Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

Tim via users writes: Hell, why don't just we just dump *everything* into one huge directory? That's make it really easy to manage (not). I get the impression that there's too many un-trained programmers in the world, and much of what they've learned has come from bad examples. This malarkey i

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 18:38 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I forgot what were the actual, technical reasons for collapsing bin > and sbin, except for "other distributions did it too". But the deed > is done, and one just has to deal with the aftermath: The artificial idiot listed these summaries:

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

Charles Dennett writes: Just wanted to add that I found a bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2360491 I predict there's going to be a lot of this, for a year or so. I forgot what were the actual, technical reasons for collapsing bin and sbin, except for "other dis

Re: wifi-bluetooth card recommendation

Thank you Roger and George On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM George N. White III wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM Terry Polzin wrote: > >> Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card? What hoops did you have to >> jump through to get it to work? >> > > Avoid vendors who don't provide the c

Re: wifi-bluetooth card recommendation

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM Terry Polzin wrote: > Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card? What hoops did you have to jump > through to get it to work? > Avoid vendors who don't provide the chipset ID's, then use the ID's with the LHWDB "Find Parts" to make su

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

On Wed Apr16'25 12:59:45AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:59:45 +0100 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading > > On Tue, 202

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

> > Is the command called something else? > > FYI: There a a number of ways to answer this question yourself. > > 1. ls /usr/bin/*fwupd* > 2. rpm -ql fwupd > > I use the rpm -ql frequently when I'm not sure what an RPM installed and > where it put it. > Thanks very much for this information!

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 13:47 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Ignore a thread - the whole thread vanishes from sight, and stays > there. Speaking of that... While Evolution has an option to ignore threads, it doesn't seem to do anything other than italicise the ignored messages in the message list. I

Re: F40 -> F42?

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM Neal Becker wrote: > >> I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 using >> sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 >> sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot >> >> This machine is a bit slow (not a

Re: wifi-bluetooth card recommendation

In general get an Intel branded one (AX200 works well).Any of the others I have used will often "work" for a while but need a lot of random restarts/resets of the card every days or 2 (realtek). On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM Terry Polzin wrote: > > Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card?

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On 4/18/25 9:36 AM, Charles Dennett wrote: Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to me.  Also logwatch had failed to run. I quickl

Re: mounting usb disks

No I don't use fstab for mounting external disks.  I have always had my disks mount automatically when I login. Paolo On 4/17/25 7:25 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,  under F40 when I login after booting my system all my ex

wifi-bluetooth card recommendation

Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card? What hoops did you have to jump through to get it to work? Thanks in advance, -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: F40 -> F42?

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM Neal Becker wrote: >> >>> I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 using >>> sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 >>> sudo d

Re: Update to Fedora 42 fails in gnome-software

The solution was to disable some repos in gnome-software that were not related to Fedora or RPM Fusion (in particular, Dropbox and Microsoft Teams) which the app could not retrieve. gnome-software should report the error but didn't report anything. On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 19:00 +, Matthew Saltzm

Re: F40 -> F42?

Richard Shaw composed on 2025-04-18 09:11 (UTC-0500): > If that's the order you ran the commands you needed to reverse it. After > upgrading to the f42 kernel you need to rerun the system-upgrade so that > the transaction is updated so it knows it doesn't need to remove the old > kernel or install

Re: sealert?

On 4/14/25 12:51 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41 setroubleshoot-server-3.3.35-4.fc41.x86_64 Any of you guys having problems getting    /usr/bin/sealert -b to open? Any way to get this info from the command line? Many thanks, -T It's a few years old, but still pretty acc

Re: F40 -> F42?

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM Neal Becker wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM Richard Shaw >>> wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM Neal Becker wrote

Re: F40 -> F42?

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM Neal Becker wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM Richard Shaw >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM Neal Becker wrote: >>> I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 us

Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to me. Also logwatch had failed to run. I quickly checked logwatch first by manually running

F40 -> F42?

I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 using sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot This machine is a bit slow (not a lot of memory) so I didn't hang around to watch, but about 10 min later it's running again, and still on F40. Any suggestio

Re: F40 -> F42?

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I just tried updating a lenovo laptop from F40 to F42 using > sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 > sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot > > This machine is a bit slow (not a lot of memory) so I didn't hang around > to watch, but about 1

Re: Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups?

On 4/18/25 3:07 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Anything in this guys Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups recommendations you would NOT do? I noticed he wisely left of the accursed `dnf autoremove`. Never never never ever do that again! https://ostechnix.com/upgrade-to-fedora-linux-42-from

Re: [OT] bash help

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 00:17 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 4/17/25 23:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > declare -n arr=array${1} > > echo ${arr[$2]} > > My hat is off to you, good sir. > > I'd bumped into declare earlier today but couldn't grasp it in the > context where it was used. > > With your hel

Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups?

Hi All, Anything in this guys Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups recommendations you would NOT do? I noticed he wisely left of the accursed `dnf autoremove`. Never never never ever do that again! https://ostechnix.com/upgrade-to-fedora-linux-42-from-fedora-41/#Fedora_Post-Upgrade_Cleanup_Optional_bu

Re: [OT] bash help

On 4/17/25 23:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: declare -n arr=array${1} echo ${arr[$2]} My hat is off to you, good sir. I'd bumped into declare earlier today but couldn't grasp it in the context where it was used. With your help I now have my password generator working. pwgen [length] [radix] I use