Re: Spectacular F24 to F25 dnf Upgrade Failure

2017-01-22 Thread Brian Hanks
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:10:43 -0700 From: stan Subject: Re: Spectacular F24 to F25 dnf Upgrade Failure To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <20170121141043.3a363...@vfemail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 What was the command you used to do the upgrade? Is there anyth

Spectacular F24 to F25 dnf Upgrade Failure

2017-01-21 Thread Brian Hanks
I decided to do a dnf upgrade of my F24 install on my HP Envy 15t laptop (dual boot).  I've done at least two successful dnf upgrades on this laptop in the past with only minor annoyances, but this one is a complete bust. On boot I'm getting an ACPI Error sta

Blank Desktop (KDE, Xfce, Gnome) After SELinux Change

2014-04-14 Thread Brian Hanks
I'm hoping that someone has experienced something similar to this and can help point me in the correct direction. I was getting %posttrans errors and yum was hanging during kernel updates. I read several posts and also found some articles via Google search that suggested that changing SELinux

F19 Kernel Upgrade/Install Failure - kernel-3.13.5-103.fc19.x86_64

2014-03-09 Thread Brian Hanks
I'm again having issues installing a kernel upgrade for my F19 system. I've actually seen this several times in recent months on both my F19 and F20 systems. The RPM script seems to fail on the mkinitrd portion. The rpm transaction hangs. After a long wait, I kill it and get the following e

F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login

2014-02-08 Thread Brian Hanks
This did not happen this time. After extensive Google searching, I've been unable to determine how to correct this, so I'm hoping someone can point me in the correct direction. Thanks in advance, Brian Hanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F20 Installs Fail From Every Angle

2013-12-30 Thread Brian Hanks
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:47:30 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: So, there are no repos that offer updates for those three packages? Or is fedup unable to handle 3rd party repos? Other than that, please don't add my name to the mail's subject line in such a misleading/ambiguous way. Thank you. My

Re: F20 Installs Fail From Every Angle

2013-12-30 Thread Brian Hanks
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:47:07 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: You chose the fedup option in GRUB, but instead of getting text status of the progessing update, you got what appeared to be normal F19 boot? If /var is a separate partition/LV instead of on rootfs, this behavior occurs. Pleas

Re: F20 Installs Fail From Every Angle

2013-12-29 Thread Brian Hanks
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Which version of fedup? Make sure you have the latest https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#Why_does_my_upgrade_to_Fedora_20_fail_.28immediately_reboot_to_my_old_Fedora.29.3F I read this before I made my first attempt and I validated that

Re: F20 Installs Fail From Every Angle (Michael Schwendt)

2013-12-29 Thread Brian Hanks
On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:56:30 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: What "dependency error" did it report? And how did you query the installed packages as well as the remote repos for what would be available_after_ the upgrade? Many users still misread such error messages and don't manage to work arou

F20 Installs Fail From Every Angle

2013-12-28 Thread Brian Hanks
Maybe I'm just getting old, but it seems to me that Fedora is becoming less and less stable with each release. I've just tried repeatedly to install Fedora 20 using a myriad of different methods over three different machines. Not a single attempt was successful. I've been using RedHat/Fedora

Re: Loading smbd.

2012-01-08 Thread Brian Hanks
Hi, Ref: 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 What is the right way of always loading SMBD at startup. Thanks, hi Lucélio, the correct command is: chkconfig smb on this allows you to start at boot the samba daemon Actually, since the reference is to Fedora 16, you'll need to use systemctl ins

Re: Loading smbd. (Paolo De Michele)

2012-01-08 Thread Brian Hanks
> Hi, > > Ref: 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 > > What is the right way of always loading SMBD at startup. > > Thanks, > > > hi Lucélio, > > the correct command is: chkconfig smb on > this allows you to start at boot the samba daemon > Actually, since the reference is to Fedora 16, you'll need to

Re: F16 - Converting to RAID1

2012-01-02 Thread Brian Hanks
Many thanks for the suggestions and validation. I modified my process steps per the suggestions and I just executed all of the steps. It worked flawlessly. Thanks again, -Brian -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

F16 - Converting to RAID1

2012-01-01 Thread Brian Hanks
OK, I'm a long-time RedHat/Fedora user, but some of the recent changes (grub2, systemd, hal, etc.) are modifying or deprecating my tried and true methods. The latest issue I've got is that I want to add a second drive in a RAID1 config for my main data partitions. This is something I had planne

Re: F15: Worst. Update. Ever. (linux guy)

2011-09-08 Thread Brian Hanks
> 1) Wireless networking is not operational, even though wireless worked fine > in F15 Live. Its not apparent to me what is different between my F15 > install and the F15 Live iso. I've started a thread on this issue. Check out post #10 at this link. It fixed my F15 wireless issues: http://for

HP dm3t Laptop Brightness Adjustment

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Hanks
I recently got a new laptop, an HP dm3t (Core i3-380UM+Intel HD Graphics). It's a great machine except that I am not able to adjust the screen brightness in Fedora 14 x86_64. The Fn keys are recognized, the brightness pop-up indicates that an adjustment has been requested, but the screen rem