Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

2025-04-16 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-04-16 15:58, Tim via users wrote: This is Linux, we should be on usenet! ;-) I could not agree more. BTW, are you aware of any good and free NNTP servers out there? Thanks Frank -- -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: I need to monitor a dead network

2025-04-06 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-04-06 06:11, Tim via users wrote: ToddAndMargo: I called out an APC BX1500M. It has been in place all this time. Is everything on the UPS, computer and hub? I'd also check all plugs and sockets are firm. I once had an APC UPS and a server combination that was causing the server

Re: RAT program for Fedora?

2025-03-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-03-28 17:04, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi Frank, Do you happen to know if no machine supports: 1) multifactor authentication? 2) Wayland? 3) unattended support (log on with out user intervention)? AFAIK: 1. The authentication is the same as is of the user you are login in to

Re: RAT program for Fedora?

2025-03-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-03-27 21:16, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Means I can log directly into the machine without the needing to interact with the user. Take a look at "NoMachine". I use it to connect to *NIX and Win machines on daily bases. Cheers Frank -- --

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-02-20 17:45, Go Canes wrote: (stuff nuked) If the laptop is idle it locks up after ~25 minutes. "Idle" can mean no one logged-in, or a user logged-in but not doing anything. If the user is doing something, it does not lock-up. "Something" can be running a Windows 10 VM, a ssh sessio

Re: Wayland?

2025-02-11 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-02-11 17:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On 9/2/25 06:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You might want to take this to the Fedora KDE list, where there's more chance of one of the KDE devs seeing it. I haven't had problems with KDE/Wayland other than the session save/restore already men

Re: I need PDF editor recommendations

2025-02-11 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-02-11 17:12, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/2/25 05:35, Frank Bures wrote: The latest version of Firefox for Windows advertises its ability to edit PDF's.  I have not test it though. Perhaps the latest version of Firefox for Linux would offer the same functionality. It might be

Re: I need PDF editor recommendations

2025-02-11 Thread Frank Bures
On 2025-02-10 11:02, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41. I have tried both PDF Studio and Master PDF Editor. (...stuff nuked...) You guy know of a good PDF editor that you like? The latest version of Firefox for Windows advertises its ability to edit PDF's. I have not test

Intermittent LVM errors after reboot - F41

2025-01-08 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I have an LVM over two USB external disks that I use as a rolling backup. Sometimes, not every time, after reboot I see the following error: PV /dev/sdj online, VG vgroup incomplete (need 1).: 1 Time(s) However, everything is working as it should. Relevant info: root@ryzen:~# pvscan P

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-25 11:21, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 11/25/24 07:18, Frank Bures wrote: I do not use Firefox as my default browser I have eight browser installed.  Firefox is "currently" the default, but is varies. I use them all for various things. If you have not tried Brave Br

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-25 06:52, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 17:04 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: The above sequence is: --> Firefox -> File -> eMail link Cheers Frank Aha! You're not clicking on an email mailto: address in a page, like I thought you were doing. You're emailing so

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-24 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-24 16:32, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 02:34, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-11-23 17:50, Stephen Morris wrote: On 24/11/24 05:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:43:08 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41 thunderbird-128.4.3-1.fc41.x86_64

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-24 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-23 17:50, Stephen Morris wrote: On 24/11/24 05:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:43:08 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41 thunderbird-128.4.3-1.fc41.x86_64 firefox-132.0.1-2.fc41.x86_64 Since upgrading from Fedora 39 to Fedora 41, when I go int

Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-20 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-20 22:24, Tim wrote: Once more: A *copy* creates a desktop file in your space that you own, and you can modify. The original desktop launcher file (elsewhere on the system) will not be changed, and will be ignored. A *link* points to a file somewhere else on the system, and if that

Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-20 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-20 13:06, Frank Bures wrote: I was talking about right-clicking an icon on the desktop, clicking Properties and then trying to save the change by clicking OK. That's when the error message is generated. I believe this should work right-off-the-box, otherwise I do not under

Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-20 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-20 12:20, Will McDonald wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 at 17:04, Frank Bures <mailto:bur...@gmail.com>> wrote: Just upgraded to F41 from F40. When I try to change properties of a desktop icon (be it VM-manager, Thunderbird, Chrome or any other) the system would not

After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-20 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, Just upgraded to F41 from F40. When I try to change properties of a desktop icon (be it VM-manager, Thunderbird, Chrome or any other) the system would not let me to save the changes. because: Could not save properties due to insufficient write access to: ‘/home/fbures/Desktop/virt-manage

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-17 14:52, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-11-17 02:02, Tim via users wrote: And maybe you could get a RAID device which has SATA ports to the PC, so it can spread the load internally across several drives and keep up with a very high data speed.  I've never looked to see if anyon

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-17 02:02, Tim via users wrote: And maybe you could get a RAID device which has SATA ports to the PC, so it can spread the load internally across several drives and keep up with a very high data speed. I've never looked to see if anyone has actually done that. Back in the early 00'

Re: Cannot boot F40 from flash drive

2024-09-18 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-09-18 07:19, dwyatt--- via users wrote: F40 just 'boots' to a black screen, the same for the KDE iso for F40. Have you tried to ssh to the "hung" machine from your other one? Have youn tried switching to CLI on the "hung" machine? Cheers Frank -- --

Re: raid automatic resync... where is the command?

2024-08-18 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-08-18 09:10, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I installed f40 with raid1 partitions. Every sunday an automatic program resync the partitions and a lot of programs "pedal in the sauerkraut" (french idiom) because of this automatic resync... I have looked in cron.d directory, cron.weekl

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-30 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-30 12:24, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-07-30 02:36, Barry wrote: On 28 Jul 2024, at 21:13, Frank Bures wrote: I downloaded open Android version 9 and ran it in a VM. I found https://openandroidinstaller.org/ <https://openandroidinstaller.org/> but I do not think is wh

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-30 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-30 02:36, Barry wrote: On 28 Jul 2024, at 21:13, Frank Bures wrote: I downloaded open Android version 9 and ran it in a VM. I found https://openandroidinstaller.org/ <https://openandroidinstaller.org/> but I do not think is what you used? Can you share a link to the a

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-28 00:00, Frank Bures wrote: For the record, the results of my experiments: 1. Waydroid is an Android emulator for Wayland. In F40 it is installable via dnf. After initialization I was able to run it and it seems to be quite responsive. Unfortunately, EERO app cannot be

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-27 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-27 18:49, richard emberson wrote: Hi, I've wondered lately what it means to "run" an Android App on a Linux platform: 1) If you have some kitchen appliance that has an associated App, can you communicate with the appliance with the App using your Linux Wifi? In my particular case,

Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-27 Thread Frank Bures
I am soliciting opinions on the subject. I've done some search and I found basically two ways: Waydroid and running Android in a VM If anyone has an experience with this topic I would appreciate your opinion on which way is better for the purpose. Basically, I just want to run EERO app on my

Re: OT: motherboard

2024-07-11 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-11 16:53, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I am are upgrading my office workstation.  It is a bit of a work horse with qemu-kvm virtual machines out the wazoo, so I can upport my various customer's OS'es.  I do no gaming. I am a fan of Intel CPU and not AMD.  I am also a fan of ECC. AS

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-02 17:35, Barry wrote: I have a bootable external ssd that has scripts on it to mount the partitions of my systems. Then i can fix the problem and reboot. Good idea, thanks. I'll look into it. Frank -- -- ___ users mailing list --

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-02 12:56, Go Canes wrote: Care to explain what you are trying to achieve? The USB stick would only be useful for the existing install, and you would need the USB stick to boot the existing install (assuming you removed any existing /boot and/or /boot/efi from the existing install).

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-02 10:44, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What

Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB. I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What I want is to create a USB stick with /boot

Re: How do I ShareHost Files With KVM

2024-06-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-28 05:14, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 6/27/24 14:04, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-06-27 16:46, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 6/27/24 11:50, Frank Bures wrote: I followed the instructions at https://virtio-win.github.io/Knowledge-Base/Virtiofs:-Shared-file-system to mount

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-28 14:25, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Another one to avoid: cheap SSDs with duplicate serial numbers. Some manufacturers repeat (clone?) serial numbers, and when you try to use them in a RAID configuration, things go badly. A fellow on a Ubuntu list struggled for months because of it. At

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-23 11:43, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-06-23 04:29, Tim wrote: I followed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2?rd=Grub2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems and then I tried to run grub2-emu I get the list of installed kernels OK, but any choice for boot returns error

Re: How do I ShareHost Files With KVM

2024-06-27 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-27 16:46, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 6/27/24 11:50, Frank Bures wrote: I followed the instructions at https://virtio-win.github.io/Knowledge-Base/Virtiofs:-Shared-file-system to mount two different F40 host file systems from Win11 KVM guest. However, the mount does not

Re: How do I ShareHost Files With KVM

2024-06-27 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-27 07:09, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: How to change the mount point from Z to something else: REGEDIT4 ; Change VirtIO-FS's mount point (letter): ; Change the M: below to you desiged letter.  Remember the : [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VirtIO-FS] "MountPoint"="M:" I followed t

Re: F40 kernel 6.9.* and VMware 17.5.* question

2024-06-26 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-26 16:41, Thomas Cameron wrote: On 6/26/24 2:56 PM, Mark C. Allman via users wrote: Not telling you how to compute, just curious: why not just use native KVM? I use KVM on my workstation to virtualize RHEL 7, RHEL8, RHEL9, Windows 2022, Windows 2019, Windows 10 and Windows 11. It J

Re: Interesting mount problem - F40

2024-06-24 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-18 14:33, Roger Heflin wrote: On mine I have md raid1 configured for /boot. Old install no /boot/efi but it should also work for /boot/efi because even with mdraid the bios/efi will still be able to find what it needs to find to boot but when the OS comes up it mounts the md-raid raid

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-23 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-23 04:29, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2024-06-22 at 23:54 -0400, Frank Bures wrote: This is what my efibootmgr returns: root@ryzen:/# efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0002,,0001 Boot Fedora HD(1,GPT,e8838c34-c364-4347-afb7-1c516782b114,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-22 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-22 20:59, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I just did a kernel update and after reboot I ended up in a grub prompt. I booted from USB F40 and followed instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/grub2-bootloader/#_restoring_the_bootloader_using_the_live_disk However

Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-22 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I just did a kernel update and after reboot I ended up in a grub prompt. I booted from USB F40 and followed instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/grub2-bootloader/#_restoring_the_bootloader_using_the_live_disk However, whatever I did I was not able to successfully

Re: Interesting mount problem - F40

2024-06-18 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-18 13:52, Frank Bures wrote: Just to explain: I do not dd the whole /dev/sda.  There are only /boot and /boot/efi partitions on the disk, the rest is unformatted.  I only dd the formatted sectors. The whole idea of having the same UUID on both sda and sdg is the ability of

Re: Interesting mount problem - F40

2024-06-18 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-18 11:40, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:23:57 -0400 Frank Bures wrote: Question: is this solution OK or have I done something wrong? Is there a better way of solving this? Using dd to back up a disk leaves the copy with the exact same UUID as the source. So it is just

Interesting mount problem - F40

2024-06-18 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I have a small SSD that I use for /boot and /boot/efi partitions - /dev/sda I boot from /dev/sda I have another small SSD that I use as a dd backup of /dev/sda - /dev/sdg After update to a new kernel, I dd the /dev/sda to /dev/sdg so that in case of a failure I could boot from /dev/sdg.

Re: How to change fail2ban timeout during reboot in F40?

2024-05-12 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-05-12 16:11, Anthony Messina wrote: Of course, you'll want to set something suitable for your system's needs ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/fail2ban.service.d/timeout.conf [Service] TimeoutStopSec=5min Thanks Frank -- -- ___ users mailing l

How to change fail2ban timeout during reboot in F40?

2024-05-12 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I was a target of an attack resulting in 1600 banned IP address by fail2ban. When I reboot, f2b tries to unban those IPs but it ultimately times out and a large number of IPs becomes orphaned. They stay in firewalld, but f2b does not know about them anymore. And indeed root@ryzen:/etc/

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-05-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-05-02 13:56, Charles Dennett wrote: On 5/2/24 1:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Charles Dennett composed on 2024-05-02 13:08 (UTC-0400): ...To find the biggest offenders, cd to one of those directories (/var/cache for example) and then use the command "sudo du -sh *" to get a listing of ea

Re: fail2ban on F40 is quiet

2024-04-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-04-28 12:59, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-04-28 11:39, Barry wrote: On 28 Apr 2024, at 16:31, Frank Bures wrote: The problem is that there are no connection attempts in /var/log/secure or /var/log/messages so obviously f2b has nothing to do. Maybe the logs are in the journal and

Re: fail2ban on F40 is quiet

2024-04-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-04-28 11:39, Barry wrote: On 28 Apr 2024, at 16:31, Frank Bures wrote: The problem is that there are no connection attempts in /var/log/secure or /var/log/messages so obviously f2b has nothing to do. Maybe the logs are in the journal and nothing is updating the legacy /var/log

Re: fail2ban on F40 is quiet

2024-04-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-04-28 10:58, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 9:31 AM Frank Bures <mailto:bur...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, My machine is exposed to the wild and I was seeing hundreds of connection attempts per day in my logs and in fail2ban.log. All these nefarious a

Re: fail2ban on F40 is quiet

2024-04-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-04-28 11:03, Charles Dennett wrote: On 4/28/24 10:31 AM, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, My machine is exposed to the wild and I was seeing hundreds of connection attempts per day in my logs and in fail2ban.log. All these nefarious activities ceased after upgrade to F40. Question: Is

fail2ban on F40 is quiet

2024-04-28 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, My machine is exposed to the wild and I was seeing hundreds of connection attempts per day in my logs and in fail2ban.log. All these nefarious activities ceased after upgrade to F40. Question: Is there something fundamentally different in F40 connectivity? I can still connect from outside

Re: Questions about virtiofs

2024-03-26 Thread Frank Bures
Any takes on this, guys? Thanks Frank On 2024-03-23 11:30, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I have several separate file systems, amongst them /home on btrfs and media depository /archives on xfs (RAID-5). I am running Win11 guest in QEMU on F39 host.  I installed winfsp in the guest and I can

Questions about virtiofs

2024-03-23 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I have several separate file systems, amongst them /home on btrfs and media depository /archives on xfs (RAID-5). I am running Win11 guest in QEMU on F39 host. I installed winfsp in the guest and I can access my /home in Win11 guest. However, if I "Add Hardware" in Virtual HW details a

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-03-10 12:40, Thomas Cameron wrote: Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/. Having said that... I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the correct ma

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-12 Thread Frank Bures
s as expected Note: as you upgrade VMWare versions make sure you set the "VMWARE_VERSION=workstation-17.5.0" in the patch script (step3) to match your version On 1/11/24 16:39, Barry wrote: On 11 Jan 2024, at 02:43, Frank Bures wrote: You would not have to reinstall.  Once yo

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-10 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-01-10 21:03, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote: On 10/01/2024 16.06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/10/24 15:36, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote: Does anyone have VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.0 running with any of the later 6.6.X kernels? I'm having a hard time getting it to run with a Fed

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-10 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-01-10 19:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/10/24 15:36, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote: Does anyone have VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.0 running with any of the later 6.6.X kernels? I'm having a hard time getting it to run with a Fedora 38 installation.  I'm fully updated as of 2 days ago,

Re: Login loop in KDE sddm

2023-12-06 Thread Frank Bures
On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 05:47 Barry Scott wrote: > > > On 5 Dec 2023, at 20:06, Frank Bures wrote: > > Sorry, Barry, but there is no kde-wayland package in Fedora 39. > > > My bad, its kwin-wayland not kde-wayland, please try that downgrade. > > Barry > Unfortuna

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

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

Login loop in KDE sddm

2023-12-04 Thread Frank Bures
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 then I'm back in the login screen. The system behaves the same for my acc