Re: [SOLVED] Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 21:37 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Removing the card worked. That's evidence, an argument, not proof, > that the card was bad. Did you also try putting it back in again? Back in my early days of fixing up people's PCs, reseating cards was often needed. Few cases wer

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/27/25 10:35 PM, Tim wrote: And "systemctl status display-manager" says it's using GDM. I copied that one down! Thank you! -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. Mike Wright: > In early microsoft days (still?) reboot was a mantra. For linux users > uptime was a badge of honor and proudly displayed in mail footers. [tim@rocky ~]$ uptime 15:35:38 up 51 days, 5:10, 13 users,

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim via users: > > My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and > > it's set up to also resolve queries about internet addresses. It runs > > as a full server. No public server can answer queries about my LAN. Marco Moock: > Then only have the internal DNS set in your OS.

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/27/25 8:12 PM, home user via users wrote: On 4/27/25 2:12 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:45:04 -0600, home user via users wrote: The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as. Pleas

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 13:58 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Having no mobile computers, and none using wireless networking, I find myself > to > be the only network manager needed, and barely so, so have no network manager > installed It can still manage that *one* connection. And there are (or were

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 02:02 +, Jonathan via users wrote: > Have you tried googling your issue? It looks like there should be a > setting for it in Mate as discussed here. "here" *was* a link to a reddit page about Ubuntu, which shows one of the drawbacks with HTML mail (disappearing links), a

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 20:37 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Every time I have had two going, it has been an > unpredictable mess. This not suppose to be the > case? Installed doesn't mean active... Oddly enough I have two installed, but only one is set to go. Looking on an old installati

Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-27 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2025-04-27 21:28 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote: >> home user composed on 2025-04-26 16:01 (UTC-0600): >>> The workstation rebooted fine without the card. No problems so far. So >>> the CPU does have integrated graphics, which answers Felix and Samuel. >>> There is one c

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/27/25 4:12 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 26 Apr 2025, at 01:38, home user via users wrote: I gather from the Fedora docs that I should use firewalld or firewalld-config.  I have both.  But Fedora docs does not give me enough detail.  I am not an IT professional.  What specifically should

[SOLVED] Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 1:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/26/25 9:22 AM, home user via users wrote: (F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome) good morning, My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed yesterday

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/27/25 3:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 11:21 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi Beartooth, from the command line, run: $ rpm -qa \*dm and repo

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Dave Close
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Fedora Workstation installation process offers creating a user account, > but you need to fill in a real name yourself. home user via users wrote: > "offers"? I did not get any sense of having a choice; it seemed to be > required. Well, yes, any choice is ephemeral.

Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/26/25 5:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2025-04-26 16:01 (UTC-0600): The workstation rebooted fine without the card. No problems so far. So the CPU does have integrated graphics, which answers Felix and Samuel. There is one cost: this was a 2-monitor workstation; now it's

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread home user via users
On 4/27/25 2:12 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:45:04 -0600, home user via users wrote: The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as. Please don't turn this into a guessing game. Give som

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Jonathan via users
Oh yeah -- that would do it. If they changed the login manager then the new LM would be using default config, so you'll need to refer to the documentation for the Slim LM. [Arch Wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SLiM) is a great resource for this. On 4/26/25 1:20 AM, Ranjan Maitra via user

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Jonathan via users
Have you tried googling your issue? It looks like there should be a setting for it in Mate as discussed [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/UbuntuMATE/comments/11tjz9r/how_to_remove_login_window_from_ubantu_mate/). Additionally, it looks like if you installed a keyring that might also affect whethe

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 11:21 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > > > Hi Beartooth, > > > > > > from the command line, run: > > > $ rpm -qa \*dm > > > > > > and report bac

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/27/25 12:28 PM, Beartooth via users wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:21:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi Beartooth, from the command line, run: $ rpm -qa \*dm and r

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Barry
> On 27 Apr 2025, at 18:37, Marco Moock wrote: > > I do run additional SPI firewalls Is this a commercial or open source SPI firewall? Barry -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Beartooth via users
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:21:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >> >>> Hi Beartooth, >>> >>> from the command line, run: >>> $ rpm -qa \*dm >>> >>> and report back what pops up

Re: Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Michael, On 2025-04-28 04:42, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:59:55 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > If you prefix your command with e.g. LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 what > happens? No difference / improvement. Then I repeat my request to see example output. Your first key's stop pos

Re: Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:59:55 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > If you prefix your command with e.g. LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 what > > happens? > > > No difference / improvement. Then I repeat my request to see example output. Your first key's stop position is at end of line, which is very generous.

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi Beartooth, from the command line, run: $ rpm -qa \*dm and report back what pops up~# rpm -qa \*dm Hi Todd! I get libblockdev-dm-3.3.0-3.fc42.x86_64 mdadm-4

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Felix Miata
François Patte composed on 2025-04-27 12:46 (UTC+0200): > Once upon a time, there were a file ifcfg-xxx were the ethernet config > was clearly written but times have changed! Having no mobile computers, and none using wireless networking, I find myself to be the only network manager needed, and

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Beartooth via users
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi Beartooth, > > from the command line, run: > $ rpm -qa \*dm > > and report back what pops up~# rpm -qa \*dm Hi Todd! I get libblockdev-dm-3.3.0-3.fc42.x86_64 mdadm-4.3-7.fc42.x86_64 lightdm-1.32.0-13.fc42

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
Am 27.04.2025 um 10:52:53 Uhr schrieb David King: > I would disagree.  Operating systems have flaws that hackers can > exploit.  If a computer is connected directly to the internet then > hackers can exploit those flaws, regardless of what you may or may > not having running on the machine.  Def

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/27/25 3:46 AM, François Patte wrote: Le 27/04/2025 à 07:49, Samuel Sieb a écrit : On 4/26/25 2:05 PM, François Patte wrote: Le 24/04/2025 à 23:01, Jonathan Billings a écrit : On Apr 24, 2025, at 08:28, François Patte wrote: am a little bit confused about the dns : I have systemd-resolved

Re: Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Michael, On 2025-04-28 00:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:02:47 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: sort: text ordering performed using simple byte comparison What's your locale? C If you prefix your command with e.g. LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 what happens? No difference / imp

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

2025-04-27 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/27/25 01:07, Tim via users wrote: Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. In early microsoft days (still?) reboot was a mantra. For linux users uptime was a badge of honor and proudly displayed in mail footers. -- ___

Re: Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:02:47 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > sort: text ordering performed using simple byte comparison What's your locale? If you prefix your command with e.g. LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 what happens? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM David King wrote: > On 4/27/25 1:05 AM, Marco Moock wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:37:38 -0600 home user via users > > wrote: > > > >> I have no services running, as far as I know. I did not install any. > > Then there is not need for a router, NAT or anythin

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
Am 27.04.2025 um 20:42:23 Uhr schrieb Tim via users: > My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and > it's set up to also resolve queries about internet addresses. It runs > as a full server. No public server can answer queries about my LAN. Then only have the internal DN

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread David King
On 4/27/25 1:05 AM, Marco Moock wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:37:38 -0600 home user via users wrote: I have no services running, as far as I know. I did not install any. Then there is not need for a router, NAT or anything else. I would disagree.  Operating systems have flaws that hackers

Re: Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
On 2025-04-27 21:15, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:12:55 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, For the attached file these work: sort -k 1.11,1.18n t sort -k 1.3,1.6n t but this doesn't: sort -k 1.8 -k 1.3,1.6n t Why is this? Add option --debug, show the output

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Barry Scott
> On 26 Apr 2025, at 01:38, home user via users > wrote: > > I gather from the Fedora docs that I should use firewalld or > firewalld-config. I have both. But Fedora docs does not give me enough > detail. I am not an IT professional. What specifically should I do to keep > unwanted peop

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
home user via users wrote: > > I gather from the Fedora docs that I should use firewalld or > > firewalld-config. I have both. But Fedora docs does not give me > > enough detail. I am not an IT professional. What specifically > > should I do to keep unwanted people and things out? Barry Scott

Re: Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:12:55 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > People, > > For the attached file these work: > > sort -k 1.11,1.18n t > sort -k 1.3,1.6n t > > but this doesn't: > > sort -k 1.8 -k 1.3,1.6n t > > Why is this? Add option --debug, show the output you get, and describe wha

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Barry Scott
> On 27 Apr 2025, at 09:20, Tim via users wrote: > > The system will usually have a default server it queries for > everything, and if it doesn't respond (at all) it will try one of the > others. If it does respond (even if it doesn't have and results), it > has answered and the others won't b

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 12:17 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Then you have a general problem. DNS is intended to give back the same > results for the same query - regardless which server you ask. Yes, and no. My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and it's set up to also resol

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread François Patte
Le 27/04/2025 à 07:49, Samuel Sieb a écrit : On 4/26/25 2:05 PM, François Patte wrote: Le 24/04/2025 à 23:01, Jonathan Billings a écrit : On Apr 24, 2025, at 08:28, François Patte wrote: am a little bit confused about the dns : I have systemd-resolved installed and when I list the content of

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
Am 27.04.2025 um 10:57:30 Uhr schrieb Barry Scott: > > On 27 Apr 2025, at 09:20, Tim via users > > wrote: > > > > The system will usually have a default server it queries for > > everything, and if it doesn't respond (at all) it will try one of > > the others. If it does respond (even if it doe

Problem for SORT command gurus

2025-04-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, For the attached file these work: sort -k 1.11,1.18n t sort -k 1.3,1.6n t but this doesn't: sort -k 1.8 -k 1.3,1.6n t Why is this? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.auE_20.0_GB_20060611.smartctl 3_40.0_GB_20061217.smartct

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 16:45 -0600, home user via users wrote: > # netstat -ltuvpe > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State User Inode PID/Program name > tcp0 0 _localdnsproxy:domain 0.0.0.0:*

Re: about systemd-resolved

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 23:05 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Current DNS Server: 192.168.1.1 > DNS Servers: 80.67.169.12 80.67.169.40 192.168.1.1 Having multiple DNS servers, like that, *can* be a problem. It depends on your use case. The system will usually have a default server it querie

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:45:04 -0600, home user via users wrote: > The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super > User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as. Please don't turn this into a guessing game. Give some details about that user account based on

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

2025-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 17:33 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > An upgrade needs a reboot anyway. This!! Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. But a system upgrade is a complete interruption to whatever you were doing beforehand. You may as well reboot before starting,