F42 - KDE - change logout screen icons?

2025-05-03 Thread John Horne
rks and 'Show hidden icons'). It is possible to assign a suitable icon for those on the panel, although I would have hoped that Bluecurve would have provided suitable icons already. My question though is if anyone knows whether it is

Re: ... VS Ubuntu

2025-04-12 Thread John Mellor
On 2025-04-12 9:00 a.m., ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/12/25 5:27 AM, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. might be interesting - https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-42- ubuntu-2504-zen5 L.  "Fedora Workstation 42 remains on the Btrfs file-system while Ubuntu 25.04 is sticking to the

Re: what kind of raid is this?

2025-03-06 Thread John Mellor
On 2025-03-06 9:29 p.m., Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 14:08 +, Barry wrote: Whst is fake raid? I had assume that term just means software raid in the bios. RAID done by the motherboard, either completely on its own, or requiring specialist drivers. And is depending heavily o

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-21 Thread John Mellor
Disks in mainframe days had no onboard cache, and the O/S had to do all that.  Today that has been built into much cheaper disks. While there is no mechanism to determine what is cached by the onboard disk memory and what is not, there are situations where you need disk cacheing to be disabled

Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-20 Thread John Westerdale
Could this be a task for the handler that tries to modify the file, where it would observe the presence of a link and the lack of RW access, and then remove the link and copy in the right place in ~ ? The one size fits all might be a good starting point, but doesn't scale ( down) to individual cus

Re: Fedora 41 Install: Black Screen

2024-10-20 Thread John Mellor
On 2024-10-20 17:23, Barry wrote: On 20 Oct 2024, at 13:53, John Mellor wrote: I have an older Fedora 40 machine that I tried to install Fedora 41 on, and got a surprise. For a first attempt, I tried the as-documented dnf system-upgrade steps on a fully working and stock Fedora 40. Upon

Fedora 41 Install: Black Screen

2024-10-20 Thread John Mellor
I have an older Fedora 40 machine that I tried to install Fedora 41 on, and got a surprise. For a first attempt, I tried the as-documented dnf system-upgrade steps on a fully working and stock Fedora 40.  Upon reboot to actually do the install steps, a black screen is presented and everything

Re: version numbers - rpmfusion nvidia driver and kernel.

2024-10-19 Thread John Pilkington
post the boot command line shown by sudo dmesg | grep -i boot on your dual-boot system running the new f40 kernel and the nvidia 470xx driver ? Thanks, John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: version numbers - rpmfusion nvidia driver and kernel.

2024-10-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/10/2024 01:10, home user via users wrote: On 10/18/24 4:37 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 18/10/2024 22:55, home user via users wrote: (f40; gnome; standalone workstation) I have not been able to figure out how the rpmfusion nvidia version numbers relate to the kernel version numbers

Re: version numbers - rpmfusion nvidia driver and kernel.

2024-10-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/10/2024 22:55, home user via users wrote: (f40; gnome; standalone workstation) I currently have kernel version: - - - - - - -bash.2[~]: uname -a Linux coyote 6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Sep 30 21:38:25 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux -bash.3[~]: - - - - - - Yesterday mo

Re: boot stops before startx....

2024-08-22 Thread John Pilkington
ed update. After that, ensure that the akmods build process has completed before rebooting. L John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Con

Re: boot stops before startx....

2024-08-19 Thread John Pilkington
;dnf upgrade's since this post on 14 July, which named the packages being used. That's on an old HP box, 470xx, KDE plasma-workspace-x11 and not using EFI. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/k...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EIKE6QFJDDSGLRMGI

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 11/08/2024 18:30, Dave Close wrote: I can't make sense of this output, can you? # rpm -q kernel-core kernel-core-6.9.9-100.fc39.x86_64 kernel-core-6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 That kernel runs for me, but I have romm for only two. How big is /boot ? -- __

Re: Fedora and System Rescue CD disagree on the state of my btrfs filesystem

2024-07-26 Thread John Mellor
ter tools, but its a huge problem with Fedora recoverability. So, question for the Fedora filesystem team: When are we going to see fixed btrfs tools? -- John mellorjohn.mel...@gmail.com 519-721-6671 -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapr

Re: teal(?) messages during boot.

2024-07-25 Thread John Horne via users
s disable the graphical boot in order to see if there are any problems when a server boots up. I do the same on my home laptop (running F40), which is where I am seeing the problem. It may also explain why the 'problem' has not been reported. I'm going to play a bit more, run

Re: teal(?) messages during boot.

2024-07-25 Thread John Horne via users
On Wed, 2024-07-24 at 23:20 +, John Horne via users wrote: > On Wed, 2024-07-24 at 14:08 -0600, home user via users wrote: > > On 7/24/24 9:40 AM, Joe Wulf via users wrote: > > > > > 1. Look through the output of 'sudo dmesg' or just 'dmesg' when lo

Re: teal(?) messages during boot.

2024-07-24 Thread John Horne via users
;ls", the output is colored: > > * some bluish color for directories; > > * magenta for image and video files; > > * green for "ordinary" (text, LibreOffice, PDF, etc.) data files; > > * bold green for executable files; > > and

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread John Pilkington
after dnf completes, for the actual modules to be built and installed. On my systems that takes several minutes, particularly if there are multiple kernels. I usually run 'atop', after dnf has quit, to watch the sequence of akmods-related eve

Re: Remastering ISO filenames (was: make a bootable dvd)

2024-07-11 Thread John Westerdale
Thought that entries in a vfat file system are case sensitive? John Westerdale Sr Container Consultant Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> NYC - He / Him / His - john.westerd...@redhat.comM: 201-376-9993 IM: jwesterd <https://www.redhat.com/> I respect your Life-Work bala

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread John Pilkington
-workspace-x11 in F40 may be auto-erased by later kde updates. Playground dispute. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/k...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/M45QTYTM52LQNMJCW5UX3VQYQHDWUV42/ John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end??

2024-05-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/05/2024 18:08, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 19 May 2024 at 14:50, John Pilkington wrote: Date sent: Sun, 19 May 2024 14:50:55 +0100 Subject:Re: Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end?? To: users

Re: Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end??

2024-05-19 Thread John Pilkington
if it has been fixed by rpm --rebuilddb. The package found was: glib2-devel-2.80.2-1.fc40.x86_64 John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/05/2024 03:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/5/24 22:43, John Pilkington wrote: On 17/05/2024 13:08, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:04:21 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote: Many users have had problems with the akmod

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-17 Thread John Pilkington
to be working well now for me, and can use vdpau. John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-16 Thread John Pilkington
learly things are going to be fragile for some time. Before today's upgrade one system frequently reported graphics resets. That seems to have been fixed. HTH John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread John Pilkington
6.8.7): sudo dnf remove kernel-core-6.8.8 sudo dnf upgrade and then when "systemctl list-jobs" was clear, "sudo systemctl reboot" I, too, would prefer to have a bigger /boot, but this info might help. John P -- On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 9:44 AM Patrick Dupre via user

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/05/2024 15:51, John Pilkington wrote: On 10/05/2024 15:00, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM John Pilkington <mailto:johnpilk...@gmail.com>> wrote:     On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: &g

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/05/2024 15:00, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM John Pilkington <mailto:johnpilk...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: >> The harware was working well, before

F40 dual-boot problem, was Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 21:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/8/24 1:13 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: The harware was working well, before my recent upgrades from f38, briefly to f39 and now to f40.  Then I was using the rpmfusion

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: The harware was working well, before my recent upgrades from f38, briefly to f39 and now to f40.  Then I was using the rpmfusion 470xx builds of the nvidia legacy drivers.   Now the dual-boot box has no nvidia

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 17:54, Roger Heflin wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:09 AM John Pilkington wrote: On 08/05/2024 10:18, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as part of their network

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread John Pilkington
able system, but with the vga screen never active and final HDMI resolution fixed at 800x600. Could this perhaps be a conflict of hostnames set at power-on and by Fedora? John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Fedora 40 and nouveau

2024-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
hat you had posted something similar earlier. I have tried it, and variations on it, but any boot-to-completion still gives me 800x600. I just tried playback of 1920x1080, and it was fine, but ffmpeg used 4 cores all at 90%. Letting the TV do the heavy lifting is better. John --

Re: Fedora 40 and nouveau

2024-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/05/2024 05:12, Felix Miata wrote: John Pilkington composed on 2024-05-06 12:32 (UTC+0100): Both my old HP boxes have F40 up-to-date. Both are connected to an HDMI tv and vga monitor, but the one dual-booted with Windows has a fixed 800x600 screen size that appears only on the HDMI

Fedora 40 and nouveau

2024-05-06 Thread John Pilkington
these reboots. The boot lines shown give rrunning systems. Most variants that I have tried freeze sooner or later. I still have no idea of how to pre-specify the devices that I want to use. John P {{{ The same packages are on both boxes: [john@HPFed ~]$ [john@HPFed ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i

Re: How to increase size of /boot partition

2024-05-03 Thread John Pilkington
to do". What did work was ( while running 6.8.7): sudo dnf remove kernel-core-6.8.8 sudo dnf upgrade and then when "systemctl list-jobs" was clear, "sudo systemctl reboot" I, too, would prefer to have a bigger /boot, but this info might help. John P -- ___

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-05-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/05/2024 15:51, Felix Miata wrote: John Pilkington composed on 2024-05-01 09:31 (UTC+0100): I'm not aware of any snapshots, and suspect that Felix has a quicker way of finding the relevant 'freespace' than waiting for dnf's version to appear. Perhaps it's show

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-05-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/05/2024 00:54, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 2024-04-30 10:58 AM, John Pilkington wrote: (fedoraforum) has a suggestion of trimming the journalctl log, but neither that nor any other space-clearing actions that I have tried has made any difference. Have you made snapshots of your system

System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-04-30 Thread John Pilkington
kernel and its rescue version are installed. Suggestions? Thanks. John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproj

Re: Fedora 40 - KeePass fails to run

2024-04-28 Thread John List
ence to me as all of my passwords are in the application. But my machine is dual boot. So I was able to copy my vault over to windows and retrieve my passwords there. John On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM Lester Petrie wrote: > > > On 4/28/2024 5:52 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > O

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread John Pilkington
17.0.6 256 bits) driver: N/A device-ID: 10005: surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland }}} John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Fedora 40 - KeePass fails to run

2024-04-25 Thread John List
Hi, Just an FYI that KeePass is failing to run on my recently upgraded Fedora 40 machine. I'm not sure of the correct place to report the issue. [image: image.png] John -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe se

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

2024-04-17 Thread John Mellor
With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix development stopped about 2 years ago.  Most disturbing is that for the last 2 years there have been essentially no security fixes as a result.  A couple of distros have done some critical bugfixes to try to keep the dead horse a

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-15 Thread John Pilkington
e drivers directly from https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx and ran the installer from there. It works fine again. (Todd) I can tell you that building the 2 or 3 nvidia 470xx packages works well for the later 6.7 and current 6.8 kernels. and there's 2. (John) AIUI we are movin

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-14 Thread John Pilkington
lease someone which have these graphics try fix it ASAP Thank you So one difficulty is probably a lack of rpmfusion devs with the affected hardware... John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/04/2024 12:58, John Pilkington wrote: On 12/04/2024 00:52, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:36, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:05, home user wrote: /tmp/akmodsbuild.2VNb1GB1/BUILD/nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.223.02

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-12 Thread John Pilkington
rpmfusion team will make the old system work soon, or maybe the even-older but just-updated 340xx driver would work. I'll try living with what I have for now. HTH John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: After having updated nvidia drivers, cannot start obs

2024-03-30 Thread John Pilkington
fore triggering the reboot. And ISTR that graphically selecting a restart early can give problems too. systemctl show-jobs can show progress, and then systemctl reboot. John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe s

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-21 Thread John Westerdale
updates -may- interfere with third party inks. Time setting at one point required a full system reset - needed for Fax Date time -due to lack of Time service. Paper transport for Automatic Doc Feeder has been very solid. Ink has been reliable after long offlne periods. John Westerdale

Re: Copy broken in recent Firefox?

2024-02-23 Thread John Horne
1), F39. > +1 Works for me. Firefox on KDE (Wayland), F39. Firefox: firefox-123.0-1.fc39.x86_64 > 1. Something here. > Seems like it. John. -- John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon

Re: NVMe sector size ?

2024-01-10 Thread John Mellor
spam, report it:https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- John mellorjohn.mel...@gmail.com 519-721-6671 -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org F

Location for python plugin to allow letsencrypt(certbot) automated access to GoDaddy DNS

2023-12-21 Thread John W. Himpel
All, I am a complete stranger to python. I am attempting to automate the certificate renewal process for several certificates obtained from Letsencrypt via certbot. My DNS is hosted at GoDaddy.com. I found several projects on github that provide authenticators for GoDaddy that reportedly work w

Re: btrfs Backups

2023-12-08 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-12-08 12:56 p.m., 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 fresh install

Re: f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-06 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-12-05 22:59, home user wrote: . . . I almost always use Gnome with X, not wayland.  Even the test I reported in my previous post (in response to Richard) was KDE with X, not wayland.  Should thunderbird-wayland be installed and used by us X users? X is no longer maintained properly, a

Re: f38: 2 Thunderbird misbehaviors.

2023-12-05 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-12-05 8:45 p.m., home user wrote: (Fedora 38; home workstation; Thunderbird 115.5.0) In early October, I upgraded from Fedora-37 to Fedora-38.  Since then, I've been consistently experiencing two types of misbehavior in Thunderbird. 1. When I switch e-mail accounts or folders within

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-03 Thread John Pilkington
On 03/12/2023 12:37, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 3 Dec 2023 at 10:06, John Pilkington wrote: Date sent: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 10:06:32 + Subject:Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue? From: John Pilkington To: users

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-03 Thread John Pilkington
On 03/12/2023 09:46, John Pilkington wrote: On 02/12/2023 23:39, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Finally got it working, but tried lots of info from different pages, and would get all kinds of different messages. Cleared out everything, and tried things until this seems to have run

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-03 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/12/2023 23:39, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Finally got it working, but tried lots of info from different pages, and would get all kinds of different messages. Cleared out everything, and tried things until this seems to have run completely and is now showing the Nvidia GPU being

Re: NVIDIA RPM DNF Update Issue?

2023-12-01 Thread John Pilkington
systems. John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread John Pilkington
the reboot. But of course the log might reveal *why* your build failed... -- John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs

Re: DNF Upgrade from F38 to F39 Issues

2023-11-19 Thread John Pilkington
;for fear of finding something worse'. Maybe I should add this info to the BZ. Might it explain the different behaviour on Fedora version upgrade? John P -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: DNF Upgrade from F38 to F39 Issues

2023-11-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/11/2023 05:11, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/17/23 19:08, Stephen Morris wrote: I reinstalled the nvidia drivers and a subsequent reboot then booted into KDE with any issues (which is where I'm sending this email from). Why did this freezing of the nvidia drivers happen, is it because th

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: more comments

2023-10-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/10/2023 15:27, John Pilkington wrote: My recent posts were about 'just in case' precautions before a system upgrade.  I now appear to have a working upgraded system.  It wasn't trouble-free and I didn't use the live workstation download. The system uses the rpmfusio

Upgrading to Fedora 38: more comments

2023-10-15 Thread John Pilkington
aited for the jobs to complete. Booting to F38 seems ok now. The problems were similar to, but worse than, those seen in earlier upgrades. There's a related bugzilla. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011120 John P ___ users mailing list

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/10/2023 01:23, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Oct 14, 2023, at 14:06, John Pilkington wrote: I have done several system upgrades in the past.  This time I thought I would take the suggested precautions and download the workstation .iso On trying to verify the download, using https

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-14 Thread John Pilkington
Resending to list: On 14/10/2023 21:28, Barry Scott wrote: On 14 Oct 2023, at 19:06, John Pilkington wrote: I have done several system upgrades in the past. This time I thought I would take the suggested precautions and download the workstation .iso On trying to verify the download

Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-14 Thread John Pilkington
atted". So I worried and did it again. Same result. This is BZ 733561, opened in 2011 and NOTABUG. Isn't it time that this was mentioned in the 'helpful' warning suggestion? John P ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread John Horne
quiet" and you have to rerun grubby, it is a bug that, I hope, will be > fixed. > Use the '--update-kernel=ALL' option will change the cmdline options on all the installed kernels and any subsequently installed ones. John. -- John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology

Re: multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

2023-09-25 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-09-25 09:39, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 2:34 AM Dave Close wrote: I wrote: > I detest a graphical login and insist on running in multi-user mode > (old runlevel 3). To start an X11 session after login, I can use the > startx command. But I haven'

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-09-15 2:07 p.m., Peter Boy wrote: Am 15.09.2023 um 17:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : WHat is the reason Peter behind xfs being used on the server edition and btrfs on the workstation? I pretty much stick with ext3. I don't even use ext4 really. I've never used xfs. It is basically about

Re: Upgraded machine to Fedora 38 and now suspending after 15 minues??

2023-08-21 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-08-21 12:55, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/21/2023 07:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote: This wasn't just some developer's idea... IIRC the request for this change came from someone who sells systems with Linux pre-installed (Lenovo?), because this is a requirement for meeting power certifications needed

Re: ssh connection and selinux

2023-08-13 Thread John K
Bonsoir François, What does 'ssh -v' report when you attempt to connect to this machine? Depending on where you upgraded from, you may now have also upgraded your openssh to the point where rsa+sha1 is no longer supported: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/226131/openssh-declares-ss

Re: Firewalld - "forward:" in output?

2023-08-07 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2023-08-07 at 10:50 -0400, David King wrote: > On 8/7/23 10:29, John Horne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Would someone tell me to what the 'forward:' line in the 'firewall-cmd -- > > list-all' output refers: > It indicates whether

Firewalld - "forward:" in output?

2023-08-07 Thread John Horne
uld like to know what it means. Thanks, John. -- John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK [https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/images/email_footer.gif]<http://www.plymo

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

2023-07-30 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-07-30 17:39, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: On 7/29/23 08:55, Tim Evans wrote: 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, wa

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-06-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/06/2023 19:03, John Pilkington wrote: On 06/06/2023 18:46, Steve Underwood wrote: On 02/06/2023 23:54, John Pilkington wrote: On 02/06/2023 21:49, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 5/31/23 15:47, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 18:39

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-06-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/06/2023 18:46, Steve Underwood wrote: On 02/06/2023 23:54, John Pilkington wrote: On 02/06/2023 21:49, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 5/31/23 15:47, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 18:39, home user wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-06-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/06/2023 21:49, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 5/31/23 15:47, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 18:39, home user wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry Scott wrote: When there's a new kernel I usually let the akmods build finish b

Re: stress testing

2023-05-31 Thread John Mellor
stress and stress-ng and the gui versions all do a pretty good job of heating up the cpu, and a marginal job of finding memory issues.  However, the rest of the motherboard and disks get almost nothing. On 2023-05-31 4:51 p.m., Geoffrey Leach wrote: In anticipation of the arrival of a new syst

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-05-31 Thread John Pilkington
On 31/05/2023 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 18:39, home user wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 31 May 2023, at 16:02, home user wrote: "Job akmods-shutdown.service/stop running". That is likely to be because it is compiling the new nvidia drivers

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-05-31 Thread John Pilkington
The long akmods-shutdown.service happens with every shutdown. John: Is your long shutdown happening with every shutdown, or only the first after an upgrade? When there's a new kernel I usually let the akmods build finish before 'systemctl reboot'. Usually the shutdown.service doesn'

Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

2023-05-31 Thread John Pilkington
After dnf upgrade today, abrtd.service failed to start, with dependency failures for abrt: ccoredumpctl, kernelpanic detection and kernel log watcher. Booting the previous kernel also hung for 10s of seconds but seems ok. 6.2.15-200.fc37 systemctl reboot hangs for 5 minutes with akmods, pre

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/05/2023 20:49, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/18/23 05:21, Dorian ROSSE wrote: Hello everybody and the team fedora, blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart so it has losen a lot of part and luckily locate works without type the button s

Re: [solved] Re: Thunderbird black at first launch with F38

2023-05-04 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-05-04 12:11, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/4/23 05:53, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-05-04 02:01, Frederic Muller wrote: On 04/05/2023 12:48, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/23 21:07, Frederic Muller wrote: Installed F38 about a week ago from scratch (wayland & GNOME). When I launch Thunderbird

Re: [solved] Re: Thunderbird black at first launch with F38

2023-05-04 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-05-04 02:01, Frederic Muller wrote: On 04/05/2023 12:48, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/23 21:07, Frederic Muller wrote: Installed F38 about a week ago from scratch (wayland & GNOME). When I launch Thunderbird the first time at every session it starts as a black screen except for the title

Re: I have not been able to install F37 on a computer that has RAID1

2023-05-01 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-05-01 1:05 p.m., Peter Boy wrote: Am 01.05.2023 um 18:33 schrieb David Woodyard : the server is what I need to install. OK, o I guess Server will be the only Operating System on the device. And because you ‚see‘ sda and sdb, you don’t have a hardware raid but use a software raid. Sec

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-01 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-03-01 4:37 p.m., Peter Boy wrote: Am 01.03.2023 um 21:45 schrieb John Mellor : BTRFS is massively faster and safer than all other implementations other than perhaps ZFS, is at least partially error compensating, does not demand identical drives, and can be easily converted into

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-01 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-03-01 3:01 p.m., Ranjan Maitra wrote: I would like to RAID two of my disks, and I was wondering if the recommendation is to do software or hardware RAID? Don't even consider hardware RAID solutions that became out-of-favour 25 years ago.  You can easily do it with LVM/MDR combinations,

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
Comments inline in blue (sorry to any monocolour readers on this list): On 2023-02-24 12:20 p.m., Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is no longer required, as the boot process has been able to

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-02-24 12:46 p.m., GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However, there has been almost nothi

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: . . . (snipped) 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for years now. . . . (snipped) On 2023-02-24 09:38, Bill C wrote

Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora.  However, there has been almost nothing done to take advantage of its capabilities.  This leads to some obvious questions about future work:

Re: Switching nvidia GPU cards - can multiple driver versions co-exist?

2023-02-13 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/02/2023 15:27, Roger Heflin wrote: If the new card is supported with the 470 driver then I would replace the card while the 470 driver is running. Then do the upgrade. Both drivers have the same name so you will not be able to have both installed and built in /lib/modules at the same time

Re: Nvidia in F37

2023-01-25 Thread John Pilkington
pushed to stable after a few days. John P ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-con

Re: Nvidia in F37

2023-01-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/01/2023 15:44, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:59:10 +0100 GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I just update from F35 to F37 and everything is fine except I noticed that instead of the Nvidia from RPMFusion it is using nouveau. In fact the nvidia module is missing and wasn't buil

Re: cifs problem? was Re: Black screens with rpmfusion nvidia 470xx and 6.0.16.fc36

2023-01-10 Thread John Pilkington
kernel-6.0.18-200.fc36 and kernel-6.0.18-399.fc37 were pushed to stable 6 hours ago. I installed for fc36 last night from the updates page. No problem in booting and none have been seen overnight. John P ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: cifs problem? was Re: Black screens with rpmfusion nvidia 470xx and 6.0.16.fc36

2023-01-09 Thread John Pilkington
not. The main difference here appears to be that with 6.0.16 sddm is not being called. {{{ [john@HPFed ~]$ sudo journalctl --since 2023-01-07 | grep -A 20 nas2a Jan 07 10:04:44 HPFed systemd[1]: Mounting mnt-nas2a.mount - /mnt/nas2a... Jan 07 10:04:44 HPFed systemd[1]: Starting rpc-statd-noti

cifs problem? was Re: Black screens with rpmfusion nvidia 470xx and 6.0.16.fc36

2023-01-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/01/2023 13:58, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/1/23 21:26, John Pilkington wrote: On 08/01/2023 02:10, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/1/23 12:59, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/7/23 17:24, Stephen Morris wrote: I've attached ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (my Xorg doesn't write its log to /v

Re: Black screens with rpmfusion nvidia 470xx and 6.0.16.fc36

2023-01-08 Thread John Pilkington
er directory. I only included that specification for where my Xorg.0.log file is located because John was indicating that his Xorg.0.log is being written to /var/log. regards, Steve Maybe this is https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216895, referred to in this current thread: Re: F

Re: Black screens with rpmfusion nvidia 470xx and 6.0.16.fc36

2023-01-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/01/2023 03:30, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/1/23 22:22, John Pilkington wrote: Heads up. After today's updates I get black unresponsive screens.  OK in 6.0.15 I'm using the nvidia 525.60.11 driver from rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver and there is no issue with kernel 6.0.16.

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