Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 20:51 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > This caught my attention: the ability to mount > > the archive in your file system > > > > https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/mount.html# > > > > Anyone have any experience with it? > > > It is "incremental"  I n

Re: [SOLVED] suppose I remove nvidia card?

2025-05-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > An AMD user does "dnf update".  I do "dnf update".  Neither of us need > to do anything further.  At least, not being an AMD user, I assume they > need not do anything more.  I certainly don't. Correct. I used to have an Nvidia card but inher

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 08:07 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 17:23 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 May 2025, at 10:41, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > &g

Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 20:29 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/4/25 3:53 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have two servers affected by: > > > > restore: : ftruncate: Invalid argument > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359295 > > > > This is pretty cr

Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 19:58 -0700, toddandmargo via users wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 May 2025 14:19:05 -0700 Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote --- > > > Dump/restore is an ancient set of commands from the days of reel-to- > > reel tape drives, and is desig

Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 10:54 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/5/25 3:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 15:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have two servers affected by: > >

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 17:23 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 5 May 2025, at 10:41, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > Just tried that and system came back immediately. > > See the man page. Without a path to check the command does nothing. > I am not sure what is an appropriate command line to use. >

Re: sub for dump/restore?

2025-05-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 15:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I have two servers affected by: > > restore: : ftruncate: Invalid argument > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359295 > > This is pretty critical to me. And pretty much anyone > using dump/restore. The m

Re: F42 - KDE - change logout screen icons?

2025-05-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 01:38 +0100, John Horne wrote: > Hi, > > I am using F42 with the KDE desktop, and the 'Bluecurve' icon theme. If I > right-click on the desktop it comes up with 'Show Logout Screen' in the menu. > If I select that, then it shows several options - 'Sleep', 'Restart', 'Shut > D

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

2025-05-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-05-03 at 22:50 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Running firefox --safe-mode (as you suggested, but nothing has changed) > I got this message: > > [GFX1-]: RenderCompositorSWGL failed mapping default framebuffer, no dt > [Parent 193916, Main Thread] WARNING: failed to duplicate file >

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

2025-05-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-05-03 at 10:53 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I'm in Nova Scotia.  Normally, many apps use European mirrors via > cross-Atlantic cables.  I've > seen issues recently thatI suspect are due to the Iberian Peninsula power > problems. You can run traceroute to see if that's happening

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

2025-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 22:26 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > Since last update, my firefox and thunderbird are going more and more > slowly: they take 3 mn to start, when I click on a link in a mail it > takes about 2 mn to get it in firefox (which is already started). > > firefox 13

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 22:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 11:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > You seem to be blaming the list for the user's alleged mistakes. I > > don't see the logic. > > I do suppose that more than one of us s

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 20:26 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > You’ve posted both your user’s and root’s hashed passwords to a public list, > AND mentioned that you’ve got ssh open to the world. I imagine your email > headers probably also have your IP. > Well… > > Good luck. I can’t take it any

Re: script(1) missing from fedora42

2025-04-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 21:33 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 28 Apr 2025, at 20:42, Alex wrote: > > > > Of course, a few minutes after I posted this, I figured it out. > > > > /usr/bin/script is now in util-linux-script. > > A nice trick is that dnf can install given the path to a program. > > d

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 20:37 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > There's no need to remove any of them. You can only use one at a time > > so the presence of others is irrelevant. > > > > poc > > Every time I have had two going, it has been an > unpredictable mess.  This not suppose to be the

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 11:21 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > > > Hi Beartooth, > > > > > > from the command line, run: > > > $ rpm -qa \*dm > > > > > > and report bac

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

2025-04-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025, 13:04 bruce, wrote: > hi Johnathan. > > did a quick test. gmail from android phone. saw the 3 dots at the end.. > when selecting, the thread is displayed. but appears to be in > You mean like this? a block that can't be manipulated. has solid left side lines that show >

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

2025-04-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 07:30 -0400, bruce wrote: > thanks.   as far as I can tell.  and it could be user err!!  one can reply > at top  or end.   I haven't found a way within a msg to insert comments at > a given point of a thread?  let me know if there's a way! I use Gmail via IMAP for mailing lis

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

2025-04-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 22:16 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Sunday, 20 April 2025 17:45:44 EDT Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I estimate that I'll be able to use my setup for no more than 2-3 > > years, max, before X11 is sacrificed on the altar of progress, and > > latest and greatest. > > I j

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

2025-04-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 17:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > One of the big problems with containers (including Flatpaks) is that > > they don't integrate well with the desktop environment. Then the app > > relies on the DE to (say) print things, there's usually some jumping > > through hoops to b

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

2025-04-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 08:14 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tim via users writes: > > > 3) Thanks to sandboxing, or just plain lack of functionality, > >we get apps that can't print, for instance. > > > > I've got ones that can't, I have to print to PDF, then find something > > else to print

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

2025-04-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-04-19 at 17:07 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:11:16 -0300 > "George N. White III" wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM Tim via users > > wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 18:38 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > This malarkey is up there wit

Re: [OT] bash help

2025-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 00:17 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 4/17/25 23:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > declare -n arr=array${1} > > echo ${arr[$2]} > > My hat is off to you, good sir. > > I'd bumped into declare earlier today but couldn't grasp it in the > context where it was used. > > With your hel

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

2025-04-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 00:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > While Evolution has an option to ignore threads, it doesn't seem to do > anything other than italicise the ignored messages in the message list. > I can't find any option that either hides them, or simply collapses > them (automatically) all

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

2025-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
e two between each other so there is no > > > difference, the messaging-content is the same everywhere. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > That's a lot harder than it looks at first sight. I've never seen an > > attempt at doing this that works acceptably.

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

2025-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 10:15 +0200, lejeczek via users wrote: > the only solution - in my mind - must be > practical-programmatic one... > to sync messaging content between the two (or more), > pulling/pushing those two between each other so there is no > difference, the messaging-content is the

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:54 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > On Wed Apr16'25 12:38:41AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:38:41 +0100 > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Reply-To: Commu

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:00 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Thanks! But I get fwupd: command not found. > > Is that not different from an update not found? > $ rpm -qi fwupd Name: fwupd Version : 1.9.29 Release : 1.fc41 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu 20 Mar 2025 09

Re: thunderbird/browser problem

2025-04-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-13 at 05:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links > > > clicked on in one of its email? > > Samuel Sieb: > > Thunderbird should be using the system settings. > > I don't have a current version of Thunderbird to

Re: add a group to a group?

2025-04-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-04-06 at 06:03 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the syntax to ad a group to a group > > I think it is @, but I am not sure > > Here I am trying to add all members of "users" to libvert > /etc/group: > libvirt:x:973:@users > > What am I doing wrong? Not re

Re: command line smtp mailer?

2025-04-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 00:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone have a favorite command line outbound (smtp) > email program that is easy to use? > > I'd like to be able to put everything on the command > line and not have configuration files to deal with. > > I have looked

Re: upstream for qemu-kvm?

2025-03-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-03-30 at 15:00 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 22:10 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > rpm -q -i qemu-kvm > > I always did "rpm -qi", since -i is short for install. +1, though in this case it doesn't matter. poc -- ___

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

2025-03-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, home user via users wrote: > The use case (for the curious)... > I have "link pages" (.html) of links to frequently visited and > favorite web sites and pages.  I have text files of descriptions > and metadata for favorite web pages (example: youtube videos). > I

Re: Evolution Functionality

2025-03-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 09:11 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, >     I have a query about the functionality of Evolution as a mail package. You might want to ask on the Evolution mailing list. See https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users There's also a Gnome Discourse forum at h

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 17:39 -0600, home user via users wrote: > On 3/26/25 4:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote: > > > A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line.  I'm curious

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

2025-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote: > A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line.  I'm curious: did > "grep" have the -r option back then? Maybe my memory is faulty but I don't remember grep ever not having the '-r' option and I've been using it since the

Re: Evolution Functionality

2025-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 12:01 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:24 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Thunderbird is similar in that for mails I receive from this list the > > "Reply All" button is replaced by "Reply List", and if by mistake I > > press "Reply" it expectedly breaks

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

2025-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 15:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I would have had to click on the URL to know that it was spam. Unlike > > most spam we see here (and which I have reported a number of times > > using the approved procedure) the Subject line appeared to be list- > > related. > > That's how

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

2025-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 13:26 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/25/25 4:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 08:10 +, Kim Ponting wrote: > > > [removed link] > > > > Don't ask people to click on an unknown URL without *at

Re: Evolution Functionality

2025-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 11:30 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > I'm beginning to wonder how many people actually use a mail program > > > instead of a webmail interface these days. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Outside of mailing lists such as this

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

2025-03-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 08:10 +, Kim Ponting wrote: > https://khojbro.in/ Don't ask people to click on an unknown URL without *at least* explaining that it supposedly illustrates, and even then be prepared for people to ignore it. poc -- ___ users ma

Re: Evolution Functionality

2025-03-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
It just, VERY DUMBLY, grouped > > > messages with same subject, but didn't thread replies with their prior > > > message in any sane order. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Threading based on the Subject line is fundamentally broken. Well-run > > mailing lists

Re: virt-manager wants password for a user's account

2025-03-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 09:59 +1100, Igor Bezrodnik wrote: > On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 22:55 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 16:12 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 03/21/2025 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > > > > Ma

Re: virt-manager wants password for a user's account

2025-03-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 16:12 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/21/2025 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > Maybe if there's no admin user.  By default, root doesn't even have a > > password. > > There's an option in Anaconda to set it but most people ignore it.  I know I've never ignored it. Why d

Re: virt-manager wants password for a user's account

2025-03-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 22:28 +, Will McDonald wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 at 22:10, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 14:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Maybe if there's no admin user.  By default, root doesn't even have a >

Re: virt-manager wants password for a user's account

2025-03-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 14:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/21/25 2:14 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: > > > > > > On 3/21/25 14:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 3/21/25 12:24 PM, Alex Gurenko via users wrote: > > > > Do you need it to ask for a root password? Maybe just add your user > > > >

Re: Evolution Functionality

2025-03-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 01:00 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I remember in my early days of the internet, Outlook Express was widely > despised for breaking threading by not including the necessary headers > in the replies to maintain the chain.  It just, VERY DUMBLY, grouped > messages with same subj

Re: Tracer Messages

2025-03-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 08:33 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: [Lots of stuff deleted. It's neither necessary not desireable to quote the wntire previous history of a message in order to reply to it. See the Guidelines.] [...] > > Plasma is not the whole DE. You can restart it at any time without > >

Re: Strange Systemd Messages

2025-03-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
option in fstab. Do the checks on the remote system. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Although the message is not as clear as it might be, it's still a big > > no-no to try to run fsck on *any* mounted filesystem, local or remote. > > Given that remote implies mounted

Re: Tracer Messages

2025-03-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 08:55 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > *From:* Patrick O'Callaghan > > *Sent:* Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 10:20 UTC+11 > > *To:* users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > *Subject:* RE: Tracer Messages > > > > On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 09:36 +1

Re: Strange Systemd Messages

2025-03-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 08:36 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > *From:* Patrick O'Callaghan > > *Sent:* Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 20:31 UTC+11 > > *To:* users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > *Subject:* RE: Strange Systemd Messages > > > > On Wed, 2025-0

Re: Strange Systemd Messages

2025-03-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 07:57 +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > > That message is for an nfs network device while the same message at > > the bottom is for the cifs interface to the same device, but why is > > it saying that they are not a device when they were successfully > > mounted. Having said this th

Re: Tracer Messages

2025-03-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 09:36 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 18/3/25 09:20, Will McDonald wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 at 21:54, Stephen Morris > > wrote: > > > >     Having run tracer after a system update how do I determine > > what it is referring to with the following messages: >

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 3/12/25 15:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > > That doesn't apply in Konsole for one. Don't know if it applies in > > > > o

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > That doesn't apply in Konsole for one. Don't know if it applies in > > other terminal emulators. > > You may be talking about different things.  PS1 applies to > the shell running in the terminal.  It sounds like you're > thinking of the

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:48 +0100, Marco wrote: > On 12.03.2025 10:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a > > terminal window? > > That is being controlled by $PS1 in bashrc (or the config of another > command interpreter like ksh i

Re: Controlling Chrome Save Dialog in Xephyr with xdotool

2025-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-03-11 at 14:17 +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I’m currently working with the following setup: > > I start Xephyr with: > > Xephyr :99 -screen 1920x1080 -ac -br -noreset & > > Then, I launch Openbox inside the Xephyr display: > > DISPLAY=:99 openbox & > > Inside Openbox,

Re: MATE desktop not offered by Fedora 42 greeter

2025-03-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 22:46 -0600, Robert Nichols via users wrote: > In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter offers me only "GNOME" and > "GNOME Classic" even though dnf reports: > Package "mate-desktop-1.28.2-4.fc42.x86_64" is already installed. > > I tried reinstalling mate-desktop,

Re: what kind of raid is this?

2025-03-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 22:05 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 3/5/25 9:05 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM ToddAndMargo via users > > wrote: > > > > > > On 3/5/25 5:45 PM, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > > > > > /dev/md126: > > > > >Container : /dev/m

Re: Quickemu

2025-02-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 14:05 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > The more recent releases have a check to ensure that they are running on > apple hardware. Ventura which I think was the last Intel version runs > with few problems. Upgrades to Sequoia have not worked. Ventura didn't work eith

Re: New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 16:27 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I check Bios and WiFi enabled.  I put in a different WiFi card from > another system. > > No Wifi. What does "no WiFi" mean? The card is not detected (look at dmesg or the journal) or it won't connect? poc --

Re: F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 08:16 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > IMO there's really no point. A swapfile is much more flexible and for > > most workloads probably just as fast. The only caveat is that if you > > want to use hibernation you may have to jump through some additional > > hoops as it used

Re: F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 21:00 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am making a note in my install steps file to remember NEXT time > (Fedora 43?) to create a swap partition, but I will just make do with a > swap file this time. > IMO there's really no point. A swapfile is much more flexible and for

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 17:41 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I ran: > > dnf install vim-default-editor --allowerasing > > But I am still getting nano when I try to "crontab -e" > > Do I have to logout and back in for this change to take?  Or is there an > easier way? I've no idea what that doe

Re: F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 16:17 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Arg.  the Install did not default a swap partition so I forgot to work > it in when I divided the drive as I wanted... > > I am using EXT4 for my / /boot /home partitions.  Just plain > partitioning.  Been doing it this way for lots of

Re: Quickemu

2025-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 15:57 -0500, Slade Watkins wrote: > > On 2/26/2025 7:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > This is neat. Have you tried it out yet? I'm adding it to my to-do list > > > as we speak. > > > > Yes, I've

Re: Quickemu

2025-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 17:50 -0500, Slade Watkins wrote: > On 2/25/25 5:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I recently came across Quickemu: > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_quickemu-2Dproject_quickemu&d=DwIGaQ&c=euGZstcaT

Quickemu

2025-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I recently came across Quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu It's a wrapper for QEMU that facilitates the creation of VMs including multiple Linux distros, Windows verions and MacOS versions. It even downloads the ISOs for you. It would be nice to have it in the Fedora repos (lic

Re: installing F41 - qemu?

2025-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 17:01 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am finally upgrading from my F38 system.  I do a clean install on > another system, then migrate my user account. > > So I am moving along OK with the install and am now up to my use of qemu > and virt-manager: > > dnf groupinstall

Re: php-fpm refuses to start

2025-02-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 17:08 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Le 2025-02-17 16:29, Mike Wright a écrit : > > On 2/17/25 05:44, François Patte wrote: > > > Bonjour, > > > > > Bonjour, > > > > > I try to have apache+php running and as far as I can see  on fedora > > > help, I have to enable and start

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-02-14 at 14:51 -0700, home user via users wrote: > On 2/14/25 3:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 23:32 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Those tools are not going to provide any useful help. > > > > I tend to agree. I'v

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 02:19 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Having said all that, most people don't serve websites from their own > PC any more, few ISPs allow it.  I do run a small family webserver on my desktop, but I also have Fail2Ban installed. It registers multiple failed connection attempts

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 23:32 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Those tools are not going to provide any useful help. I tend to agree. I've never used either of them and have had no consequences as a result. Linux can have security issues of course, but my feeling is that they are much more likely to come

Re: Wayland?

2025-02-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 08:40 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 9/2/25 06:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 13:24 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Fedora 41 > > > > > > I need to test

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-02-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 00:10 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > I don't understand. The link is to a Help piece on Gemini (which > > doesn't appeal to me for email), and seems to be related

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-02-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-02-11 at 08:24 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > There used to be an option in Gmail Labs that let you mark a section of > > text before hitting Reply, quote the marked text, and place the cu

Re: KDE and rumors

2025-02-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 14:27 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2025-02-08 at 19:46 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > [...] > > I haven't used Mate so have no opinion. To m

Re: KDE and rumors

2025-02-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2025-02-08 at 19:46 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I just tested a program to see how it would react to the > Wayland only environment of KDE. > > From what little I saw of KDE, I could not help but notice > that KDE is really polished. It would be a good choice for

Re: Wayland?

2025-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 13:24 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 41 > > I need to test a piece of software in Wayland. I know gnome > uses it. Does KDE also use it? Not only does it use it, the F41 KDE spin is based on it and no longer supports X11 (except via Xwayland. p

Re: Installing NVIDIA drivers killed wireless...

2025-02-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 10:53 -0500, Bill Oliver via users wrote: >  So, I installed > akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion.  All the screen issues cleared up, but I > lost wireless networking.   There's no wireless device, it seems. What does 'sudo inxi -bG' say? poc -- ___

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 10:13 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > Aah, NO Top-Posting. > I often forget that, as most colleagues use Gmail or other HTML > mailers for work. > I wish there was some Gmail plugin that could fix top posting. > There used to be an option in Gmail Labs that let you mark a

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-01-30 at 12:40 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > I am primarily a lurker on this list and only post on rare occasions. > As someone unfamiliar with all the unwritten rules of the community, I > should have been more careful and considerate in my response. > Thank you for pointing this

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 23:07 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 20:03 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > > So, it is a symbiotic relationship. > > Kindly refrain from hijacking threads. This topic has *nothing* to do > with the post you decided to rep

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 20:03 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > So, it is a symbiotic relationship. Kindly refrain from hijacking threads. This topic has *nothing* to do with the post you decided to reply to, and changing the Subject line does not make it OK. When you want to post on a new topic. c

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-01-28 at 09:13 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I don't play any games with anti-cheat systems. AFAIK these are all > > multi-player, which doesn't interest me. The Windows anti-cheat systems > > require kernel-level modifications, so it's hardly surprising that they > > don't work on

Re: Update failure in Fedora 40

2025-01-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-01-28 at 08:47 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > IMHO dnfdragora is compulsory if you are looking for all available packages > that provide certain functionality. I've no idea what that means. 'dnf search' and 'dnf info' have always been good enough for me. poc --

Re: OT: How to select a new port number for ssh

2025-01-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2025-01-24 at 11:40 -0500, Lester Petrie wrote: > I have a NAS I wish to change the ssh port from 22 to something else. > How do I go about selecting a good port number? Look at the standard ports in /etc/services and choose something different. Depending on access control to the NAS, you

Re: Update failure in Fedora 40

2025-01-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-01-23 at 17:39 -0600, Robert Nichols via users wrote: > I never actually _used_ dnfdragora. I just saw its notification letting me > know that updates were available. I always use dnf from the command line to > do the actual updates. I never use dnfdragora, but there appears to be n

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 17:06 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 19:22 +, Steve Underwood wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Please don't hijack threads. Yo

Re: Installers not setting the boot flag

2025-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 19:22 +, Steve Underwood wrote: [...] Please don't hijack threads. You posted your question as a reply to a different topic and then changed the Subject line. That doesn't work properly on mailing lists (and MUAs) that pay attention to the In- Reply-To header. You need t

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 09:22 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I am still having issues with one of the > Windows games I play not being usable under linux, but this is because > of the anti-cheat system in the game which is also documented as > potentially not working under linux. All the solutions

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 13:18 -0700, home user via users wrote: > So Red Hat has abandoned btrfs, XFS is the default.  Fedora is upstream for > RHEL, so... > * Why is btrfs still default for Fedora? IIRC Fedora adopted BTRFS as the standard for Workstation *after* RedHat had decided not to use it f

Re: Intermittent Webcam Functionality on Skype

2025-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 14:45 +, Paul Smith wrote: > Surprisingly, by connecting the web-camera to a different usb port, > the issue has been fixed. > Dodgy connection? poc -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe se

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 11:58 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 12/1/25 03:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 02:48 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > > On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 10:57 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > > If you are asking

Re: Does Red Hat have any plans for Win 10 EOL ?

2025-01-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 02:48 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 10:57 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > If you are asking about RHEL Workstation as a Windows Desktop > > replacement, I don’t believe that’s part of Red Hat’s strategic > > objective. Maybe for large engineering or a

Re: Problem with a Fedora 40 VM After Upgrading

2025-01-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-01-09 at 13:47 -0500, Charlie McVeigh via users wrote: > I don't think that this list supports me putting screen shots directly into > the list emails. Attachments are (grudgingly) allowed as long as they are within the size limits. See the guidelines referenced at the end of every m

Re: DNF Upgrade Error

2025-01-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-01-09 at 09:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 9/1/25 09:11, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-01-09 at 08:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > I'm resending this message with the information as attachments as > > > embedding the

Re: DNF Upgrade Error

2025-01-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-01-09 at 08:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I'm resending this message with the information as attachments as > embedding the messages in the mail caused the mail to be moderator held > because it was longer than 60KB. > It's still one email message and it's the total size t

Re: No audio for Pixel Buds in Fedora 40

2025-01-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2025-01-08 at 15:07 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2025-01-07 at 09:59 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > > Here is chatgpt's advice: > > https://chatgpt.com/share/677d410b-e350-8010-82af-360a5a99cbf3 > > Blank page. Hah! > > I have no regard for AI (artificial idiots). They're the mod

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