Re: F19 suddenly very unstable

2013-11-17 Thread ellis
> My F19 has suddenly become very unstable. After about 10 minutes of > running with KDE, the opened windows start to be closed automatically. > I even cannot stop the machine. I have access to the fedora menu but > its rendering is very odd and clicking on shutdown does not do > anything. I cannot

Re: Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-05-02 Thread ellis
To add to this, I've recently found out the problem also happens when I come up in runlevel 5 and then later switch to 3. -- http://yosemitenews.info/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Ellis
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 02/19/2013 10:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> >> > No, my experience does not go as far back 6 years for obvious reasons. My > exprience with mechanical disks, however, goes as far back as 25 years, and > I can promise you, they are every

Re: Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-02-18 Thread ellis
> And, out of simple curiosity, do you ever have X driver issues if there's not > been a kernel > or driver update? None that I can remember. But coming up in text mode is also handy when I'm doing a lot of reboots (e.g. trying to fix this current problem). And I have had the system hang when I

Re: Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-02-17 Thread ellis
> I assume you can login as a normal user on a VT from graphical mode? Yes, if I come up as runlevel 5 logins work as they should on both graphical and vt screens. > systemd auto-spawns VTs on-demand so they're started a little > differently. If that's working, the only thing I can think of is

Re: Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-02-17 Thread ellis
> So you get a normal login prompt, just nobody else but root can login? > That's probably not systemd. I suspect there's a flag that gets set somewhere when the boot scripts finsih running. Just don't know where it is or what sets it. > Okay that looks good. Does > /etc/systemd/system/getty.ta

Re: Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-02-17 Thread ellis
> Are you normally in the habit of booting that way, or was this something > special you were doing after the upgrade? Yes, I always boot into runlevel 3. If nothing else, it allows me to deal with X driver problems. -- http://yosemitenews.info/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-02-17 Thread ellis
> Do you get a login prompt if you switch VTs from graphical mode (e.g. > CTRL+ALT+F[2-6])? Yes. > What is the output of: > systemctl show default.target Id=multi-user.target Names=default.target runlevel2.target multi-user.target runlevel4.target runlevel3.target Requires=basic.target Wants=

Runlevel 3 after fedup

2013-02-16 Thread ellis
After upgrade from 17 to 18 with fedup and installing all the updates I was unable to login as any user other than root. When I tried I was greeted with the message: "System is booting up". After beating my head against the wall I finally tried booting to runlevel 5 instead of 3. That fixed the is

Re: Duplicate accounts?

2011-02-28 Thread Steve Ellis
On 2/28/2011 3:23 PM, Larry Brower wrote: > > I would say this all depends on the application being invoked and would > still say it is bad to just use * as opposed to say ./* > > I can't count the number of people Ive seen do things like rm -rf * in a > directory and it recursively started working

Re: Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Steve Ellis
On 9/12/2010 4:05 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: >> On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: >> >>> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD >>> performance, and I >>> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. >>> > OK, I"ll chec