Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/06/2025 12:45 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: 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. I would expect it to run for quite some time. Reading the man page tells me that this command runs in / and continue

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

2025-04-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/20/2025 06:14 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I think what this is, overall, is watching idiocracy evolve, in realtime. Personally, I've always considered Ubuntu to be designed for Windows refugees. They want to get away from the built in problems of Windows but don't want to learn how to

Re: [OT] bash help

2025-04-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/17/2025 11:21 PM, Mike Wright wrote: btw. this is a great bash cheatsheet https://devhints.io/bash So is this one: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-l

Re: firefox after update

2025-03-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/28/2025 12:15 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote: Hi, Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I do each week at this time Now firefox doesn't launch. Running from command line: firefox env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory Run from desktop icon: icon sw

Re: virt-manager wants password for a user's account

2025-03-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/21/2025 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Maybe if there's no admin user.  By default, root doesn't even have a password. There's an option in Anaconda to set it but most people ignore it. If you're past that, you can set one at boot, the same way that you can change it in an emergency.

Re: Dongle USB

2025-03-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/18/2025 01:03 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: I cannot connect to 192.168.1.1 ping 192.168.1.1 does not respond This is the issue Try using traceroute instead. If it responds with "no route to host" you know what your basic difficulty is right there. -- _

Re: Dongle USB

2025-03-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/18/2025 02:01 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: But, it seems that the DNS does not work ping 192.168.8.1 does not answer If you're pinging by IP address, DNS isn't involved. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2025 04:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I tried the above and crontab -e still dropped into nano. Grumble. I HATE logging out.  :) Then don't. Just close that terminal and open a new one. That should be all you need. -- ___ users ma

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2025 03:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't want to be b

Re: 11 year old server!

2025-02-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/24/2025 02:18 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: He won't pay for a new computer, let alone my time for setting it up. If so, he wants a system that works on FM: Fscking Magic. Seriously, if he's that cheap, does he pay you enough to keep his ancient system working or are you just keepin

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/17/2025 04:22 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means one bad key press and I could lose a bunch of my system. dnf does not seem to have a --d

Re: no disks detected

2025-01-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/11/2025 11:01 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: What do I need to do to allow the installer to see the drive? My suggestion would be to use GParted to remove all partitions from the drive before you start. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: No audio for Pixel Buds in Fedora 40

2025-01-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/08/2025 03:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My usual term is Superficial Intelligence. I like to say that AI is very strong on the A but weak on the I. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

2024-12-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/18/2024 02:13 PM, Dave Close wrote: Don Marti wrote: The current two preferences that it sets to false are: dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored I tried that in a new tab, with a page up with several ads. I already had the first

Re: Bash initialization

2024-12-12 Thread Joe Wulf via users
en log back in.  Then when you open konsole, you should see the change you made be in effect. Plasma doesn't affect usage/implementation of bash, or the bash user environment, per se.  'bash' being the shell, traditionally defined in /etc/passwd for a given local user, will invok

Re: Bash initialization

2024-12-12 Thread Joe Wulf via users
e are other distinctions as well, but those are the ones touched on in this thread. R,-Joe On Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 02:35:58 AM EST, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/12/24 14:02, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 09:27 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Just relative to

Re: new F41 install: is swap partition no longer needed for hibernate?

2024-12-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/09/2024 03:33 PM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: Thanks! I use systemctl hibernate from the commandline though after it becomes stable, my plan is to bind a key doing this. You might want to think that over because all it takes is one typo and you'll probably lose your train of thought

Re: Bash initialization

2024-12-02 Thread Joe Wulf via users
nd functions should be established/assigned in .bashrc, too. Thank you. R,-Joe On Monday, December 2, 2024 at 06:52:34 AM EST, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2024-12-01 at 18:52 +, Joe Wulf via users wrote: > For what it is worth, locally changing things like PS1 and > environment varia

Re: Bash initialization

2024-12-01 Thread Joe Wulf via users
For what it is worth, locally changing things like PS1 and environment variable assignments should be made in .bashrc, not .bash_profile. On Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 01:38:29 PM EST, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 01/12/2024 17:16, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > One thing which is new

Re: rsync ---exclude

2024-11-01 Thread Joe Wulf via users
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5774/how-to-exclude-subdirectory-from-rsync On Friday, November 1, 2024 at 07:40:49 PM EDT, Bob Marčan via users wrote: I know it's not exactly Fedora related. I feel stupid already. I am trying to exclude the '.ssh' directory from the rsync. I'

Re: stop posting replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies...

2024-10-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/30/2024 03:46 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: although having said that I also get annoyed if I have to read through multiple mail threads to get the full context of what the reply is addressing, and in my view it is bad mail etiquette to not include that context Yes, you include enough text t

Re: Being Removed From the Mail List

2024-10-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/23/2024 03:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     How do I unsubscribe a defunct email address that no longer works? regards, Steve Read the instructions at the bottom of this, and every message from the list. Since the email address in question is defunct, edit the From header in t

Re: [CLOSED]: quick (hopefully) dnf logs question.

2024-10-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/22/2024 03:17 PM, home user via users wrote: ok.  I'll assume the messages are gone and move on to the next problem. If you want to save any messages, add this to the command: > tee output.txt This will let you both see the output and save it to a file. HTH HAND. --

Re: Is 41 on rc yet?

2024-10-19 Thread Joe Wulf via users
H, the meager'est of looking, at "https://fedoraproject.org"; shows, in the upper right corner, a link directly to Fedora Linux 41 BETA, which is already released. -Joe On Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 06:59:20 PM EDT, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All,

Re: urgent major problem after f39 to f40 upgrade.

2024-10-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/11/2024 11:54 AM, home user via users wrote: It's been 11+ years since I last installed that.  I don't remember how to do it or where the instructions are.  Please give me or tell me where to find simple,clear, current,complete, correct instructions. You can find one of many HOWTOs for

Re: teal(?) messages during boot.

2024-07-24 Thread Joe Wulf via users
put might bring you very close to seeing messages which are relevant to your issue. 2.  Likely your bash user session has 'dircolors' enabled, and especially via aliases configured via ${HOME}/.bashrc.  You can modify that file to suit your tastes (suggest making a backup copy first). R,

Re: BTRFS RAID Recommendations?

2024-07-23 Thread Joe Wulf via users
Richard, which edition of Fedora are you using, and what are the computer spec's, including the disk drive controller on this computer.-Joe On Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 12:26:33 PM EDT, Richard Shaw wrote: I have a home media library currently with 4x4TB drives currently in

Re: password issue with f40

2024-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2024 02:31 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: So, if you’ve used a rescue disk to boot into Linux, chroot into your OS’s disk, and run “passwd” to change a password, or otherwise edit /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd (or other files in /etc), you most likely need to fix the selinux labels of thos

Re: strange results of history command list

2024-06-04 Thread Joe Wulf via users
It truly depends on how the default management of bash history is set up in the virgin environment.Variables like HISTCONTROL, HISTIGNORE can play a part.  The setting for 'shopt -s histappend' also matters.The BASH man page briefly explains them. R,-Joe On Tuesday, June 4, 202

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/22/2024 12:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You probably need your ISP to do that.  Once it's in bridge mode, it's basically invisible.  Whatever device is connected to it has a direct internet connection now.  You might be able to access it if you can figure out the IP address.  Do you remember

Re: getting out of bridge mode

2024-05-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/22/2024 12:31 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: How many young goats do I need? One will probably be enough, as long as you make sure to use black candles. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to use

Re: Fedora 40 virtual machine

2024-04-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 4/23/24 11:44, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous instance of anaconda has crashed. I may have to try several times before I can install it to the drive. Have you tried dele

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/20/2024 03:16 PM, George N. White III wrote: In preparation for converting my dual boot Win10+Fedora system to Fedora only, I needed to expand the Win11 partition on another dual boot system because some "mission critical" Adobe PDF documents require Windows. In all the years I've been us

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/17/2024 05:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: There are: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap basically, the plan is to have prelim support in the next release (4.20) and refine/improve it after that. Excellent! Thanx for bringing that to my attention. --

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/17/2024 11:08 AM, t_...@tiscali.it wrote: I'm on fedora since years. If they'll completely drop X11, I need to change distro. Any suggestion on which distro is good for continuing to use the "VERY OLD" X11/Mwm ? Thanks And so will I along with everybody using Xfce as I don't know if there

Re: After having updated nvidia drivers, cannot start obs

2024-03-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/30/2024 10:43 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Have you wait for akmods to compile the nvidia kernel modules before rebooting ? Unless things have changed considerably since I used those drivers, the akmod module runs at boot, and checks to see if it needs to do anything. If it do

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/26/2024 10:55 AM, Will McDonald wrote: And those launchers live under /usr/share/applications/ and ~/.local/share/applications/ I don't know about Gnome, but in Xfce, you can right-click on a launcher on the desktop and select Edit Launcher. KISS. -- _

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/26/2024 10:41 AM, Beartooth wrote: It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? Assuming that they have launchers on your desktop, edit the launcher and look at the command. HTH, HAND. -- _

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/25/2024 07:57 PM, Tim via users wrote: Brute force and ignorance is a tried and tested method. Trying to be clever with boot menus, and carefully selecting specific partitions while installing, often goes awry. Not to mention the times you come across an installer that only wants to do a

Re: HP elitedesk 705 G1 mt will not boot from dvd

2024-03-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/25/2024 09:33 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is unchanged. Makes it a lot easier whe

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/22/2024 12:02 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I have, in the past, successfully gotten around firewalls that only allow http/https on tcp by setting the port for ssh to 80,8080,443 or 8443. And if I ever ran into one of those I'd be complaining loud and long and challenging their claims to provid

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

2024-03-13 Thread Joe Zeff
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 journalctl through grep instead.

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

2024-03-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/12/2024 12:33 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Failed to start jobs: Failed to enqueue some jobs, see logs for details: Invalid argument Should I worry?  I don't even know what armadillo is. Did you look at the logs and if not, why not? Checking Wikipedia, armadillo is a C++ library for linear

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/11/2024 12:49 AM, Tim via users wrote: Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums): why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you when there's a reply? Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email notification? Essentially you get a &quo

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/10/2024 01:46 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: On 3/10/24 14:39, Thomas Cameron wrote: ... but that's always the case with the myriad of fora which which I interact. Correction, I meant to write "that's not* always the case..." OK, fair enough. But you still don't need to keep tabs constant

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/10/2024 01:39 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: Where did I write that I did that at all? The Fedora forum *can* send emails, as Kevin pointed out, but that's always the case with the myriad of fora which which I interact. If so, as I pointed out before, you don't need to keep all of those tabs

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/10/2024 01:20 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I'm not sure why you're refusing to understand my point here. Oh, I understand your point, I just think that you're going out of your way to make your life more difficult than it needs to be. Instead of keeping each forum open on a tab and obses

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/10/2024 11:14 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I'm not saying that. What I AM saying, is that every time I need to go to a forum, I have to open a separate tab. It's a pain. You only need to have a tab open for a forum when you're actively using it. Why are you going out of your way to make

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/10/2024 10:40 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT. Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of them do you actually need to look at each day? -- __

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/27/2024 10:48 AM, Go Canes wrote: I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head 1) put the lockfile in a memory-based file system like /tmp, /run, etc. This is probably the "correct" way. 2) compare when the system was booted against when the lock file was created. If boot time > lock

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote: A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file still remaining and handle it itself. And how do you suggest that it detects it? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Thunderbird Mystery

2024-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2024 06:44 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to work. Looked at the ".thunder

Re: imminent /boot problem.

2024-02-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/22/2024 03:46 PM, home user wrote: It's dual boot: Fedora-38 and windows-7. I seriously doubt that the /boot partition can be made larger, but I'm no sys.admin. and I could be wrong. Dual boot doesn't matter. /boot is only used by Linux, and generally isn't ever mounted when you're us

Re: How do I read result of a QR Code

2024-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/22/2024 01:47 PM, Tim via users wrote: I remember trying that out on Win98SE, just within a LAN. Gawd, it was a pain. And I'm sure it was full of buffer overflows, like all Microsoft products. Well, I am a BOFH, you know. Letting him find out the hard way was the easiest way to get ri

Re: How do I read result of a QR Code

2024-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/22/24 04:49, Tim via users wrote: I'm sure it would have been cheaper to have designed their security better, in the first place. They probably spend more on their advertising budget than IT, so it's not like they can't afford it. Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller wh

Re: How do I read result of a QR Code

2024-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/22/24 00:30, Tim via users wrote: Then, when it went haywire one day I had to tell telephone support the password to sort things out. Embarrassing, and quite satisfying at the same time. When I was doing tech support, the ID10Ts in IT decided to make our passwords expire after 60 days o

Re: How do I read result of a QR Code

2024-01-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/21/24 17:39, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Okay, that was a "Dad Joke" but it probably is a really strong password and easy to remember.  I recommend run on phrases to my customers.  When I make them up for them, I often use a phrase that flatters their business. Those they never forget.

Re: NVMe sector size ?

2024-01-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/10/2024 08:48 PM, Tim via users wrote: I didn't choose block sizes, just some partition sizes in bytes on my systems. So I'd hope the install routine from the ISO files would make some tests and choose things wisely (ha ha!) for me. If memory serves, if you use a custom partitioning sche

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

2023-12-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/21/2023 03:01 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: So you have a hardware problem (key random locks), or a hardware mis-understanding (some combination set it to be locked) of what can cause the fn key to "lock". Which is why I started out by suggesting that the appropriate keyboard key be cleaned.

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

2023-12-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/21/2023 12:20 PM, Lamy Geier wrote: ### What should I do? AFAICT, none of your system specs is even remotely relevant and should have been left out. My suggestion is to start by removing the keycap from your function key (Modern keyboards are made with this in mind.) and cleaning out

Re: Machine locks on reboot from suspend

2023-12-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/19/2023 10:46 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: The proprietary nVidia driver doesn't exhibit the same problem. You're better off removing those and using the akmods from rpmfusion as you don't have to reinstall the drivers every time you install a new kernel. -- _

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/10/2023 03:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In my case at least there wasn't even a mouse cursor on screen, and the fact that nothing was written to the journal for about 10 hours before I rebooted would seem to indicate everything was dead. I should have tried an ssh from my laptop but wa

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2023 12:51 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Thanks, Roger.  Actually, I have a dim recollection of having set up a thing called 'rnsapshot' to a NAS appliance for a client some years ago.  Nothing to do with btrfs filesystems, but IIRC this should be just what I need.  Thanks for refreshing my

Re: 6.6.x kernels do not boot successfully

2023-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2023 07:07 AM, olivares33561 via users wrote: 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

Re: f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/06/2023 06:57 AM, John Mellor wrote: X is no longer maintained properly, and by F38 is no longer fully functional.  More functionality removal has happened in F39, and I believe that it is on the feature list of F40 for full removal. And what's going to happen to those of us using a DE t

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/02/2023 10:27 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda comes from rpmfusion and only provides the cuda driver, not the whole cuda software. If this is sufficient for BOINC, using only the rpmfusion repository will work and will be simpler to manage. I've been using B

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/01/2023 03:25 PM, home user wrote: The rpm command did not give me enough information, so I had to do the reboot. You could always look in /boot and see what's there. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/01/2023 11:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 'rpm -qa kernel' will list all the installed kernels. The one to be deleted on the next dnf update will be the oldest. Fedora once supplied a program to remove all kernels except the running one and the newest. It's rather old (2011) but shou

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/25/2023 12:08 AM, Tim via users wrote: So, come OS install and update times, I tend to open a box, inspect heatsinks, clean it, and reseat all the connections. Having a spare power supply to swap over is handy, too. They don't always age well, especially the bargain basement types. Have

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2023 01:02 PM, home user wrote: I'm not a sys.admin., and the display is very limited.  What's the cause of these problems, and how do I fix things? The first thing is probably to examine /var/log/boot.log to see if there are any clues there. --

Re: Can't log in to graphical workstation

2023-11-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/15/2023 02:15 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Wonder if changing to lightdm would work? Have used lightdm in past with some machines, and it seems to be a simplier desktop manager, but still works with gnome and xfce? I don't know about Gnome, but it's the default with Xfce. ___

Re: tigervnc won't remove

2023-11-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/14/2023 05:16 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: How do I fix this? You might try just removing tigervnc and letting it remove the no-longer needed dependencies. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/14/2023 01:40 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: The problem appears to be wayland, I thought I had tested under x11 and wayland, but gnome was sneaking a wayland session into existence behind my back. When I really managed to start in x11 for sure, emacs no longer seemed wacky. Two suggestions: firs

[Off List] Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/14/2023 12:26 PM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: What really irritates me about vi and its friends is that it throws you out of editing (insert) mode in order to save the file, and needs another key to come back in. You might want to consider nano; the most common commands are listed at

Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/12/2023 11:33 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: On that mailing list, yes. Don't you think that opening a Bugzilla would be a Good Idea? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.f

Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/12/2023 11:19 AM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: I wonder why emacs users have not reported my issue with 29.1 on the emacs mailing list. Have you reported it? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/04/2023 04:48 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. My boot SSD was purchased on May, 2015. It is a Crucial 128GB one. Cockpit is showing me an error of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 0 free This may be redundant, but before you start, make a complete backup of that disk on removable media. Running Bl

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/03/2023 11:50 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: 210    linkedin.com 146    yahoo.com  88    yahoo.net  63    linkedin.com Why do you have both an extension and a tab for linkedin.com, and extensions for both yahoo.com and yahoo.net? ___ use

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2023 02:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: With firefox frozen. And with it closed? What I'm trying to find out is how much of that is stuff Firefox needs to keep between sessions and how much of it is session specific. ___ users mailing list

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2023 01:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your home directory.  If so, that m

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2023 10:21 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: /dev/sda7    32G   23G  7.1G  76% /home If I'm not mistaken, firefox puts its working files both in /tmp and in your home directory. If so, that may be your problem. Consider installing Bleachbit and letting it clean all of the cruft out.

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/01/2023 09:12 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: My firefox on F38 freezes a lot. I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot. Firefox can be quite a memory hog, depending on what you're doing. What does free -h show you, as well as df You might be running short of memory and/or disk space. _

Re: docker and iptables

2023-10-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/23/2023 09:54 PM, Tim via users wrote: I had to set a password for some in-store credit card, later on I had to tell them "th!sTh1ngreallysucks" to a person when it wouldn't work. Back when I was doing tech support for an ISP, they had password protected web pages that were only accessib

Re: docker and iptables

2023-10-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/20/2023 01:39 AM, jdow wrote: I bet something as simple as "horsehair" is far enough down the guess list that the probability of a successful attack is out at way more time than I have life left. When you can put time on your side life's great. I used to house sit for Jerry Pournelle, an

Re: Keyboard repeat

2023-10-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/19/2023 11:16 AM, Tim via users wrote: I'm always suspicious of the keyboard, itself, with those kinds of issues. Which is problematic to diagnose and deal with, when it's a built-in keyboard on a laptop. And looking at images of the Dell G15 F38 laptop you mentioned shows the kind of key

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers. If you don't need it very often, you're best off making it into a shell script so that you don't need to wor

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Joe Benson
I've had two Brother printers/scanners, currently a MFC-7820N, and never had any issues running them under Fedora. Brother Linux support has been great. I'm using Xsane for the scanner. On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scan

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/14/2023 08:33 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Since all you get is a grub prompt and it never moves beyound that wouldn't that indicate the BIOS is pointing to the wrong boot device and finding nothing there? This is a new, blank hard drive, with nothing on it, not even grub. Here is a tedious

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/14/2023 02:35 PM, Montague Bestes via users wrote: The fact that the usb inserted prevents you from 'F*number*' (as in F12 or whatever) into your BIOS is the most peculiar thing I have heard. I don't know much about the engineering of these various flash drives and usb drives, but I was s

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/13/2023 05:23 AM, George N. White III wrote: If the Fedora-Everything-38-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM file gives "PGP signed message or ASCII, look at the contents with less or more.  If you downloaded on Windows the line endings might be . It gave exactly what I showed. As far as Windows, it's

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Joe Zeff
I have the appropriate netinstall for F38 and the CHECKSUM file downloaded and am trying to verify the download. Everything has gone well, until the last step: sha256sum -c Fedora-Everything-38-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM When instead of telling me that the .iso is good, I get this: sha256sum: Fedor

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/12/2023 12:34 PM, Eldon wrote: Here are a few things to try. It is possible that you are starting in some sort of USB mode, and then the bootloader is trying to switch mid-boot Three things to remember: first, if I use one of the USB ports, it tries to boot but if I use the other, it goe

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/12/2023 07:04 AM, Tim via users wrote: How did you install F35 on it before? A LiveUSB, of course, just like I'm trying now. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/11/2023 08:22 PM, Tim via users wrote: This is on a brand new computer? No. It's on a laptop that I'd originally installed F35 because that's what was current at the time. The hard drive has failed and a new one installed. It's not in what you quoted, but when I picked the laptop up

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-11 Thread Joe Zeff
I have downloaded the F35 .iso, verified it and used dd to put it on a flash drive. If I insert it into one of the laptop's two USB ports and turn it on, it goes directly into the BIOS, and if I exit that, it goes right back in until I pull the drive. If I use the other port, it appears to wo

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have rpmfusion installed? If not, you'll find instructions for installing/configuring both the free and

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/07/2023 12:11 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Booting an installer from a hard disk partition used to work, at least sometimes. I'd open a bugzilla against Anaconda, either as a bug or a feature request. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorap

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program. ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly killing the topmost window despite what it wants. There's a force quit taskbar a

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 08:22 PM, Tim via users wrote: I don't recall you showing the output from any commands in the GRUB prompt, such as ls. Which would show drives and content that it finds. I'll be glad to do that if, and only if a flash drive with F35 on it fails. If it works, I'll just assume th

Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 08:18 PM, Tim via users wrote: But considering you said it did boot some other live distro in the shop, it's probably just something about Fedora's booting. I'm going to download F35, the version I used when I bought the laptop, install from that to avoid the known bug, then upgr

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