Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:21:52 -0700 Subject:Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: Community support for Fedora users From: Samuel Sieb Send reply

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/15/2025 8:23 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM home user via users wrote: I'll most likely keep this old windows-10 box for emergency fall-back. Does it need to be Windows? If so, have you checked to see if it can be upgraded to Windows 11? It does not *need* to be win

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Dave Close
Samuel Sieb wrote: > For example I have this: > /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 -> > ../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.so > It's dangling because I haven't installed the "heic" module for > ImageMagick that would provide that library.

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/15/25 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I use the symlink program to find and delete dangling links. Something like this will tell you how many bad links you have: $ sudo su - ... #

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2025 09:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: 3 is the default.  "installonly_limit=3" By default, how does Fedora handle rescue kernels? By default they aren't updated unless you delete the old one.  I don't know how you would change that. There are two obvious ways: rename it or move it to

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 8:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2025 09:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: 3 is the default.  "installonly_limit=3" By default, how does Fedora handle rescue kernels? By default they aren't updated unless you delete the old one.  I don't know how you would change that. There are two o

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 3:42 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 15 Sep 2025 at 14:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: "find / -xdev -xtype l" might be a better option. It will exclude /run, /proc, /sys, /home (if mounted separately), any external drives, etc. Thanks for quick reply. Will take a look at it. The badli

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On local 3 notebooks, was able to to remove oldest kernel using > dnf, and modifying the dnf.conf to only allow 2 kernels. > Then the install went thru ok. > On one I shifted / partition over

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 4:59 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:45:07 -0700 Subject:Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From:

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 6:44 PM, home user via users wrote: On 9/13/2025 9:59 AM, home user via users wrote: good morning, (background) I (finally!) have a new desktop on its way.  It's supposed to be totally blank; that is, it will have whatever firmware, bios, and other software the manufacturers of th

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:45:07 -0700 Subject:Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Send reply to:

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM home user via users wrote: > I'll most likely keep this old windows-10 box for emergency fall-back. Does it need to be Windows? If so, have you checked to see if it can be upgraded to Windows 11? -- ___ users mailing li

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/13/2025 9:59 AM, home user via users wrote: good morning, (background) I (finally!) have a new desktop on its way.  It's supposed to be totally blank; that is, it will have whatever firmware, bios, and other software the manufacturers of the parts put on those parts, but nothing else. 

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 4:46 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:21:52 -0700 Subject:Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: Community support for Fedora users

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot. - Update

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Update after adding strict option and redoing all img files. 44784931 Sep 16 10:54 initramfs-6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64.img 44785451 Sep 16 10:42 initramfs-6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64.img 44790792 Sep 16 10:53 initramfs-6.16.4-200.fc42.x86_64.img 173241122 Sep 16 10:43 initramfs-0-rescue-5454d68084

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/15/2025 3:03 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users wrote: I was wanting to do dual-boot solely so that I have a fall-back when weekly patching or semi-annual upgrading resulted in Fedora being minimally usable and with difficulty at that. or when it

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 4:31 PM, Dave Close wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: For example I have this: /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 -> ../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.so It's dangling because I haven't installed the "heic" module for ImageMagick th

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 9/15/25 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users > > wrote: > >> > >> Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over > >> things, but recently did a clean install

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 18:58, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:58:47 -0300 Subject:Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot. To: mi...@guam.net, Community support for F

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 18:58, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:58:47 -0300 Subject:Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot. To: mi...@guam.net, Community support for F

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 14:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:57:57 -0700 Subject:Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Send reply to:

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 18:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote: From: Jeffrey Walton Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:16:24 -0400 Subject:Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: Community support for Fedora users Send

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about 2/3 that of a machine that has had many update

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/25 2:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about 2/3 that of a machine that has had many updates over years. /findbadlink find . -xtype l >/badlinks 2

OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about 2/3 that of a machine that has had many updates over years. /findbadlink find . -xtype l >/badlinks 2>ERR grep -v '/proc\|/run' /badlinks-clean run in / to ch

Need help assigning variables in bash

2025-09-15 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, I know how to do this in Raku (Perl 6), but how do I assist the return values of this zenity call inside a bash script to separate variables? $ zenity --forms --title="Create user" --text="Add new user" --add-entry="First Name"--add-entry="Last Name" --add-entry="Username"--ad

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users wrote: > I was wanting to do dual-boot solely so that I have a fall-back when > weekly patching or semi-annual upgrading resulted in Fedora being > minimally usable and with difficulty at that. or when it resulted > in Fedora being unusable

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users wrote: > The term "BIOS" seems to be overloaded. It seems to have a broad > meaning referring to "firmware", "software" that is "built-in" to the > motherboard (or CPU?). It also seems to have a narrower meaning (for > desktops) referring to fi

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 9:40, Barry Scott wrote: From: Barry Scott Subject:Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot. Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:40:30 +0100 Copies to: Community support for Fedora users , Samuel Sieb

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/13/2025 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2025-09-13 21:58 (UTC-0600): Felix Miata wrote: Or, you could just ignore which is in control, and use the BBS hotkey each time a choice to the non-default is wished. With BBS hotkey usage, it shouldn't matter whether one install

Re: remote adminstration solution searched

2025-09-15 Thread Neal Becker
tailscale makes it very easy to setup wireguard. I used to set it up manually, along with the dynamic DNS service. After finding tailscale I stopped doing that because tailscale just makes it much simpler and more resilient. On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon,

Re: Nvidia Mess

2025-09-15 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > >> Hey what?! Changing your keyboard might make something unbootable? > > > George N. White III: > > Or only booting to the other OS. > > > > Many laptop users have docking stations with external input devices. > Users with RSI > > m

Re: kernel module missing at boot after kernel update, akmods build it 2 minutes after kernel need it

2025-09-15 Thread Francis Montagnac via users
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:50:43 +0200 Francis Montagnac via users wrote: > I wrote a workaround similar to the initial version of > akmods-shutdown.service to compile all the kmods when shutting down > the machine. > I can provide this if you want. Here it is (as a small compressed tar of 3 text

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/13/2025 9:59 AM, home user via users wrote: good morning, (background) I (finally!) have a new desktop on its way.  It's supposed to be totally blank; that is, it will have whatever firmware, bios, and other software the manufacturers of the parts put on those parts, but nothing else. 

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 23:41, Michael D. Setzer II via user wrote: Cut top. Removed the first 79 lines of the files, and then cut the first 56 character that had different file info to just get files. > Did a comparision of lsinitrd between the two. > Tried to match lines, but very different. > But d

Re: Fedora MATE - how to remove/hide "Shut Down" button from System menu?

2025-09-15 Thread Franta Hanzlík via users
On Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:18:39 +0930 Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 05:29 +0200, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote: > > There are three of us connecting to that machine, we are all friends, > > no one has any intentions of harming it or turning it off on purpose. > > But the "Shut down" button i

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/13/2025 10:15 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2025-09-13 at 17:25 -0600, home user via users wrote: Did I get the terminology wrong? The "phone modem" is not some gadget that I put a phone receiver on, and then dial in and connect via something like "kermit"(?). Maybe I should call it a broadband

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/13/2025 7:00 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM home user via users wrote: Did I get the terminology wrong? The "phone modem" is not some gadget that I put a phone receiver on, and then dial in and connect via something like "kermit"(?). Maybe I should call it a broadban

Re: remote adminstration solution searched

2025-09-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 11:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > You might want to look at tailscale, it's really easy. Why is it easier than the other options being proposed? I had a look at the (very slick) online video and although Tailscale does provide a private network, AFAIK it doesn't include a rem

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

2025-09-15 Thread home user via users
On 9/13/2025 7:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM home user via users wrote: [...] (question) I've groped around the web, especially the Fedora Docs web site ("https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/";). I've not found any instructions on how to install on a bla

Re: remote adminstration solution searched

2025-09-15 Thread Neal Becker
You might want to look at tailscale, it's really easy. On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM Joe Average wrote: > Thanks for input ! > -- > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorapr

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Sep 2025 at 23:05, Michael D. Setzer II via user wrote: To: Barry Scott , Community support for Fedora users , Samuel Sieb Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:05:40 +1000 Subject:Re: Recently found that new

Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not enough space in /boot.

2025-09-15 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
Thinkpad here, new installation Fedora 42. 165MB initrd. What is the setting to flip back? I thought corporate CSB included some garbage but it sounds like a generic problem. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Mac booting (was: Nvidia Mess)

2025-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
George N. White III composed on 2025-09-15 09:28 (UTC-0300): > Usually Macs will boot macOS without a keyboard, but you have to have > a keyboard to select linux on dual boot systems. Both my iMacs default to presenting EFI Grub, which is set to default to Linux. My only Mac keyboard has dead ke