Re: New CD drive fails - opinions?

2023-12-05 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 20:34 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Looks to me like I have a bad product. Or am I missing something? The obvious question: Do you have different discs to try it out with? Do you have a non-burnt disc to try? Such as a pressed disc that came with some hardware, it doesn't

Re: New CD drive fails - opinions?

2023-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/5/23 20:34, Geoffrey Leach wrote: New USB CD drive tail -1 /etc/fstab /dev/sr1 /Media/CDROMiso9660 noauto,user 0 0 root@puget[102] ~: !ls lsusb |grep 13fd:0840 Bus 002 Device 021: ID 13fd:0840 Initio Corporation INIC-1618L SATA root@puget[103] ~: !m mount /Media/C

Re: Samsung SSD firmware

2023-12-05 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 16:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I made some effort to anticipate disaster by copying my /, /boot and > /boot/efi partitions to a spare drive (and modifying its /etc/fstab > appropriately), but it didn't work. No doubt I would have needed to > update the EFI partition

New CD drive fails - opinions?

2023-12-05 Thread Geoffrey Leach
New USB CD drive tail -1 /etc/fstab /dev/sr1 /Media/CDROMiso9660 noauto,user 0 0 root@puget[102] ~: !ls lsusb |grep 13fd:0840 Bus 002 Device 021: ID 13fd:0840 Initio Corporation INIC-1618L SATA root@puget[103] ~: !m mount /Media/CDROM mount: /Media/CDROM: wrong fs type, b

Re: f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/23 7:39 PM, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-12-05 8:45 p.m., home user wrote: (Fedora 38; home workstation; Thunderbird 115.5.0) In early October, I upgraded from Fedora-37 to Fedora-38.  Since then, I've been consistently experiencing two types of misbehavior in Thunderbird. 1. When I swi

Re: f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/23 6:55 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 12/5/23 20:45, home user wrote: (Fedora 38; home workstation; Thunderbird 115.5.0) In early October, I upgraded from Fedora-37 to Fedora-38.  Since then, I've been consistently experiencing two types of misbehavior in Thunderbird. 1. When I

Re: f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-05 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-12-05 8:45 p.m., home user wrote: (Fedora 38; home workstation; Thunderbird 115.5.0) In early October, I upgraded from Fedora-37 to Fedora-38.  Since then, I've been consistently experiencing two types of misbehavior in Thunderbird. 1. When I switch e-mail accounts or folders within

f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-05 Thread home user
(Fedora 38; home workstation; Thunderbird 115.5.0) In early October, I upgraded from Fedora-37 to Fedora-38.  Since then, I've been consistently experiencing two types of misbehavior in Thunderbird. 1. When I switch e-mail accounts or folders within an e-mail account, the list of messages (sho

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels. [SOLVED]

2023-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/23 3:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/23 13:58, home user wrote: On 12/5/23 2:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/23 10:06, home user wrote: The memory test entry listed by that command is the grub menu entry that I want to keep, not the one that I want to delete.  That directory has n

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/5/23 13:58, home user wrote: On 12/5/23 2:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/23 10:06, home user wrote: The memory test entry listed by that command is the grub menu entry that I want to keep, not the one that I want to delete.  That directory has no entry corresponding to what I want to

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/23 2:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/23 10:06, home user wrote: The memory test entry listed by that command is the grub menu entry that I want to keep, not the one that I want to delete.  That directory has no entry corresponding to what I want to delete. Check in the /etc/grub2.c

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/5/23 10:06, home user wrote: The memory test entry listed by that command is the grub menu entry that I want to keep, not the one that I want to delete.  That directory has no entry corresponding to what I want to delete. Check in the /etc/grub2.cfg file and see if something added it dir

Re: Login loop in KDE sddm

2023-12-05 Thread Frank Bures
On 2023-12-05 14:08, Frank Bures wrote: On 2023-12-05 03:51, Barry wrote: On 4 Dec 2023, at 20:48, Frank Bures wrote:  I am having a problem with login page in Fedora39 KDE. Everything was fine after original installation on a new HW, then in about two days it stopped working. When I l

Re: Login loop in KDE sddm

2023-12-05 Thread Frank Bures
On 2023-12-05 03:51, Barry wrote: On 4 Dec 2023, at 20:48, Frank Bures wrote:  I am having a problem with login page in Fedora39 KDE. Everything was fine after original installation on a new HW, then in about two days it stopped working. When I log in I get black screen for a fraction of

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/23 10:59 AM, Doug H. wrote: On Tue, Dec 5, 2023, at 8:53 AM, home user wrote: On 12/2/23 1:39 PM, home user wrote: I have not seen anything further about this. So let's move on to the memory test part of this thread. /boot/ has one memory test entry: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    144344

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-05 Thread Doug H.
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023, at 8:53 AM, home user wrote: > On 12/2/23 1:39 PM, home user wrote: > > I have not seen anything further about this. > >> So let's move on to the memory test part of this thread. >> >> /boot/ has one memory test entry: >> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    144344 Aug  3 18:00 memtest8

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/2/23 1:39 PM, home user wrote: I have not seen anything further about this. So let's move on to the memory test part of this thread. /boot/ has one memory test entry: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    144344 Aug  3 18:00 memtest86+x64.bin /boot/loader/entries/ has one memory test entry: -rw-r-

Re: Samsung SSD firmware

2023-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2023-12-06 at 01:29 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 13:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Crossed my fingers and did it. All good. > > Close your fingers and cross your eyes, flash the firmware for a big > surprise... > > Reminds me that I ought to get a spare dr

Re: Samsung SSD firmware

2023-12-05 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 13:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Crossed my fingers and did it. All good. Close your fingers and cross your eyes, flash the firmware for a big surprise... Reminds me that I ought to get a spare drive, I just used my spare one in something. When it comes to system u

Re: Samsung SSD firmware

2023-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 16:13 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 14:38 +0100, Ralf Corsépius wrote: > > Am 03.12.23 um 13:16 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > > > I have a 2TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD as my main drive. It's working > > > well, > > > but Samsung released updated firmwar

Re: Login loop in KDE sddm

2023-12-05 Thread Barry
> On 4 Dec 2023, at 20:48, Frank Bures wrote: > >  > I am having a problem with login page in Fedora39 KDE. > > Everything was fine after original installation on a new HW, then in about > two days it stopped working. > > When I log in I get black screen for a fraction of a second and the