So... I did a "sudo dnf upgrade" and things seemed to do well.
However, when I rebooted, it hangs on bootup with the statment "Holding
until bootup processes complete" or something like that -- I'm doing
this from memory. I tried with a couple of older kernels, but they also
hung.
I assume
On 2017-07-13 09:58, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
[snip]
I think I'll just delete all the linux partitions, and delete the
"fedora" directory of the EFI directory on /dev/sda1 and try again.
What's the worst that can happen?
billo
Well, that solved it. It installed without a hitch. I *thin
On 2017-07-13 10:44, Timothée Floure wrote:
EDIT : I juste realized... where is the root partition of your F26 ?
Are
you certain that /dev/sda9 only contains your home folder ?
Hello,
The more "interesting" way (if you want to learn how it works?) would
be
to boot from an external media, mou
On 2017-07-13 10:09, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
So, I decided to do a clean installation of F26 over my F25
installation. My old configuration was:
Dual boot HP laptop: Win 10, F25.
[snip]
Just to be clear. This is a new installation on a machine that used to
have F25, not an upgrade. Th
So, I decided to do a clean installation of F26 over my F25
installation. My old configuration was:
Dual boot HP laptop: Win 10, F25.
F25 had an encrypted /home partition, a separate /swap partition (I know
I don't have to have one, but I'm old), and an unencrypted / partition
where, I tho
On 2017-06-28 00:04, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 27 June 2017, fred roller sent:
This link will get you the win10 .iso image to burn, should be free of
charge.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Have they changed to a new business model? Some kind of try bef
On 2017-06-27 11:02, fred roller wrote:
This link will get you the win10 .iso image to burn, should be free of
charge.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Virtual software on Fedora is free of charge. For simple programs you
should not need a stand alone system. If,
On 2017-06-27 08:49, fred roller wrote:
Glad you found your solution. I will agree with Tom on building a
basic virtual windows machine for these odd non-crossover. You don't
need to register it as, in your case and a few times I have needed
similar, one can simply fire up the vm and use for a
Apparently, it's very proprietary. I've asked around and all the
lawyers I know say you have to download the e-transcript software, which
only runs on Mac or Windows.
I ended up calling the lawyer, and they translated into a PDF for me.
Thanks for trying!
billo
On 2017-06-20 16:51, stan wr
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
I don't *think* it's a pine/alpine issue itself. If I come in using
shellinabox and open pine using a browser terminal, it doesn't happen. If I
use some other client, e.g. roundcube, it doesn't happen.
Sigh. I take that back. I just h
I don't know if this is a fedora question or not, but I'm hoping it's an
OS-level config issue.
I have a laptop that runs Fedora 24, and a virtual machine with CentOS that I
use as my mailserver. I'm an old fogey who doesn't like all this multimedia
mail stuff, so I still use pine/alpine and
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I would like to create a scrolling text like at the beginning of the
Lucas' film starwars.
On the internet, I can find some ubuntu starwars program, but I am
unable to find it for fedora (or find the source code).
Does anyone know some progra
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, David Timms wrote:
On 22/08/16 15:38, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
...
So, I know I could disconnect and type in a mac address using the gui
for network manager, but I'd like to be able to script this. What am I
doing wrong? How can I get NetworkManager to scarf up a mac a
So, I'm sitting in a hotel in North Carolina that has two levels of wireless --
free and paid. I tried the free, and it's too slow. So, I decided to pay.
But I can't. The system has mapped my mac address to the free sign up, and
there's nothing I can do to get it to change.
No problem, I t
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, jarmo wrote:
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:32:45 -0500 (CDT)
ven...@billoblog.com kirjoitti:
Do you mean Gwenview rather than Genview? I've been following this
thread a little, and there's no "genview" or "Genview" available when
Argh, my bad, English is not my native, my finger
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
But I could be wrong...
What about RawTherapee? I know it's supposed to be mostly for RAW images,
but it can read common formats, and I think it does all the stuff the OP asks
for.
billo
--
Also, think about LightZone. They require re
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, jarmo wrote:
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:02:21 -0400
Robert Moskowitz kirjoitti:
But not default installed with the Xfce environment.
No, but dnf install Genview is not a big deal?
--
Do you mean Gwenview rather than Genview? I've been following this thread a little, and
On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, Darlene Wallach wrote:
Hi,
I found a refurbished Lexmark laser printer online. Unfortunately,
they only have drivers up to Fedora 17. They have Fedora 11 - Fedora
17 listed.
Does anyone know if those drivers would work on Fedora 23 an onward?
Since I have a *very* old Fedo
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Ed Greshko said:
No, it isn't specifically a Gmail issue, it is an issue from the
combination of DMARC strict policies, sites that enforce DMARC policies,
and mailing lists.
Yahoo publishes DMARC policies that say messages from a Yahoo
On Sat, 25 Jun 2016, dirt bag wrote:
[snip]
gcc -O3 -Wall -DDOPNG -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DDOJPEG -I/usr/include -DDOTIFF
-DUSE_TILED_TIFF_BOTLEFT_FIX -I/usr/include -DDOPDS -DUSLEEP -DLINUX -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-DMGCSFXDIR=\"/usr/X11R6//lib/\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/etc\"
-DXVEXECPATH=\"/
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:34 AM, wrote:
... and I bet there's a huge rise in dropped packets before it happens,
right?
How can I tell? I tried this but it suggests no dropped packets.
# ip -s -d a
3: wlp2s0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
UP group defa
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
echo '0' >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack
No change.
Intel NUC is getting 98kbps downloads of the exact same file from the same AP
as the Mac, but the Mac is at 1200kbps. And today, even an 'nm
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Chris Murphy wrote:
Hi,
I have a super annoying problem that is not Fedora specific, but it's
been driving me nuts for a few weeks. Any idea for a more appropriate
forum to post this in is as useful as an idea what's going on or next
steps.
[snip]
I think this is a prob
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Justin Brown wrote:
It has to be an older one -- not a brand new one or you run into the same
problem of having a too-new adapter.
That's not true. It varies device by device. Some new devices have
excellent drivers. Always check http://linuxwireless.org/.
===
Gavin,
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Gavin Simpson wrote:
Nothing that jumps out at me. Here's the entries from the journal from
the last time I restarted the wifi to a point where the connection is
lost:
[snip'
Speaking as a fedora user, this has happened to me a number of times over the
years. I've post
What about this?
https://ssnjara.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/ink-checking-the-ink-level-of-your-printers-from-cli/
billo
On Fri, 20 May 2016, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
On 05/20/2016 10:35 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I want to access System Settings=>Printers on my CentOS-7
The only way I figured out how to do it was with vnc and a virtual desktop.
billo
On Fri, 20 May 2016, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I want to access System Settings=>Printers on my CentOS-7 server
from my Fedora-24beta laptop.
Is that possible?
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users mailing list
users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Tom Rivers wrote:
On 2/4/2016 4:07 PM, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
Is there something like denyhosts for sasl attacks? I'm getting tired
of stuff like this:
Jan 31 04:52:38 hope saslauthd[1333]: do_auth : auth failure:
[user=abby] [service=smtp] [realm=billob
Is there something like denyhosts for sasl attacks? I'm getting tired
of stuff like this:
Jan 31 04:52:38 hope saslauthd[1333]: do_auth : auth failure:
[user=abby] [service=smtp] [realm=billoblog.com] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM
auth error]
Jan 31 04:57:35 hope saslauthd[1335]: do_auth
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, stan wrote:
If you don't go with PrivacyBadger, Ghostery is also a good way to
block third party tracking sites, though it uses a look up list rather
than real time determination.
HTH
This is a little off-topic for fedora, but since you mentioned it I have
to ask. I use
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Yesterday I dnf-installed sagemath on my Fedora-23/KDE laptop.
The brought over 200 packages and about 550MB with it.
Unfortunately when I run it I get the following error:
--
[tim@william ~]$ sage
┌───
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
when being forced by my
customers to use Word.
Would you mind sharing how common this was?
It's very common in the Pathology community. I wrote two book chapters and
published abo
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Tim wrote:
I watched a friend get his box hacked four seconds after establishing a
network connection. He had to re-install to fix the problem. Same
thing happened the next two times he connected up. I just about wet
myself laughing. It took him three hacks before he wi
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, fred roller wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach
wrote:
[snip]
I am inclined to agree, very often having a drive with a live image
laying around helps.
--
Bernardo Sulzbach
--
[snip]
+1
and since I keep the important data
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[snip]
Can't really help since I gave up on Kmail years ago, but you might
want to mention at least what kind of account this is (POP, IMAP, ...)
as it could make a difference.
Why do you think the KDE list isn't working? I haven't noticed any
pro
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Stephen Davies wrote:
I have a Lexmark E120 network connected via ethernet.
Occasionally, attempts to print to this printer result in the subject error
message.
So, the only resolution that I have found is to reboot the box. The printer
then works for a while.
I'm not sur
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 07:28 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Can anyone tell me what has happened to the KDE System Settings
addin that allows customization of the Display Manager login
interface in F23? I'm looking for the interface that lets you spec
ection: name
'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.7'
Dec 30 21:20:19 localhost xinit: OpenGL vendor string:
VMware, Inc.
Dec 30 21:20:19 localhost xinit: OpenGL renderer string:
Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.7, 256 bits)
Dec 30 21:20:19 local
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 4:29:45 PM ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
1) There's no desktop cube animation option.
There is. You have to enable Desktop Cube Animation in Desktop effects.
System Settings > Desktop Behavior > Desktop Effects > Virtual Deskto
I just installed the Fedora23 KDE spin in a new laptop (HP envy). It has
gone great except for a couple of small glitches. This glitch has to do
with Activies.
When I create a Widget in an activity, it sometimes disappears when I
move it, and ends up in a different Activity. I looked in m
I just bought me a new laptop (HP envy) and installed Fedora 23 dual boot
with Win 8.1. Everything works great, but there are a couple of things
about the KDE installation that cause me a bit of a disappointment.
1) There's no desktop cube animation option. Is that a design/deployment
deci
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
Using fedora 22 (laptop), the right click of the mouse (USB) does not work.
How can I investigate ?
Thank
Regards.
===
Patrick DUPRÉ | | e
Unfortunately, the metric for "clear explanation" is not "number of pages."
(Insert obligatory derogatory humor about government bureaucracy here.)
Sent from Samsung tablet
Original message
From: "Garry T. Williams"
Date:07/05/2014 10:03 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Community s
The best article I've ever read on the change at Microsoft was a memoir by
Joel Spolsky (the "Joel on Software" blog) written in 2006. He wrote
about having to pitch a project to Bill Gates, and how important it was
that Gates had a technical background. See:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/i
Yes, I mean the second. I appreciate the ability to go in and type "yum
update" all the time for all the great bug fixes and such. It's the
have-to-do-a-full-version thing on a rigid schedule I don't think is necessary.
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Ian Malone wrote:
On 1 November 2012 16:31, wro
Personally, I think the problem is the obsession with regular upgrades to
new versions on a rigid schedule whether an upgrade is warranted or not,
not the fact that they're failing in that obsession. If I have Fedora 17
installed and things haven't changed so much, then just upgrade the
exis
My solution is completely empirical -- having had it work a few times in
the past. Whenever I have had problems with codecs and such, I install
mplayer and ffmpeg and all the files yum drags in with it. That seems to
fix the problem about 90% of the time...
billo
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Vikr
I did -- he said that it was my responsibility to upgrade the virtual
machine. The service they would provide would only be a reinstall of the
image of Fedora 16. The bottom line is that I'm give a virtual box and 5
static ips, and all maintenance is my responsibility.
billo
On Thu, 25 Oc
Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the
right one.
I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16. I
want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but am
stuck. The instructions I read said to reboot and then choose
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