Re: how to correctly log without journald (and its blobs)?

2018-04-09 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Christian Kujau wrote: > > I was able to disable journald similar to this: > > systemctl stop systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald.socket > systemd-journald.service > systemctl mask systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald.socket > systemd-jour

vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread Wolfgang S Rupprecht
How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I have an ancient 32-bit x86 Acer mini laptop running as a server where the X11 greeter just started crashing in a tight loop. I've turned the graphical login off but that leaves me with the first vt's login prompt displaying. Whatev

How to install compiler package.

2018-04-09 Thread sales
Installed Fedora 26 on recommendation of a Scribus developer. Installed about 30 packages per his advice. But when I try to compile a program the machine can't find C++. So what is the package I need to install to compile C++ programs?. Another question. On Slackware (yes I am one of those) I

Re: How to install compiler package.

2018-04-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi John, sa...@wexfordpress.com wrote: > Installed Fedora 26 on recommendation of a Scribus > developer. Installed about 30 packages per his advice. > > But when I try to compile a program the machine can't find > C++. So what is the package I need to install to compile > C++ programs?. gcc-c+

RPM Fusion down?

2018-04-09 Thread fedora2015
Just installed Fedora 27 and cannot install rpm fusion...is it down? Not really sure how to check if it is... and if it isn't...what my problem might be... # rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarch.rpm Retrieving https://download1.rpmfusion.org/f

gthumb: ... Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found

2018-04-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
out of nowhere just now, gthumb has suddenly stopped being able to display simple graphics files, with the diagnostic: ** (gthumb:6069): CRITICAL **: 13:15:22.317: Failed to parse arguments: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found. this is an ASUS gaming laptop,

Re: RPM Fusion down?

2018-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/09/2018 10:18 AM, fedora2015 wrote: Just installed Fedora 27 and cannot install rpm fusion...is it down? Not really sure how to check if it is... and if it isn't...what my problem might be... The rpmfusion mailing lists would be a better place to ask. curl: (7) Failed to connect to down

Re: RPM Fusion down?

2018-04-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/09/2018 10:18 AM, fedora2015 wrote: > Just installed Fedora 27 and cannot install rpm fusion...is it down? Not > really sure how to check if it is... and if it isn't...what my problem > might be... > > > # rpm -ivh > https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noar

Re: How to install compiler package.

2018-04-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/09/2018 09:57 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Hi John, > > sa...@wexfordpress.com wrote: >> Installed Fedora 26 on recommendation of a Scribus >> developer. Installed about 30 packages per his advice. >> >> But when I try to compile a program the machine can't find >> C++. So what is the packag

Re: gthumb: ... Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found

2018-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/18 01:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > last friday, i did a system-upgrade from f27 to f28 beta Have you considered asking on the "test" list?  That is the place for beta questions. -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact. signature.asc Des

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread stan
On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700 Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after whatever the default is (10 minutes?). I don't know where the actual setting is, though. But you co

Re: RPM Fusion down?

2018-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/09/2018 10:23 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: It's up for me. Have you tried pinging download1.rpmfusion.org and telnetting to port 443? Here's what I see: [root@golem4 ~]# ping download1.rpmfusion.org PING download1.rpmfusion.org (193.28.235.60) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from download1.rpmfu

Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

2018-04-09 Thread Go Canes
I thought the rpmfusion version was the open source virtualbox, whereas the one from Oracle was the closed source version (that includes more functionality such as USB support). I could easily be wrong. FWIW I use the Oracle repo as I need the USB support.

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread Wolfgang S Rupprecht
stan writes: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700 > Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > >> How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? > > I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after > whatever the default is (10 minutes?). I don't know where the actual > set

Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

2018-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/18 03:42, Go Canes wrote: > I thought the rpmfusion version was the open source virtualbox, > whereas the one from Oracle was the closed source version (that > includes more functionality such as USB support). I could easily be > wrong. FWIW I use the Oracle repo as I need the USB suppor

how to use a systemd service, without making it persistent ?

2018-04-09 Thread sean darcy
I want to start a systemd service (dhcpd) , but only if a link to the internet is present. I don't want the service to start on boot. systemctl start doesn't work unless the service is enabled. This works, but it's very kludgy: if systemctl enable systemctl start systemctl disable fi

Re: how to use a systemd service, without making it persistent ?

2018-04-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 3:56 PM, sean darcy wrote: > I want to start a systemd service (dhcpd) , but only if a link to the > internet is present. I don't want the service to start on boot. > There are multiple ways to start a service, you can google that... > > systemctl start doesn't work un

Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

2018-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 04:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/10/18 03:42, Go Canes wrote: > > I thought the rpmfusion version was the open source virtualbox, > > whereas the one from Oracle was the closed source version (that > > includes more functionality such as USB support). I could easily be

Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

2018-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/18 05:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 04:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 04/10/18 03:42, Go Canes wrote: >>> I thought the rpmfusion version was the open source virtualbox, >>> whereas the one from Oracle was the closed source version (that >>> includes more functi

Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

2018-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/18 06:11, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/10/18 05:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 04:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 04/10/18 03:42, Go Canes wrote: I thought the rpmfusion version was the open source virtualbox, whereas the one from Oracle was the closed so

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread stan
On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700 Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and > you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how > that would work from rc.local. How would I tell it to do that to all > the vt's? (I trie

Re: gthumb crash (after enabling vdpau?)

2018-04-09 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
If anyone is interested, this is now on redhat bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564794 HTH On 03/04/18 11:21, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I recently replaced my graphics card (with NVIDIA GT 710). A newer nvidia module was installed kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.15.7-200 -> k

Re: gthumb crash (after enabling vdpau?)

2018-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/18 13:04, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > If anyone is interested, this is now on redhat bugzilla > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564794 > > I don't see in the BZ where you indicate you're using the nVidia binary drivers.  I think you should mention that bit of information.