Re: Please help me with samba or my brain will explode.

2018-02-18 Thread Илья Коскин
This is unbelievable! For I coundn't create usershare as i needed, I made a share through smb.conf, that was "guest only" and "force user", and it worked. And after I saw your message, I decided to try again and check all the permissions and acls. I have created new usershare and it is working!

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: > Just following on from this, is my setup strange when I have never > found boot.log to be empty and on my system it currently has > mountains of entries? Oops. The machine I'm working on now does have a boot.log, my prior ones didn't

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: > the obvious difference between the two, apart from the end of screen > pause, if that less allows scrolling backwards and forwards with PgUp > and PgDn, more doesn't. Less can parse some files, and show you more than just plain text.

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:43:12 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/19/18 08:21, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? > > Yes > >>> xrandr > >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x > >>> 8192 HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:49:44 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:43:35 +0100 > > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > > > Subject: Re: Dual screen > > > > > > > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, stan sent: > > > > > Using monitors with different resolutions and

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 08:21, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? > Yes >>> xrandr >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 >>> HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y >>> axis) 609mm x 347mm >>>13

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? Yes > > > xrandr > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 > > HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > > axis) 609mm x 347mm > >1366x768 59.79 + > >1920x1080

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 07:49, Patrick Dupre wrote: Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? > xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 > HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 609mm x 347mm >1366x768 59.7

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:43:35 +0100 > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: Dual screen > > > > > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, stan sent: > > > > Using monitors with different resolutions and dot pitches > > > > at the same time must play havoc with font selection. > >

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:36:02 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > On 18/2/18 7:45 pm, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, Anne Wilson sent: > >> They don't linger long enough to write them down, and boot.log > >> appears to be empty (unless that's because I'm logged in as user, not

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:11:54 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > For the monitor that doesn't give you the nice results you want, try > to let software do the job. So get a tool like both cvs and ^^ wrong: should say:

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:43:35 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > Subject: Re: Dual screen > > > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, stan sent: > > > Using monitors with different resolutions and dot pitches > > > at the same time must play havoc with font selection. > > > > Modern monito

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 04:59, Stephen Morris wrote: >> >> strings /usr/lib/modules/4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko | >> grep gcc > > I get my nvidia source from the negativo17 repository and all this command > does is > list the version of gcc used And that was the entire purpose of asking t

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/2/18 7:45 pm, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, Anne Wilson sent: They don't linger long enough to write them down, and boot.log appears to be empty (unless that's because I'm logged in as user, not root). The logging is done by the system, not you. Reading logs may req

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/2/18 7:49 pm, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent: currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and "less" commands can be used interchangeably. i don't recall th

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/2/18 9:14 pm, François Patte wrote: Le 18/02/2018 à 10:54, Ed Greshko a écrit : On 02/18/18 17:01, François Patte wrote: $ strings /usr/lib/modules/4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64/extra/nvidia-340xx/nvidia.ko | grep gcc gcc version 7.2.1 20170915 (Red Hat 7.2.1-2) (GCC) OK.   I believe that RET

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/2/18 8:28 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/18/18 05:12, François Patte wrote: Le 17/02/2018 à 20:31, Ed Greshko a écrit : On 02/18/18 02:10, François Patte wrote: returns that virtualbox drivers (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) and nvidia driver were not compiled with a retpoline co

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/2/18 10:59 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/17/18 18:12, François Patte wrote: I just updated f27 and the new installed kernel (4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64), sends these messages at boot time: kernel: Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline kernel: Spectre V2 : System may be vulnerable to s

Re: weird effect: gnome-terminal does not open links correctly

2018-02-18 Thread Ted Roche
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > > Anybody has seen that opening URL's found within the gnome-terminal output > is not done correctly (popup menu: Open link ... in gnome-terminal)? Only > the issuer's home URL is opened, independent from the URL found in the > terminal. Is

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread François Patte
Le 18/02/2018 à 14:22, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: >> Le 18/02/2018 à 11:20, Ed Greshko a écrit : >>> On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a patch for retpoline, why the patched

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 21:55, François Patte wrote: > Le 18/02/2018 à 14:36, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: >>> but I am unable to reinstall virtualbox >> >> For the virtualbox drivers just run... >> >> sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup > This file (vboxdrv.sh) does n

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread François Patte
Le 18/02/2018 à 14:36, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: >> but I am unable to reinstall virtualbox > > > For the virtualbox drivers just run... > > sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup This file (vboxdrv.sh) does not exist on my system... Are we running the s

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: > but I am unable to reinstall virtualbox For the virtualbox drivers just run... sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup This will rebuild the modules for the running kernel only. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Desc

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: > Le 18/02/2018 à 11:20, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: >>> fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a >>> patch for retpoline, why the patched version is not available in fedora >>> repos? >> >

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:03:31 +0100 François Patte wrote: > Le 18/02/2018 à 11:20, Ed Greshko a écrit : > > On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: > >> fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a > >> patch for retpoline, why the patched version is not available in

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread François Patte
Le 18/02/2018 à 11:20, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: >> fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a >> patch for retpoline, why the patched version is not available in fedora >> repos? > > > What do you mean it isn't available in the

Re: weird effect: gnome-terminal does not open links correctly

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 18:04, Joachim Backes wrote: > I'm running f27 under gnome with gnome-terminal as preferred  terminal > application. > > Anybody has seen that opening URL's found within the gnome-terminal output is > not > done correctly (popup menu: Open link ... in gnome-terminal)? Only the > issu

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Subject: Re: Dual screen > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, stan sent: > > Using monitors with different resolutions and dot pitches > > at the same time must play havoc with font selection. > > Modern monitors (LCDs, etc), only work at one resolution, their native > ones. If you don'

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: > fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a > patch for retpoline, why the patched version is not available in fedora > repos? What do you mean it isn't available in the repo?   That is where mine came from. [egreshko@meimei

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread François Patte
Le 18/02/2018 à 10:54, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 02/18/18 17:01, François Patte wrote: >> $ strings >> /usr/lib/modules/4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64/extra/nvidia-340xx/nvidia.ko | >> grep gcc >> >> gcc version 7.2.1 20170915 (Red Hat 7.2.1-2) (GCC) > > > OK.   I believe that RETPOLINE support isn't ava

weird effect: gnome-terminal does not open links correctly

2018-02-18 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, I'm running f27 under gnome with gnome-terminal as preferred terminal application. Anybody has seen that opening URL's found within the gnome-terminal output is not done correctly (popup menu: Open link ... in gnome-terminal)? Only the issuer's home URL is opened, independent from

gnome-terminal does not open links correctly

2018-02-18 Thread Joachim Backes
I'm running f27 under gnome. Anybody has seen that opening URL's found in the gnome-terminal output is not done correctly? Only the issuers home URL is opened, independent from the URL found in the terminal. Using konsole5 instead of gnome-terminal solves the problem. -- Fedora release 27 (T

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 17:01, François Patte wrote: > $ strings > /usr/lib/modules/4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64/extra/nvidia-340xx/nvidia.ko | > grep gcc > > gcc version 7.2.1 20170915 (Red Hat 7.2.1-2) (GCC) OK.   I believe that RETPOLINE support isn't available in that version of gcc. gcc-7.3.1-2.fc27   is the

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread François Patte
Le 17/02/2018 à 22:28, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 02/18/18 05:12, François Patte wrote: >> Le 17/02/2018 à 20:31, Ed Greshko a écrit : >>> On 02/18/18 02:10, François Patte wrote: returns that virtualbox drivers (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) and nvidia driver were not compiled

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/18/2018 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering > > later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the > > "more" and "less" commands can be used interchangeably. > Th

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2018, Ahmad Samir sent: > I have a samsung monitor and using the buttons on the monitor itself, > and there's a "Sharpness" setting. That's an edge/detail enhancement feature, that over-emphasises the sharper edges of picture content, some monitors allow you to d

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent: > currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later > this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and > "less" commands can be used interchangeably. i don't recall that > *ever* being the case M

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, Anne Wilson sent: > They don't linger long enough to write them down, and boot.log > appears to be empty (unless that's because I'm logged in as user, not > root). The logging is done by the system, not you. Reading logs may require you to be root, but it

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-18 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/18/2018 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and "less" commands can be used interchangeably. This does not apply. "more" is the traditional UCB/Berkeley "m