Re: startx doesn't work in Fedora 25 (fedora)

2016-12-21 Thread Rick Walker
Hi Ed, > I suppose a little sanity check is in order. > You wrote "F25 to F25" but that sure isn't correct. Oops. F23->F25. > ll /etc/systemd/system/default.target 4 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Oct 24 2011 /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target

startx doesn't work in Fedora 25

2016-12-21 Thread Rick Walker
Do I just need to use a different command to start the desktop in F25? kind regards, -- Rick Walker ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Security vulnerability in TCP of linux, patches available, how soon in Fedora?

2016-08-09 Thread Rick Walker
27;m guessing that opening the ack limit to several million is essentially setting your machine up to unlimited hack attack. -- Rick Walker -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fed

more info on hundreds of dbus-daemons

2014-07-09 Thread Rick Walker
n in the dbus config file? Is there some way I can start konsoles so that they do a better job of reaping dbus-daemons? kind regards -- Rick Walker -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Multiplying Dbus-daemons forcing restart

2014-06-05 Thread Rick Walker
y to ditch gnome, ditch kde, ditch plasma, or whatever just to get a system that will stably stay up for more than a week or so. Before this happened I could run for a year or more with no problem. Any suggestions? -- Rick Walker -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2014-01-04 Thread Rick Walker
ort time scale, but the long time scale and which works brilliantly as a GUI, but also as a text-based problem-solving and programming platform. OK. I'll stop now. This is perilously close to ranting. My apologies. kind regards, -- Rick Walker -- users mailing list users@l

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2014-01-03 Thread Rick Walker
t-install checklist. One of the nice things about UNIX is the clean and minimal ethic that it was born with. I think that we need to work to keep it as simple as possible - especially in the core system. Otherwise it becomes nearly impossible to learn and less maintainable over time. kind rega

Re: Fedup 17->18 won't boot, all partitions are GPT

2013-07-12 Thread Rick Walker
onversion is a red-herring. I'm downloading an F18 live image to try a rescue on the boot setup. An f17 image was unable to cope with the GPT conversion. After saying that it identified and mounted the old root partition (but "may have had some problems"), the mount po

Fedup 17->18 won't boot, all partitions are GPT

2013-07-11 Thread Rick Walker
ystem to do a boot sector repair. Should I try with an F18 bootable flash drive? Under the F17 debug prompt /dev/sda2 (boot) and /dev/sda4 (root) both give clean fsck checks. I appreciate any suggestions. kind regards, -- Rick Walker -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: undo rm -rf * (Patrick O'Callaghan)

2013-03-29 Thread Rick Walker
ystem even if the file was removed by a program without "anyone typing anything". Backups are a highly recommended and mostly orthogonal safety net. The nrm approach also diverts lots of support requests from the department backup guru, and lets most users fix their own problems wi

Re: undo rm -rf *

2013-03-27 Thread Rick Walker
-UX since about 1987, and on linux since 1997. I'd consider it pretty solid at this point. kind regards, -- Rick Walker -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org