Fedora31: grub2 issues with grub2-mount using 100% CPU

2019-12-11 Thread Terry Barnaby
I have just started to try out Fedora31 on some of our systems. I am using a bit of an unusual, manual install method copying an image of the rootfs to the disk and configuring this, (this may be related to my issue, but I have been using the same system for 6 years or more). The particular ha

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-12-12 12:32, sean darcy wrote: > On 12/11/19 9:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2019-12-12 09:08, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:59:04 -0500 >>> sean darcy wrote: >>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty. >>> Or maybe the problem is that it existed. I have no such >>> file on

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 9:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-12 09:08, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:59:04 -0500 sean darcy wrote: /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty. Or maybe the problem is that it existed. I have no such file on my system and X is working fine. Well, I have a pure Xfce VM

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-12-12 09:08, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:59:04 -0500 > sean darcy wrote: > >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty. > Or maybe the problem is that it existed. I have no such > file on my system and X is working fine. > Well, I have a pure Xfce VM and it starts fine with a non-e

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:59:04 -0500 sean darcy wrote: > /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty. Or maybe the problem is that it existed. I have no such file on my system and X is working fine. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 4:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. Any help appreciated. sean X.Org X Server 1.20.6 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 3347.582] Build Operating System: 5.0.6-200.fc

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 6:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-12 06:59, sean darcy wrote: On 12/11/19 5:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-12 06:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Tom Horsley
You could try telling lightdm to start a dumb failsafe session where it just starts xterm and nothing else. If that works then X is working and the problem is with xfce. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-12-12 06:59, sean darcy wrote: > On 12/11/19 5:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2019-12-12 06:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obviou

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 5:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-12 06:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. [  3349.146] (II) Server terminated successfully (0).

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 5:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-12 06:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. [  3349.146] (II) Server terminated successfully (0).

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 5:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. [  3349.146] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. X is starting fine,

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-12-12 06:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: >> I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't >> start. >> >> Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. >> >> [  3349.146] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. > > X

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/19 1:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. [ 3349.146] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. X is starting fine, but I suspect the window manager is not.

Re: More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread sean darcy
On 12/11/19 4:37 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. Any help appreciated. sean X.Org X Server 1.20.6 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 3347.582] Build Operating System: 5.0.6-200.fc

More FC31 woes : X won't start

2019-12-11 Thread Sean Darcy
I've upgrade another machine to FC31, and have another problem. X won't start. Here's Xorg.0.log. Nothing obvious to me. Any help appreciated. sean X.Org X Server 1.20.6 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 3347.582] Build Operating System: 5.0.6-200.fc29.x86_64 [ 3347.585] Current Operating

Re: The (bad) state of Qt on GNOME / Wayland

2019-12-11 Thread mario futire
Re geometry: > Hi, > > As I told you in the bug above, I believe this a Wayland limitation. > you are probably right. So in wayland (weston, plasma & gnome) position is lost but size is save X11, position and size are saved ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: can't get desired font in one user's terminal. [SOLVED]

2019-12-11 Thread home user
(answering my original post) > When I'm logged in as eng.user, and I edit a text file in the gnome terminal, > and the file is a mix of Chinese and English text, the Chinese text shows up > as a mix of mostly an unknown blocky font (a "ming"? font) and a little > "AR PL UKai..." > ...I wa

can't get desired font in one user's terminal.

2019-12-11 Thread home user
(Fedora-30; Gnome-3.32.2; stand-alone home work-station) (user names below are dummies) When I'm logged in as eng.user, and I edit a text file in the gnome terminal, and the file is a mix of Chinese and English text, the Chinese text shows up as a mix of mostly an unknown blocky font (a "ming"?

Re: Any thoughts on the Vivaldi browser?

2019-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 12:26 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > On 12/10/19 9:31 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Any of you guys use the Vivaldi browser? Any thoughts > > on it? > > > > -T > > I switched to the Vivaldi browser and away from Google Chrome, for one > very good reason

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 12:15 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2019-12-11 11:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > In the case of directories, 'x' means 'permission to lookup' > > . > > J guess that is a desirable thing to do? With 'r' permission, you can read the directory, so a basic 'ls' with no opt

Re: Any thoughts on the Vivaldi browser?

2019-12-11 Thread Temlakos
On 12/10/19 9:31 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Any of you guys use the Vivaldi browser?  Any thoughts on it? -T I switched to the Vivaldi browser and away from Google Chrome, for one very good reason: Vivaldi does not track you. Google does. Oddly enough, Vivaldi uses the Goog

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2019-12-11 11:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In the case of directories, 'x' means 'permission to lookup' . J guess that is a desirable thing to do? Anyway adding the "x" was what was needed to make some of my files available to the client. -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, Fedora Linux

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 10:31 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2019-12-11 10:09, Roger Heflin wrote: > > It should also be worth noting that if you want a dir to be readable > > then you must also have x set. So r-x for other would allow that. > > > > If say /home is owned by root/root and other has

Re: linux command "shred"

2019-12-11 Thread Bill Oliver
Funny you should mention that. I have a bunch of old laptops I have never gotten around to throwing away because I didn't want to just dump my hard drives somewhere without cleaning them up. I've made a router jig just for that purpose. billo On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 08:44 -0400, George N. White

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2019-12-11 10:09, Roger Heflin wrote: It should also be worth noting that if you want a dir to be readable then you must also have x set. So r-x for other would allow that. If say /home is owned by root/root and other has r-- (no x) then no one who is not root or root group will be able to

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2019-12-11 07:24, George N. White III wrote:  "Saint Peter, I have some question about linux configuration that have been bothering me ..."  to which the reply is "Don't worry, heaven runs on linux these days and there are a bunch of guys here who helped invent UNIX and NFS.' Personally,

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread Roger Heflin
It should also be worth noting that if you want a dir to be readable then you must also have x set. So r-x for other would allow that. If say /home is owned by root/root and other has r-- (no x) then no one who is not root or root group will be able to see into the directories below home at all e

Re: linux command "shred"

2019-12-11 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 08:40, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I use a sledgehammer :-) > A drill press also works, and cleanup is simpler. -- George N. White III ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le.

Re: linux command "shred"

2019-12-11 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I use a sledgehammer :-) -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen On 2019-12-11 at 12:14:37 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 11:28 +, Joerg Lechner via users wrote: > > Hi,I use 2 systems on my laptop, Windows internal disk, Fedora xx usb > > connected. My > > internal disk seems to be

Re: NFS root only access -

2019-12-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 19:40, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > On 2019-12-10 18:11, Ed Greshko wrote: > > So, you need to change the permissions on /media on the client. > > > > The easiest way is to do, on the client, as root. > > > > chown bobg:bobg /media > > . > > Yes, after that change I can navigate

Re: linux command "shred"

2019-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 11:28 +, Joerg Lechner via users wrote: > Hi,I use 2 systems on my laptop, Windows internal disk, Fedora xx usb > connected. My internal disk seems to be bad now. I should give away my laptop > for changing the old internal disk to a new one. Before doing that I want to

linux command "shred"

2019-12-11 Thread Joerg Lechner via users
Hi,I use 2 systems on my laptop, Windows internal disk, Fedora xx usb connected. My internal disk seems to be bad now. I should give away my laptop for changing the old internal disk to a new one. Before doing that I want to shred the internal windows disk, I have kloned it.. Short silly questio