Re: IP address or DNS name (bug or feature)

2017-06-06 Thread stan
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 09:38:39 -0500 Robert Nichols wrote: > On 06/05/2017 11:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > As far as I know, there are no TLDs reserved for private > > networks. All users should use properly registered domains for all > > DNS zones, private and public. > > Swell. Happen to

Re: 2 mice: left & right handed

2017-06-06 Thread stan
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:28:03 +0100 andrea wrote: > Hi, > > running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. > One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard. > > I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right > handed. I can't answer your question, but I also use two inpu

Re: IP address or DNS name (bug or feature)

2017-06-07 Thread stan
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 17:39:20 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/07/17 04:49, Bob Marcan wrote: >> Empty mail again. What is going on? > > > Well, it seems you are using Claws Mail 3.14.1 to access your mail. > > Maybe you should use the Web interface of gmail to see if there is a > difference

Re: IP address or DNS name (bug or feature)

2017-06-07 Thread stan
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 22:33:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/07/17 22:07, stan wrote: > > I use claws mail and had no problem seeing this message. I think > > Bob didn't see it because claws doesn't allow html messages unless > > asked to. There is an option to re

Update to libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25 in F25 will break the rpm database. Repairable by rebuilding rpm database with rpm --rebuilddb

2017-06-09 Thread stan
There is an update (or test update) of libdb for F25 that, when installed, breaks the rpm database because it is incompatible. The dnf update completes, and then hangs (at least it did on my system). The fix is to remove the old rpm databases (this might be optional), and rebuild the rpm database

Re: Update to libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25 in F25 will break the rpm database. Repairable by rebuilding rpm database with rpm --rebuilddb

2017-06-09 Thread stan
On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:22:17 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > FWIW, so far I've seen no ill effects from updating to > libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25. However, I should note that I had previously > updated to libdb-5.3.28-16 from testing also with no ill effects. I suppose the subject should be *might* break t

Re: Update to libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25 in F25 will break the rpm database. Repairable by rebuilding rpm database with rpm --rebuilddb

2017-06-09 Thread stan
On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 18:20:39 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/09/2017 06:12 PM, stan wrote: > > rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? # optional? > That's not deleting the RPM database, just removing temporary files > that rpm uses. Thanks f

Re: F25 LibreOffice hung

2017-06-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:45:02 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How can I find the process and kill it? I really don't want to > boot... You can find all processes you are running by ps alx | grep -i [your user name] I think you should be able to do the same thing with top or one of the other pro

Re: F25 LibreOffice hung

2017-06-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:39:00 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I found three listed: > > 0 1000 19985 1 20 0 49204 1144 unix_s Sl ? 0:00 > /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/oosplash --calc > file:///home/rgm/data/excel/htt/expenses-2016.xls > 0 1000 20012 1 20 0 49204

Re: F25 LibreOffice hung

2017-06-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:13:03 -0700 stan wrote: > Another possibility is that the windows are artifacts at this point. > When you killed the process, it didn't clean up after itself, and left > the windows. What happens if you log your user out of X, and then log > back in? If

Re: F25 LibreOffice hung

2017-06-14 Thread stan
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:51:39 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > ps -eF --headers | grep rgm|grep libre > rgm 1989 1923 0 4926952 0 Jun08 ?00:00:02 > /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/oosplash --calc > rgm 2004 1989 0 1203439 94488 0 Jun08 ?00:23:38 > /usr/lib64/l

Re: printing envelopes? Off topic: reply behavior

2017-06-15 Thread stan
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:34:52 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > [1] I HATE having to remember to hit "Reply List". The messages came > from the list (and list server), and IMHO that's where replies should > go by default. GRR! I'm not seeing this behavior. I've been replying the same way for years

Re: OT: Firefox + html5 + Youtube "Live" vids

2017-06-16 Thread stan
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:48:08 -0600 JD wrote: > I have enabled html5, and yet youtube claims > Browser does not currently recognize any of video formats > available Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about > HTML5 video. > > > When I do click on "Click here etc" > I ge

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-18 Thread stan
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:25:41 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > gnome-password-generator will not be available in the Fedora repos > for F26 and later. Do the repos contain a good replacement? It doesn't have a gui that I know of, but I use pwgen from the Fedora repositories. It warns that the pas

Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-18 Thread stan
I recently became aware that the default umask for Fedora is 022 when it caused problems for me that I had a different umask. This seems like an anachronism, a relic of a kinder, gentler time, when the computing atmosphere was more collegiate. Is it really appropriate that new files be created for

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-18 Thread stan
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:11:11 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Minor correction, a umask 022 will set execute on new directories > (drwxr-xr-x), but not new files. They would be -rw-r--r--. Not so minor! Thanks. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorap

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-18 Thread stan
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:55:08 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > Thanks. I had actually installed pwgen a few months ago, but it > looked like the passwords weren't strong enough. > gnome-password-generator has a Character set option "All printable > (excluding space)". It appears that "pwgen -sy 30

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-18 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 05:49:20 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > You haven't described your environment. Without that knowledge any > advice on umask is questionable. Remember, umask isn't, and never > was, intended to be a high security mechanism. Home workstation with no web facing services. I could

Re: Firefox

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:28:28 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: > Not able to control the maximize control on my firefox web browser. > If I unmaximize the browser and close it out. When I log back on, it > automatically goes to maximize. Can anybody help with this matter? > Am I reporting to the l

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:55:59 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > As remarked elsewhere, it does depend on your environment. Well, yes, but it just seems that the default should be to the most secure. > I like 027 myself. Combined with setgid directories it leaves things > readable by the group of th

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:37:35 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > Pwgen uses /dev/urandom, so the statement that those passwords are > less secure than "fully" random passwords (define "fully random"..) is > merely of academical nature. The man page says they are modified to be more memorable, by some def

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:51:30 +0930 Tim wrote: > Really, what ought to get tightened up is the software accepting > logons. There should be a limited number of attempts (3 goes and your > out for a significant time limit). Any system that lets a cracker > hammer away with repeated attempts is the

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 04:48:16 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > That works as long as the website isn't hacked. If it is, even if the > passwords are hashed (which they often aren't), the hash can be > cracked if the password is weak. How? Don't the attackers have to know the password hashing algo

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 02:49:30 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > Many websites don't allow even 30 chars. One of the important ones I > use allows only 16 characters (and no 2FA option), but happens to > allow special characters. Using the largest possible character set is > the only way to shore tha

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:12:20 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > There are only a handful of commonly-used cryptographically-secure > hashes which are likely to be used, and they're relatively easy to > narrow down simply by looking at length. Or, if they're stored like > they are in /etc/shadow, the e

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:37:35 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > Pwgen uses /dev/urandom, so the statement that those passwords are > less secure than "fully" random passwords (define "fully random"..) is > merely of academical nature. > > In case of any doubt, you can always do something like > > head

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:03:35 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: > As a minor point, I'd mention that Fedora's default umask is 002, not > 022, except for the root user. Thanks. > I think either is fine. umask governs how you share files with other > authorized users of the local computer system (wh

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:35:10 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > It seemed > to be a fairly sophisticated attack. When my PayPal account was > accessed, my email account was DoS'd by sending thousands of garbage > emails to it every hour, to prevent me from reading PayPal's email > notifications asso

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:54:25 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=4422261597116577682 > > (Doesn't look like it has been turned into a commercial product > yet which kind of surprises me - probably the researchers and the > university arguing about

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:48:40 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Bear in mind that by default Fedora allocates each user to his own > private group. Presumably someone who intentionally shares group > membership is expected to understand the implications and adjust umask > if necessary. Another g

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:52:07 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > Dunno. I'm fairly private and like to end my umask in a 7 normally. > Usually discussions revolve around the group bits. > > Normally you wouldn't share membership of your personal group - this > arranges that 027 (or the like) in your

Fw: Stack clash and Fedora, new kernel vulnerability, from kernel list

2017-06-19 Thread stan
I haven't seen anyone else post about this, so this message is forwarded from the kernel list, about a new kernel vulnerability. The vulnerability is severe as it leads to root authority, but so far only local logins have been demonstrated to have the ability to exploit it. So, for most Fedora use

Re: Is default umask of 022 still reasonable for Fedora?

2017-06-19 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:25:09 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Also, please note that by default when a new user is created in > Fedora they also get a corresponding group unless you override. > Along with that the home directory is created with drwx--. > permissions. So, even if the permissions on

Re: Stack clash and Fedora, new kernel vulnerability, from kernel list

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:11:24 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 23:08 -0700, stan wrote: > > I'm running > > the kernel with the fix, and it is working fine so far.  > > As I understand it (and as the bug report appears to confirm) the fi

Re: Stack clash and Fedora, new kernel vulnerability, from kernel list

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:20:57 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > That seems like it might be impossible without architecture changes > in the chips to allow bounds checking the stack pointer in hardware > (which certainly wouldn't fix any existing systems :-). I think the kernel fix was the first solutio

Re: Stack clash and Fedora, new kernel vulnerability, from kernel list

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:08:09 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Full details are in the report already cited, but briefly the fix > causes each page of the new stack frame to be probed to make sure it > doesn't overlap with the guard page (a write-protected page created to > prevent stack and hea

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:44:20 -0400 William Oliver wrote: > Sorry to bother the fedora list, but I'm not sure where to ask. I > have a trial transcript in .ptx format I need to look at. Does > anybody know of any tool in Fedora/Linux that can read these? I think you need to sharpen your search-

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:13:00 -0400 William Oliver wrote: > > Summary - probably a text file viewable in any text editor, even > > less. > > > > [snip] > > Nope. Yeah, I saw that site. It's not readable in vim, kate, more, > less, etc. Kate complains of unrecogizable encoding. Gedit > comp

Re: cannot ssh to localhost: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:36:22 +0200 Frédéric Bron wrote: > >> -rw---. 1 egreshko egreshko > >> unconfined_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0 398 Jun 21 01:35 > >> authorized_keys > > > > Interesting, I have home_root instead of ssh_home. What does that > > mean? Does it mean that I created the .ssh d

Re: Stack clash and Fedora, new kernel vulnerability, from kernel list

2017-06-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:44:24 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: > It's not allocated memory. It's a Page Table Entry in the Kernel that > ensures that no actual memory is mapped there and that the region is > thus unreadable and unwritable. This is not unlike a swapped-out > page, except the Kernel Page

Re: Stack clash and Fedora, new kernel vulnerability, from kernel list

2017-06-21 Thread stan
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:45:31 -0700 stan wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:44:24 -0400 > Tony Nelson wrote: > > > It's not allocated memory. It's a Page Table Entry in the Kernel > > that ensures that no actual memory is mapped there and that the > > reg

Re: lightdm-gtk segfaults on first time login

2017-06-22 Thread stan
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:46:45 -0400 Kryptxy wrote: > Hello, > > I have been facing an issue with lightdm-gtk since I installed Fedora > 25 (mate desktop) in my system. > > When I boot system and try login for the first time, lightdm-gtk > segfaults and screen goes blacks for a second or so. Then

Re: Package conflict: chromium-libs-media-freeworld from rpmfusion

2017-06-22 Thread stan
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:32:16 +0200 "K. Cong" wrote: > Does anyone know the situation of Chromium and > chromium-libs-media-freeworld? It seems the new > chromium-libs-media-freeworld package from rpmfusion-free-updates has > some conflicts with packages in updates. > > dnf update gives me the fo

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:12:29 -0600 William wrote: > I want the grub menu to offer the three most recent patches of > Fedora, the most recent Fedora rescue shell, and windows-7, in that > order. (This is a dual-boot system.) And I want the shells launched > by the menu entries to be correct. How

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:16:49 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/27/2017 01:05 PM, stan wrote: > > But, I think you might have to fix the /etc/fstab file also before > > you do the above. If you cloned the drive, it will still be using > > the block ids for the previous dr

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread stan
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:35:18 - "William Mattison" wrote: > (replying to all three messages) > > When I boot, the bios display says it is UEFI. Am I > mis-understanding what that means? Am I mis-using the term? Your system supports efi, but it seems you aren't using it. > > My /boot dire

Re: Fedora 25: cxacru module (ADSL Modem USB) fail to load its firmware at boot time

2017-06-28 Thread stan
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:39:28 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > I have migrate my home server from Fedora 11 to Fedora 25 with a new > installation. > > All work fine except the load firmware of the cxacru module (ADSL > Modem USB) at boot time, after a poweroff and unplug/plug the AC > power cable. >

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 03:33:05 - "William Mattison" wrote: > Good evening, > > I believe Stan is correct. I built this system 4+ years ago. At > that time, it was my understanding that to get a windows-7 and Fedora > dual-boot system, I had to install windows-

Re: Fedora 25: cxacru module (ADSL Modem USB) fail to load its firmware at boot time

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:14:54 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno mer, 28/06/2017 alle 07.56 -0700, stan ha scritto: > > Is it possible you are running into this warning from the kernel > > documentation, cxacru-cf.py? > > > > # Warning:

Re: Thunderbird Issues

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:44:29 -0600 ProPAAS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > > I'm running Fedora 25, the latest update also updated Thunderbird to > version 52.2.0 > > Since then I am seeing lots of weird/broken behavior, I have multiple > accounts and sometimes when I open thunderbird I see the fol

CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
Wikileaks released a document about an attack against CentOS / Rhel. https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#OutlawCountry Here's the text, there are some docs there also. OutlawCountry 29 June, 2017 Today, June 29th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the OutlawCountry project of the CIA that targe

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:56:05 - "William Mattison" wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I found the login attempts in the journalctl output, though it isn't > easy. I'll open a new thread to address what this is really about. > > Before the hard drive replacement, the grub menu showed the three > m

Re: attempts to hack in?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 22:28:28 - "William Mattison" wrote: > Good afternoon, > > (f25 home workstation) > > While looking at journalctl output yesterday and today for other > reasons (separate thread), I saw many "authentication failure" > messages, over half also saying "user=root". I also

Re: CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:05:00 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:51:43 -0700 > stan wrote: > > > My first take is that this doesn't represent a very serious > > threat. Do you disagree? > > It depends. Is the CIA module part of the NSA authored

Thanks, everyone, for your comments Re: CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
The consensus seems to agree with me, that this is a minor threat as threats go. I thought I was paranoid about security. But after the comments in this thread, I think maybe I'm not paranoid enough. That the IT security professionals are paranoid enough to cover their cameras? If they're that w

Re: attempts to hack in?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:20:39 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 06/29/2017 09:08 PM, JD wrote: > > > > > > On 06/29/2017 07:48 PM, Doug wrote: > >> > >> On 06/29/2017 08:32 PM, JD wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On 06/29/2017 07:10 PM, jdow wrote: > iptables -t filter -A IN_public_deny -p tcp --dport pop

Re: attempts to hack in?

2017-06-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:26:37 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Before you give up look at this. > > That looks a firewalld chain name (guessing). If it doesn't > recognize it you're probably not running it. > > If you want to use iptables (the built-in kernel firewall) and watch > SSH c

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-30 Thread stan
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:29:12 - "William Mattison" wrote: > > Add the entry > > GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y > > to the /etc/default/grub file. > > That made no difference. Then I did "grub2-mkconfig". Still no > difference. Try GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true The documentation could be out of date

Re: Thanks, everyone, for your comments Re: CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

2017-06-30 Thread stan
On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 01:15:02 +0930 Tim wrote: > It's not as far-fetched as you might think. > > One day I noticed, while in the middle of browsing, that the "camera > is on" LED had lit up, though not noticing *when* it came on. I > wasn't doing anything nefarious, so somewhere in the midst o

Re: Writing a systemd service file

2017-06-30 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:27:04 -0400 Alex wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to write a service file for a daemon and having some > problems. I believe the issue is with the ability to give the process > write and read access to parts of the filesystem which appear to > somehow be restricted. [snip] You'l

Re: [F25] Emacs key binding in KDE

2017-07-05 Thread stan
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:41:36 -0700 Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > Just moved from F21 to F25 and many things are not working as > expected (which is to be expected!) One is the way to get most > applications (like Firefox, and KDE itself, to honour basic emacs key > bindings for cursor motions. In F2

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread stan
On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:29:30 +0200 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 > GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system > freeze and I have to reboot. > > I get these messages in the logs: > > nouveau :

Re: qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:36:58 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Sometimes the GPU runs hot and I pause the VM to let it cool, however > 'top' shows qemu-system-x86 sucking up over 25% of CPU. OTOH the KDE > System Activity tool shows it using only 3%. Clearly they can't both > be right. > > Is t

Re: qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 10:07:20 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: > When using *top* press "1" to see status by core. (It's a toggle) Thanks for the tip, that works great. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: dnf failing to update

2017-07-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 12:21:28 -0700 Richard England wrote: > Recently I've started seeing failure with dnf update. It appears > that I'm attempting to access a RedHat ipaddress presumably to update > the repomd.xml file but it is failing and seems to indicate that > there is a "network failure" (

Re: dnf failing to update

2017-07-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 15:19:42 -0700 Richard England wrote: > On 07/09/2017 02:48 PM, stan wrote: > > Do you have other files in /etc/yum.repos.d that might be overriding > > the fedora updates repo? > I've removed all but the fedora related files in yum.repos.d

Re: vlc on F25 broken.

2017-07-12 Thread stan
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 20:48:56 +0200 "Erik P. Olsen" wrote: > Running vlc on fully upgraded F25 is broke: > > [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ vlc > VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision > 2.2.0-git-13163-g351b63f476) [5573948351a0] core libvlc: VLC > kører med standardbrugerfladen. Brug "cvlc" for a

Re: /dev/loop

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:22:50 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > 2 days ago, I received a brand new UBS key (Lexar S75). > I inserted it inside the UBS port of my Linux machine. > I open the key (it mounted automatically) and read the instructions > about the encryption coming with the key (by opening

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:08:04 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 13.07.2017, Patrick Laimbock wrote: > > > Will give that a try. Thanks for the tip. > > In addition, to get really sharp fonts, you'll have to delete the > slight hinting set as default in /etc/fonts/conf.d and enable full > hinting.

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 07:59:54 -0700 stan wrote: > I'm using freetype-freeworld from rpmfusion. I followed your > original links, and ended up here, > https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html > where I see a comparison between 35 and 40. My fonts look like

Re: /dev/loop

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:22:13 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > However, how could I have destroy the partition table of 3 disks > using gparted only? It is certainly possible to destroy the partition table of 3 disks with gparted. I can't say how you would have done it, or even if you did. I only

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:19:41 - "Sudhir Khanger" wrote: > I have been getting these messages on my system every second after > upgrading from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 Plasma Desktop. > > We're sorry, it looks like > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed. > > I already have 10

Re: /dev/loop

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:01:16 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Now, what would you do with this > When I try to mount this partition: > /dev/sdd6 317001728 405065727 8806400042G 83 Linux > (>L Linux19732 113 30 25214 44 46 88064000 > [Backup]) The size is OK > But: > mo

Re: /dev/loop

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:17:09 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Did you get the wrong parameter? -c is for checking for bad blocks, > -n is to do a readonly check. No, I jumped ahead and suspected that there is something wrong with the disks. If all Patrick did is what he said he did, like you, I don

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-15 Thread stan
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 04:18:07 - "Sudhir Khanger" wrote: > I just installed 4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64. And the problem continues. > > I am getting the following messages every second. > > We're sorry, it looks like > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed. Please > contact the

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-15 Thread stan
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:28:54 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I'd almost wonder if there was only one actual crash, and > abrt keeps telling you about the same one over and over again > because it failed to record that it already told you. That > would explain why running a new kernel still keeps repor

Re: Hundreds of kernel crash messages after Fedora 26 upgrade. We're sorry, it looks like BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 crashed.

2017-07-16 Thread stan
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 03:46:17 - "Sudhir Khanger" wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Ubuntu LTS because I can't have my system breaking every > six months. I had already wasted 24 hours and I couldn't waste > anymore. Thank you so much for your help. Yeah, you're probably not a good fit for Fedora.

Re: F26: particular keystrokes cause Xorg to freeze momentarily, looking for debugging suggestions

2017-07-17 Thread stan
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:15:37 - "Daniel Miranda" wrote: > When I press the slash/question-mark (on a PT-BR keyboard) key while > focused into a window, or when pressing backspace to erase that slash > immediately afterwards, X11 will freeze for about a second consuming > 100% CPU. No other key

Re: Do I need KDE??

2017-07-17 Thread stan
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:06:29 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > What other things from KDE might I be using without knowing > it? > > IfI really use it as little as I think, does it really make > sense to keep KDE installed?? Everyone decides that for themselves. I have all the deskto

Re: F26: particular keystrokes cause Xorg to freeze momentarily, looking for debugging suggestions

2017-07-17 Thread stan
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:43:45 - "Daniel Miranda" wrote: > Either way, the fact that I can observe the issue even in GDM makes > me suspect something of the core stack (X11, GNOME, ibus, etc) is the > culprit. I might have to resort to scavenging the changelogs/commits > of some of them between

Re: F26: particular keystrokes cause Xorg to freeze momentarily, looking for debugging suggestions

2017-07-17 Thread stan
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 02:29:04 - "Daniel Miranda" wrote: > The issue does not manifest itself in a VT. > > I am definitely not using Wayland. The XDG_SESSION_TYPE env var is > set to X11, and the GNOME doesn't have EGLStreams enabled to make > Wayland work with the NVIDIA drivers. So, definit

Re: is it just me, or is firefox suddenly nad-grindingly slow?

2017-07-19 Thread stan
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:48:02 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > on a regularly-updated F25 system, firefox recently become just > excruciatingly slow, and i don't recall tweaking any settings. has > something happened lately? anyone else noticing this? It's just you. I notice slowdowns a

Re: is it just me, or is firefox suddenly nad-grindingly slow?

2017-07-19 Thread stan
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:30:53 +0930 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 19 July 2017, Robert P. J. Day sent: > > on a regularly-updated F25 system, firefox recently become just > > excruciatingly slow, and i don't recall tweaking any settings. has > > something happened lately? anyone else notic

Re: [F25] getting an old kernel-header rpm

2017-07-21 Thread stan
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:37:08 -0700 Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to get kernel-headers-4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64 ? > Why? Long story. Short version: my Intel 8265 wireless card is > unstable with kernel-4.11.9 and 4.11.10. With 4.11.8 it is not. But > since I have 4.11.10 ins

Re: cannot use Pitivi because of obscure missing library/plugin

2017-07-21 Thread stan
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:50:05 +0200 "M. Fioretti" wrote: > Alternatively, please just let me know which other video editor can > quickly and surely "clip and save a few scenes from some mp4 files" > which is all I need right now, on Fedora 25, without hunting error > messages, libraries etc..

Re: [F25] getting an old kernel-header rpm

2017-07-22 Thread stan
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:11:04 -0700 Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > Thanks, Stan. When I tried to remove kernel-headers-4.11.10-200, > dnf said it wanted to remove a lot of other packages. Of course I > said "no". If I downgrade the headers to 4.11.8, will it also need to > dow

Re: DNF odities

2017-07-25 Thread stan
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:26:04 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > If you find yourself catching the update time too often for your > liking you can "systemctl disable dnf-makecache.timer". I wasn't aware of this, so glad to learn of it, but have been doing the same thing by putting metadata_timer_sync=0 in

Re: problem starting X

2017-08-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:33:35 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: [snip] > Xorg.0.log Xorg.1.log > 1st19.310- 35.891 35.764- 35.874 > [35.869] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): EVO Push buffer channel > allocation failed 2nd 502.160-516.936 517.023-519.530 > > It is clear that in the fir

Re: problem starting X [resolved]

2017-08-21 Thread stan
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:41:25 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I took this route, and changed my display manager from GDM to LXDM > (trivial with system-switch-displaymanager). > > Tested a cold start a few times and it works well. > > Other good things came along for the ride: > - it offered my u

Re: Fedora 25 not booting after update

2017-09-04 Thread stan
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:48:00 -0400 Matt Morgan wrote: > The last time I signed off of Fedora 25, I opted to install updates. I don't understand this. Updating the system requires that it be running, in order to download the packages, and install them. Is this some kind of GUI functionality? Di

Re: Fedora 25 not booting after update

2017-09-06 Thread stan
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 18:35:13 -0400 Matt Morgan wrote: > Yes, I set up a F26 boot usb and just installed F26 on top of the > existing root. It boots now; the grub options at boot are all messed > up but I can work on that. Doesn't sound like it was the drive, at least. Glad to hear you got it wor

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: Radeon(Kaveri) missing firmware and lost HW video acceleration?

2017-09-28 Thread stan
Not very knowledgeable about this, but I'll try to help. I'm running a locally compiled 4.14 kernel from koji. And my radeon is not the same as yours. On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 22:47:59 +0100 lejeczek wrote: > I think I've lost HW video decoding acceleration on  A10 > PRO-7800B R7 with recent kerne

Re: Radeon(Kaveri) missing firmware and lost HW video acceleration?

2017-09-28 Thread stan
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:15:19 +0100 lejeczek wrote: > It seems that your Fedora has it all ok. > In Kodi you would only make sure vdpau is enabled in > settings, then play HD 1080p content & during playback press > "o" to see stats - (SW) means only software decoding. > What Readeon do you run?

Re: Radeon(Kaveri) missing firmware and lost HW video acceleration?

2017-09-28 Thread stan
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:12:22 -0700 stan wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:15:19 +0100 > lejeczek wrote: > > > It seems that your Fedora has it all ok. > > In Kodi you would only make sure vdpau is enabled in > > settings, then play HD 1080p content & during playb

Re: update fails

2017-09-29 Thread stan
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:12:28 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > I get the following error when I try to update my fedora. > > Error: Transaction check error: > file /usr/sbin/upsmon from install of > nut-client-2.7.4-14.fc26.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > nut-2.7.4-7.fc26.x8

Re: Radeon(Kaveri) missing firmware and lost HW video acceleration?

2017-09-29 Thread stan
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:11:40 +0100 lejeczek wrote: > yes, but how can it be the hardware if hardware did not > change, had worked for long time until some time ago. What Tim said. How about dust in the case / overheating? It is likely this is a software problem in the kernel driver, but it

Re: update fails

2017-10-02 Thread stan
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 23:50:25 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > I do not know what to do. What's the output of this command? grep enabled /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo If nothing else, you can go here, https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=970458 download the appropriate binary rpms, an

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread stan
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:54 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally > get around to resp

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread stan
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:40:33 -0500 Doug wrote: > A neat trick to use is ad nauseum instead of an ad blocker. > Where do you find ad nauseam? > (Not a Fedora user, at present.) It's a firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/?src=search _

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