Skype rpms discontinued

2024-06-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&p=1883992 Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype https://snapcraft.io/install/skype/fedora ? Thanks in advance, Paul --

grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, I am still stuck with my installation. Question Why grub2-mkconfig says Found Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) on /dev/sdb11 Found Fedora Linux 40 (Forty) on /dev/sdc3 Found Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) on /dev/mapper/VolSys_2-root Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Se

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Barry Scott
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 11:35, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > but in the generated file (grub.cfg) there is no reference to Fedora 40 > or sdc3 Fedora use BLS (boot loader specifcations) that are in /boot/loader/entries. grub, by default, scans that folder and adds all the entries to the me

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:35:37 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > but in the generated file (grub.cfg) there is no reference to Fedora 40 > or sdc3 What do you see in the grub2.cfg file section with the "10_linux" header? -- ___ users mailing list --

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:35:37 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > but in the generated file (grub.cfg) there is no reference to Fedora 40 > > or sdc3 > > What do you see in the grub2.cfg file section with the "10_linux" header? ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### insmod part_gpt insmod ext

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
In my case   -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 160 Jun  4 12:26 11b839ed895a4a55a8ef89bc2dcec102-0-memtest86+.conf -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 417 Jun  4 12:26 11b839ed895a4a55a8ef89bc2dcec102-0-rescue.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 362 Jun  4 12:26 11b839ed895a4a55a8ef89bc2dcec102-6.8.7-100.fc38.x86_64.conf -rw

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:11:03 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 > --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 > 0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-e6187c589cde > else > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:11:03 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 > > --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 > > 0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-e6187c589cde > > else > > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root > > 0ab8

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Barry Scott
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:11, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > Fedora 38 when I will be sure that I can have control on the full > installation. > The risk is that I lost more control, typically on the installation of sda4 The way I test out new Fedora releases is to see if the live image

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
    On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:11, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:   Fedora 38 when I will be sure that I can have control on the full installation. The risk is that I lost more control, typically on the installation of sda4   The way I test out new Fedora releases is to see if the live image w

No screen blanking after inactivity, Framework 16 laptop

2024-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I installed the F40 XFCE Spin on a Framework 16 laptop. Display power management is enabled but the laptop display does not blank after the prescribed period of inactivity, whether the laptop is plugged in or on battery. I tried uninstalling xfce4-screensaver, this made no difference. Does

Re: Skype rpms discontinued

2024-06-04 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 11:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued: > > https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&p=1883992 > > Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype > > https://snapcraft.io/i

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-04 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-06-03 at 15:59 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > With your message we lost the thread. The thread is there. You're not supposed to keep quoting every prior reply when you respond to messages. Messages become huge and unreadable messes. You're supposed to reply to the bits you

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Barry
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:39, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >  > > > On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:11, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > Fedora 38 when I will be sure that I can have control on the full > installation. > The risk is that I lost more control, typically on the installation of sda4 >

Re: Skype rpms discontinued

2024-06-04 Thread steven stern
It seems there's a flatpak: flatpak search skype Name Description Application ID Version Branch Remotes Skype Call and message skype users, with video chat support com.skype.Client8.119.0.201 stable flathub On 6/4/24 5:21 AM, Paul Smith

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 23:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > You're supposed to reply to the bits you're responding to, and cut > out > the rest that isn't actually needed.  Unfortunately people are > forgetting this and trying to get an entire thread inside each and > every message. > > If anyone ha

strange results of history command list

2024-06-04 Thread AV via users
This is on fedora 40, a fresh 'everything' network install. I always update/upgrade manually using 'sudo dnf --refresh upgrade'. To save typing I would scroll through the command history using the arrow keys. But 'sudo dnf --refresh upgrade' is no longer listed! All other commands I used are still

Re: strange results of history command list

2024-06-04 Thread Joe Wulf via users
It truly depends on how the default management of bash history is set up in the virgin environment.Variables like HISTCONTROL, HISTIGNORE can play a part.  The setting for 'shopt -s histappend' also matters.The BASH man page briefly explains them. R,-Joe On Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 12:17:4

Re: strange results of history command list

2024-06-04 Thread Roger Heflin
If you have 2 separate sessions open for the given user last save/exit wins and overwrites the history file. This may be an oversimplification but 2 sessions both saving out do seem to make a mess. And if there is no -TERM and/or clean exit then nothing gets written out. I have trained people on

Re: [Fedora] Re: Skype rpms discontinued

2024-06-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
Hi On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 11:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&p=1883992 Is there some alternative to using sn

Re: Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024, at 3:42 PM, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > So, if I try to reinstall from the current f40 live usb - can I do that > without touching the backup subvolume? ie: > > /dev/nvme0n1p3btrfs 1,951,850,496 464,659,184 1,486,438,224 > 24% / > /dev/nvme0n1p3btr

Re: fstab

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, at 11:06 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Hello, > > With ext4 filesystems, I used to set > > ext4noauto,errors=remount-ro1 2 > > in the fstab. > > With btrfs FS > it does not like the option errors=remount-ro That is an ext4 specific mount option. Btrfs alr

Re: /boot too small

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 2:12 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 08:27 -0700, richard emberson wrote: >> Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question: >>    "How to increase size of /boot partition" >> I had the same problem. >> >> As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, l

Re: /boot too small

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 7:27 PM, richard emberson wrote: > Poking about I see that the default workstation disk layout: >https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-docs/disk-config/ > has /boot on a ext4 partition and everything else on btrfs. > Also, the replacement for Anaconda will

Re: /boot too small

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > GRUB hidden boot menu feature depends on a really curious file called grubenv Just to note: boot-time grubenv modification is used for more than boot success/fail detection. Setting a default boot option during boot and setting a boot-once option (at least)

Re: strange results of history command list

2024-06-04 Thread AV via users
On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 16:26 +, Joe Wulf wrote: It truly depends on how the default management of bash history is set up in the virgin environment. Variables like HISTCONTROL, HISTIGNORE can play a part. The setting for 'shopt -s histappend' also matters. The BASH man page briefly explains them

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:11:22 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:11:03 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > > > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 > > > --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 > > > 0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:11:22 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:11:03 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > > > > > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 > > > > --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 > > > > 0ab8c5a6-a

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: I made some progresses, but not enough I mounted the Fedora 40 / and cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries cat /boot/loader/entries/dcdc9ed7e87243ec91d6d876cf7c3384-6.8.9-100.fc38.x86_64.conf title Fedora Linux (6.8.11-

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > I made some progresses, but not enough > > I mounted the Fedora 40 / and > > cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries > > > > cat > > /boot/loader/entries/dcdc9ed7e87243ec91d6d876cf7c3384-6.8.9-100.fc38.x86_64.conf > >

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/24 1:39 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: I made some progresses, but not enough I mounted the Fedora 40 / and cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries cat /boot/loader/entries/dcdc9ed7e87243ec91d6d876cf7c3384-6.8

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick Dupre via users composed on 2024-06-04 22:15 (UTC+0200): > I do not understand, because every thing seems OK > The file is at the right place as well as > System.map-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > initramfs-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64.img > config-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > symvers-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> Patrick Dupre via users composed on 2024-06-04 22:15 (UTC+0200): > > > I do not understand, because every thing seems OK > > The file is at the right place as well as > > System.map-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > > initramfs-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64.img > > config-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > > symvers-6.8.1

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> On 6/4/24 1:39 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > >> > >> On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > >>> I made some progresses, but not enough > >>> I mounted the Fedora 40 / and > >>> cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries > >>> > >>> cat > >>> /boot/loader/

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-06-04 13:49 (UTC-0700): > Patrick Dupre via users wrote: >> I am maintaining this machine for numerous years, it always passed the >> updates, >> but from 38 to 40, the same approach fails! > You haven't given a full explanation of your disk layout, If you provide

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 5975BF99-78B4-4807-9CE4-C2BB0B8FE075 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot /dev/sda2 6144 33560575 3355443216G Linux swap /dev/sda3 33560576 34584575 1024000 500M EFI Sy

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/24 2:57 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Model: ATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 82.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 2 1049kB 470MB 469MB primary ext4

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-06-04 15:03 (UTC-0700): > You don't have an EFI partition on this disk. It's not even a GPT > > partition table. So both installations will be fighting over the EFI > > partition on sda. And there's no easy way to add a boot entry for this > > installation. A mul

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-06-04 15:03 (UTC-0700): > You don't have an EFI partition on this disk. It's not even a GPT > partition table. So both installations will be fighting over the EFI > partition on sda. And there's no easy way to add a boot entry for this > installation. A multiboo

Re: [Fedora] Re: Skype rpms discontinued

2024-06-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: > > >> Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued: > > >> https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype&p=1883992 > > >> Is there some alternative to using snap or web-skype > > >> https://sn

How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via DAV to a git repo were failing. Eventually I succeeded in stracing the httpd process sto capture the request. It was getting an EROFS when it tried to write to the git repo. Amusing. To make a long story short, the

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:15:33 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I guess that when I run grub2-mkconfig there was a UBS key what connected on > the usb poer. > > I made some progresses, but not enough > I mounted the Fedora 40 / and > cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/ent

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Roger Heflin
The easy solution is chattr +i and that will block all further changes to the file forever. It is kind of a last resort. On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via > DAV to a git repo were failing. > > Ev

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push > via > DAV to a git repo were failing. > > Eventually I succeeded in stracing the httpd process sto capture the > request. It was getting an EROFS when it tried to write

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 7:24 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via > DAV to a git repo were failing. > > Eventually I succeeded in stracing the httpd process sto capture the > request. It was getting an EROFS when it tried to write

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Sam Varshavchik composed on 2024-06-04 19:24 (UTC-0400): > So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via > DAV to a git repo were failing. > Eventually I succeeded in stracing the httpd process sto capture the > request. It was getting an EROFS when it tried to wr