Akonadi, Baloo, etc

2019-06-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
What is akonadi? What is baloo? Why does akonadi usually crash on system startup? Why does akonadi or maybe baloo sometimes use 100% of cpu? Why does akonadi or baloo cause a great deal of disk activity? Is there any way to run KDE alarm without akonadi? Thanks - jon

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Thanks for the info. I'm the maintainer of G4L since 2004, which is a diskimaging program. It is free, and defaults to a bit level copy. It does include ddrescue that handles disks with bad sectors to a degree. Actually, can add it as a boot option on the grub menu with the kernal file and ramdis

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
It's an Acer Aspire E1-731-4699 Intel Pentium 2020M Processor 2.4Ghz dual core. Seemed to be doing just one package at a time. Was a computer science instructor for 36+ years, so had lots of extra stuff loading on machines to show students in various classes. Generally taught 7 different courses

Re: F30 install problem on Lenovo x131e

2019-06-20 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Looks like internal hardware problem. Unplug the power adapter and battery and then try to remove and install again the drive, memory and other removable parts. 21.06.2019, 04:18, "Robert Moskowitz" : > This is really bad.  It won't get past the Lenovo logo screen with the > USB CD/DVD drive att

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 6/20/19 9:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Laptops are slow unless you have an SSD I work on a lot of laptops with mechanical drives. They drive me I-N-S-A-N-E. I can feel my beard growing. I love it when they start having problems with their drive and the customer lets me clone them over a Sams

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/20/19 3:44 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Have a notebook that I had installed Fedora on some time ago. Have upgraded it via DNF a few times, but this time I actually was watching it versus just coming back later to find it done. The clean installation only took about 20 minutes originally,

Re: Fedora 30 jobmemd-daemon

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/20/19 5:41 PM, bradb...@seanet.com wrote: I upgraded to Fedora 30, in a virtual machine, and it is very slow at responding to typing in a terminal window. When I execute the top, the first process is PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 11325 root 20

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 6/20/19 3:44 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Have a notebook that I had installed Fedora on some time ago. Have upgraded it via DNF a few times, but this time I actually was watching it versus just coming back later to find it done. The clean installation only took about 20 minutes originally,

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:44:16 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > Ended up taking just over 12 hours? > Just wondering why the process took so long. > Is that normal?? The speed of the hard drive is a big factor. The next update you do, open iotop in a terminal and see what kind of IO speeds y

Re: No microphone audio -

2019-06-20 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:06:59 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I rarely have computer audio problems, it usually just works. But > today I need to record voice and it does not do anything, pulse audio > shows rear microphone plugged in and the level is turned up. aplay > produces a test sound from the s

Re: F30 install problem on Lenovo x131e

2019-06-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This is really bad.  It won't get past the Lenovo logo screen with the USB CD/DVD drive attached.  It shuts down immediately.  No listening to F12.  Even without the drive, I can't get it to respond to any keystroke before shutting down. Either the boot info is totally hosed from the install (

Fedora 30 jobmemd-daemon

2019-06-20 Thread bradbell
I upgraded to Fedora 30, in a virtual machine, and it is very slow at responding to typing in a terminal window. When I execute the top, the first process is PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 11325 root 20 0 135m 27m 1960 S 16.1 0.0 1192:

Re: Fedora and Thunderbird -

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/20/19 1:52 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 6/20/19 4:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I unpacked the xpi file, changed the install.rdf to allow Thunderbird 60.*, repacked it, and installed it.  No errors and the play sound option is in the filters.  I didn't actually test it though.  Worth a try. _

Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael D. Setzer II writes: Have a notebook that I had installed Fedora on some time ago. Have upgraded it via DNF a few times, but this time I actually was watching it versus just coming back later to find it done. The clean installation only took about 20 minutes originally, but I've added

Re: No microphone audio -

2019-06-20 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:06:59 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > both are old, one is ancient, but I have used them in the past. > > Any ideas welcome,  Bob do they work in a different computer? or if you boot from a stick with some other distro? d ___ users

Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours??

2019-06-20 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Have a notebook that I had installed Fedora on some time ago. Have upgraded it via DNF a few times, but this time I actually was watching it versus just coming back later to find it done. The clean installation only took about 20 minutes originally, but I've added a lot of things to it. Showed ab

Re: F30 install problem on Lenovo x131e

2019-06-20 Thread Igor Bezrodnik
Do you know what is your gpu unit? Best is if you download liveDVD and try. You like xfce --> https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/30/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-30-1.2.iso or torrent https://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-30.torre

Re: Fedora and Thunderbird -

2019-06-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 6/20/19 4:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I unpacked the xpi file, changed the install.rdf to allow Thunderbird 60.*, repacked it, and installed it.  No errors and the play sound option is in the filters.  I didn't actually test it though.  Worth a try. . Yes, but how do I do that? Wher

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-20 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > Well, not so fast. suomi's example did not involve LVM but LVM is > the default for Fedora. Trying to follow the example and adjusting > for LVM doesn't work for me. With these kickstart commands, > > bootloader --driveorder=sda --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda > clearpart --none --i

Re: Fedora and Thunderbird -

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/18/19 10:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have used Thunderbird with an add-on that enabled the use of recorded voice announcements identifying incoming messages so that I did not have to come back upstairs to the computer to determine what it was. The upgrade to Fedora-30 requires the use of a

No microphone audio -

2019-06-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
I rarely have computer audio problems, it usually just works. But today I need to record voice and it does not do anything, pulse audio shows rear microphone plugged in and the level is turned up. aplay produces a test sound from the speaker and sound works as expected, just no mic audio. This

F30 install problem on Lenovo x131e

2019-06-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a refurbished x131e.  I pulled the 320G HD and installed an empty 500GB SSD.  From a USB SD I started the x64 NetInstall. In the install process, I set my location (Detroit), changed the host name, left the drive setup as default.  Then I selected a bunch of software.  I selected the Xf

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-20 Thread CLOSE Dave
suomi () wrote: > as far as possible I do the installation(s) using a kickstart file. > It is not possible, when you install from a Live CD. > My disk-partitionning in the kickstasrt file looks like: > > # System bootloader configuration > bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=nvme0n1 > # Partiti