpcbind delay was caused >> by having NFS exports and the NFS services running >> (not that an

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/01/18 06:19, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tom Horsley writes: > >> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:45:12 +0800 >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> > Everything went smoothly with no delay >> >> I tend to suspect that the rpcbind delay was caused >> by having NFS exports and the NFS services running >> (not that an

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:18:57 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'm sure that folks running on a UPS would appreciate a system shutdown > triggered by a power failure, by a low power alert from the UPS, now having > to wait until the man page cache gets updated. Or someone trying to shutdown thei

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:45:12 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Everything went smoothly with no delay I tend to suspect that the rpcbind delay was caused by having NFS exports and the NFS services running (not that any NFS clients were using the service). I do not use NFS. system

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: OK, I just updated my system and got the same ridiculous delays I saw someone else complain about That someone else was me, of course, and this was not rpcbind's fault. The rpcbind package leaves it to systemd to close and reopen its listening socket. This is, apparentl

Re: random rebooting F26

2017-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 08:06 -0800, Howard Howell wrote: > > Does this happen shortly after you've updated software and logged out > > then in again? I've had this happen frequently but thought it was a > > KDE > > problem related to systemd in some way. Essentially that logging out > > wasn't waiti

Re: random rebooting F26

2017-12-31 Thread Howard Howell
On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 09:28 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 21:34 -0800, Howard Howell wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 03:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 12/31/17 02:29, Howard Howell wrote: > > > > I am experiencing random logouts on my system. No apparent > > > >

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:45:12 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Everything went smoothly with no delay I tend to suspect that the rpcbind delay was caused by having NFS exports and the NFS services running (not that any NFS clients were using the service). ___ u

Re: Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/17 23:32, Tom Horsley wrote: > OK, I just updated my system and got the same > ridiculous delays I saw someone else complain about > recently. Not once, but twice. First when > it installed the new rpcbind, then second > when it ran the rpcbind scriptlet. > > Worse than that, when I reboot

Not just rpcbind, but man db update as well

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
OK, I just updated my system and got the same ridiculous delays I saw someone else complain about recently. Not once, but twice. First when it installed the new rpcbind, then second when it ran the rpcbind scriptlet. Worse than that, when I rebooted to make sure everything was loaded from scratch

nfs - increasing dir size...

2017-12-31 Thread bruce
Hi. I'm running centos7 (and might switch to fed to test) and testing nfs. The test nfs server has a 30G SSD with a dirve "/foo" as the test nfs drive. I'm testing all of this on Digital Ocean which uses SSD. The test nfs server has the exportfs set up for this. The test client has this set in

Re: iPad Photos -

2017-12-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/30/17 17:34, Joe Zeff wrote: Jerry Pournelle always said that the first thing you should do in troubleshooting computers is to check the cables.  I don't think this is the sort of problem he was thinking of, and alas, I can't ask him. . I tend to expect software problems rather that ha

Re: random rebooting F26

2017-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 21:34 -0800, Howard Howell wrote: > On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 03:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 12/31/17 02:29, Howard Howell wrote: > > > I am experiencing random logouts on my system. No apparent > > > links to any one program or sequence of events. In fact the last > > >

Re: random rebooting F26

2017-12-31 Thread dsavage
> On 12/31/17 02:29, Howard Howell wrote: >> I am experiencing random logouts on my system. No apparent >> links to any one program or sequence of events. In fact the last time >> it happened there were no windows open yet. I went up for the >> Activities button and next thing I saw was the logi