Post-F42-Upgrade Error Messages

2025-04-28 Thread Tim Evans
Since doing F41->F42 upgrades on a couple of my systems, I'm getting error messages (on both) like these when doing dnf upgrades. They reference different specific reasons, however, for the failure to merge. >>> Running trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet: filesystem-0:3.18-36.fc42.x86_64 /usr/

Re: DNF Openjdk Update Issue in F41

2025-02-11 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/11/25 4:23 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: The java-17-openjdk package is deprecated and may no longer receive updates. Since f42 install adoptium-temurin-java-repository and install temurin-17-jre https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ThirdPartyLegacyJdks#adoptium- temurin-java-repository I

Re: tracker-miner Dragging Down System

2025-01-06 Thread Tim Evans
On 1/6/25 2:28 PM, Robin Laing wrote: It is a logical name for what it does.  It tracks data on your system by mining the metadata that it can process.  It is part of the process of trying to be helpful. I have found it to be an issue and a "tool" that I don't use.  I removed it as soon as I

Re: tracker-miner Dragging Down System

2025-01-06 Thread Tim Evans
On 1/6/25 1:00 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 17:50, Jeffrey Walton <mailto:noloa...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM Tim Evans mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: > > Have noticed very heavy sluggishness in my F-41 system

tracker-miner Dragging Down System

2025-01-06 Thread Tim Evans
Have noticed very heavy sluggishness in my F-41 system response over the past week or so. Totally idle system showing steady 1.0+ system load average; lightly used system showing 2.0+. Some apps' response delayed 30 seconds or longer. Top shows tracker-miner-fs-3 steady at 18-35% CPU systemc

Re: Formatted Final Output from dnf5 update

2024-12-17 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/16/24 4:31 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/12/24 12:51, Tim Evans wrote: Thanks. It's not the width of the terminal that I'm concerned with; it's the nice summary of what dnf just did that I miss. I've just done a dnf upgrade and the display at the end showing what

Re: Formatted Final Output from dnf5 update

2024-12-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/15/24 6:31 PM, Garry T. Williams wrote: On Thursday, December 12, 2024 8:56:43 AM Eastern Standard Time Tim Evans wrote: How can I get the old formatted final output of 'dnf update' with dnf5, without having to use dnf4? Standard output of dnf5 is, IMHO, a mess. It helps a lo

Formatted Final Output from dnf5 update

2024-12-12 Thread Tim Evans
How can I get the old formatted final output of 'dnf update' with dnf5, without having to use dnf4? Standard output of dnf5 is, IMHO, a mess. I want something like this back: ... Running scriptlet: libdovi-3.3.0-3.fc41.x86_64 16/16 Upgraded: gnome-software-47.2-2.fc41.x86_64 gnome-s

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot--SOLVED

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/3/24 5:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:45:30 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: Se, we find where the bogus domain name comes from. AND, changing it to my actual domain name, then running the sendmail queue clears everything out of the queue. But will the network software put back

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot--SOLVED

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/3/24 4:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 10:04 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: Jul 03 09:45:07 kestrel sendmail[1526]: 45T7V2ou003307: to=, delay=4+06:14:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=9500566, relay=kestrel.mynetworksettings.com., dsn=4.4.1, stat=Deferred: Connection

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/3/24 11:25 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 12:16 PM George N. White III <mailto:gnw...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:43 AM Tom Horsley mailto:horsley1...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 10:04:30 -0400

Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
[I posted a similar question a couple of months back, but mistakenly thought I had resolved the issue] One of my F40 systems fails to deliver local, system-generated e-mails (logfiles and such) UNTIL it gets rebooted. sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64 is installed for local e-mail handling. On r

Re: MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/20/24 10:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed.  So, I decided to reboot. Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC.  It came with two disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre

Re: MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/20/24 3:35 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed.  So, I decided to

MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-20 Thread Tim Evans
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to reboot. Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre-installed and an empty second HDD. I D

Re: F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-19 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/17/24 11:40 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail.  That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line '

F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-17 Thread Tim Evans
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx'.) External mail is handled by my hosting pro

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-05-09 13:59, Tim Evans wrote: Since (I think) the gnome-software app is flat-pack based, have I messed anything up by running its upgrade instead of the dnf/rpm-based one? There are no flatpacks installed by default.  The gnome-software app is

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 4:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-05-09 12:50, Tim Evans wrote: Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade.  'dnt clean' does not remove these. dnf s

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, The key is automatically imported when followin

Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade. 'dnt clean' does not remove these. Is it safe to manually clear out this subdirectory? (FWIW, I tried the now-recommended GUI softwar

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/26/24 16:21, Beartooth wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote: It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? If you know the path

Re: Failed to start jobs message from today's F39 update

2024-03-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/13/24 14:42, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/13/2024 12:33 PM, Mike Wright wrote: I couldn't find any way to pass grep options to -g but grep itself has -A and -B for showing "n" number of lines After or Before the matched context. If you need to pass options to grep, consider piping the output of

Re: star office

2024-02-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/22/24 16:40, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: No to ask too stupid a question, but do we have an RPM of Star Office in the repos? Seems like we have the libraries, but not the main program # dnf list | grep -i star | grep -i office libstaroffice.x86_64  0.0.7-11.fc39 @fedora StarOffice is

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-21 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/20/24 08:57, Tim Evans wrote: On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:     The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;     httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompted to

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing; httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompted to log in to the server admi

New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but wanted a broader look ] I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the existing backups). The old server wrote its data (including its

Print Errors with HP-1300 LaserJet

2024-02-16 Thread Tim Evans
Recently connected a very old HP-1300 LaserJet printer to my Fedora 39 workstation, via USB cable. CUPS found and configured the printer as "HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended)." Print jobs are okay, but with every job I get an extra page, with the following error message printed

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-09 Thread Tim Evans
, it On 12/8/23 12:56, Tim Evans wrote: Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS). Now, with a brand new laptop, with fre

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/8/23 13:18, John Mellor wrote: btrfs send?  Its very similar in operation to zfs send on Solaris and Freebsd.  The data stream can be pushed over ssh to another machine running btrfs receive pretty easily.  Maybe follow https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/btrfs-create-snapshot-and-sen

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/8/23 13:16, Roger Heflin wrote: 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. Thanks, Roger. Actually, I have a dim recollection of having set up a thing called 'rnsapshot' to a NAS appli

btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Tim Evans
Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS). Now, with a brand new laptop, with fresh install using btrfs filesystems, I find 'dump' doe

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/2/23 15:48, Tim Evans wrote: Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how

Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Tim Evans
Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows partition to m

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/21/23 20:12, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/10/23 21:59, Neal Becker wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 7:46 PM Tim Evans wrote: On 10/10/23 18:38, Tim Evans wrote: > Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for > the past week or so, h

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/10/23 18:38, Tim Evans wrote: Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome.  Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the latest version (google-chrome-stable-115

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/10/23 19:11, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Tim Evans said: Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the la

Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the latest version (google-chrome-stable-115.0.5790.110-1.x86_64). If you click this button, it tells y

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-24 Thread Tim Evans
On 8/24/23 17:01, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, I want remote siblings to be able to upload large numbers of photos from their iPhones (using my existing ZeroTier network as the preferred connection mechanism) to my Fedora server or Fedora workstation - so I can do a lot of processi

Re: Off topic -- but a slow list day

2023-08-02 Thread Tim Evans
On 8/2/23 13:35, bruce wrote: Hi. Doing some research on email list providers?. Most seem to charge based on emails sent, as well as the size of the contact/email list. Does anyone have any experience dealing with any of these providers? And, if you do, does anyone have any pointers to "cheap"

Re: Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-31 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/30/23 22:45, John Mellor wrote: You don't mention what GUI is installed.  Assuming that you are using the default Wayland and not X, per a recommendation from one of the Fedora people, I installed thunderbird-wayland package and then changed the app startup to use thunderbird-wayland inst

Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-29 Thread Tim Evans
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue. When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-cli

Re: nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/4/23 14:37, Neal Becker wrote: Just updated my server F37->F38.  The display doesn't start (black screen after boot). journalctl shows many messages like: May 04 14:32:00 nbecker8 kernel: nouveau :01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of FAULT at 616330 [ PRIVRING ] nouveau?  This was r

Re: Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 4/26/23 17:13, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:21 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: Tim Evans wrote: This was an in-place dnf upgrade. The existing setting in Gnome shouldn't have been changed, right? The default did change which affects the gdm user. Unless you're l

Re: Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 4/26/23 14:12, Barry wrote: On 26 Apr 2023, at 19:04, Tim Evans wrote: Upgraded my firewall machine F37->F38 today, with no apparent errors or issues... EXCEPT that I found it on power suspend twice in the first hour after finishing the upgrade. Checked power settings and fo

Power Suspend Automatically On in F38?

2023-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
Upgraded my firewall machine F37->F38 today, with no apparent errors or issues... EXCEPT that I found it on power suspend twice in the first hour after finishing the upgrade. Checked power settings and found "Automatic Suspend" ON and set to 15 minutes' idle time. ___

Re: F37 - dnf update error

2023-04-25 Thread Tim Evans
On 4/25/23 08:21, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Still no fix on this. How do I notify the proper people about this?  For me, it is gthumb that is triggering the dependency. As someone else pointed out: # dnf -y --exclude='*heif*' update ___ users mailin

Re: Chattering Keyboard?

2023-03-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/5/23 14:36, Tim Evans wrote: $ uname -a Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar  3 17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Looks  like I have a chattering keyboard.  Idle terminal looks like someone's repeatedly hitting .  Ditto on virtual ter

Chattering Keyboard?

2023-03-05 Thread Tim Evans
$ uname -a Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 3 17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Looks like I have a chattering keyboard. Idle terminal looks like someone's repeatedly hitting . Ditto on virtual terminal. keystrokes being duplicated in gra

Re: WiFi flakiness after recent upgrades

2022-03-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/20/22 10:50, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I have an elderly Dell XPS 13 laptop (L321x); it seems that after a recent software upgrade, the Wifi has become intermittant. As a fallback, I have a USB ethernet connection to cabled switch that is delivering steadily. All other wifi devices

Re: View HEIC format photes?

2022-02-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/4/22 08:31, Todd Chester via users wrote: Hi All, Does Fedora have a viewer that will import an Apple HEIC format photo? Imagemagick https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Hundreds of These on Recent F35 Kernel Updates

2021-12-16 Thread Tim Evans
Have noticed hundreds and hundreds of messages like this over the past two or three F35 kernel updates (via dnf): hardlink: cannot link /usr/src/kernels/5.15.7-200.fc35.x86_64+debug/./net/mptcp/Kconfig to /usr/src/kernels/5.15.5-200.fc35.x86_64+debug/./net/mptcp/Kconfig.hardlink-temporary: Fi

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/23/21 13:58, Roger Heflin wrote: This is the magic decoder ring web page. The most recent cards that I think were kicked out are anything with a GK* in the code name (kepler). So any kepler cards seem to stop at 470.X. And GF* stopped a while ago at 340 I think. If your card just stopp

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 19:32, Ed Greshko wrote: Actually, the exclude was needed when the akmod-nvidia-340xx package was in the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.  Without the exclude the akmod-nvidia-340xx would get downgraded to the broken version. I just removed the exclude from my configuration which

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 18:59, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/21 3:36 PM, Tim Evans wrote: exclude=akmod-nvidia Why do you want to exclude that if you have an akmod-nvidia package installed?  Don't you want to get updates? As we have been discussing, older Nvidia cards aren't supported with curre

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 17:42, Ed Greshko wrote: If akmod-nvidia-340xx installed and works.  Check /var/cache/akmods/akmods.log for output such as All good. It would be exclude=akmod-nvidia-340xx Great, thanks. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/22/21 16:47, Ed Greshko wrote: GeForce GT 730 is supported by akmod-nvidia-340xx. I am not sure if this has been pushed to rpmfusion-nonfree.  But the version that works with the newer kernels is nvidia-340xx-kmod-340.108-15.fc35. You may have to "dnf --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-up

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/13/21 11:10, Ed Greshko wrote: To switch back to nouveau, just "dnf erase akmod-nvidia-39xx". This will revert the changes to the linux boot parameters. # dnf remove akmod-nvidia-470.74-1.fc35.x86_64 Dependencies resolved.

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/13/21 10:01, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 13, 2021, at 09:52, Tim Evans wrote: What would be the process to do this, Ed? That is, how to switch from Nvidia to nouveau? You don’t need to do anything. That’s what is installed by default, and is part of the Linux kernel. Thanks

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/13/21 09:15, Ed Greshko wrote: On 13/11/2021 22:07, Robert McBroom via users wrote: The other alternative is to use the nouveau driver. What would be the process to do this, Ed? That is, how to switch from Nvidia to nouveau? Thanks. ___ us

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 9/15/21 10:19 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was 78.something.) Some are just annoying; one is major. First, annoying. Starting a new message, the Send

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-16 Thread Tim Evans
On 9/16/21 15:41, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 17/09/2021 01:52, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 9/16/21 12:55 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: >>> What exactly do you mean by "I'm set up"? >>> If a compose an original new message to >>> not-myself-but-to-val

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-16 Thread Tim Evans
active and (2) on a reply, the Send button is greyed out, but clearing Bcc doesn't do anything to the Send button. In BOTH cases, the Send button--whether it appears active or not--does nothing. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
, I can now send messages; address auto-complete fails, so the address book data would appear to be inaccessible. Perhaps version 91 did some conversion on the old address book that can't be reversed by downgrading. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 9/15/21 8:19 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >> I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came >> down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was >> 78.something.)

Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Evans
and can't be opened for browsing. FLASH: after all this Send totally fails, even though button appears active, so this saved draft was called up and sent from phone. -- Tim Evans|5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Evans
t happens. Interesting. That sounds superficially similar to Android's A/B system update method. Is there work being done on getting this into Fedora? Sounds like Sun's Live Update, circa 2002. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Evans
te that this runaway CPU-usage thing has just come up in the past week or 10 days, so wonder if something has changed in packagekit? And, FWIW, I fought and lost my first UNIX/Windows battle 30 years ago. sorry to have crossed into this No Man's Land once again... -- Tim Evans

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim Evans
e.org/hughsie/2019/02/14/packagekit-is-dead-long-live-well-something-else/ What's the benefit of letting packagekit chew up CPU here, even if I implement the limits Chris suggests? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills

packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-21 Thread Tim Evans
g going on with the system other than Thunderbird e-mail and Chrome browser. This seems to go on, with CPU percentage growing over time, and it rebooting cures this, but it comes back after the system has slept overnight (lid closed). packagekit is gnome-packagekit-common-3.32.0-7.fc34.x86

Re: IP-routing fails after upgrade F33->F34

2021-06-12 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/29/21 12:54 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/4/21 8:33 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: Hi All, I'm using one of my Fedora machines as a router between 2 networks. The two network devices on the machine are called enp0s25 and tun0. On F33 it worked as expected. However, after an upgrade to F34 It

Re: IP-routing fails after upgrade F33->F34

2021-05-29 Thread Tim Evans
Jouk, have you resolved this? Anyone else seen it? Wanting to upgrade my F33 router/NAT/firewall system. Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394

Re: Trying to set up samba SERVER

2021-05-18 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/18/21 12:44 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: @Dell-Studio ~]# systemctl start smb.service Failed to start smb.service: Unit smb.service not found. Indeed smb.service is not in /usr/lib/systemd/system systemctl enable... -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394

Re: IP-routing fails after upgrade F33->F34

2021-05-07 Thread Tim Evans
Jouk, when you say "upgrade to F34," by what means did you do the upgrade? Specifically, did you: # dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=34 # dnf system-upgrade reboot Or did you use some other method? -- Tim Evans | 5

Re: systemd-resolved floods the logs

2021-01-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 1/5/21 11:10 AM, Jerome Lille wrote: This machine uses a VPN service that is always on. The file /etc/resolver.conf has just one line with the nameserver from the VPN You do mean /etc/resolv.conf, right? -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court

'smbclient' Crashing on Fedora 33

2020-11-22 Thread Tim Evans
seconds then reports a core dump. Gnome shell then prompted me to file a bugzilla, which I have done. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900232 "[abrt] samba-client: remove_do_list_queue_head(): smbclient killed by SIGSEGV") Anybody have further suggestions, please? -- Tim

Re: Thunderbird changes to tree view - added icons taking up space

2020-10-12 Thread Tim Evans
ector style"? Just takes up screen space and distracting.  Anyone know how to turn these off? +1 -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing lis

Re: Extensions Panel on Gnome Menu Doesn't Do Anything--SOLVED

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/4/20 10:44 AM, Tim Evans wrote: The drop-down gnome shell menu in F32 (upper right hand corner of the desktop) has a new "Extensions" panel now.  It's very prominent, with an extra large @-like icon. Unfortunately, it does nothing other than change from black to blue whe

Re: Extensions Panel on Gnome Menu Doesn't Do Anything

2020-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/4/20 11:54 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:45 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: The drop-down gnome shell menu in F32 (upper right hand corner of the desktop) has a new "Extensions" panel now.  It's very prominent,

Extensions Panel on Gnome Menu Doesn't Do Anything

2020-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
something else? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: Move files into storage device -

2020-04-04 Thread Tim Evans
u might try SMB connections. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Password trouble

2020-02-24 Thread Tim Evans
ated you wanted to change root's password. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: NFS not connecting -

2019-12-07 Thread Tim Evans
ecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) /nfs4exports/data 192.168.2.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) My mount command:  [root@Workstation-1 bobg]# mount 192.168.2.128:home1 /media/nfs Wouldn't this be? mount 192.168.2.128:/nfs4exports/home1 /media/nfs --

Re: Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen [SOLVED]

2019-11-21 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/20/19 1:51 PM, Tim Evans wrote: I reported this at the time I upgraded my two systems to F30, and find that it's still true with F31. On my main (desktop) machine, there are two users, one of which (me) is flagged as the administrative user; the other is a mere mortal.  My useri

Re: Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen

2019-11-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/20/19 2:27 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/19 10:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: While the extra click on "Not shown" is not a major big deal, I'm unable to figure out how to flip-flop the two userids on the systems so that the primary user appears on the login screen. What is

Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen

2019-11-20 Thread Tim Evans
reated userid is displayed as the default login on the login screen. While the extra click on "Not shown" is not a major big deal, I'm unable to figure out how to flip-flop the two userids on the systems so that the primary user appears on the login screen. Suggestions/discussion

Re: Samba broken pipe -

2019-07-26 Thread Tim Evans
16 I will continue looking at permissions. Thanks for the response, Check your free disk space. I remember logins with similar errors from the olden days on AIX. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills

Iptables->Firewalld Upgrade: Really Necessary?

2019-07-19 Thread Tim Evans
, and disabling firewalld looks very simple and quick. Why shouldn't I do it? If necessary, I can post an anonymized copy of the iptables ruleset on pastbin, but really looking for higher level advice. Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-29 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/17/19 11:00 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have experienced similar issues with two different F29->F30 upgrades via dnf.  Although what happened wasn't identical on both upgrades, the results were the same: After upgrade/reboot, the GDM login screen does not show the primary (previously

nvidia-kmod Build Fails on Recent F30 Debug Kernels

2019-06-29 Thread Tim Evans
ssage say? The fallback was skipped or the condition check was skipped? Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864 ___ users

Re: Hplip.

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/28/19 12:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/28/19 11:52 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 6/28/19 11:24 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: Hi all , It seems the whole world has problems with this piece of beautiful software . Hp-setup functionates fine : After the setup run HP-check and be sure

Re: Hplip.

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Evans
3, in _find_and_load File "", line 965, in _find_and_load_unlocked ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ui5' $ -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 __

Re: GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-17 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/17/19 3:42 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 17.06.19 17:00, Tim Evans wrote: of flag, but they are apparently created on login, rather than being permanent.  On both systems the primary userid (UID 1000) is shown as: SystemAccount=true Have you checked /etc/login.defs? Thank you, Ulf. Don&#

GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-17 Thread Tim Evans
mAccount=false Modification time on these files is same as the userid's last login, and manually changing the SystemAccount flag has no effect; it's set back on next login. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/15/19 12:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/19 8:59 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Yes, several times.  I have also successively: (1) restored the contents of /var/lib/AccountsService/users from my last F29 backup; (2) moved the newly created userid's file completely out of that directory; a

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/15/19 11:21 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/19 6:59 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/14/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:07 PM, Tim Evans wrote: # cat tkevans [User] Language= XSession= Icon=/home/tkevans/.face SystemAccount=true There's the problem, change that to false.  I w

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:07 PM, Tim Evans wrote: # cat tkevans [User] Language= XSession= Icon=/home/tkevans/.face SystemAccount=true There's the problem, change that to false.  I wonder if this is such an old install (originally) that the userid is below

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 7:28 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:04 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/14/19 6:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Make sure you have the package "chrome-gnome-shell" installed. Now installed.  Have rebooted, and nothing changed.  While accesssing the extensions home page, Goo

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 5:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 1:25 PM, Tim Evans wrote: First (minor), after final reboot, I was forced to create a new user, which is now the default user on the login screen.  Existing userid is still there, accessible via the "not listed?" link. Everything is

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 6:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 2:46 PM, Tim Evans wrote: The applications menu drop down is an (apparently-not-working-in-F30) Gnome extension.  Browsing to extensions.gnome.com generates "We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system" error. Gnome-twea

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