Re: Screen saver no longer working

2024-10-25 Thread Andreas Fournier via users
On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 07:42 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > What desktop environment are you using? I've been having problems > with xfce for quite a while. I'm using fully updated Fedora 40 with Gnome version 46 -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.

Screen saver no longer working

2024-10-25 Thread Andreas Fournier via users
After a recent update I noticed that the screen no longer goes dark after a time of inactivity. I checked the settings and they are as before.  Any way to get it back working? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Weakness in disk encryption?

2023-04-18 Thread Andreas Fournier
I just read this article about weaknesses in Linux disk encryption https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html and wonder how it applies to Fedora? Can the instructions in the article be applied to a Fedora installation? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists

Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-16 Thread andreas . fournier
So recently I've started to get this problem that the laptop dies even when the battery indicator says there is something like 40% left, i.e. I never get a low battery warning. Then when I plug it in and restart it also says the battery is at something like 40%. The laptop is about five years old.

Re: Not able to login as root anymore

2023-01-11 Thread Andreas Fournier
On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 19:21 +0100, Jose Maria Terry Jimenez wrote: > > El 11/1/23 a las 17:17, Andreas Fournier escribió: > > Hi > > > > I just updated my Fedora 36 desktop with the latest updates and > > after > > that I can no longer do &#

Not able to login as root anymore

2023-01-11 Thread Andreas Fournier
Hi I just updated my Fedora 36 desktop with the latest updates and after that I can no longer do 'su -' in a terminal window. I get 'su: Authentication failure'. Same thing if I try to log in as root on the console. But sudo works. What could have happened?

Re: Upgrade to F37 didn't start

2022-12-28 Thread Andreas Fournier
On Wed, 2022-12-28 at 12:03 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:54 AM Andreas Fournier > wrote: > > > > I thought it would be time to give Fedora 37 a test, so in Gnome > > Software I initiated the upgrade. It downloaded a lot of stuff and >

Upgrade to F37 didn't start

2022-12-28 Thread Andreas Fournier
I thought it would be time to give Fedora 37 a test, so in Gnome Software I initiated the upgrade. It downloaded a lot of stuff and when that was done I pressed on the 'Restart & Upgrade' button. Then I got a popup that I had incompatible software, the python3-argh package. I thought I would just i

Re: Backup data from Firefox

2022-11-29 Thread Andreas Fournier
On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 09:57 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > > On 2022-11-29 09:41, Andreas Fournier wrote: > > I'm wondering what would be best practice in how to backup the user > > data from Firefox on a Fedora desktop? I'm thinking mostly about > > saved > &g

Backup data from Firefox

2022-11-29 Thread Andreas Fournier
Hi I'm wondering what would be best practice in how to backup the user data from Firefox on a Fedora desktop? I'm thinking mostly about saved logins and bookmarks and how it could be scheduled. Cheers Andreas ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedora

Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

2022-11-05 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 02:55 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > dmesg might report something. 'sudo dmesg -w' didn't print anything when I connected the SSD over the sata to usb adapter ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

2022-11-05 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sat, 2022-11-05 at 15:27 +0100, andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > So, a SSD just dieded on me, the root and home partition was on it. > The > computer froze and after a cold boot the BIOS doesn't find the disk > anymore. I opened up the casing but couldn't see anything suspicious > to > the n

Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

2022-11-05 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sat, 2022-11-05 at 10:32 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > Try booting a live media, see if the live OS even sees /dev/sda.  If > it does you may be able to back up individual partitions to flash or > another SSD Nope, fedora live OS didn't see the SSD ___

Can one rescue a dead SSD?

2022-11-05 Thread andreas . fournier
So, a SSD just dieded on me, the root and home partition was on it. The computer froze and after a cold boot the BIOS doesn't find the disk anymore. I opened up the casing but couldn't see anything suspicious to the naked eye. Anything I could do at home to try to rescue it? I have backups of mos

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-22 Thread andreas . fournier
On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 12:35 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:00:13 +0200 > andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > > On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 10:38 +0200, fedora wrote: > > > Don't you need to start pipewire as the normal user? i.e. > > > > > > [host@non-root-user]$ systemctl res

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-20 Thread andreas . fournier
On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 10:38 +0200, fedora wrote: > Don't you need to start pipewire as the normal user? i.e. > > [host@non-root-user]$ systemctl restart pipewire-pulse.service --user ah, right. When run as a normal user that command succeeds and in the log I can find systemd[2290]: Stopping pipe

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-20 Thread andreas . fournier
On Mon, 2022-09-19 at 14:44 +0100, ja wrote: > > The suggestion I was referring to was > https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2022/09/10/warning-bug-in-latest-pipewire-packages-for-fedora-36/ > Thanks for the link. What I now tried was to first update everything to latest version from repo. Then as

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-19 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 15:39 +0100, ja wrote: > xgemxa/f36_no_hdmi_audio/ > > > > > > "The 5.19.8 kernel broke it. 5.19.9 is in testing right now and > > > is > > > meant to fix it." > > > > So, I just updated to kernel 5.19.9-200.fc36.x86_64 that was > > released > > today. Unfortunately that did

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-18 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 12:03 +0100, ja wrote: > On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 20:32 +0200, andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:14:04 +0200 > > > andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > > > > > > Today I updated the soft

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-17 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 12:03 +0100, ja wrote: > On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 20:32 +0200, andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:14:04 +0200 > > > andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > > > > > > Today I updated the soft

Re: No sound after update

2022-09-16 Thread andreas . fournier
On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:14:04 +0200 > andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > > Today I updated the software on my Fedora 36 and now there is no > > sound. I used Gnome Software to update. Neither VLC nor Firefox > > produces sound. In Setti

No sound after update

2022-09-16 Thread andreas . fournier
Today I updated the software on my Fedora 36 and now there is no sound. I used Gnome Software to update. Neither VLC nor Firefox produces sound. In Settings -> Sound -> Output there are two values under Output Device, both saying HDMI/DisplayPort - Built-in Audio. No difference between them, when u

Re: anyone get TOR browser to work?

2022-07-03 Thread andreas . fournier
On Sat, 2022-07-02 at 23:50 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Anyone get TOR browser to work? > > Tor crashes when attempting to read any website > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028705 I don't believe that the tor package that's referenced in the ticket actually comes with a b

Getting a new printer/scanner

2022-06-16 Thread andreas . fournier
So, it's time again for me to get a new printer/scanner as the old one just died.  I hope it isn't too much off-topic to solicit advice on what to get so that it would work flawlessly with Fedora. I'm looking for a rather basic model. When I browse the homepages of manufacturers I can't find any m

Re: fsck required?

2022-04-22 Thread andreas . fournier
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 21:09 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Apr 21, 2022, at 11:24, andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > > > > Anyway so I have a laptop that only boots to emergency shell. There > > journalctl says that fsck failed with exit status 4 for > > /dev/mapper/fedora-root > > If I r

fsck required?

2022-04-21 Thread andreas . fournier
I have a laptop that's been unused for about two months. Today I started it up and commenced a software update via Gnome Software. It downloaded everything fine and I rebooted the laptop. The harddisk is encrypted and after I entered the password for decryption it dropped into emergency mode. Now I

F35 Electron cash stopped working

2021-11-03 Thread Andreas Fournier
Hi I just updated to F35 and noticed that Electron Cash stopped working When I try to start it from command line I get QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread QObject::connect: No such signal QPlatformNativeInterface::systemTrayWindowChanged(QScreen*) Traceback (most r