Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-07 Thread Christopher Ross
On 06/09/17 12:41, Tim wrote: Robin Laing And, is it still feasible to run the OS on old hardware? On my older 32-bit PCs, the notion of running Gnome or KDE is impossible. They're too slow for being fancy with the graphics card. And, some can't even run a modern distro, because they can only

Upgrade from f19

2017-09-07 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
[resend, never saw the first one] I have a server running f19 (don't ask). It is heavily customised so I prefer to not do a fresh install of f26 and reconfigure everything. I am reading the upgrade guide at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?rd=Upgrade which says (Upgrading from En

Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
I took the following quote from from the recent thread "Fedora 25 not booting after update" - didn't want to hijack that thread and therefore started this new one: On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 01:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: [ ... ] > I use Gnome and I still do my updates directly online with dnf. It'

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 14:16 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > did you, or anyone else, find a way to > upgrade safely without the need to reboot? On Gnome? > Please note: I'm not talking about a full version upgrade from let's say F25 to F26 - just about the usual upgrades inside a single Fedora

Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-07 Thread Jeff Backus
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Tim wrote: > > And, is it still feasible to run the OS on old hardware? On my older > 32-bit PCs, the notion of running Gnome or KDE is impossible. They're > too slow for being fancy with the graphics card. And, some can't even > run a modern distro, because they

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > I took the following quote from from the recent thread "Fedora 25 not > booting after update" - didn't want to hijack that thread and therefore > started this new one: > > On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 01:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > [ ... ] > >>

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 14:52 +0200, Jon Ingason wrote: > Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > > Please note: I'm not talking about a full version upgrade from let's > > say > > F25 to F26 - just about the usual upgrades inside a single Fedora > > version .. > > OK, then you need

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2017-09-07 kl. 15:32, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 14:52 +0200, Jon Ingason wrote: >> Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > > > >>> Please note: I'm not talking about a full version upgrade from let's >>> say >>> F25 to F26 - just about the usual upgrades i

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/07/2017 09:32 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > See? "The safest possible way to update a Fedora system is to use the > ‘offline updates’ mechanism." > > That's why I started the thread. Again: I use dnf, not the GNOME update > mechanism, but from how I understand A. Williamsen, this might also

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/07/2017 09:32 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > See? "The safest possible way to update a Fedora system is to use > > the > > ‘offline updates’ mechanism." > > > > That's why I started the thread. Again: I use dnf, not the GNOME > > updat

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 15:48 +0200, Jon Ingason wrote: > Den 2017-09-07 kl. 15:32, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 14:52 +0200, Jon Ingason wrote: > > > Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > > > > > > > > > > Please note: I'm not talking about a full version upgr

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Ditto here: Gnome here (plus KDE installed, but rarely used) and I also > update via dnf only, i.e. I log out of Gnome, log in to a tty, run > "dnf upgrade", and reboot - did you, or anyone else, find a way to > upgrade safely wi

Re: dillo's ssl support does not work with F26

2017-09-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 17-09-06 14:03:44, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/06/2017 09:40 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > Dillo's ssl support seems to be broken in F26 (and has been since the day it was released). Here is what happens: > > Go to https://www.nytimes.com/ > > The webpage says that Dillo's prototype plug

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > The best thing to do after an update via dnf is to run "dnf > needs-restarting". This > will give you a list of processes that could potentially be impacted by the > last > update by, for example, some libraries being updated. AFAIK this ha

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 04:46:26PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The best thing to do after an update via dnf is to run "dnf > > needs-restarting". This > > will give you a list of processes that could potentially be impacted by the > > last > > update by, for example, some libraries bei

Re: Upgrade from f19

2017-09-07 Thread stan
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:03:15 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > [resend, never saw the first one] > > I have a server running f19 (don't ask). It is heavily customised so > I prefer to not do a fresh install of f26 and reconfigure everything. > > I am reading the upgrade guide at > https://fed

Re: adobe acroread not working on F26?

2017-09-07 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Neal Becker wrote: Starting acroread, it just silently exits. AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Yesterday, I

Re: Upgrade from f19

2017-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/07/2017 05:03 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > [resend, never saw the first one] > > I have a server running f19 (don't ask). It is heavily customised so I > prefer > to not do a fresh install of f26 and reconfigure everything. > > I am reading the upgrade guide at > https://fedoraproject.o

Re: ip forwarding/masquerading and dhcpd

2017-09-07 Thread Bill Shirley
If the device doesn't get an address, you're still before the iptables/forwarding stage. Look in your log files for DHCP messages. Bill On 9/6/2017 3:46 PM, JD wrote: Hi, My em1 is config'ed as: ifconfig em1 inet 10.10.10.1 up netmask 0xff00 The wifi is connected to and internet and wor

Re: dillo's ssl support does not work with F26

2017-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:27:03 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: > On 17-09-06 14:03:44, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 09/06/2017 09:40 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Dillo's ssl support seems to be broken in F26 (and has been since > > the day it was released). Here is what happens: > > > >

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:00 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > [ ... ] > Note also that in the event of security problems, you may still have > stuff running with the old versions in memory. Run `sudo dnf > needs-restarting` to see what needs to restart; often a reboot is just > _easier_. Easier, yes,

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/07/2017 03:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: After a full reboot then, 'dnf needs-restarting' now yields nothing. Of course it does. running dnf needs-restarting gives you a list of programs that either have been updated more recently than their last start or are using shared resources t

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 00:39 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I did an upgrade on a tmux session, on a tty - quite a few packages got > upgraded, glibc among them. Updating glibc means you need to reboot anyway. Essentially everything depends on it. poc ___

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/07/2017 11:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> The best thing to do after an update via dnf is to run "dnf >> needs-restarting". This >> will give you a list of processes that could potentially be impacted by the >> last >> update by,

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 15:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/07/2017 03:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > After a full reboot then, 'dnf needs-restarting' now yields nothing. > > Of course it does. running dnf needs-restarting gives you a list of > programs that either have been updated more rec

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 07:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/07/2017 11:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > The best thing to do after an update via dnf is to run "dnf > > > needs-restarting". This > > > will give you a list of processe

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Andrew Toskin
> Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > You only need to reboot if the kernel is updated. Supposedly there are ways to get around this even this, but I can't find a way to make it work. kSplice smoothly switches the running system to the new kernel, but Oracle acquired the projec

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/07/2017 05:20 PM, Andrew Toskin wrote: >> Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: >> You only need to reboot if the kernel is updated. > > Supposedly there are ways to get around this even this, but I can't find a > way to make it work. > > kSplice smoothly switches the running

Re: ip forwarding/masquerading and dhcpd

2017-09-07 Thread JD
On 09/07/2017 01:31 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: On 9/6/2017 3:46 PM, JD wrote: Hi, My em1 is config'ed as: ifconfig em1 inet 10.10.10.1 up netmask 0xff00 The wifi is connected to and internet and working OK. em1 is the lan. I have the following /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file DHCPDARGS=em1; dd