Re: Upgrade of F30 to F31 Appears to Have not Worked Correctly

2020-01-29 Thread William Henry
This might be useless but: I have updated many times successfully until F31. My desktop just wasn't working the same after the F31 upgrade and my oft used productivity shortcuts including Super key weren't working. I spent lots of time checking Tweaks tool etc. Then I checked the settings (cog) o

F29-30 upgrade.

2019-05-06 Thread William Henry
Hi all, Anyone experience this: really easy and smooth upgrade but can’t login? I can see it’s accepting the login (both my userid and root) but it just cycles back to the login screen. Been traveling and haven’t had a chance to try other login methods and sniff around logs to see what’s happeni

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-08 Thread William Henry
m 03:08 Uhr: > >> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 12:44:02AM +, William Henry wrote: >> > Have you tried rm or mv of ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. ? >> >> I don't have that file/folder. >> >> I simply hope some upgrade (xorg, radeon, or whatever) will

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-07 Thread William Henry
Have you tried rm or mv of ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. ? Sometimes new gnome doesn’t support older extensions. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575229 Once you can successfully login and launch gnome, you can add back in your fav extensions. William On Mon, May 7, 2018 a

Re: Looking for a printer

2015-12-31 Thread William Henry
1:42 PM, Thomas Cameron > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hehehe. > > Do you have the M251nw? > >> On 12/31/2015 01:47 PM, William Henry wrote: >> I have a HP Laserjet Pro 200 and it meets all your criteria. >> >> Y

Re: Looking for a printer

2015-12-31 Thread William Henry
I have a HP Laserjet Pro 200 and it meets all your criteria. You will change cartridges less often but they are expensive. William P.S. I had no idea tweakers were that into ink cartridges! Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Thomas Cameron > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Fedora 19 screensaver

2013-10-28 Thread William Henry
- Original Message - > On 10/26/2013 04:40 AM, William Henry wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > >> Roger bigpond.com> writes: > >> > >>> Since updating last week the Fedora 19 screensaver is causing me grief. > >>>

Re: Fedora 19 screensaver

2013-10-25 Thread William Henry
- Original Message - > Roger bigpond.com> writes: > > > Since updating last week the Fedora 19 screensaver is causing me grief. > > I have it off and time delay set to never but it blanks the screen and > > defaults to a time display after 30+ minutes , on any key press it gives > > the

Re: no audio on kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-24 Thread William Henry
My audio is back: 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 William - Original Message - > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 15:07 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 19 October 2012 07:24, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > On 10/18/2012 11:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > >> > > >> I've got working audio now on 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_6

Re: no audio on kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-18 Thread William Henry
- Original Message - > After updating a Lenovo T430S to kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64, the > system > doesn't generate sound. Same here. Just updated it and audio input/output on my Lenovo X220 is gone. Best, William > > dmesg from a working kernel is here: > http://paste2.org/p/2332429

Re: Install failed after packages installed - no f17 on grub

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
I did a fresh install and am now going through the painful restore backup process. My worst upgrade experience. William On May 31, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/31/2012 02:16 PM, William Henry wrote: >> I actually think that I am still running the F16 kernel pos

Re: Install failed after packages installed - no f17 on grub

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
I actually think that I am still running the F16 kernel post upgrade! I think I failed and need to just install from a LIVE CD unless someone has any suggestions. William On May 31, 2012, at 2:23 PM, William Henry wrote: > My grub is still messed up though. > > William > &g

Re: Install failed after packages installed - no f17 on grub

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
My grub is still messed up though. William On May 31, 2012, at 1:34 PM, William Henry wrote: > Well no feedback from the community :-( > > So I ran preupgrade from F16 again on the hunch it would fix up the Rpmdb and > should then do a pretty fast install as all the packages

Re: Install failed after packages installed - no f17 on grub

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
. Someone should look at the JBoss-as package issue. Also perhaps allow people to skip offending application packages in the install rather than force an exit. Regards, William On May 31, 2012, at 12:02 PM, William Henry wrote: > To understand what happened see my email regarding the JBoss fail

Install failed after packages installed - no f17 on grub

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
To understand what happened see my email regarding the JBoss failure. It all started there. Basically because of that failure I tried to force the JBoss-as package install under f16 kernel boot 3/4 ways through the f17 install. After successfully installing all the rest of the packages using f

Re: F17 install failure on JBoss-as-7.1.1-2.fc17.noarch

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
n run preupgrade again. I doubt that's a good solution. William On May 31, 2012, at 8:38 AM, William Henry wrote: > Both upgrade F16, preupgrade to 17 went fine. Install failed on JBoss-as > package. > > Have to exit the installer. :-( retried a few times and several more >

F17 install failure on JBoss-as-7.1.1-2.fc17.noarch

2012-05-31 Thread William Henry
Both upgrade F16, preupgrade to 17 went fine. Install failed on JBoss-as package. Have to exit the installer. :-( retried a few times and several more packages were installed but then it hits JBoss-as. Wish I could just skip. I wonder will I have the option to go back to 16 and remove offend

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-01 Thread William Henry
+1. Gotten used to Gnome 3 and now love it. Still trying to figure some things out. (Why has my Xchat no pull down menus anymore? I can't modify anything.) William - Original Message - > On 09/01/2011 04:15 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: > > > > > > > You'll see... > > > > When Red hat 8

Re: Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

2011-01-31 Thread William Henry
I've used Blender on Fedora before and got it working. (For a demo with Condor - I'm no Blender expert) Let me know if there is something I can help with. William - Original Message - > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 13:56 +, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > > Mairin did you manage to get B

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread William Henry
I have the Compiz and the Emerald Theme (and Ciaro dock) and my OpenOffice is now working fine (since I deleted that tmp file). William - Original Message - On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Aaron Konstam < akons...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: I am not sure what you are doing but I am

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread William Henry
Hi Harish, Yes this worked thanks! William - Original Message - > William - > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry > wrote: > > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not > > crashing but my OO won't

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread William Henry
My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the Christmas break. William - Original Message - The subject line pretty well summarizes it. I've got a vanilla Fedora 14 box, with the default theme and

Linux Format mag. article F14 vs ubuntu

2010-12-10 Thread William Henry
I had bought the (expensive) Linux Format mag. while on a trip recently for an article comparing Fedora and ubuntu. I managed to track down a version of a Linux Format mag article (ubuntu vs fedora) that doesn't require a subscription with Linux Format. http://www.techradar.com/news/software/

Re: F13 Firefox new tab issue

2010-06-23 Thread William Henry
- "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:31 -0400, William Henry wrote: > > Why should I have to go through all of this on an upgrade? That's > not > > good. I'd prefer to figure out what's wrong between F12 and F13. > &

Re: F13 Firefox new tab issue

2010-06-23 Thread William Henry
- "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 19:07 -0700, JD wrote: > > As far as your bookmarks and history, you can go ahead and ccopy > them > > over > > from ~/.mozilla.save/firefox// > > and copy them into ~/.mozilla.save/firefox// > > Plugins should usually be installed in /

Re: F13 Firefox new tab issue

2010-06-23 Thread William Henry
- "JD" wrote: > On 06/22/2010 07:24 PM, William Henry was caught red-handed while > writing:: > > - "JD" wrote: > > > > > >> On 06/22/2010 08:41 AM, William Henry was caught red-handed while > >> writing:: > >>

Re: F13 Firefox new tab issue

2010-06-22 Thread William Henry
- "JD" wrote: > On 06/22/2010 08:41 AM, William Henry was caught red-handed while > writing:: > > Is anyone else seeing long delays with using a new tab in Firefox on > F13? > > > > Creating a new tab causes that tab to hand for several seconds and >

Re: F13 Firefox new tab issue

2010-06-22 Thread William Henry
- "Michael Cronenworth" wrote: > William Henry wrote: > > Is anyone else seeing long delays with using a new tab in Firefox on > F13? > > No. > > > Is there some package or patch I'm missing? > > Open a terminal and start Firefox via: &

F13 Firefox new tab issue

2010-06-22 Thread William Henry
Is anyone else seeing long delays with using a new tab in Firefox on F13? Creating a new tab causes that tab to hand for several seconds and even turn grey. Then trying to use the tab for the first time either by trying to type/paste a URL or entering something in the search tab causes further

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread William Henry
- "François Cami" wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:17 -0800 > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On 03/11/2010 12:47 PM, François Cami wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) > > > William Henry wrote: > > > >

KVM and screen savers

2010-03-10 Thread William Henry
On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in. That is until I press CTRL-ALT to take focus from the RHEL instance back to my Fedora 12. Then the screen saver