Re: F33 - KDE broken after dnf update

2020-12-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 15/12/2020 15:23, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:07 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:27 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 2:27 AM Ed Greshko wrote: You use the "dnf history" commands. Do a "man dnf" and you should be able f

Re: F33 - KDE broken after dnf update

2020-12-14 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:07 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:27 AM Sreyan Chakravarty > wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 2:27 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > > You use the "dnf history" commands. > > > > > > Do a "man dnf" and you should be able figure out how

Re: F33 - KDE broken after dnf update

2020-12-14 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:27 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 2:27 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > You use the "dnf history" commands. > > > > Do a "man dnf" and you should be able figure out how to do it. > > > > > Well I just got screwed. > > I really thought that you coul

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread David King
On 12/14/20 8:56 AM, David King wrote: On 12/13/20 11:26 PM, home user wrote: I ran the alien command; it seemed to work. I ran the rpmrebuild command and did the edit that you suggested. I got over 1100 error messages.  I pasted them into a text file "output_1213.txt" and uploaded the file on

Re: a Wayland question for 2021

2020-12-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/14/20 12:19 PM, David wrote: What would it take in 2021 or beyond to bulid a distro free of X, just for demo purposes ? It depends on what you mean by "free of X". If you're running a Wayland desktop like Gnome, the only X involved is the Xwayland process that provides an X "interprete

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/14/20 6:08 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 03:15:08PM +, John Pilkington wrote: Is there an 'rpmrebuild' command? I have used 'rpmbuild --rebuild' - but not exactly in this context. There is a package/executable called 'rpmrebuild' but it builds a package from t

a Wayland question for 2021

2020-12-14 Thread David
What would it take in 2021 or beyond to bulid a distro free of X, just for demo purposes ? I know most applications would not work. But what would work ?Would AMD graphics work ? Would Mutter work ? Would you be able to log into Gnome ? Obviously Xfce and LXDE and LXQt would not work, and

Re: xwayland error

2020-12-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 15/12/2020 02:43, Patrick Dupre wrote: Independently of dwservice, Can a user choose if he want to start a xwayland or a xorg session? Before login in graphics mode, it is supposed to be a cogwheel to let the user choose (at least in ubuntu), but I do not have it. In F33 the cogwheel has b

Re: a Newbie question

2020-12-14 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/13/20 12:59 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 07:41:12PM -0600, David wrote: If a Linux user was going to build a new desktop computer using 2020 components, for home use in January of 2021, what version of Fedora should they use and what options or flavors or isos would on

Re: F33 - KDE broken after dnf update

2020-12-14 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 2:27 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > > You use the "dnf history" commands. > > Do a "man dnf" and you should be able figure out how to do it. > Well I just got screwed. I really thought that you could always rollback a DNF transaction with dnf history undo, hence I did not take a

Re: xwayland error

2020-12-14 Thread Patrick Dupre
> On 14/12/2020 05:05, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When I try to connect to my machine by using dwservice, I get > > Error: xWayland is not supported. > > > > Thus, I edited > > /etc/gdm/custom.conf > > to uncomment > > waylandEnable=false > > > > It does not help. > > > > Do I need to

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 03:15:08PM +, John Pilkington wrote: > Is there an 'rpmrebuild' command? I have used 'rpmbuild --rebuild' - but > not exactly in this context. There is a package/executable called 'rpmrebuild' but it builds a package from the RPM database and installed files of a packa

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread David King
On 12/13/20 11:26 PM, home user wrote: I ran the alien command; it seemed to work. I ran the rpmrebuild command and did the edit that you suggested. I got over 1100 error messages.  I pasted them into a text file "output_1213.txt" and uploaded the file onto the google drive.  It is here: "http

Re: btrfs swapfile - Not enough swap space for hibernation.

2020-12-14 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:57 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:23 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > You are in adventure land. So you're going on an adventure. If you > > want it to just work, use a swap partition. > > To be clear my problem is not with swap files per se. > > It

Re: btrfs swapfile - Not enough swap space for hibernation.

2020-12-14 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:23 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > You are in adventure land. So you're going on an adventure. If you > want it to just work, use a swap partition. To be clear my problem is not with swap files per se. It's a SELinux error. I was asking for help on how to configure SELinux so

Re: nvme crash

2020-12-14 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 14/12/2020 13.20, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 4:42 PM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I am not sure which list this should go to, so I am starting here. I run f32 fully updated 5.9.13-100.fc32.x86_64 on relatively new hardware kernel: DMI: Gigabyte Technology Co.