Re: Migrating an existing system with a different OS

2017-05-31 Thread Rick Leir
Walter, Yes (I am almost certain, but you need to try it and see). For free or with a budget? I assume free. You are familiar with VMware so you will want to stick with that. An alternative would be KVM. You will want to install the VMware host software ESXi, I think it is free. The online

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-31 Thread Rick Leir
Bill, Power supplies can fail at any time, and they are less reliable than any other parts in my PC's. PC's are more reliable if you leave them on, configured to go into sleep mode when left unused (this statement will spark a discussion). Most spinning disk drives these days support smartd

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
> No, I don't think there should be a dependency that a greeter is > installed since it is documented that you can use lightdm without a > greeter if you have an autologin setup. Ed, How many people like me will have a machine out of action for a week because that piece of doco did not jump out

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
> as my cursory searches show, one needs to have a "greeter" installed Thanks for telling me, I had not heard of "greeter"s (embarrassed). Even though I remember FC6. Your advice is most welcome. Black screen .. that was my problem, and I was deep into X11 logs trying to find the fix. Do you t

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
clear out any -f flags or settings, just to make sure that is not a cause? Cheers Rick On May 30, 2017 5:51:11 AM EDT, Ed Greshko wrote: >On 05/30/17 17:28, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/30/17 17:15, Rick Leir wrote: >>> It seems that Fedora 26 allowed me to have KDM and

dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
Hi all It seems that Fedora 26 allowed me to have KDM and LightDM installed without gdm, gnome-shell, and mutter. I had a crash while attempting to login using LightDM: # journalctl -e #2 0x7feb273ed783 gtk_css_static_style_co