On 2015-07-10 12:42, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 07/10/2015 07:33 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> probably have a more benign reason (maybe to stop people that don't know
>> what they're doing from accidentally bricking their machines).
>
> That's no excuse. Once you&
On 2015-07-10 09:26, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> Very often I check smtp server for any issue using
> telnet mailserver 25
>
> pop3 server, too, to check credentials, when a customer complain: server says
> my credentials are wrong
>
> I telnet pop3 server on port 100 and I realize he is using wron
On 2015-07-09 16:52, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 09/07/15 13:16, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> With no previous experience? Probably not. Now? I'd... be "very
>> cautious" about buying a refurbished computer. Especially from someone
>> that dea
On 2015-07-09 12:40, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> When I use telnet inside Konsole,
> to close telnet:
Please tell me you're connecting to a *really* old and/or dumb device
and not another at-least-semi-modern *nix machine. If not... just do
yourself a HUGE favor and use SSH. (Seriously... even if you
On 2015-07-09 10:55, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 09/07/15 10:04, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> In my experience,*new* Dell machines do not have locked BIOS. However,
>> I have a friend who recently bought a "refurbished" Dell machine that
>> had bee
On 2015-07-08 17:47, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> I bought a used Dell Latitude E4310 that I want to replace Windows7 on
> with Fedora-22. Unfortunately the BIOS is locked and I do not have the
> admin password for it. A phone call to Dell was unproductive and none of
> the passwords
On 2015-07-03 12:57, Nikkita Miles wrote:
> New to Fedora OS use.
> Have windows 7 currently on laptop
> Want to install Fedora
> Need suggestion on best Fedora product to use
> Need suggestion on how to begin
> Need complete step thru process
> Real new to conversion process
If you don't alrea
On 2015-06-23 21:22, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> On 2015-06-22 14:15, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> As a side note, AFAIK now sshd is disabled on fresh installs. Do a
>>> "systemctl enable sshd" and &q
On 2015-07-02 13:56, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> I recently installed F22 (KDE spin) from scratch on a new Dell M6800.
>> The Live CD seems to run okay, but when I try to boot the installed OS,
>> it freezes when I try to l
I recently installed F22 (KDE spin) from scratch on a new Dell M6800.
The Live CD seems to run okay, but when I try to boot the installed OS,
it freezes when I try to log in. The machine is effectively unusable as
a result.
Through much pain and anguish I have managed to install updates (up to
dat
On 2015-06-30 19:01, jd1008 wrote:
> So, how can I proceed with a brand new drive,
> dd /dev/zero into the first ... say 4K bytes, partition
> it with fdisk, do not mark any partition bootable, so
> that bios will skip over it ?
Don't know why no one's mentioned this, but... you could always just
On 2015-06-22 14:15, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> If the same set of steps don't work and then start working and then
> don't work again, I am thinking memory or the harddrive.
Hmm... and... first try (just now) to boot the LiveCD got stuck ('LSB
init' IIRC). Second worked...
> Boot from a live image
On 2015-06-20 06:38, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 19 June 2015, Matthew Woehlke sent:
>> Remember, I *can't log in*. Not via kdm, not in a TTY, not over ssh,
>> *not at all*. No login --> never even tries to start X (not as my
>> user, anyway).
>&g
On 2015-06-19 20:27, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 05:47:49PM -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> On 2015-06-19 17:27, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>> In emergency mode, could you look at what logind was up to in the
>>> previous boot? Something lik
On 2015-06-19 17:27, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> In emergency mode, could you look at what logind was up to in the
> previous boot? Something like the following should work:
>
> # journalctl -b -1 -u systemd-logind
>
> You could compare with the current boot by switching the -1 to 0. Maybe
> this wil
On 2015-06-19 16:29, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 01:13 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> I'm increasingly unconvinced that it has anything whatsoever to do with
>> X. More like it can't start a login session. I'd guess that recovery
>> mode does something tha
On 2015-06-19 15:10, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 11:26 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> On 2015-06-18 17:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> >There should also be a ~/.xsession-errors.old and with luck, it
>>> >might have something in it.
>> There isn't. (I&#x
On 2015-06-18 17:46, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Maybe we can catch log entries before it completely dies. Bring the
> system up in single user mode, then edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf.
> Find the line:
>
> #ForwardToSyslog=no
>
> Change it to:
>
> ForwardToSyslog=yes
>
> and save the file.
On 2015-06-18 17:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
> There should also be a ~/.xsession-errors.old and with luck, it
> might have something in it.
There isn't. (I'd be inclined to suspect that things have only gotten to
the point where a .xsession-errors would be created the one time.)
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On 2015-06-18 17:16, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 01:52 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> On 2015-06-18 14:04, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>> On 06/18/2015 12:54 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>> (¹ *Once and only once* I was able to log in, but the system froze as
On 2015-06-18 12:54, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> I just installed F22 (KDE spin) from scratch on a new Dell M6800. The
> Live CD seemed to run okay, but when I try to boot the installed OS, it
> (almost¹) invariably freezes when I try to log in. The machine is
> effectively unusable as a
On 2015-06-18 14:04, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 12:54 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> (¹ *Once and only once* I was able to log in, but the system froze as
>> soon as I tried to run an application. Also, I can log in in single-user
>> mode, but this isn't goo
(First try apparently got eaten; apologies if this is a duplicate.)
I just installed F22 (KDE spin) from scratch on a new Dell M6800. The
Live CD seemed to run okay, but when I try to boot the installed OS, it
(almost¹) invariably freezes when I try to log in. The machine is
effectively unusable a
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