Re: Bash initialization

On 01/12/2024 19:52, Joe Wulf via users wrote: For what it is worth, locally changing things like PS1 and environment variable assignments should be made in .bashrc, not .bash_profile. When I started with Unix, a long time ago, it was Env Var in profile and aliases and other stuff in *rc dep

Re: Bash initialization

On 01/12/2024 17:16, Todd Zullinger wrote: One thing which is new is the bash-color-prompt package was added. This installs /etc/profile.d/bash-color-prompt.sh which sets PS1. Documentation for how to use it is in /usr/share/doc/bash-color-prompt/README.md, if you want to take advantage of it

Bash initialization

Hi, I just upgraded to F40 and my bash prompt has changed, I have it set up in .bash_profile and it worked before. I thought that the default config /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc were read first and than the user .bash_profile and .bashrc so you can change the defaults; was it changed or someth

Re: How to free up space on the / filesystem

On 10/11/2024 13:11, Will McDonald wrote: Understand where your space is being consumed on the / device. > Don't use '-h' so you can sort easily, use 'x' so as to limit your 'du' to a single device. e.g. "sort -h" can be used to properly sort a "du -h" and be readable. G --

Re: Screen saver no longer working

On 25/10/2024 09:01, Andreas Fournier via users wrote: After a recent update I noticed that the screen no longer goes dark after a time of inactivity. I checked the settings and they are as before. Any way to get it back working? Same here. I am on F39 and KDE Plasma 5.27.11(X11) G -- _

Libspectre library

Hi, I have a problem with okular not displaying images from a .ps file created with LaTaX containing .eps images (updated F39, KDE, X11). error is: rg.kde.okular.generators.dvi.core: ghostview could not be started org.kde.okular.generators.dvi.core: GS did not produce output. Looking around it

Re: upgrade packages problem

On 15/11/2023 18:05, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:23:16 +0100 GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, During a normal upgrade (F38 with KDE on a Dell G15 Laptop) I got this errors: Skipping packages with conflicts: qt5-qtbasex86_645.15.11-3.fc38updates 3.6

upgrade packages problem

Hi, During a normal upgrade (F38 with KDE on a Dell G15 Laptop) I got this errors: Skipping packages with conflicts: qt5-qtbasex86_645.15.11-3.fc38updates3.6 M Skipping packages with broken dependencies: kf5-akonadi-sex86_6423.08.1-2.fc38upda

Re: Keyboard repeat

On 19/10/2023 19:16, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2023-10-19 at 14:53 +0200, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: I have a problem with the keyboard, once in while the key I press start repeating even after a short press and doesn't stop until I press another key. I had to disable the key repeat

Re: Keyboard repeat

On 19/10/2023 17:35, Richard England wrote: On 10/19/23 07:15, stan via users wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:53:52 +0200 GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the keyboard, once in while the key I press start repeating even after a short press and doesn't stop until I

Keyboard repeat

Hi, I have a problem with the keyboard, once in while the key I press start repeating even after a short press and doesn't stop until I press another key. I had to disable the key repeat (not optimal) as it was disrupting my work. This is going on for months, I waited for several updates to se

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

On 12/10/2023 16:08, olivares33561 via users wrote: Dear kind fedora users, I will like to remove rhgb quiet from grub. I have checked out some literature[1] and want to make sure not to mess up my system. I have a little problem, when loading system sometimes I don't get a desktop and have "N

grub options

Hi, I usually avoid "rhgb" in the boot command as I like to see what happens. I did this editing the /etc/default/grub and removing it and it did work for a long time. In the last few kernel updates it did not work and rhgb is in the boot line. I grubby-ed it away but the following update put i

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However, there has been almost nothing done to take advantage of its capabilities. Personally, default

Re: Nvidia again..

On 02/02/2023 11:19, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, as reported elsewhere I had problem with the nvidia driver when updating from  F35 to F37. The last kernel update fixed that, but now there is something strange. The driver is installed and works, but every time I boot the machine I get a

Re: Nvidia again..

On 02/02/2023 17:03, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/02/2023 03:19 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: as reported elsewhere I had problem with the nvidia driver when updating from   F35 to F37. The last kernel update fixed that, but now there is something strange. The driver is installed and works, but

Nvidia again..

Hi, as reported elsewhere I had problem with the nvidia driver when updating from F35 to F37. The last kernel update fixed that, but now there is something strange. The driver is installed and works, but every time I boot the machine I get a "SELinux Alert" about "preventing gdb from read acces

Re: Nvidia in F37

On 25/01/2023 19:05, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 25/01/2023 18:33, Barry Scott wrote: I'll instal kmod-nvidia and probably it will fix the problem; maybe when I am up to speed with a kernel with headers I'll decide if I want it or not... It didn't but this morning up

Re: Nvidia in F37

On 25/01/2023 18:33, Barry Scott wrote: On 25/01/2023 16:57, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 25/01/2023 17:31, John Pilkington wrote: On 25/01/2023 15:44, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:59:10 +0100 GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I just update from F35 to F37 and everything is

Re: Nvidia in F37

On 25/01/2023 17:31, John Pilkington wrote: On 25/01/2023 15:44, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:59:10 +0100 GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I just update from F35 to F37 and everything is fine except I noticed that instead of the Nvidia from RPMFusion it is using nouveau. In

Re: Nvidia in F37

On 25/01/2023 11:19, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/1/23 20:59, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I just update from F35 to F37 and everything is fine except I noticed that instead of the Nvidia from RPMFusion it is using nouveau. In fact the nvidia module is missing and wasn't built by akmo

Nvidia in F37

Hi, I just update from F35 to F37 and everything is fine except I noticed that instead of the Nvidia from RPMFusion it is using nouveau. In fact the nvidia module is missing and wasn't built by akmod. I think the problem is that it started with kernel 6.1.7 which is very recent but it seems i

Re: housekeeping

On 29/12/2022 18:49, stan via users wrote: PS If you want to know the biggest space hogs, run du -S -BM / | sort -g | less or something like it that suits your desires. Yes, I do this so often that I have an alias in my .bashrc dus="du --max-depth=1 -h |sort -h" it shows the all the subdir so

Re: 127.0.0.53 question

On 17/12/2022 05:23, Mike Wright wrote: [snip] 127.0.0.0/8 is the loopback address.  That means that any IP that begins with 127 is a valid loopback address.  The three 0's can each be any number from 0 through 255. I thought that the last octet could not be 0 (address of the network) or 2

Re: Nvidia refresh rate.

On 01/08/2022 21:26, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/07/2022 13:07, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I want to decrease the refrash rate of the video to use less battery but I am having difficulties... I have F35 with KDE on a Dell G15 with Nvidia GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile], the RPMFusion

Nvidia refresh rate.

Hi, I want to decrease the refrash rate of the video to use less battery but I am having difficulties... I have F35 with KDE on a Dell G15 with Nvidia GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile], the RPMFusion drivers and a 1920x1080 resolution (native). In the "system settings-display" There is the

Re: Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-36-1.5.iso

" and "xfs" but that's me - click on create partitions automatically as this create the /boot and /boot/efi if needed - increase the / partitions as F use 15GB (if I have space) - create "swap" if wanted - create "/home" leaving size blank so

Install error

Hi, I am installing F36, from the "netinstall disk" on a HP laptop (dual boot, Xfce). After downloading and installing it gives this: error in POSTTRANS scriptlet in rpm package grub2 common and aborts the installation, twice. At reboot goes to the grub prompt. Is there something we can do? G

Re: Printer problem

On 04/03/2022 18:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/4/22 02:10, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I am having problem installing a printer for a friend. It is a new F35 install and the printer is a Samsung ML-1640 connected via USB. The installation via CUPS seems good but if I try the "Test

Printer problem

Hi, I am having problem installing a printer for a friend. It is a new F35 install and the printer is a Samsung ML-1640 connected via USB. The installation via CUPS seems good but if I try the "Test Page" nothing happens and "journalctl -u cups -e " Mar 03 19:34:18 leibniz cupsd[731]: [Job 75]

Re: Tools for making a bootable iso image on USB

files too, Ventoy doesn't mind. G -- GianPiero Puccioni|Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it |Via Madonna del Piano, 10 T:+39 0555226682 |50019 Sesto F. (Firenze) ITALY ___ users mailing lis

Re: KDE manual session saving seems to be missing

On 13/02/2022 11:15, George R Goffe via users wrote: 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. "Save Session"

Languages in GUI

Hi, recently I found out some problem with the language of some GUI programs, shuch as Xsane and PDF-shuffler. my locale is: $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

On 06/02/2022 23:48, Peter Boy wrote: about using brtfs: Among the cons is, as your /home grows it minimizes the space for „/„. So it can completely block your system (this could not happen with F31 and xfs.) But you can take other group activities, e.g. limit the maximum space for the group /

Suspend

Hi, I am returning to a topic raised last year.. A friend has a laptop Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series 5593 and "suspend" when he closes the lid doesn't work anymore, as it doesn't get back and he has to reboot it. Video card is "Intel Corporation Iris Plus Graphics G1 (Ice Lake) (rev 07)". It di

Re: Fedora image on flash drive bootable both UEFI and Legacy

On 02/11/2021 20:56, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 20:19:10 +0100 Petr Menšík wrote: I would be were grateful for any tips how to archieve my goal. I backup one level and simply have a USB stick with lots of ISO images on it and a grub that can boot an ISO image. I used instructions f

Re: KDE not starting

On 21/09/2021 05:46, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:44 AM GianPiero Puccioni wrote: After every possible thing I could think of , I removed all KDE and reinstalled it, no joy, exactly the same. Time to reinstall F34, and this is when I discovered that it is nearly impossible to

Re: KDE not starting

On 19/09/2021 14:03, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/09/2021 19:50, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: This morning when I botted my laptop (Dell G15) and the login didn' appear, just the mouse arrow. I thougt it was a sddm problem so I switched to gdm and it worked and Gnome started but not KDE(X11), not

Re: KDE not starting

On 19/09/2021 14:03, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/09/2021 19:50, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: This morning when I botted my laptop (Dell G15) and the login didn' appear, just the mouse arrow. I thougt it was a sddm problem so I switched to gdm and it worked and Gnome started but not KDE(X11), not

KDE not starting

ll of KDE or reinstalling F34 is the only solution. GiP -- GianPiero Puccioni|Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it |Via Madonna del Piano, 10 T:+39 0555226682 |50019 Sesto F. (Firenze) ITALY ___ users ma

Re: A question about /bin/startplasma-x11

On 13/09/2021 02:54, George R Goffe via users wrote: 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 poin

Re: Locate not working

On 05/09/2021 14:33, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-09-05 at 14:09 +0200, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: I have a recent installation of F34 with the default brtfs and I discovered that updatedb and locate don't see the files in /home. Is there a workaround for that? There was a thread

Locate not working

Hi, I have a recent installation of F34 with the default brtfs and I discovered that updatedb and locate don't see the files in /home. Is there a workaround for that? G ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

Re: Filesystems

On 7/8/21 4:18 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 05:29, GianPiero Puccioni <mailto:gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it>> wrote: I am waiting for delivery of my new laptop, and it comes with SSD, is there a "better" filesystem for SSD (or in general).

Filesystems

Hi, I am waiting for delivery of my new laptop, and it comes with SSD, is there a "better" filesystem for SSD (or in general). GiP ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject

fan control

Hi, I have a Toshiba satellite pro (R50-B-109) and since I updated to kernel 5.11.17 the fan runs constantly even if sensors report Temps around 35C. If I load the previous Kernel 5.10.21 fans are silent and Temp is around 40C. What changed? I have no control over the fans as pwmconfig cannot fi

Re: Weird boot problems.

root: 0 104857600 linear 8:2 8390656 fedora_node06-home: 0 1838170112 linear 8:2 113248256 still a mistery... GiP -- GianPiero Puccioni|Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it |Via Madonna del Piano, 10 T:+39 0555226682 |50019 Sesto F. (Firenze) I

Re: Weird boot problems.

On 3/3/21 11:50 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: the dm-multipath should be ok, so long as multipathd is not there. grep -i del_part_nodes /lib/udev/rules.d/* shows the multipath delete rule. I am on 32 and don't see anything else using it. if you cat the rule with the del_part_nodes code you could s

Re: Weird boot problems.

On 3/3/21 6:22 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: That looks like multipath is blacklisted. you might to a lsinitrd | grep -i multipath and make sure it is not in the initrd with a config file. multipath is the only service I have seen that actually deletes partition mappings, but it is possible that some

Re: Weird boot problems.

t things stay the way they are, after all it works. One possibility could be to use an rc.local (the systemd equivalent or a proper service) to run "partprobe" and "mount" at start, would this work? GiP On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:19 AM GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 3/2/21

Re: Weird boot problems.

On 3/2/21 10:24 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 3/2/21 5:04 PM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: so it is there and seen but why the block device is not created? Copying the content of (sda1)boot into /boot and reinstalling grub could probably work but how? Hi GianPiero, This is strange. I don't

Weird boot problems.

Hi, I have a problem with an old rack unit I use in a cluster. We had a problem with the HD and had to change it and reinstall. It was done by someone new to the job (I am locked and doing everything remotely) and he had a problem with the configuration as it seems that this unit HD HAS to be co

Re: F32 not booting

On 1/27/21 3:23 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 05:17, GianPiero Puccioni <mailto:gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it>> wrote: Hi, yesterday my laptop with F32 didn't boot. It goes in emergency mode and creates a rdsosreport file I usually don

F32 not booting

Hi, yesterday my laptop with F32 didn't boot. It goes in emergency mode and creates a rdsosreport file I usually don't do this but this time when I installed F I let the system create the partitions and I think it's LVM with XFS but I'm not sure of the latter and I am not familiar with this met

Tablet

Hi, a friend just got a tablet and and has some problems with it. Is has F32 installed, the tablet is a Ugee M708 which is seen by lsusb as a XP-Pen 10 (?). It works as a mouse and can be used to draw in graphics programs but it doesn't have all the extra stuff and cannot be configured or calib

Re: Deprecating SCP

dated, inflexible, and not readily fixed". In fact for the simple use "rsync FILE dest:DIR" instead of "scp FILE dest:DIR" is easy to do. I suppose it's time G P.S. Sorry for the mail Jakub, I did a "reply" instead of "Reply List"

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/24/20 3:12 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-10-23 04:56, Merovingian Puccioni wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions of ubuntu and fedora, memt

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/23/20 6:33 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, at 1:56 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 10/22/20 11:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use the technique here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick

Re: Install Fedora -

On 10/22/20 11:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On this topic (probably too late to do any good), I use the technique here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive And make a USB stick that can boot any one of a collection of iso images off the USB stick. I got the last few versions o

Re: Suspend not working

On 9/24/20 7:40 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:49 AM GianPiero Puccioni mailto:gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it>> wrote: Hi,   a friend has a laptop Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series 5593 and "suspend" when he closes the lid doesn't work anymo

Suspend not working

really hate see him switching to Ubuntu just for this. GiP -- GianPiero Puccioni|Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it |Via Madonna del Piano, 10 T:+39 0555226682 |50019 Sesto F. (Firenze) ITALY ___ users maili

KDE device notifier

Hi, recently I noticed that when I plug in a USB key it doesn't show in the device notifier and it doesn't ask as usual what to do with it. More info: -I am on F32 with KDE and sddmm as login manager. -when I plug in the key it appears in dmesg usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device det

Re: open ssh

On 04/10/2019 11:40, Angelo Moreschini wrote: currently I perform operations between different computers in my local network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use the computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh angelo_dev@10.0.0.15 )

Switch to BLS failed

Hi, I have a machine with F29 and a partition with an old WinXP (not EFI). Before updating to F30 I wanted to try the new BLS so I used "grub2-switch-to-blscfg" to test the transition, but something went wrong. Before I did a full update and reboot to be sure, but after I gave the command and

Re: tip: cd previous directory

On 23/01/2019 14:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 14:01 +0100, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 23/01/2019 07:55, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I just discovered this. To cd back to the previous directory cd - What a time saver! -T There is also a

Re: tip: cd previous directory

On 23/01/2019 07:55, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I just discovered this.  To cd back to the previous directory cd  - What a time saver! -T There is also a more powerful tool: pushd DIR cd to DIR and push olddir on a stack popd cd to the DIR on top of stack and remov

Re: Problem connecting a USB HD dock

On 11/10/2018 23:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/11/18 1:08 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: The USB port seems fine  as I can connect a memory stick, and the docking stations and HD are working as one of the machine has an e-SATA port and I can connect the  dock and use the HD using that. I tried

Problem connecting a USB HD dock

g happens. Was there any recent change (last time it worked was, I think, in May or June) in the USB device driver that can prevent the connection? Some settings to change? Thanks for any help, G -- GianPiero Puccioni |Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it

Problems with ASUS MB and CPU temperature

Hi, I have recently installed Linux on my PC and I have some problems with the CPU temperature, while everything works fine under Win10. The MB is an Asus STRIX B250F - The chipset is reported by hwinfo as "Intel 200 Series PCH LPC Controller (B250)". The problem is that it seems that the fa

Re: Bash startup files

[Cameron Simpson] > The hint could be better. While it might seem obvious, saying the "User > specific aliases and functions should go below this line" might be an > improvement. > > I'm presuming the OP put their stuff up the top. Yes I did, but I realized that my .bashrc comes from a very old F

Bash startup files

Hi, I have a question about the system startup files for bash. The problem I had was that I set up an alias in ~/.bashrc, let's say alias ls="ls -lh" but it didn't work as "alias ls" reported alias ls='ls --color=auto' What happens is that at the end ~/.bashrc sources /etc/bashrc which sources

Installing F25 with KDE

Hi, What is the difference between installing F25 with KDE from the KDE spin and installing from the netinst CD and choosing KDE interface? The latter is what I normally do as it gives me the latest packages from the start. Thanks, GiP -- GianPiero Puccioni |Istituto dei

[SOLVED] Firefox 3.6.4 and SElinux (F12)

h didn't work. The new firefox 3.6.6 has the same problem. The solution, appeared on the Firefox Knowledge base is: chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /path/to/firefox/libxul.so Regards, GianPiero -- GianPiero Puccioni |Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it

Firefox 3.6.4 and SElinux (F12)

it still works. It's a standard updated F12 and runs kernel 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686.PAE and selinux-policy-3.6.32-118.fc12 (I also still have the firefox-3.5.10-1.fc12 installed) Any advice? Thanks, GianPiero -- GianPiero Puccioni |Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.p