External screen turns off after suspend (i3wm) after upgrading from fc31 to fc33

Hello users@, I've upgraded my thinkpad from fc31 to 33 a few weeks ago, and since then I'm having problems with my external monitor. First, how things used to work: I keep my laptop in its dock, on which I have plugged in an VGA monitor through a KVM. When I undocked (or unplugged the displ

Changing the default video device

I have an onboard IGPU (Intel i915) and an external Nvidia GTX card, both connected to a single monitor via an HDMI switch. The proprietary Nvidia driver from RPMfusion is installed and loaded, according to lsmod. Since installing F33 the system always comes up on the i915. On earlier versions I w

what are the rules for dnf downgrade?

Hi All, Fedora 33 wine-5.22-1.fc33.x86_64 As of Wine 5.22, Lotus Approach now crashes on start up. Word Pro is okay. Approach is critical to my business. I reported the issue over at: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50242 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=190381

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 12/4/20 10:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: [... snip ...] So, you can just sudo systemctl --now disable libvirtd Without the "--now" you'd have to reboot for this to take effect. hmmm...  Samuel beat you to it.  I'll very soon be shutting down for the night anyway. I was unaware of bei

Re: what are the rules for dnf downgrade?

On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 02:38:04PM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Downgrading to wine-5.18-2.fc33.x86_6 fixes the issue. > Question. What are the rules as to how long wine 5.18 > will be available for downgrade? Updates are replaced on the mirrors when new ones come in. However, except in

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 06/12/2020 06:53, home user wrote: The first part was intended to be taken somewhat humorously. Yes, as was my reply It wouldn't be a fair contest since Samuel is one time zone away and you're 15 time zones away (if I remember correctly, and neither of you has moved).  :) But, wit

Re: what are the rules for dnf downgrade?

On 12/5/20 3:17 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 02:38:04PM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Downgrading to wine-5.18-2.fc33.x86_6 fixes the issue. Question. What are the rules as to how long wine 5.18 will be available for downgrade? Updates are replaced on the mirrors w

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 12/5/20 2:53 PM, home user wrote: On 12/4/20 10:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I pretty much think this topic has been totally addressed and feel there really is no need to go about tilting at windmills. Strange expression.  Haven't heard it before.  I'll have to ask those Dutch organists that

KDE Startx -

I usually run XFCE wit startx" at boot. I dnf group installed KDE but I find that it does not start with the same start command. Will this work? If so, what is the proper command in Fedora-33 after using "switchdesk" and rebooting? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFC

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:32 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:50 PM Qiyu Yan wrote: >> >> >> No > > > How can I shut off the ZRAM swap ? Sreyan, it's OK to be confused and ask a lot of questions. However, Qiyu did go to the trouble to refer you to the swap-on-zram fe

Re: KDE Startx -

On 06/12/2020 08:14, Bob Goodwin wrote: I usually run XFCE wit startx" at boot. I dnf group installed KDE but I find that it does not start with the same start command. Will this work? If so, what is the proper command in Fedora-33 after using "switchdesk" and rebooting? You want to start the

Re: what are the rules for dnf downgrade?

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, at 2:38 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 33 > wine-5.22-1.fc33.x86_64 > > As of Wine 5.22, Lotus Approach now crashes on start up. I switched to wine "stable" via winehq. I had a similar breakage and found that Fedora was giving a bit of a bleeding ed

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

(part 1) After the experience of this thread, a tool I'd like to see is something like netstat or ss or the network activity (bottom panel) of the ksysguard, except it would show: * incoming traffic after firewall screening but before the "passed" traffic reaches the rest of the system, and *

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 19:28:15 -0700 home user wrote: > and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more useful for things connected to the internet at large s

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

On 12/5/20 7:43 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 19:28:15 -0700 home user wrote: and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more useful for th

rpm --rebuilddb error

Hi All, How do I fix this? # rpm --rebuilddb error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied) Many thanks, -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis

Re: what are the rules for dnf downgrade?

On 12/5/20 5:41 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, at 2:38 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 33 wine-5.22-1.fc33.x86_64 As of Wine 5.22, Lotus Approach now crashes on start up. I switched to wine "stable" via winehq. I had a similar breakage and found that Fedora was giv

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

On 12/5/20 4:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Google would have told you right away: Don Quixote I haven't read the book, but I'm aware of the expression.  Now I'm curious and will have to ask around to see how generally well-known it is It's still well-known 400 years after it was published. __

Re: rpm --rebuilddb error

On 12/5/20 7:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: How do I fix this? # rpm --rebuilddb error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied) Are you getting selinux errors? What does "ls -alZ /var/lib/rpm" show? Try "restorecon -rv /var/lib/rpm" __

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

On 12/5/20 6:43 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 19:28:15 -0700 home user wrote: and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more useful for th

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

On 12/5/20 9:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more useful for things connected to the internet at large since you'll

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 17:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > There definitely is no free lunch with swap-on-zram, but it helps > quite a lot for most workloads. I'm curious how dedicating some of your RAM for swap, therefore having less RAM, is more beneficial than just using your RAM as RAM. --

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 21:43 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly > ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally > this is more useful for things connected to the internet at large > since you'll just get random probes rath

Re: rpm --rebuilddb error

On 12/5/20 8:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/20 7:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: How do I fix this? # rpm --rebuilddb error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied) Are you getting selinux errors? yes > What does "ls -alZ /var/lib/rpm" show? #

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, at 9:03 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 17:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > There definitely is no free lunch with swap-on-zram, but it helps > > quite a lot for most workloads. > > I'm curious how dedicating some of your RAM for swap, therefore having > less

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:03 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 17:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > There definitely is no free lunch with swap-on-zram, but it helps > > quite a lot for most workloads. > > I'm curious how dedicating some of your RAM for swap, therefore having > les

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

On 06/12/2020 12:49, home user wrote: On 12/5/20 9:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more useful for things connecte

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:37 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, which "echo" command fails? > > Do these exist? > > /sys/power/disk > /sys/power/state > $ ll /sys/power/disk -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Dec 6 12:53 /sys/power/disk $ ll /sys/power/state -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Dec 6 12:53 /sys

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:47 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > It's more like having a TARDIS in your room if you understand that > reference. It takes up some space, but it's bigger on the inside. :-) > Sorry not a Doctor Who fan. It's way too convoluted a plot for me. :-) > Although in this case, it d

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:44 AM Jon LaBadie wrote: > Because your needs are not my needs. > > I have no use for hibernation. > > I may have a need for fast, ram-based swap. > I understand my workflows are not your workflows. But my question is how can you conserve RAM by using more RAM ? That

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 12:18 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Because there isn't one that can do everything. With both, you get fast > swap, but also the ability to hibernate. > To be honest, I have not seen any performance or responsiveness improvement with ZRAM. Hence I am very suspicious when it c

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 10:33 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 17:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > There definitely is no free lunch with swap-on-zram, but it helps > > quite a lot for most workloads. > > I'm curious how dedicating some of your RAM for swap, therefore having > less

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On 12/5/20 11:45 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:47 AM Samuel Sieb > wrote: But what you are saying is that if I have 8 GB of RAM and let's say 3 GB is actually full of zram swap pages, then, by that logic, applications will have 3GB less RAM to ope

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:13 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM#Detailed_Description > > Let me know if you have questions not answered there. A key point is > this is not a preallocation. Creating a 4G /dev/zram0 device doesn't > reserve or consume 4G. It'

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

On 12/5/20 11:49 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 12:18 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: Because there isn't one that can do everything.  With both, you get fast swap, but also the ability to hibernate. To be honest, I have not seen any performan