Re: Errors in Classifying Updates

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-15 02:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > But this discussion is rather irrelevant anyway. You're not going to get > > what you want. Online updates are not "supported". You can do them if you > > want, but you are on your own. I do onl

Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread jon.inga...@telia.com
I have computer which I build for 13 years ago. I have just replaced the battery on the motherboard and could restart the computer and everything worked OK. The I needed to restart the the computer again and it did not boot from the hard drive. I could start it from SystemRescueCD and the file sy

Re: Errors in Classifying Updates

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-15 16:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-15 02:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> But this discussion is rather irrelevant anyway. You're not going to get >>> what you want. Online updates are not "supported". You can do them i

Re: Errors in Classifying Updates

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 17:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-15 16:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 2020-05-15 02:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > But this discussion is rather irrelevant anyway. You're not going to > > > > get wh

Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with XFS) without me doing anything. However gsmartcontrol

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the docking station's "

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread Roger Heflin
I am not entirely sure how it booted after replacing the battery, but this sounds like a bios setting got cleared and/or reset. My 10 year old MB defaults to EFI on a bios reset and that will cause a failure to boot. I would try hitting the key to allow you to choose a boot device (varies by bios

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected), and

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 06:21, jon.inga...@telia.com wrote: > I have computer which I build for 13 years ago. I have just replaced the > battery on the motherboard and could restart > the computer and everything worked OK. The I needed to restart the the > computer again and it did not boot from >

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected), and

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:32:03 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: That's not a good sign, but sometimes you can still get a lot of use out of such a drive. If you don't want to spend effort figuring out where the bad sectors are, you

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:44:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: One other thing. On connecting the dock, I get this from dmesg: [259115.502000] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk [259115.505730] sd 7:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [259115.820568] md127: Warning: Device sdf1 is misaligne

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 07:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them > immediately as a RAID1 array (fo

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On 5/15/20 12:36 AM, Thorsten Schubert wrote: Your linked document [1] describes in detail how to mitigate and also lists the associated performance degradation. LWN also provides a good summary for L1TF [2]. Yeah, I am reading up on that. But I am not a kernel developer or a kernel administrat

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On 5/15/20 1:03 AM, stan via users wrote: If you are the only user on your machine, you almost certainly don't have to worry about this. That is good to hear. The main threat of this attack was on cloud servers where many different users are running under virtual machines. This is the proble

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On 5/15/20 1:32 AM, stan via users wrote: After posting, I vaguely recalled that there was a javascript implementation of the sample exploit code. Now this is really scary. This makes it a potential web attack. I can't obviously live like a hermit and visit only sites that have no javascript

VLC and screen saver

2020-05-15 Thread Robin Lee
Hi I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while. The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver from blanking the screen. So somet

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:33:59 -0700 stan via users wrote: These are meant to be silos, but this attack would allow someone on one virtual machine to capture data of another virtual machine running on the same core. This gives me a naive idea. Is there any way to force the VMs to run on an isol

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On 5/14/20 11:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/14/2020 11:45 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Why?  Just for asking a question about a potential problem you've discovered on your machine? Have you seen how Linus and others responds to n00b mails ? I don't follow such things, but I bet that how h

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On 5/14/20 11:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I mitigate by ignoring it:-). (Seeing as how there I nothing I can do about it). It scares me to think that you might be right. Intel has really done downhill. It is no longer possible to use their processors at maximum throughput while ensuring data

Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

2020-05-15 Thread Richard Shaw
After upgrading to Fedora 32 my monitors no longer turn off after timeout or locking the display. Interestingly, they do for a few seconds after I lock the screen but then turn back on. The display is blank/black but the backlighting is definitely on. AMD RX580 and a LG & Acer 1080p IPS monitors.

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/14/20 9:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/20 6:49 PM, home user wrote: -bash.3[~]: dnf info zoom Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:48 ago on Thu 14 May 2020 06:49:20 PM MDT. Installed Packages Name : zoom Version  : 2.8.252201.0616 That is really old. Will an update be

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:12, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On 5/14/20 11:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I mitigate by ignoring it:-). (Seeing as how there I nothing I can do > > about it). > > It scares me to think that you might be right. Intel has really done > downhill. > Racing for the botto

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 08:50 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them > > immediately as a RAID

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:34:43 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:33:59 -0700 > > stan via users wrote: > > > >> These are meant to > >> be silos, but this attack would allow someone on one virtual > >> machine to capture data of another virtual machine running on the > >>

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:32:10 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On 5/15/20 1:32 AM, stan via users wrote: > > After posting, I vaguely recalled that there was a javascript > > implementation of the sample exploit code. > > Now this is really scary. > > This makes it a potential web attack. I c

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:29:31 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On 5/15/20 1:03 AM, stan via users wrote: > > If you are the only user on your machine, you almost certainly don't > > have to worry about this. > That is good to hear. > > The main threat of this attack was on cloud servers where m

Re: Too Many Clicks

2020-05-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 5/15/20 12:27 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-15 12:01, Robert McBroom via users wrote: In Xfce, I was looking at the settings for the mouse and clicked the button to turn it off.  Now the cursor sits in the middle of the screen and I have very few options for control.  A few pop ups with

Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread S.Bob
Recently practically every website I visit makes me fill out a captcha, and to make it worse they all seem busted, I click all the trains and get a "try again", click all the buses "try again" usually I get into the site after 4 or 5 attempts if I havent already given up... Anyone else seeing

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 08:50 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > > docking station for them.

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:09, S.Bob wrote: > Recently practically every website I visit makes me fill out a captcha, > and to make it worse they all seem busted, I click all the trains and > get a "try again", click all the buses "try again" usually I get into > the site after 4 or 5 attempts if

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 09:08:52 -0600 "S.Bob" wrote: > Recently practically every website I visit makes me fill out a > captcha, and to make it worse they all seem busted, I click all the > trains and get a "try again", click all the buses "try again" usually > I get into the site after 4 or 5 attem

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread bruce
Hey Bob! I'm not going to rant in all caps that this is off topic!! ) While this has nothing to do with tech at all, it is a break from the horror of the daily newscasts. And yeah, captchas are a royal/unnecessary pain. If your site is getting hit by crawlers, and you have data you really don't

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread Kevin Becker
I use SimpleNote and the login page says "protected by reCAPTCHA" but there is no captcha to solve. Nevertheless, the first login attempt always says I failed the captcha (that I didn't do) and the next one lets me in. So maybe they've just streamlined it to skip the theater of failing to identif

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread jon.inga...@telia.com
>Ursprungligt meddelande >Från : rogerhef...@gmail.com >Datum : 2020-05-15 - 13:31 () >Till : jon.inga...@telia.com, users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Ämne : Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive > >I am not entirely sure how it booted after replacing the battery, but >this sounds like a

Re: VLC and screen saver

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 14:02:17 +0200 Robin Lee wrote: > The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some > video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc > process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver > from blanking the screen. So sometim

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, stan wrote: > Or maybe it is researchers using the captcha to train their AI, and > they just want more input? :-) This suspicion is not new: https://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/nexus2cee_xkcd-self-driving.png Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 17:34 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:33:59 -0700 > > stan via users wrote: > > > > > These are meant to > > > be silos, but this attack would allow someone on one virtual machine to > > > capture data of another virtual machine running on the same

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 17:37 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On 5/14/20 11:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 05/14/2020 11:45 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > > Why? Just for asking a question about a potential problem you've > > > > discovered on your machine? > > > Have you seen how Linus and

LibreOffice author information

2020-05-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am editing a doc from others and can't find where to enable my name for my edits and comments.  It is coming up Unknown Author. I looked in Tools > Options but they only have address info there, not author. Appreciate help.  This should be obvious, but it seems I am being oblivious? __

Re: VLC and screen saver

2020-05-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/15/20 8:02 AM, Robin Lee wrote: Hi I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while. The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc process running in the background and it prevents the screen

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread Christopher Marlow
I've never had problems with Capcha's before. Normally I select the stop lights or crosswalks or bus's or whatever it wants me to do and I get in the first time. Hmm, odd that you are having to do them twice and three times to get in. Chris ch...@cwm030.com _

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread Zachary Snyder
This happens to me on any operating system occasionally, my privacy badger/ ad blocker is usually the culprit On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:26 AM Kevin Becker wrote: > I use SimpleNote and the login page says "protected by reCAPTCHA" but > there is no captcha to solve. Nevertheless, the first login

Solved - Re: LibreOffice author information

2020-05-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Finally got a hit on Google that pointed me back to where I missed setting my name. Oh well On 5/15/20 11:31 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am editing a doc from others and can't find where to enable my name for my edits and comments.  It is coming up Unknown Author. I looked in Tools > O

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:25:04 +0200 (CEST) "jon.inga...@telia.com" wrote: > The question is how can I repair the boot partition? Since you are running legacy BIOS, I think you mean the MBR at the start of the drive, right? The command to do that is grub-install /dev/[sda] where sda is the name

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:48:33 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/14/20 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 05/14/2020 07:58 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > >> No, there will not be. Zoom isn't packaged in Fedora. You manually > >> installed > >> it. You'll have to reach out to the vendor for that one. >

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/15/20 12:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:48:33 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/20 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/14/2020 07:58 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: No, there will not be. Zoom isn't packaged in Fedora. You manually installed it. You'll have to reach out to

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 12:05:59 -0400 Zachary Snyder wrote: > This happens to me on any operating system occasionally, my privacy > badger/ ad blocker is usually the culprit Since I run privacy badger, maybe that is what I am seeing also. I don't have an ad blocker, though I do run noscript, so it

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:28:44 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > This suspicion is not new: > > > https://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/nexus2cee_xkcd-self-driving.png Heh. That explains the accidents. :-) ___ users mailing list --

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the docking station's "clone" button? It say

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with XFS)

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 09:08 -0600, S.Bob wrote: > Recently practically every website I visit makes me fill out a > captcha, and to make it worse they all seem busted, I click all the > trains and get a "try again", click all the buses "try again" usually > I get into the site after 4 or 5 attempts

Re: L1TF CPU bug present - What do I do now ?

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 4:55 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I am just curious, but how many of these vulnerabilities do you find on AMD CPUs ? Very few. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedora

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 9:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/15/20 12:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Btw, I tried the background images option with the latest update (only). It made me into a ghost, with only my hair and outline superimposed. My students would have nothing with it so I went back to using the

Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of the list entries to spam.  I noticed because all that was coming through on thunderbird were replies. Anyone had similar experience? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of the list entries to spam.  I noticed because all that was coming through on thunderbird were replies. Anyone had similar experience? I also use Thunderbird, and o

Re: VLC and screen saver

2020-05-15 Thread Robin Lee
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 08:25 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 14:02:17 +0200 > Robin Lee wrote: > > > The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched > > some > > video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc > > process running in the backgroun

Re: VLC and screen saver

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote: I had a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com but didn't find a VLC component there. Mine vlc rpm package comes from RPM Fusion. Is there some other way to get it? rpmfusion has their own bugzilla: https://rpmfusion.org/ReportingBugs Or you can try reporting

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread home user
Samuel's suggestion to > You need to download the new rpm (which always has the same name) > and install it with "dnf install zoom_x86_64.rpm" did work. I'm not sure now whether what I called an "error message" really is an error message or just letting me know the install did something.  I see

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread Roger Heflin
Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot block missing, grub stage1.5-3 pieces missing, grub.conf missing corrupted and/or kernel/initramfs files, missing boot flag on the partition. What message does it give you when you attempt to boot up? And in general except for a single

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 12:35 PM, home user wrote: Samuel's suggestion to > You need to download the new rpm (which always has the same name) > and install it with "dnf install zoom_x86_64.rpm" did work. I'm not sure now whether what I called an "error message" really is an error message or just letting m

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread jon.inga...@telia.com
>Ursprungligt meddelande >Från : rogerhef...@gmail.com >Datum : 2020-05-15 - 21:40 () >Till : users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Kopia : jon.inga...@telia.com, upai...@zoho.com >Ämne : Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive > >Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot bl

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:28 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:27 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do a

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce set to 'off'. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 16:42, Roger Heflin wrote: > Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot block > missing, grub stage1.5-3 pieces missing, grub.conf missing corrupted > and/or kernel/initramfs files, missing boot flag on the partition. > Don't overlook hardware issues.

Re: VLC and screen saver

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-15 20:02, Robin Lee wrote: > Hi > > I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while. > > The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some > video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc > process running in the background and it prevents t

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 2:41 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce set to 'off'. First, is that the right md number? But also, you can'

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 14:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 2:41 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action > > > > That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforc

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action > > That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce > set to 'off'. > This can happend if you run :

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15May2020 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with XFS)

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread home user
(On 5/15/20 1:56 PM, Samuel wrote): > How does "April 12" match anything to do with zoom? Zoom announced "New Features Our latest release went live on April 12th. ..." I did no upgrades, patches, or installs on April 12.  I did not even know about the blender.xml file until yesterday. So I gue

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 15May2020 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Are there any general recommendations for monitoring these beasties? I don't want to change anything for the time being and will be using the thing mainly for backup, but I see there is such a thing as mdm

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:26 PM, home user wrote: (On 5/15/20 1:56 PM, Samuel wrote): > How does "April 12" match anything to do with zoom? Zoom announced "New Features Our latest release went live on April 12th. ..." I expect that would be related to their server side. The files from the zoom rpm are

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-15 13:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/14/20 9:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-15 12:30, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> That error message has nothing to do with zoom other than it calls some >>> mime update function in the post install.  I get that message regularly >>> from other updates

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
George N. White III wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:41, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >> On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action >> >> That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce >> set to 'off'.

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread home user
> On 5/15/20 3:26 PM, home user wrote: > > I expect that would be related to their server side. The files from the > zoom rpm are dated April 30. > > > The file times are not related to when they were installed. They are > from when the package was built or in the case of files that are not

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread home user
> The file times are not related to when they were installed. They are > from when the package was built or in the case of files that are not > generated during building, it's the data from the original release > source. Those times are stored in the rpm and set during install. It > also dep

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 14:39 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending > much of the list entries to spam. I noticed because all that was > coming through on thunderbird were replies. Anyone had similar > experience? I don't think

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:28 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > This is not so surprising when you realize that most NAS boxes run > Linux. Though it can be surprising to find out how they've used a drive. Such as a 4TB WD MyCloud that provides that 4TB using two 2TB partitions on the *same* drive, using

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 11:12 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > This is getting really off-topic, but you need a good solid > background color behind you for this to work well. Something like a > green or blue screen (or any other color depending on what you're > wearing). The three best background colou

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-16 02:51, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: >> Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of >> the list entries to spam.  I noticed because all that was coming through on >> thunderbird were replies. Anyone had simi

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 5/15/20 10:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-16 02:51, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of the list entries to spam.  I noticed because all that was coming through on thunderbi

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-16 11:20, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > On 5/15/20 10:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-16 02:51, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of the list entries t

Re: Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 5/15/20 1:44 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 09:08 -0600, S.Bob wrote: Recently practically every website I visit makes me fill out a captcha, and to make it worse they all seem busted, I click all the trains and get a "try again", click all the buses "try again" usually I get

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 6:04 PM, home user wrote: On 5/15/20 3:26 PM, home user wrote: I expect that would be related to their server side. The files from the zoom rpm are dated April 30. The file times are not related to when they were installed. They are from when the package was built or in the case o

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, May 15, 2020 9:59:16 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 6:04 PM, home user wrote: > > >> On 5/15/20 3:26 PM, home user wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> I expect that would be related to their server side. The files from the > >> zoom rpm are dated April 30. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> The f

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 7:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-16 02:51, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of the list entries to spam.  I noticed because all that was coming through on thunderbir

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 10:00 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Friday, May 15, 2020 9:59:16 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/20 6:04 PM, home user wrote: ok. Thank-you, Samuel. So you're in Pacific time? I wondered if someone would try to work that out. :-) I'm betting MST. I guess my answer wasn't

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2020 08:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Do not automatically mark mail as junk if the sender is in: Collected Addresses Personal Address Book doesn't function? No, because I don't have it collect addresses. And, this isn't about marking messages as junk, it's about false positi

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2020 09:25 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: The complain above I was responding to was, "I get newsletters about VA benefits that are almost always marked as scams and the program doesn't let you whitelist an address" Certainly the From: address of newsletters one subscribes to has a consistent

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2020 11:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm pretty sure he was referring to Yahoo, not Thunderbird. No, I started out by specifying Thunderbird. I don't use yahoo mail and never have. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository. [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, May 15, 2020 10:08:37 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 10:00 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > On Friday, May 15, 2020 9:59:16 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 5/15/20 6:04 PM, home user wrote: > >> > >>> ok. Thank-you, Samuel. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> So you're in Pacific

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-16 13:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 7:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-16 02:51, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much of the list entries to spam.  I not

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-16 13:30, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/15/2020 08:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Do not automatically mark mail as junk if the sender is in: >>   Collected Addresses >>   Personal Address Book >> >> doesn't function? > > No, because I don't have it collect addresses.  And, this isn't abo

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 10:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-16 13:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm pretty sure he was referring to Yahoo, not Thunderbird. Then why did he say "I've also seen messages from the list with a warning that T'bird thinks it's a scam"? and when he said "the program doesn't let you w

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2020 11:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Then why did he say "I've also seen messages from the list with a warning that T'bird thinks it's a scam"? and when he said "the program doesn't let you whitelist an address" how would that relate to yahoo I didn't equate yahoo with a program. I was r

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2020 11:55 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: So, if you add the address from the VA into your addressbook do they still get marked as scams? I'm not sure if it's worth trying, as it only happens on occasion, just as it doesn't happen very often to posts on this list. ___

Re: Thunderbird quirk

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/15/2020 08:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Do not automatically mark mail as junk if the sender is in:   Collected Addresses   Personal Address Book doesn't function? No, because I don't have it collect addresses.  And, this isn't about marking mes