Re: recovering back-up.

2025-05-05 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > [...] > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > [...] Unless you are already root that probably should be "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-12 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > You mentioned that you installed the non-graphical system, then added > the desktop later. That's why I thought the server one didn't let you > add desktops during install. I installed the desktop as part of the Fedora install. Sorry if I led

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-12 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > I missed that you were using the netinstall version of the server > install. I didn't realize there was one. The everything install lets > you install the graphical desktop as well. Also, at least the > filesystem defaults are different with

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-12 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM George N. White III wrote: > My Dell systems did something similar. On this one, the EFI Fedora entry > (Boot0001) had > been replaced with what is now (after renaming) Boot0003 below. A recent > BIOS update > made Boot0003 the default, but I got the system to

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-12 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 4/11/25 6:45 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM Tim via users > > wrote: > >> When I installed Fedora 40 (I think, it's 40), I couldn't get the usual > >> installation

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-11 Thread Go Canes
A thought that occurs to me The various Fedora boot failures are occurring after grub, but before any kernel output. Failure loading initrd image? So maybe something to do with RAM that the BIOS testing isn't detecting, or something to do with decompressing the image? Either way, why would

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-11 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM Tim via users wrote: > When I installed Fedora 40 (I think, it's 40), I couldn't get the usual > installation ISOs to work. I had to use the server spin, I believe it > used a different bootloading method. I installed a non-graphical > system, afterwards installin

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-11 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM Marco Moock wrote: > I assume it is an UEFI (some vendors still call that BIOS). Yes, UEFI which Dell still calls BIOS > Can you reset it to the default settings? While I didn't list it, this has been tried. More than once. > Does it support CSM? I can't find

BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

2025-04-10 Thread Go Canes
I recently updated the BIOS on a new Dell XPS 16 running Fedora 40. Prior to the update everything was working fine. After the update, grub displays the boot menu and indicates it is booting the default entry, then...nothing. I have performed the following tests and/or remedial actions: - attempt

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-31 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM Tim via users wrote: > For one like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ob9LHPEaKY you can type > ob9LHPEaKY into the YouTube search gadget and it will find that clip. > And for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_qS_3KXBA typing just this > _qS_3KXBA bit into the sear

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM home user via users wrote: > The sub-tree I'm searching is loaded with huge binary files along with some > ".txt" files. The searches take several minutes each. How do I restrict the > search to ".txt" files? ... Same as my previous reply, adding .txt to the w

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 3/26/25 2:49 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users > >> wrote: > >>> I'm trying

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users > wrote: > > I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use > > this: > > > > find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null [...] > > How do I get this t

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle - SOLVED

2025-03-04 Thread Go Canes
Problem appears to have been solved by a UEFI/BIOS upgrade. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/proje

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Moving forward, buy an inexpensive Intel NUC when you want an > inexpensive server. The thing about the NUCs is, Intel provied > BIOS/UEFI updates. Eventually power problems get fixed in the firmware > so you don't have to putz around with ke

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM Tim via users wrote: > Check for screensavers. You could have one that is crashing. I don't run any screensavers. Even if I were, lack of lock-up when a Windows VM is running would suggest a screensaver is not the issue. Thank you for the suggestion! -- ___

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Go Canes wrote: > > - systemctl entries for sleep, suspend, hibernate have been masked - no > > change > I don't use systemd-sleep.conf(5). Instead, I use the follow

Re: F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-23 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM Barry wrote: > Check that the power settings are the same on the working and not working > laptops. Power settings are as identical as I can make them given differences in the UEFI BIOS. Power settings within KDE are identical. > Look in the system journal to se

F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle

2025-02-20 Thread Go Canes
I have a laptop running F40 Server with KDE, fully updated, that I have been using without issue. I am in the process of moving to a new laptop and plan to repurpose the old one. But I am running into an issue with the old laptop. If the laptop is idle it locks up after ~25 minutes. "Idle" can

Re: OT: videos in Quora

2025-01-03 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Johnston-39/Music-du-Jour-163-Victor-Borge-Sometimes-a-musician-is-just-fun-Victor-Borge-1909-2000-I-m-not-entirely-sure?ch=10&oid=204260273&share=1532059d&srid=uMi1o&target_type=post I'm on Fedora 40 w

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-27 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > [...] dnf check-upgrade seems to me to be new with dnf5 I've been using dnf check-upgrade for years. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to user

Re: F41 DNF bogus error

2024-11-23 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM Dave Close wrote: > > # dnf -y install pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 > Updating and loading repositories: > ... > Repositories loaded. > Failed to resolve the transaction: > No match for argument: pkg3 > You can try to add to command line: > --skip-unavailable to skip unavailab

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-19 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > If it's genuinely small, it might be trivial to rewrite? > > You can find the script at: > > https://github.com/zepalmer/script-vdr > On line 88 put "r" in front of "'\s" -> "r'\s". That will at least get it as far as showing the he

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-19 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You can find the script at: > > https://github.com/zepalmer/script-vdr > > It's quite old but I found it useful with X11. I'm interested in trying > it under Wayland as a workaround for the broken session restore in > Plasma. Hopefully

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-19 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:43 PM Go Canes wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > If it's genuinely small, it might be trivial to rewrite? > > > > You can find the script at: > > > > https://github.com/z

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-19 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:45 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm attempting to convert a small Python-2 script to Python-3. How small? It might be easy to do by-hand. I.e., if it is aborting on things like "print 'something'", that just needs to be changed to "print('something')" --

Re: Login not possible after upgrade fom Fedora Xfce version 40 to version 41

2024-11-19 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM Meikel wrote: > > If the above looks good, try adding a new user and see if you can > > login as that user. > > It is not clear to me how I can do this, as I'm only able to start from > a live media. If I run something like "useradd" this will add a user on > the li

Re: Packagekitd KDE Issue

2024-11-18 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > Hi, > I having a little difficulty understanding the R+W graph display from > IOTOP, and what the difference between a graph displayed by dots and graphs > displayed by a solid block. > Having said that though, the thrashing of my

Re: Login not possible after upgrade fom Fedora Xfce version 40 to version 41

2024-11-18 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 9:43 AM Meikel wrote: > Nov 14 01:30:09 meikel-pc unix_chkpwd[1505]: check pass; user unknown > Nov 14 01:34:49 meikel-pc unix_chkpwd[1522]: check pass; user unknown > Nov 14 01:34:49 meikel-pc unix_chkpwd[1522]: password check failed for > user (meikel) Start with the fun

Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

2024-11-11 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 11/11/24 1:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > As a side issue, I might be treading on thin ice here, I have never done > > any of the post-install processes on any version of Fedora. Until I saw > > references to them in this list when I was

Re: CentOS - what to use now that CentOS 7 is EOL

2024-10-31 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I don't use the server install of Fedora though. I use a > Live USB. Then I dnf whatever server programs I want. > That keeps me from having a tons of junk I don't use > running. WIth the Server netinstall ISO you can control what

Re: How to install new kernels in grub?

2024-10-31 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > Looking at my efi environment, I have, gcdia32.efi gcdx64.efi grubia32.efi > grubx64.efi mmia32.efi mmx64.efi shim.efi shimia32.efi and shimx64.efi. I'm > not sure where all of these have come from unless it is because I'm running > an AMD

Re: How to install new kernels in grub?

2024-10-30 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 6:11 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > On 30/10/24 11:51, Go Canes wrote: > My output from efibootmgr is below. The boot order specified in the > output is the boot order specified in my motherboard bios, not the boot > orders specified in the grub menus. I

Re: How to install new kernels in grub?

2024-10-29 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:16 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Cool command. Thank you! You're welcome/ > BootCurrent: You are currently booted using variable Boot > Boot* fedora/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/ > HD(1,GPT,6e58cd53-8fbd-4b97-bce2-fa7c43e105f3,0x800,0x64000)/\EFI\FEDORA\GRUBX

Re: How to install new kernels in grub?

2024-10-29 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 4:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > That is what I did. Did ot work: > > # grub2-install /dev/nvme0n1 --force If you are using UEFI, grub2-install is essentially a no-op (unless something weird is going on). Here's why Take a look at the output of "sudo efiboot

Re: List manually installed packages for a machine migration

2024-10-24 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 2:39 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I have some old hardware that needs a refresh. The old machine is > running Fedora 40 x86_64 fully patched. The new machine is running the > same on a fresh OS install. I want to get a list of packages I > manually installed on the old machin

Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

2024-10-13 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 12:03 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I did a little more investigating by running fdisk -l and here is what I > found on my server install: > > Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 400 GiB, 429496729600 bytes, 838860800 sectors > Disk model: VMware Virtual NVMe Disk > Units: sectors of 1 * 512

Re: I need grep . help

2024-09-08 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 9:10 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am literally looking for "9.4.5" with grep. Grep thinks > I want the dots to be wild cards. What am I doing wrong? > > $ curl -L "https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/"; -o - > | grep -i '9.4.5' Option 1 - '-i' m

Re: KVM image fails to resume after f38->40 upgrade [anyone???]

2024-08-09 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 10:57 AM wrote: > > On 9/8/24 10:32 pm, Go Canes wrote: > > Maybe extract the xml file from e4.saved and use it for the VM? > > I do not understand this. Why extract it? I am rather convinced that the > embedded xml is used on resume, > and the one

Re: KVM image fails to resume after f38->40 upgrade [anyone???]

2024-08-09 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM wrote: > I looked into the saved memory (e4.saved for me) and I see that it contains > the e4.xml file > that is usually in /etc/libvirt/qemu/. > > Any other ideas? Maybe extract the xml file from e4.saved and use it for the VM? Just long enough to get it resumed

Re: KVM image fails to resume after f38->40 upgrade [anyone???]

2024-08-08 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM wrote: > > I received no response (well, one me-too) and it may be time to just trash > the saved file. I'd rather not. > > Nobody knows how to get around this problem? Really? > [...] > On 13/7/24 3:07 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > Following an upgrade of the host

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 4:21 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'd definitely not edit the grub.cfg files directly. They both have a > commentary saying they are autogenerated. I assume /etc/kernel/cmdline > is also autogenerated (rpm says it doesn't belong to any package). The idea is to edit the

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 8:48 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > [grub mounting root from wrong device] > Not sure what to do other than manually editing the loader entry. Congrats on progress! Manually editing files is what I have done when needed. Edit /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, /boot/grub2/g

Re: Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 7:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: > > # grub2-install > grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. > Please specify --target or --directory. > > I do have a modinfo.sh for i32, but not for x86_64.

Re: NVMe questions - SOLVED?

2024-07-29 Thread Go Canes
Note the quotes have been re-ordered for clarity On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 6:32 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > # efibootmgr > BootCurrent: 0001 [...] > Boot0001* Fedora > HD(1,GPT,8a303a03-0b91-453a-8555-f9627c261f65,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi424f > # blkid [...] > /dev/

Re: NVMe questions

2024-07-28 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I tried disabling the SSD (in the bootable drives list). It made no > difference. Just to be clear - did you disable the drive or just remove it from the bootable list? What we want to do here is prevent the BIOS from reading from the

Re: NVMe questions

2024-07-27 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However none of the UUIDs seen by efibootmgr correspond to anything on > any of the drives. Re-read my reply. Both of the efibootmgr variables *do* correspond to existing UUIDs. > > Can you disable the SSD in "BIOS"? > Yes, but the NV

Re: NVMe questions

2024-07-27 Thread Go Canes
I think quoting levels are getting messed up > $ efibootmgr > BootCurrent: 0001 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder: 0001,0002 > Boot0001* Fedora > HD(1,GPT,8a303a03-0b91-453a-8555-f9627c261f65,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi424f > Boot0002* Fedora > HD(1,GPT,e7207d2d-

Re: NVMe questions

2024-07-27 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 8:57 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] > None of those numbers correspond to any of my UUIDs: [followed by lsblk -fs] Use "blkid" - it will show the UUID of the device and the PARTUUID of the partition for all your disks. -- _

Re: NVMe questions

2024-07-26 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 6:03 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I've cloned my existing SSD onto a new NVMe drive, copying EFI (vfat), > /boot (ext4) and root+/home (BTRFS with /home subvolume) partitions and > editing /etc/fstab appropriately. > > However I have a couple of questions: > > 1) I'm p

Re: Virtualizing Win2K

2024-07-25 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM Javier Perez wrote: > ok, Found something. > https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers > > Let me try that out. The top of my /etc/yum.repos.d/virtio-win.repo has: # virtio-win yum repo # Details: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers Sor

Re: teal(?) messages during boot.

2024-07-25 Thread Go Canes
[Trimmed a lot of text - this is all regarding teal messages showing up when booting.] Last night I was troubleshooting a problem and booted with "norhgb noquiet", and I see the teal messages (this is on F39). As near as I can tell the teal messages are just the stdout from the programs executing

Re: Virtualizing Win2K

2024-07-25 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 6:22 AM Javier Perez wrote: > I want to virtualize win2k to play a game and I installed the virtualization > packages > I was able to create an VM using my old win2k cd no problem. > Display was 640x480. Moving it to 800x600 gave me a black screen. If they are available f

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I wonder then if this is an issue due to dnf upgrade? I've used dnf > upgrade to upgrade my system since at least F35. I wonder if at some > point there was a syslog file which then became rsyslog and the old > syslog file was never remov

Re: different behaviors for anaconda depending on iso files

2024-07-10 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 12:10 PM Mike Wright wrote: > The manpage is confusing in this regard. It offers this: > > -a|--activate y|n|ay > > So, is that -a y and -a ay ? Dunno... I always use "vgchange -a y" to activate and "vgchange -a n" to deactivate. With an external disk, it may also

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM Frank Bures wrote: > On 2024-07-02 12:56, Go Canes wrote: > > Care to explain what you are trying to achieve? > > Well, I had boot problems before and I found using grub prompt and manual > recovery somehow cumbersome. So I thought maybe I could

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:49 AM Frank Bures wrote: > What I want is to create a USB stick with /boot and /boot/efi fs in such a > way that it boots an existing F40 installation on a HD. As I understand things... - your computer will need to be told to boot off the USB drive - either a boot option

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

2024-06-28 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC): > >> Beartooth wrote: > >>> Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not > >>> display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also > >>> gives me a link to Me

Re: alternatives is forgetful?

2024-06-28 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:20 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > I've always set my emacs alternatives to lucid emacs. Today I > did a big dnf update, rebooted to get new kernel, and then got > an error when I started emacs about the "pure GTK" version > not operating correctly under X11 (one of the reasons

Re: Touch Screen and WiFi cards

2024-06-21 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > 1) does these really thin laptops have their wifi > cards soldered in or can they be replace? (I can > usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.) That would depend on the specific model. The wi-fi card in a Dell XPS 13 or 17 are n

Re: Boot hangs on recent kernels

2024-06-10 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:17 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > Thanks! You're welcome! > Well, I followed > > https://fedoramagazine.org/setting-kernel-command-line-arguments-with-fedora-30/ > > and > > # grubby --update-kernel=ALL > --remove-args="resume=UUID=8e895273-b3ca-465e-b991-b7a

Re: Boot hangs on recent kernels

2024-06-10 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:31 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > > Am 09.06.2024 um 20:09 schrieb Go Canes: > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 7:47 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users > > wrote: > >> What I don't understand: What produced the entry "resume=UUID=8e

Re: Boot hangs on recent kernels

2024-06-09 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 7:47 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > What I don't understand: What produced the entry "resume=UUID=8e895..." > in the file /etc/default/grub which was created on the install date, May > 3rd? Do you have a /etc/kernel/cmdline file? I was tripped-up recently becaus

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-03 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 3:11 AM Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I updated a fedora 38 installation to 40 (on sdc3) as I used to do. > But this installation is now not visible from the grub bot menu. > I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > again, and again from both installation (40 and 38

Re: chroot

2024-06-01 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 2:02 PM wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:12:49 -0400 Go Canes wrote: > > dnf has "--installroot=". Requires absolute path. No idea if > > it works with system-upgrade. > > I don't see this option in its man page, but since the goal if

Re: chroot

2024-06-01 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 11:34 AM Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > To update a system installed on a specific partition that way? > (after dnf update --refresh) > mount /dev/sdx /mnt/linux > chroot /mnt/linux > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=40 dnf has "--installroot=". Requires absolute

SELinux is preventing key.dns_resolve from setattr access on the key labeled kernel_t.

2024-05-30 Thread Go Canes
I have been getting the following SElinux alert: SELinux is preventing key.dns_resolve from setattr access on the key labeled kernel_t. Is it safe to create a rule to ignore this? Known issue? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: After f39 upgrade sddm broken on 1 system

2024-05-27 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 9:15 AM Barry Scott wrote: > On 27 May 2024, at 13:49, Go Canes wrote: >> No GPU per.se. It is an old Dell Inspiron 530. > > You do have a GPU, after all you want to do a graphical login. I should have been more clear - "No GPU per.se." meant &

Re: After f39 upgrade sddm broken on 1 system

2024-05-27 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 3:27 AM Barry wrote: > What is your GPU? No GPU per.se. It is an old Dell Inspiron 530. $ lsmod | grep -i vid video 77824 1 i915 wmi36864 2 video,dell_smm_hwmon -- ___ users mailing list -

After f39 upgrade sddm broken on 1 system

2024-05-26 Thread Go Canes
I recently upgraded 5 systems from f38 to f39. 4 of the 5 are fine, but on 1 sddm is broken. There is no text and sometimes the areas that should be text are a pinkish-purple color. I googled and saw suggestions about locale and dejavu fonts, but as near as I can tell this system has the EN loca

Re: How to increase size of /boot partition

2024-05-03 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:52 PM richard emberson wrote: > > Just today I upgraded from 39 to 40 but there was an issue: > dnf told me I needed some 800k more space in my /boot partition to proceed. > I had two kernels in /boot so I dnf removed those associated with the older > of the two kernels. I

Re: can I clone from a usb flash drive to an NVMe drive?

2024-04-29 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am making up a USB flash from of Fedroa 40 MATE for > a customer to play with. > If he likes it, can I clonezilla clone it over > to his brand new NVMe drive (gpart it to expand > the extents)? Can you? Probably yes. But it would

Re: Fedora 40 - KeePass fails to run

2024-04-28 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 10:12 AM John List wrote: > Just an FYI that KeePass is failing to run on my recently upgraded Fedora 40 machine. I'm not sure of the correct place to report the issue. There are several keepass* alternatives: keepassx.x86_64 keepassxc.x86_64 keepass.x86_64 keepassx0.x86_

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > > Am 20.04.24 um 23:16 schrieb George N. White III: > > I assume you can still boot with manual grub commands. > Yes, linux ..., initrd ..., boot > or: >configfile (hd0,1)/grub2/grub.cfg > which immediately brings back the gru

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:31 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But, as Felix had proposed in his post, I dived a bit deeper into > efibootmgr (also new to me up to know), and found out that entries point > to PARTUUIDs, in my case: > FedoraHD(3,GPT,1ca6f5eb-cbea-11e9-a525-4ccc6ad8789c,0x24

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM John Mellor wrote: > > With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix > development stopped about 2 years ago. Most disturbing is that for the > last 2 years there have been essentially no security fixes as a result. I have heard that there have

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:42 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > I faintly remembered the dracut thing, so I tried that first - but it > didn't help. If the other problems aren't resolved, rebuilding initramfs probably won't help. > I will look into the UUID stuff tomorrow, although I had

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:38 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > As I understand it, X11 will still be installable, though I don't know > how long that will last. I think the only long-term hope for those of us that require capabilities that X11 provides (and Wayland does not) is that either Red Hat

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But rebooting still gets me to the dreaded grub>. > So what am I missing? > BTW, I did NOT use the grub2-install command which shoud not be used on > UEFI systems. I recently had similar problems. These are the things to che

Re: how long does dnf system-upgrade take?

2024-04-14 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 9:49 AM Fulko Hew wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 7:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > Then it was back to are-install for F33 because it was a hardware > replacement, and Linux/Fedora does not have a one-true backup/restore > process that I have ever seen. [...] Th

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:52:10 -0600 > home user wrote: > > > kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64 > > Possibly relevant, but I don't know what it means for sure: > > My system gets regular updates. I've never had a yadda-yadda-100 kernel, > all min

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-19 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 8:49 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Which scanner/copier does everyone use, that works out of the box with Xsane? Canon LIDE 400 over USB. "Just works." -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file > > still remaining and handle it itself. > > And how do you suggest that it detects it? I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head 1)

Re: imminent /boot problem.

2024-02-25 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM Tim via users wrote: > I'd like to run the few WiFi controlled lights I have locally, all this > cloud stuff goes against the grain, I loathe things controlled by > mobile phones, even though I am doing that. For that reason all the > main lighting has no smarts.

Re: imminent /boot problem.

2024-02-25 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:49 AM Tim via users wrote: > I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB sticks. > It's only options for USB booting are USB floppy and USB zip drives, > neither of which like USB anything else. It's also an extremely > useless motherboard, small RAM s

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-29 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and > the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and > glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are present. Does > anyone have any idea what is g

Re: VLC in Fedora vs RPMFusion

2023-12-24 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:21 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I just did an upgrade on my Fedora 38(-ish) machine and dnf wants to > replace the rpmfusion version of vlc: [vlc 3.0.19 from rpmfusion -> 3.0.20 from fedora-updates] > Is there some advantage here? One change I have noticed (also o

Re: Obscure rsyslog question on remote logging

2023-11-16 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 7:51 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > # Log incoming message from remote systems here > $template DynamicFile,"/var/log/loghost/%HOSTNAME%/%syslogfacility-text%.log" > :hostname, contains, "nast" > *.*-?DynamicFile > > Most remote log message do indeed get redirected to the subd

Re: Strange daily reboot - SOLVED

2023-11-16 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:43 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I've emailed the manufacturer (TP-Link), though without much > expectation of a reply. > > If it is as you say, it's a design fault. The power cycle is a definite > Off, wait a second or so, then On. I have TP-Link KASA EP10 smart plugs

Re: ffmpeg/openh264/Samuel Sieb.

2023-11-13 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:09 AM Ger van Dijck wrote: > Dnf info openh264 gives that the version FC33 is installed (!!!) , I heard > from other users that they have the same problem sfter upgrading FC38 to > FC39 , so I installed the openh264 version FC39 and all runs fine !! FWIW, I am on Fedora

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 4:25 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 10/04/2023 02:16 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > - on the laptop, boot off of the USB drive. If it gives you the > > expected menu, choose the option for verifying the media. > > If I could do that, I wouldn't be asking

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 3:39 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > [...] The laptop has a new, unformatted hard drive because the old one is > dead. When I picked up my laptop after the brain transplant (I don't do > hardware. Ever.) I used my desktop to create the drive off of an .iso > that I downloaded from

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-04 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 2:59 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 10/04/2023 12:37 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The laptop's BIOS obviously sees the drive because if the drive's > inserted when I turn it on, it ignores any and all F keys and tries to > boot from it. And, my desktop had no trouble writing t

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-08 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 3:30 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Yes, the card has been in use for nearly two years and has 250G of > data. The problem only began recently. > > It was purchased on Amazon for $110 +/- a couple of years ago. Shot in the dark things to try First, save the data somewher

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-04 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 8:52 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I can't recall if I tried [defragmenting the file system]. It's been years since I did this, so don't know how much is still relevant 1) Disable hibernation, reboot, delete hiberfil.sys 2) Check for "shadow copies" or whatever they're calle

Re: firewalld question

2023-06-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 2:15 PM Amadeus WM via users wrote: > > Say I want to drop/reject outgoing connections to a particular destination > address (for parental control). How would I do this with firewalld? I can't address using firewalld, but I think you could get basically the same result by

Re: OT: Working on script to add Memtest86+ version 6.20 to Fedora boot menu

2023-06-07 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:53 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > rm index.html -f > wget https://memtest.org/ > f=$(grep -m1 binaries.zip rm index.html -f [...] > Thanks for any suggestions.. replace above with: f=$(wget -O - https://memtest.org/ 2>/dev/null | grep -m1 binaries.zip | sed

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively. [SOLVED]

2023-06-03 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 10:28 PM home user wrote: > I have no idea how to compare the one iso file to the several directories and > files on the stick. You can mount the iso file with "sudo mount file.iso /mnt", and then use "diff -r /mnt /stick" or similar. Assumes: - you don't already have som

Re: follow-up - Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-06-02 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 12:21 AM home user wrote: > One more kernel update is needed to make sure the weekly patches does not > keep too many kernels, and that the rescue kernel is updated. I don't believe the rescue kernel gets updated automatically. _

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively. [SOLVED]

2023-05-31 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM home user wrote: > 2. I used Fedora Media Writer to put > Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-37-1.7.iso" on stick_1; no hint of trouble. I > tested it in the left USB-3 port; it failed. I tested it in the right port; > it succeeded. Instead of Media Writer, you co

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