Re: AMD Athlon 220GE on Gigabyte B450M - no Intel ARC detected ?

2025-05-17 Thread Roger Heflin
l arc simply won't work with only x4, and it is possible that only one of the x16 slots works with the cpu that you have. On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > What does lspci show? if it does not show in lspci then there is a > hardware/bios problem causing it to not

Re: AMD Athlon 220GE on Gigabyte B450M - no Intel ARC detected ?

2025-05-17 Thread Roger Heflin
What does lspci show? if it does not show in lspci then there is a hardware/bios problem causing it to not show up. If it shows up in lspci then it is a driver problem (no driver, and/or driver does not have that pciid in it--pciids show via the modinfo ). On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM lejecz

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-06 Thread Roger Heflin
I am pretty sure I saw one of the rpm installs doing a long running restorecon. I am pretty sure I saw this as the command: "restorecon -r /" (from ps) and that command from the command line takes a while to run. On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-05-06 at

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

2025-04-26 Thread Roger Heflin
The answer is that is they way it is suggested to be done and/or the way that it was tested. If you do not stand on one leg facing south under a full moon when doing it then that is not a "supported" path. Most software vendors do it this way, and if anything goes wrong will blame that on some t

Re: wifi-bluetooth card recommendation

2025-04-18 Thread Roger Heflin
In general get an Intel branded one (AX200 works well).Any of the others I have used will often "work" for a while but need a lot of random restarts/resets of the card every days or 2 (realtek). On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM Terry Polzin wrote: > > Who is using a wifi-bluetooth combo card?

Re: I need to monitor a dead network

2025-04-05 Thread Roger Heflin
Maybe, maybe not. Typically I have had to do a stop(instead of a restart) then a modprobe -r ; sleep 1 ; modprobe ; then restart. That works unless the NIC itself has a serious firmware issue and locks up and really needs a hardware reset that comes on a complete reboot. On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-04 Thread Roger Heflin
And you are using ttyS0 for the serial port and that is the first real hardware serial port, not the first USB serial port and at boot the first usb serial port may not even actually exist yet... On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > you might try adding setterm --b

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Roger Heflin
/sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --keep-baud 115200,57600,38400,9600 - vt220 > > # Again, lines are split and condensed here only for readability. > > > > After all this, I get no output on the putty connection and no response > > when attempting any entry. I've also tried the oth

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Roger Heflin
If the machine does not crash then the serial console is not going to have any information that dmesg from ssh does not have. The use-case for the serial console(or kdump) is when the machine stops and you can no longer see dmesg output from that boot. Likely you will need to find the log file fo

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Roger Heflin
There is no resume when something crashes because nothing ever got saved to resume. And I would not assume that the last message/"error" on your screen has anything to do with the crash. The message/"error" in question may actually happen on EVERY boot and when it crashes you see that always the

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

2025-03-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM Dave Close wrote: > > > > I received a new SanDisk "Extreme" 128 GB SD card today and used rpi- > imager to put a new OS onto it. After completing successfully, I was > able to mount the linux partition and make a backup copy onto a hard > disk. But then... > > #

Re: what kind of raid is this?

2025-03-06 Thread Roger Heflin
Fakeraid is the original name for this when manufacturers came up with it. Originally everyone were directly competing with the hardware raid, and the manufacturers of these raid cards did not go out of their way to tell anyone it was 99.9% software. There were fakeraid raid5/raid6 controllers t

Re: what kind of raid is this?

2025-03-06 Thread Roger Heflin
highpoint had multi-port raid5 fakeraid cards in the 2006 timeframe and was very careful about not disclosing it was 99.9% software and required an extra driver. There were others that had these cards also, they were troublesome and even intel's has issues at times. On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM

Re: what kind of raid is this?

2025-03-06 Thread Roger Heflin
It is the fakeraid driver that runs on top of standard md/dm devices. RST is Intels fakeraid setup. I am not sure if it will automatically come up (if installed on a machine without a fakeraid bios and/or not defined in the fakeraid bios). There is likely a manual way to force configured it to co

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Roger Heflin
It is termed "fakeraid". It is not hardware raid. The only hardware that exists for it is a couple of entries in the bios and on the disk saying the disk are raid. All of the work is done in the driver/OS. And generally on linux (and windows) it has been poorly supported and always needed an add

Re: startx

2025-02-28 Thread Roger Heflin
email: pdu...@gmx.com > === > > > > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM > > From: "Roger Heflin" > > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > > Cc: "Patrick Dupre" > > Subject: Re: startx > > > > The graphics h

Re: startx

2025-02-28 Thread Roger Heflin
The graphics hardware/software is not setup to work with 2 x-servers running on the same graphics device, each X server expect to have total control, and is not coded to share with a 2nd instance. On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > Hello, > > I have one x session r

Re: Logrotate failing

2024-12-08 Thread Roger Heflin
logrotate as far I as I know runs as root, so selinux should not matter. So, full filesystem or read-only filesystem would seem to be the most likely. Corrupted filesystem/directory and/or directory that hit some odd fs limitation (ext4 hashes files in a dir and when too many files hash into a fu

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-18 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:32 AM bruce wrote: > > Hi. > > One of the HP sales reps, seems to have indicated that the internal > wifi for the "hp 17z-cp300" laptop would be --> "M91238-005". Is this > supported by Ubuntu/kernel? > > How can I see that it is (if it is)? > > thanks > Note that the W

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-18 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 5:59 AM Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 07:37 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > > The usb wifi adaptors typically have worse driver and reliability > > issues that the original crappy internal ones. > > Not to mention that having a USB

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
this still a potential > issue? > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 9:07 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > > > Years ago the only ones I found with drivers in linux were N300 (even > > slot at the time) usb devices. > > > > You would have to check the state of usb wirele

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
ese modules would still > work? > > thoughts? > > thanks > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 8:37 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > > > The usb wifi adaptors typically have worse driver and reliability > > issues that the original crappy internal ones. > > > > On S

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
The usb wifi adaptors typically have worse driver and reliability issues that the original crappy internal ones. On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM bruce wrote: > > hmmm.. I would have thought most parts would have been soldered.. on the > mobo!!! > > I'll check with hp tech support. > > or at t

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
d information on a wifi > adapter? > > thanks! > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 8:22 PM Roger Heflin wrote: >> >> I have a HP 17" and I replaced the wifi with an intel ax200 ($20 >> upgrade) as the half-assed one did not work reliably. >> >> Ie the wifi

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
I have a HP 17" and I replaced the wifi with an intel ax200 ($20 upgrade) as the half-assed one did not work reliably. Ie the wifi would work for a few hours/days and then stop working and require a down/up to get it working again. Most of all of the laptops will likely have the half-assed wifi

Re: gcc/gsl

2024-11-13 Thread Roger Heflin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 4:25 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > > How different are the values? How many significant figures match? 0? > > 5? > relatve difference: 2.7e-8 > "noise" ~ 1e-35 > values < 2e-23 > What significant figure is it of the result? Heavy calculations are sensitive to th

Re: gcc/gsl

2024-11-13 Thread Roger Heflin
How different are the values? How many significant figures match? 0? 5? On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 12:33 PM Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not sure this issue is entirely relevant on this mailing list. > Maybe you could redirect me. > > The same application (relatively heav

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-08 Thread Roger Heflin
at 8:35 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 8:03 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > > > The encryption defaults changed sometime recently. > > I don't see the change documented at > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/41/ChangeSet> or > <

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-07 Thread Roger Heflin
The encryption defaults changed sometime recently. The defaults cryptsetup command I had in a script stopped mount my encrypted filesystem until I did a bunch of research and found out what parameters needed to be specified to match the prior default. If you want to try what I found out reply an

Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

2024-11-06 Thread Roger Heflin
That is a 2.5" right? I think the one RanJan has is a 16tb usb key. Commercial 2.5" ssd's go up to above 16tb+ but cost real money. Ie $3k+ for 16tb, and >$5k for 30tb. On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 3:42 PM Barry wrote: > > > > > On 6 Nov 2024, at 19:55, Ranjan Maitra via users > > wrote: > > > >

Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

2024-11-06 Thread Roger Heflin
). On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 1:55 PM Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > On Wed Nov06'24 01:50:18PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > From: Roger Heflin > > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:50:18 -0600 > > To: noloa...@gmail.com, Community support for Fedora users > > > > C

Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

2024-11-06 Thread Roger Heflin
If you paid less than US$1000, then the only 2 options are: it is stolen (pretty unlikely as they would still sell it for a high price) or fake. And if it is just a usb key device (not an external disk enclosure) it must be fake because I don't think you can actually fit the memory chips for 16tb

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

2024-11-01 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:40 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 19:16 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > > And note I was the person that worked the hard cases for a company > > with > 5,000 licenses, so if most senior linux resource at a company > > wit

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

2024-10-31 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > I found RHEL and friends too frustrating to use. They > freeze their stuff so as to not have upgrade issues > occur. Problem is they freeze the good and the bad. > And it is like pulling teeth to get the to fix anything, > unless

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

2024-10-31 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 3:44 PM Max Pyziur wrote: > > > > Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can do so for zero cost. > > > > Go to https://developers.redhat.com/ and sign up. Then you can download > > and use RHEL on up to 16 your development/personal use machines. You can > > use RHEL virtualizat

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-28 Thread Roger Heflin
I have personally done g1(3.5" scsi) -> g5(2.5" sas) (initrd rebuild to use the correct drivers + dd to clone onto a SAN disk, boot up new machine on livecd and dd back to the local disk). And done many g5/g6/g7/g8/g9/g10 to various different models (generally dd/clone to san disk and on new machi

Re: dracut + LUKS = no boot? (now fine, issues a month ago)

2024-08-18 Thread Roger Heflin
I don't know specifically on this bug. But the 2 common mistakes fall into some piece failing and causing dracut to not properly detect what modules the boot device needs to use. And when that happens dracut times out looking for root. I have also seen bugs where the necessary module needed to

Re: Slow transfer speed to USB 3.0 portable drive

2024-08-16 Thread Roger Heflin
raid subsystems that have battery backed-up caches and/or return done the moment it gets into its cache (whether safe or not). On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 1:25 PM Barry Scott wrote: > > > > On 16 Aug 2024, at 18:12, Roger Heflin wrote: > > So here is why sync sucks only on a usb 2.

Re: Recent issue with hddtemp.

2024-08-16 Thread Roger Heflin
critical functionality and/or change results that customers/clients would be depending on outside of the monitoring path. On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 12:37 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Roger Heflin said: > > Zero chance they back that out. It is not a regression in the &

Re: Recent issue with hddtemp.

2024-08-16 Thread Roger Heflin
Zero chance they back that out. It is not a regression in the kernel, a valid fix exposed bad code in user space. The defect is in user space commands not checking what the kernel returned. The bug is not in the kernel. The solution will be to fix the user space programs and/or require the ext

Re: dmesg, serial port and permissions

2024-08-16 Thread Roger Heflin
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 12:12 PM Barry wrote: > > > > > On 16 Aug 2024, at 08:54, Frederic Muller wrote: > > > > Serial port also requires sudo ( /dev/ttyACM0 ) for betaflight to be able > > to access it > > Look into adding a udev rule to set the permissions you need on the serial > device. >

Re: Slow transfer speed to USB 3.0 portable drive

2024-08-16 Thread Roger Heflin
So here is why sync sucks only on a usb 2.0 connection. The host fills up the disks write cache some portion of (32MB/64MB/128MB) and then the disk waits for the head get to were the data needs to be written and writes it, as the write cache clears space the host sends more data, but at usb2.0 the

Re: smartd configuration problem

2024-08-16 Thread Roger Heflin
Someone seems to have added it to setup a snmp config. It is unlikely you want an snmp config/install, its only use is for external monitoring via the network (without ssh access) and is for the most part not being used much anymore. You might do a man smartd.conf and see if there is an option t

Re: Slow transfer speed to USB 3.0 portable drive

2024-08-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On any other filesystems I have used, using sync makes performance suck. No idea about what is normal/ok for btrfs. You might see if all btrfs filesystems are using sync or just the removable ones are. On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 5:21 PM Andre Robatino wrote: > > The output of "smartctl --xall /dev

Re: Slow transfer speed to USB 3.0 portable drive

2024-08-15 Thread Roger Heflin
So it is only slow on the slow port? If so it kind of sounds like the fs may be mounted sync and/or the disks write cache is disabled. smartctl --xall sometimes works against usb disk and sometimes it does not work. if it works it will tell you the write cache status. The sync and/or btrfs fil

Re: Slow transfer speed to USB 3.0 portable drive

2024-08-15 Thread Roger Heflin
You might install usbview and run it. It will give you a gui window and let you drill down and examine what each USB device looks like. It would make me think it is some BTRFS issue. maybe for some reason the disk is fragmented and having to write blocks all over the place. The way I know to tes

Re: Slow transfer speed to USB 3.0 portable drive

2024-08-15 Thread Roger Heflin
Is this a spinning disk or an SSD? And what are you writing to the disk?And what filesystem is on the disk? On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 12:23 PM Andre Robatino wrote: > > Testing a little more, the transfer speed between the desktop's black USB > ports and the portable drive is only slow (arou

Re: chmod - display dirs

2024-07-29 Thread Roger Heflin
That is typically the sort I would do. I usually just use the find option "-ls" and not the exec. And for warm and fuzzy feelings you can add a -ls on thd fine command after the chmod's \; On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 11:43 AM bruce wrote: > > Hi > > I'm looking to update the permissions of a bunch

Re: Fedora and System Rescue CD disagree on the state of my btrfs filesystem

2024-07-26 Thread Roger Heflin
If it is only giving btrfs errors on 6. 9.x and not the rescue kernel and 6.8.x that would seem like a potential kernel bug. Run on 6.8.x and wait for say 6.10 would be best. On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 12:31 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 8:59 AM John Mellor wrote: > >> On 2024-07

Re: remove a disk from raid1 array

2024-07-03 Thread Roger Heflin
You need to add this to the grub kernel boot line: bootdegraded=true otherwise the default behavior is to freak out and not work. On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 5:17 AM François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > I need to remove a disk from a raid1 array and restart the computer > *without* that disk and wit

Re: mdadm.conf

2024-07-02 Thread Roger Heflin
aller. > Makes me wonder, should something happen to the MB, will it be problematic to > move the discs to another system? > I am assuming if one disk falls, the mdmraid commands to rebuild the array > would still be the same > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 11:15 Roger Heflin wr

Re: mdadm.conf

2024-07-02 Thread Roger Heflin
Did you build a mdadm raid1 or a dm-raid raid 1? +imsm means you built a dm-raid device (software raid that the bios/efi is aware of) and it is slightly different from a normal mdadm. If it works and uses the correct device names on each boot up then I would not touch it. If you do touch it then

Re: Chrome/Chromium illegal instruction lately?

2024-06-30 Thread Roger Heflin
For me when an update happens for firefox (not sure if it is a firefox update or just some libraries it uses, or both) it does not crash (that I notice) but simply stops working (web page refresh and other things don't work anymore). So in the firefox case something extreme enough is happening tha

Re: Firefox foul ups

2024-06-22 Thread Roger Heflin
Steve's problem sounds like a Xorg/Wayland graphics issue/bug that firefox somehow triggers. My firefox has acted off for a while. Typically is it seems to get bogged down using a lot of ram (2-10GB for at least one firefox process), but more recently I don't see the big memory usage but it seems

Re: Touch Screen and WiFi cards

2024-06-21 Thread Roger Heflin
Intel AX200 series works great in my 2 laptops. Much better than the non-intel crap. The support is not a Fedora issue, it is simply a Linux Kernel issue. The qualcomm native kernel driver is not good. I replaced one in a laptop 4 years ago, and when I got a new laptop struggled with the new q

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-20 Thread Roger Heflin
You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it. There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like this. F39 puts the log file here on my machine. /var/log/Xorg.0.log On most of my machines

Re: Interesting mount problem - F40

2024-06-18 Thread Roger Heflin
On mine I have md raid1 configured for /boot. Old install no /boot/efi but it should also work for /boot/efi because even with mdraid the bios/efi will still be able to find what it needs to find to boot but when the OS comes up it mounts the md-raid raid1 devices. This would allow you to survive

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Roger Heflin
The easy solution is chattr +i and that will block all further changes to the file forever. It is kind of a last resort. On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via > DAV to a git repo were failing. > > Ev

Re: strange results of history command list

2024-06-04 Thread Roger Heflin
If you have 2 separate sessions open for the given user last save/exit wins and overwrites the history file. This may be an oversimplification but 2 sessions both saving out do seem to make a mess. And if there is no -TERM and/or clean exit then nothing gets written out. I have trained people on

Re: fstab

2024-06-01 Thread Roger Heflin
man btrfs But In general I always use defaults for the option and then override any others. And remount-readonly is a default option on ext4 and I don't believe it was ever necessary to supply it. On the above I would use defaults,noauto,nofail On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 10:06 AM Patrick Dupre via

Re: chroot

2024-06-01 Thread Roger Heflin
you need to add these mounts to allow full function under a rescue boot+mnt+chroot. mount -o bind /proc /mnt/linux/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/linux/sys mount -o bind /dev /mnt/linux/dev mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/linux/dev/pts Typed from memory. I have done way too many live cd rescue boots.

Re: Issue with logrotate and mariadb?? After upgrade to Fedora 40

2024-06-01 Thread Roger Heflin
That would have to have been a mariadb config file/code change to no longer allow root at localhost to access without a password. Based on this change adding the root@localhost type auth on Windows then it should work. https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-26715 Those changes were 10.11.0 so I won

Re: Need system to run 24/7

2024-05-23 Thread Roger Heflin
You do not need to tell it anything.All of my systems run until I reboot them or the power goes off. Do you mean keeps going to a "crash", ie not something issuing a controlled reboot? If so then you likely have a hardware issue. Note when I ran large supercomputers with long running jobs an

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread Roger Heflin
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:09 AM John Pilkington wrote: > > On 08/05/2024 10:18, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > >> Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as > >> part of their network, and when handing out the same I

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-04 Thread Roger Heflin
castor is someplace on your machine defined as the linux node's hostname. dhcp-client does deliver the defined hostname in the dhcp requests/responses to the router when it asks for the IP address. What does 'hostname' report? and 'hostnamectl' report as the hostname? On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 10

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-10 Thread Roger Heflin
Run this: systemd-analyze critical-chain network-online.target On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:20 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Samuel Sieb writes: > > > I have a similar problem where the wait-online service suddenly started > > taking a very long time and then failing. My system that used to boot i

Re: tigervnc server configuration limitation

2024-02-25 Thread Roger Heflin
x11vnc works at least with x11 (not sure about wayland) and can be run on a running session to create a vnc connection to that live session. I used it to remotely view/control my active laptop screen. On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 9:11 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I'm not sure when Fedora switched to

Re: PCI-E to PS2

2024-02-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 6:35 AM George N. White III wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 9:08 PM ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Fedora 39 >> >> I am trying to find a PCI-E 1x to 2xPS2 adapter >> that actually works. >> >> The only one I could find was >> https://www.amazon

Re: OT: what is an NSC?

2024-01-28 Thread Roger Heflin
Google PCI (PCI is the term for the credit card environment rules) and NSC and it comes back as "network security control". So firewall rules/ACL's and possibly network inspection devices and anything else that is a network control. On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 5:04 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >

Re: gzip eps

2024-01-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:24 AM Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > Hello, > > I am attaching an eps file > (NoDressedrecoil.eps) > You could do > cp -a NoDressedrecoil.eps No_Dressedrecoil.eps > cp -a NoDressedrecoil.eps No_Dressed_recoil.eps > > and then > gzip -f No_Dressedrecoil.eps > gzip -f N

Re: VMware woes

2024-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 4:06 AM ja wrote: > > > I had host crashes with some kernels and just stayed with an older kernel. > The latest kernels are now working fine with WS 17.5.0 > It was really a kernel problem not a VMware problem. > See > https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/ma

Re: Test serial port application

2023-12-24 Thread Roger Heflin
If you have the arduino app attach to the port and then exit the arduino port (once it has setup the port speed to work in its serial viewer), then cat from the port works and echo to the port works (while the cat is reading from it). My arduino program takes commands from serial, and outputs stat

Re: Function Key becomes permanently pressed after a couple of minutes after boot (temporary fix: reboot)

2023-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
The fn key is (on or off) is not controlled by Linux. The bios and/or keyboard owns/controls it internally. I don't think an OS can even see the fn key exists and/or control/see its state. So you have a hardware problem (key random locks), or a hardware mis-understanding (some combination set i

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-12-11 Thread Roger Heflin
t; > On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > >> Hardware issues do not typically leave the machine up (except for > >> intel/amd throttling down when getting hot, but even that will crash > >> if it

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Roger Heflin
This is not an out of memory crash. This is a code bug in firefox and/or in the shared library being called by firefox. Usually this is related to something unexpected/unhandled in the data stream being processed incorrectly. I have had a few of these firefox crashes since around Nov 20. Hopefu

Re: 6.6.x kernels do not boot successfully

2023-12-08 Thread Roger Heflin
> > Starting systemd-fsck-root.service - File System Check on > > /dev/disk/by-uuid/8ff57a6b-2a55-4e9d-870d-855d-855d68d35bee... > > [ OK ] Starting systemd-fsck-root.service - File System Check on > > /dev/disk/by-uuid/8ff57a6b-2a55-4e9d-870d-855d-855d68d35bee. > > > > I have to reboot a

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Roger Heflin
I use rsync with a --backup-dir=/${DIR}/backup/${MONTH}/${DIRDATE}/ and a bunch of --excludes for directories/files that I don't need backed up. It rsync's and any replaced files get copied into the backup-dir (so an incremental backup of sorts). And every so often (usually when low on space) I

Re: USB-C cabling

2023-12-08 Thread Roger Heflin
There is a lot of spec weirdness on "usb3" cables.You have to carefully read the description on the cable, and sometimes the reviews. I have seen usb3 charging cables (data is usb2). I have seen usb3 charging (3A or 5A) + 5G, and usb3 charging + 10G. So usb-c to usb-c any length longer than

Re: [solved] my function keys for sound up and down do not work, brightness does something else

2023-12-03 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 1:32 AM Frederic Muller wrote: > > On 03/12/2023 14:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 12/2/23 20:04, Frederic Muller wrote: > >> As the title says some of my functions key do not work or not > >> properly. I checked in keyboard customized shortcuts, media, all are > >> disabled.

Re: network problem

2023-12-02 Thread Roger Heflin
> > I cannot log in, but the menu offered by the modem does not show any relevant > settings. > > > You might also test a device on wifi and/or login to the router and > > send a test ping from inside the router with a large size. > > WiFi is turned off on the modem, but I might give it a try. > >

Re: network problem

2023-12-02 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 3:16 PM wrote: > > On 3/12/23 00:43, Roger Heflin wrote: > > My experience with the MTU being wrong is that often nothing works to > > inform the sending end that the MTU is wrong. > > > > The MTU being wrong (and below 1500) is not an expected

Re: network problem

2023-12-02 Thread Roger Heflin
not work often "works" well enough for developers to think it works. What kind of devices do you have between your linux node and the providers network? Ie the modem and any routers. On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 7:43 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > My experience with the MTU being wro

Re: network problem

2023-12-02 Thread Roger Heflin
My experience with the MTU being wrong is that often nothing works to inform the sending end that the MTU is wrong. The MTU being wrong (and below 1500) is not an expected/handled condition for the TCP stack. meaning it will break for anything that uses a MTU above the size, especially if the wro

Re: network problem

2023-12-02 Thread Roger Heflin
There is nothing wrong with leaving the mtu lower. At worst you need one more packet. Knowing hardware providers and internet providers. "no one else is reporting this" means we have not noticed that anyone else reported this, and/or there are only 2 others using this and/or we have not put tog

Re: NFS Mount Point Write Failure

2023-11-30 Thread Roger Heflin
you specified "nfs" as the mount. And that should mount nfs4 with tcp, but mounted with nfs and udp so whatever is on the other end is old and/or has tcp/nfsv4 disabled. That being said, I don't know that users and/or owner options *WORK* for network disks. Those options likely do not also work

Re: vlc alternative?

2023-11-29 Thread Roger Heflin
if you installed their software then it could be doing anything. it is very likely that they do not have anyone still around who remembers what the software does. You would have to look at it and see if it is a bunch of scripts and/or how it works. I use my HDhomeruns via mythtv. The hardes

Re: vlc alternative?

2023-11-27 Thread Roger Heflin
ps ax | grep -E 'tty2|pts/21' and see what is starting it on those terminals. On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 7:19 PM Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:14 PM ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: >> >> On 11/27/23 09:29, Alex wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I'm using vlc with my hdhomerun TV tuner, but

Re: vlc alternative?

2023-11-27 Thread Roger Heflin
ffplay is command line and seems to be able play streams. I think mplayer works for streams but the format of the connection stream may be odd. And if you are using an hdhomerun you could just wire it up to mythtv and let it record the stream(s) and then you watch it a few seconds behind via myth

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-25 Thread Roger Heflin
Only if freezing includes the machine crashing.If the machine is not crashing and it recovers from the freeze without a reboot/power cycle then we are back to memory/paging being a problem. Note I have seen swapping act as badly. And it may only be every so often that it runs out of ram.M

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Roger Heflin
; and make sure you only see the grep. On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 4:43 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > OOn Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > It means likely it crashed while it had the profile locked and the > > program is too stupid to reclaim the lost lock. >

Re: Python code error in F39, but not in F38

2023-11-24 Thread Roger Heflin
I have seen the bug in old code that a new compiler optimization/library fix exposed. I have seen code unload a loadable library and then turn around and call a function in the unloaded library (it worked since the unload was a NOOP), but broke when the vendor removed/fixed the NOOP and made the

Re: chromium will not start

2023-11-24 Thread Roger Heflin
It means likely it crashed while it had the profile locked and the program is too stupid to reclaim the lost lock. That seems to be a really common bug in a lot of programs. They test the lock/unlock and make sure other separate copies won't use the profile when another process is using it, but d

Re: Software to view thermal camera images on Fedora 39

2023-11-20 Thread Roger Heflin
You might install guvcview and uvcdynctrl. There are not a lot of webcam software packages that I have found that work well outside that the simple tool above or a way more complicated obs-studio. On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 7:06 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I purchased a Topdon The

Re: Obscure rsyslog question on remote logging

2023-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
I have seen syslog messages over 4096 chars have the first part go to the right file and the overflow go to the default. Is smart sending a large message? The other file would have a long smart message at the same time and this would be overflow. On Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 6:51 PM Tom Horsley wrote:

Re: Strange daily reboot - SOLVED

2023-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
: https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/wake-linux-rtc-alarm-clock/ On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 4:29 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 16:25 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > > No, we both mean use the bios timed wake up to wake up your machine > > instead o

Re: Strange daily reboot - SOLVED

2023-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
ick O'Callaghan: > > > On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 07:08 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > > You might look in the bios. Some of the bioses have an option to > > > > turn on at a specific time each day. > > > > > > The plug has no accessible BIOS,

Re: Strange daily reboot - SOLVED

2023-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
Given it is the same time each day, I am guessing "feature" rather than bug. It may also be that the power plug resets/reboots itself once a day and that the reboot does a quick power blip that is quick enough to not matter for non-computer devices. Device makers love to find and implement half-a

Re: Strange daily reboot - SOLVED

2023-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
You might look in the bios. Some of the bioses have an option to turn on at a specific time each day. On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 4:00 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 15:10 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 11/15/23 15:02, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2023-11-15 at

Re: Strange daily reboot

2023-11-15 Thread Roger Heflin
You might try not doing a hibernate and see if it still goes at 8am. That way you at least know it is not related to hibernate. Cron, or something in the bios. I would have thought that if you had the bios set to power up the node at time X then it would be smart enough not to reboot/recycle the

Re: tigervnc won't remove

2023-11-15 Thread Roger Heflin
go via users wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> How do I fix this? > >>>> > >>>> You might try just removing tigervnc and letting it remove the > >>>> no-longer > >>>> needed dependencies. > >>> > >&g

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