rc.local

Hi, I noticed some time ago that rc.local became a service. I'm just getting around to address this issue but am having trouble getting my fedora 41 system to "notice" my efforts. Can someone post what they're doing to implement this new way of doing things, please? Best regards, George... -

Fw: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

Hi, I started getting i/o error messages accessing this filesystem so I rebooted the system. This might have been the wrong thing to do. This subsequent boot went to maintenance mode due the filesystem's path being in /etc/fstab. I need some help with this please. Here is what mount says: mou

Problems with the perl part of the rawhide repository

Howdy, Thanks to all who responded... Suggestion accepted with gratitude. Best regards, George... ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Problems with the perl part of the rawhide repository

Howdy, Am I doing something wrong? When I run "dnf upgrade" I get multiple pages of error messages relating to per. There are over 3000 packages pending upgrade due to perl related problems. Best regards and stay safe! George... ___ users mailing lis

Attempting mount of Bootable CD/DVD gives "Can't open blockdev" message

Hi, I'm not sure what to do about this problem. Is it a broken device? I'm seeing "no media found" messages too. blockdev /dev/sr0 says: fc37-bash 5.1 ~# blockdev /dev/cdrom blockdev: cannot open /dev/cdrom: No medium found fc37-bash 5.1 ~# blockdev --report /dev/cdrom RO    RA   SSZ   BSZ 

KDE manual session saving seems to be missing

Hi, I haven't used KDE in some time and am trying it again now. I can't seem to find where sessions can be saved. Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any/all hints tips suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Best regards and STAY SAFE! George...

A question about /bin/startplasma-x11

Hi, I have been away from plasma for a while and see some changes of course. One is plaguing me though... namely, how does one manually save a session. It used to be in the settings but I can't seem to find it now. Could someone please point me to where I should look? Best regards and STAY SAF

Strange dnf behavior or UFU (user foul up)?

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a system here and am having some difficulty with dnf. Could I get some help or tips or suggestions please? Below is what I would enter in a bugzilla.redhat.com bug report. I thought I'd check here first in case I've done something stupid. Thanks, George... Descripti

Re: How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

-working state ? just a power cycle > video related updates ? none that I know of. > video related BIOS settings still okay ? I made no changes. > settings from the TV still okay (maybe a hidden FW update) ? I made no changes or FW updates. How would that happen? On 11.04.20

How to test a computer's HDMI port on FC33

Hi, My HDMI to TV (Samsung) stopped working 2 days ago and I'm trying to find out how to test the port. This is a Fedora 33 (Rawhide) (x86_64) system. The cable is good... swapped with a known working cable. Directional 15' Saphire cables... have arrows and are pointing the right direction (awa

Looking for doc on kernel crash dump handling.

Hi, I'm trying to help shoot a possible kernel bug which may create a dump. I'm trying to find doc on how to enable the crashdump "features" of my FC33 (Rawhide) system. tldp.org seems to be out of date docs.fedoraproject.org doesn't seem to have a search facility... Can anyone give me a hint

Re: Problems connecting to VM via ssh (Ed Greshko)

Ed, I have re-installed this system and selected the "KDE Plasma Workspaces" but without any optional packages since there is at least one pkg that fails and TERMINATES the installation. I wrote a bug report on that. The installation should at least allow the user to go back and de-select the f

Re: Problems connecting to VM via ssh (Ed Greshko)

Ed, Thanks for responding to my question. Yes. The host AND guest are both fc32 x86_64 (rawhide). I forgot to put the rawhide in. Apparently tstusr is a "dup" of root. I guess it was late when I did this. Anyway. I can login as root and tstusr at the console. I can su to root from tstusr and su

Problems connecting to VM via ssh

Hi, I just installed a Fedora Core 32 (x86_64) system in a VM running under VirtualBox and am trying to ssh into the VM. When I try to login I get a "client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe" message for my trouble. This is what I'm getting from the client side: ssh -v tstusr@10.28.0.4OpenSSH_8.

Strange output whenever "sh -xv" is used on FC31 x86_64 (rawhide)

Hi, I have been seeing the enclosed lines PLUS a lot more (several pages worth). Can anyone tell me which package they come from and/or how to eliminate them please? Best regards, George... switchml () {  typeset swfound=1; if [ "${MODULES_USE_COMPAT_VERSION:-0}" = '1' ]; then typeset swname=

Re: Removing old kernels attempts to remove more than kernels...

hursday, October 24, 2019, 12:24:20 PM PDT, stan wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:12:22 + (UTC) George R Goffe via users wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to remove old kernels from my system but "dnf erase > " wants to remove much more than just that kernel > pac

Removing old kernels attempts to remove more than kernels...

Hi, I am attempting to remove old kernels from my system but "dnf erase " wants to remove much more than just that kernel package. I wrote a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com but have gotten nowhere. This is the bug URL: 1761024 – removing old kernels wants to remove more than kernel packages 1761024

Re: Can mke2fs -c -c be restarted

x27;t hurt as much. Sigh... Again, THANKS to all who responded. George... On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 10:29 +, George R Goffe via users wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 2TB HDD with a possibly major problem. I have cleared the > data from it and have tried to run "mke2fs -t ext4 -j /dev/

Re: too-nearly-full filesystem '/'. (was upgrade problem: space on '/' filesystem.) (home user

Hi, Just my 2 cents. first: I'm sure you remember that even if you find a huge file and remove it, the space it occupies will not be available IF the file is still open. I had a /var file system full some time ago and it was /var/log/messages that was HUGE. Removing it didn't help until I re

Can mke2fs -c -c be restarted

Hi, I have a 2TB HDD with a possibly major problem. I have cleared the data from it and have tried to run "mke2fs -t ext4 -j /dev/sdc1" but after 24 hours it had just finished the 0xaa phase and started reading when the drive seemingly dropped ready and was re-assigned as a new device to /dev/s

FC31 (rawhide) networking problems.

Hi, I frequently run "dnf upgrade" and a few days ago did that. My system booted just fine but the networking did NOT come up as it has. It's like the system now wants to be ipv6. Manual ipv4 configuration works just fine. I'm testing in a virtual machine with VirtualBox that has also been work

Re: A fontpath question. (Samuel Sieb)

Samuel, Yes, xterm still runs... ok as far as I can tell. I don't use it much since I started using Konsole (KDE). BTW, this release of Fedora is FC30 x86_64. Line numbers in the file are col 1 (produced by less -N. Here's a part of the font list that xlsfonts displayed: 3929 10x16bold

A fontpath question.

Hi, I seem to be doing something incorrectly. When I run this command: xterm -bdc -cm -sb -sl 4096 -cr green -ms red -fn '-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso10646-1' -title '-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso10646-1' -e bash I get this error message:

Open office (LibreOffice) has disappeared from FC30.

Hi, I'm hoping this isn't a UFU (user foul up) but I'm trying to use openoffice but it is gone from my FC30 system. Have I missed something here? Best regards, George... ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: keyboard producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below)

ther apps, displays virtual desktops, presents various KDE menus, displays the time of day and some other things. Again, THANKS to everyone who help with this problem, George... On 07/16/17 10:23, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > System is Fedora 27

keyboard producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below)

Hi, System is Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide), fully up to date with the rawhide repo. Firefox and Opera are producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below) when I type in text windows. Other apps such as konsole seem to work just fine and I have not seen this problem elsewhere. loca

Keyboard problems.

Hi, I'm running Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide) and have noticed a problem in text windows with Firefox. The problem exists in both the FF released version AND the FF beta version. It could be Firefox. The problem exists with KDE and WindowMaker as the desktop manager. What I'm seeing: I have the

Re: Virtual keyboard problems.

far as KDE is concerned. Any/all help hints/tips would be GREATLY appreciated. My UNENDING Thanks, George... On 06/14/17 12:38, George R Goffe wrote: > I just installed a ton of packages to this system and all of a sudden I have > this virtual keyboard. Yes, you guessed it, I don't k

Virtual keyboard problems.

Hi, I just installed a ton of packages to this system and all of a sudden I have this virtual keyboard. Yes, you guessed it, I don't know which package brought me this head ache. This system is a Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide). I'm using KDE. The monitor is a Samsung 27" TV and has NO touch screen

Fedora 25 (rawhide) disallows dnf upgrades due to certificate problems

Hi, I have been getting these messages about certificates for several weeks and have filed bug reports. Red Hat is unwilling or unable to give me a definitive resolution to the problem. Seemingly, my Fedora 25 (rawhide) system has started refusing to accept upgrades. Any/all hints, tips, sugge

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

Hi, This situation sounds a lot like the problems I had when I went from 2tb drives to 3tb -> 6tb drives connected via USB 2/3 to docking stations. 2tb drives worked well. 3tb drives were all screwed up. It turns out that the firmware in the Kwin dual drive docking station could NOT support > 2

gnome-abrt claims the kernel is tainted

Hi, "my" fc23 x86_64 system gets the following messages below which trigger gnome-abrt execution. The results of this report that the kernel is tainted but there are no modules listed. I had assumed that the tainted flag was due to the vbox kernel modules being loaded so I used rmmod to remove

earphone problems

Hi, I'm trying to use an old set of Logitech earphones on my Fedora 23 system. I use mplayer to play videos WITH audio tracks. This used to work with Fedora 22 and earlier but now the earphones don't work. I use /usr/bin/gnome-control-center to adjust settings and to a minimal test from variou

DNF problems. (George R Goffe)

Thanks to whomever hinted "groupinstall". It's working great. This option is NOT listed in the man page. Sigh. FWIW, I'll file a bug report for this. I wonder what else is missing... Anyway, THANKS for your help! George... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

DNF problems.

Hi, I'm probably not understanding how "dnf group install " is supposed to work. On my Fedora 22 system I enter "dnf group install 'Administration Tools" and some tools were installed. When I enter "dnf group install 'Editors'" NOTHING is installed. I do get a list (apparently) of what's in thi

Re: Suggestions for Poor ext4 performance questions

Hi, I got one suggestion that was mixed up with the response to another question regarding printers. The response suggested "man tune2fs". I had looked at this and looked again but saw NOTHING that seemed to relate to my question. Are there any other suggestions please? Regards, George... --

Poor ext4 performance questions

Hi, I have some large ext4 filesystems with large numbers of files in them and performance really sucks. After inactivity, a simple ls takes minutes to complete. I'm pretty sure the drive is now powering itself down due to this inactivity. Are there tuning parameters that I could alter that w

Re: Fedora 19 - filesystems slow

Do you know the developers or of a mailing list? Again, thanks for your response. George... From: Rick Stevens To: George R Goffe ; Community support for Fedora users Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Fedora 19 - filesystems slow On 07/0

Fedora 19 - filesystems slow (George R Goffe)

Hi, Thank you for the response. hdparm -B showed the APM settings at 128, even the system drive. I have reset them to 255 and verified that these settings are in place. I will report on the status of this tomorrow. Again, thanks for the response. George... -- users mailing list users@lists

Fedora 19 - filesystems slow

Hi, I have a Fedora 19 system with several large 2-4TB drives attached via USB-SATA docking stations. I'm seeing a problem whereby a specific filesystem that hasn't been accessed for some time and is REALLY slow to respond to initial requests. ls -alt for example takes a substantial bit of tim

yum repository-packages fedora install

Hi, I'm just learning about yum and so, I just ran the above command. This caused yum to try to install ALL the packages in the fedora repository. Yum proceeded to do Dependency Resolution which generated a ton of errors. Would it be useful for me to post this list of error messages? Thanks,

Fedora 19 problems with pulsaudio.

Hi, I recently installed Fedora 19 x86_64 on my previously running Fedora 16 x86_64. I have been trying to figure out what happened to my audio on a USB head set. Finally I found a bug with symptoms but that was closed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=424621. I started looking at

Re: Upgrade FC 16 to FC 17 problems

Hi, I have the following message "The root for the previously installed system was not found". Due to space issues I have made a few links into a larger partition, these were /tmp and /var/lib/yum/plugins/local. I changed /tmp to be in the root file system and made the link to local a link "

Upgrade FC 16 to FC 17 problems

Hi, I have the following message "The root for the previously installed system was not found". Due to space issues I have made a few links into a larger partition, these were /tmp and /var/lib/yum/plugins/local. I changed /tmp to be in the root file system and made the link to local a link ".

New 3tb hdd thinks it's 801.6 GB

Tim, Thanks for your response. I had tried what you suggested but the system still reports 801.6 GB. I have seen some mention of firmware problems but the asus.com web site seems to have firmware carefully hidden. What are your thoughts? George... fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 801.

New 3tb hdd thinks it's 801.6 GB

Hi, I'm more than a little confused. I got a new 3tb seagate hdd and typo'd by placing a filesystem on /dev/sdc instead of /dev/sdc1. Now the drive thinks it's a 801.6 GB. At least this is what fdisk -l reports. Some questions: 1) how do I "fix" this? 2) do I really need to fix this? 3) what d

nouveau configure problems

Hi, I'm trying to use the nouveau driver on my FC 16 x86_64 system and need some help please. lspci | grep vid gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df6 (rev a1) Here is a snippit from /var/log/messages. This problem is readily re-creatable so if anyone needs m

Re: Sata device in a USB docking station problems.

Nataraj, I have connected the problematic drive directly to a USB port and have NOT seen ONE failure since I did this. I've been making this drive VERY BUSY. This appears to have been the problem. How does one find a USB 1 to many splitter that actually works correctly? Regards and THANKS! Ge

Sata device in a USB docking station problems.

Naturaj, First of all, thanks to everyone who responded. It seems that one of the older kernels worked just fine. The problem went away, the kernel mods went in, the problem re-surfaced. I got to mods from Josh. Here's the bug on the RedHat bugzilla: [Bug 663186] USB disconnectsRight after t

Sata device in a USB docking station problems.

Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem with some SATA drives in docking stations connected to USB ports. The problem seems to be unrelated to heavy I/O and occurs randomly. Once, without the drive even being mounted. Here's a sample of output from /var/log/messages: Mar 12 20:54:07 joker kernel:

Re: msgs from dbus-daemon

Hi, Thanks to all who responded. The bug referenced is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743779, upowerd This system is FC 16 x86_64, up to date. 3.2.9-1.fc16.x86_64.debug #1 SMP Thu Mar 1 01:33:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hardware is Asus N53S, 8GB mem, 8 cores. George...

msgs from dbus-daemon

Hi, My /var/log/messages is filling up with tons of these messages. Can anyone tell me why I'm getting them and what I need to do to "fix" the problem please? Regards, George... Mar  9 18:41:11 joker dbus-daemon[989]: ** (upowerd:1685): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interf

Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

OS-e820: ff80 - 0001 (reserved)   "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers... Wil would say, "STIFF THE FED"!!! ________ From: Roberto Ragusa To: George R Goffe ; Community supp

Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

ists.fedoraproject.org Cc: George R Goffe Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 1:16 AM Subject: Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:46:15 -0700 (PDT) George R Goffe wrote: > I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G > o

Fw: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

- Forwarded Message - From: George R Goffe To: "frank.els...@spamfence.net" Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 1:20 AM Subject: Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory Frank, Thanks for your response. I don't see any PAE kernels in the output of "yum list all

kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

Hi, My question is, am I missing something here? I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade. The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory. Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, George... uname says: 2.6

Upgrading to kde-4.7 on FC 14

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade to KDE-4.7 on my FC 14 system. Could someone give me a hint/clue please? Regards and thanks, George...   "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers... Wil would say, "STIFF THE FED"!!!-- users mailing list

Strange message from yum.

Howdy, Thanks to all the kind people who responded to my situation. I have removed the local yum plugin and removed the "/plugins/local" duplicate pkgs and have been able to successfully update openoffice. Regards, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain

Re: Strange message from yum.

ge message from yum. To: "Community support for Fedora users" Cc: "George R Goffe" Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 12:50 PM On 06/10/2010 01:10 AM, George R Goffe wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to update my openoffice and am getting an out of space > message. Enclosed

Strange message from yum.

Howdy, I'm trying to update my openoffice and am getting an out of space message. Enclosed is the console output from my attempt and the output of the df command with modified output to show everything available. Any clues/tips/hints/suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, George... yum u

Re: A question about yum

/plugins/local and see a TON of rpms. Is it safe to remove them? Is this a yum bug or a UFU (mine)? I do see messages during installation like "Cleaning ..." but these rpms are still present. Regards and THANKS for your patience AND help, George... On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 00:07 -0700

Re: A question about yum.

Tim, I have been looking for replies but found none, that is why I re-posted. In looking at the archive I see that some have not arrived in my inbox. Sigh. I have been having troubles with yahoo classic for the past few months, searching fails randomly, filters disappear randomly, sorting of em

A question about yum

Howdy, I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but now I'm seeing 0 files. Am I doing something wrong by any chance? Regards and thanks for your time, George... yum clean all Loaded plugins: aliases, a

A question about yum

Howdy, I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but now I'm seeing 0 files. Am I doing something wrong by any chance? Regards and thanks for your time, George... yum clean all Loaded plugins: aliases,

Ext4 anomalies.

Howdy, I have had my FC12 system installed since February this year and have experienced this particular problem twice so far. The problem does NOT happen frequently... Just long enough for me to become complacent that it was a fluke. Files in /root have become empty, 141 of them this time. The

xvinfo results in "no adapters present" msg

Howdy, I'm having trouble with my laptop. The mplayer folks say it's because Xv is not configured properly. Here's the xvinfo output: xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0  no adaptors present I'm using an external monitor but I think it's connected to the system board.  lspci | grep

New Kernel still will not boot

l will not boot To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: <4bd12414.3020...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 04/22/2010 08:09 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm running 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE on my laptop with this video > card: 01:00.0 VGA

New Kernel still will not boot

Howdy, I'm running 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE on my laptop with this video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 570M (rev a1) I am still experiencing a hang during boot; the original kernel works great (2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686* kernels) case 1: o reboot on consol

32bit vs 64bit in the filesystem structures

Howdy, I'm trying to find out if there are any dependencies within the specific filesystem structures that are specific to 32bit and 64bit. As far as I know you can mount a filesystem created on an x86_64 system on a x86 machine without any problems but this could just be that I have not been

KDE problems.

Howdy, I suppose this should be sent to the KDE folks but I'm not sure. I'm a recent convert (shudder) to KDE 4.x and am looking for a way to do what I used to do with KDE 3.x. I have 2 questions: 1) Is there a conversion document that collects all this configuration information in one plac

Re: Strange msgs from restore;

Howdy, Thanks to all who responded, these responses are DEFINITELY appreciated. I tried everything suggested with no change in behavior. I would like to try the "new" version of dump/restore but am unable to locate the code. I tried using the rawhide repo and installing dump but that didn't wor

Strange msgs from restore;

Howdy, I'm trying to copy my boot partition (and others) to a new drive with dump/restore pipes. (cd /rb.boot  ; /sbin/dump -f - /dev/sda1 | /sbin/restore -rf -) I get a bunch of messages I've never seen before; here's a sample: /sbin/restore: ./grub/ffs_stage1_5: EA set security.sel

yum update failures.

Howdy, I was surprised by receiving the following messages when doing a yum update today. Can anyone explain what the problem is? Do I need to make a bug report against the nss group of packages? Regards and thanks for your time and help, George... Loaded plugins: aliases, auto-update-debugin

Re: Kde4 question re desktop menu items.

Kevin, I must apologize for not responding to your earlier post in a timely manor, I had system problems on a different system with the radeon driver which is still broken for me. With kde 3 I was able to define the right button in the desktop to bring up the desktop menu where I put "save ses

Kde4 question re desktop menu items.

Howdy, I have been using kde3.6 and had changed the meaning of the 3 buttons on my mouse. I'm looking for the analogous feature in Kde4 but don't seem to be able to find it. Am I going blind or missing something? Regards and thanks for your time, George... "It's not what you know that hurts y