Re: how to audit chmod syscall system wide? a wired problem of home directory group write permission got set

2018-02-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/01/18 21:21, Berend De Schouwer wrote: > On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 10:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 17:36 -0700, stan wrote: >>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:06:38 + (UTC) >>> "mr.cheng" wrote: >>> I checked all bash_history and system logs, didn't see any

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/01/18 21:41, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:32:44 + > Terry Barnaby wrote: > >> Does the system " target Network is Online" get reached after DHCP >> configuration ? > Probably doesn't matter because systemd has no idea what "up" > means when it comes to networks :-(. > > ypb

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/02/18 15:42, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 02/02/18 00:41, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> I've not tried this since I don't have a need for ypbind. >> >> One may also consider copying /lib/systemd/system/ypbind.service to >> /etc/systemd/system and then inse

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/02/18 16:49, Ed Greshko wrote: > But, another thing you can try is to modify the > NetworkManager-wait-online.service by > making a copy of it in /etc/systemd/system and changing the line, Oh, just in case you're not familiar, when you make your own copy of the service you

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/02/18 21:42, Terry Barnaby wrote: > A strange one this. I was trying to change the default route of a machine for > testing a different gateway. > > I ran: > > route del default gw > > route add default gw > > However the second command did not add the route and I could not add the old > de

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/18 00:29, Terry Barnaby wrote: > I tied using "ip route" it had the same effect. [root@f27k ~]# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG    0 0  0 enp0s

Re: vmware not working under vmware_t

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/18 04:25, James Maugans wrote: > I will greatly appreciatte any help or advice in this matter. When it comes to selinux issues I've found the seli...@lists.fedoraproject.org much more helpful than the users list. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Descri

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/18 06:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred > music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in the > domicile to play them, but regardless of how i decide to eventually > play these CDs, i'm looking for recommendatio

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/02/18 15:51, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 02/02/18 07:42, Terry Barnaby wrote: >> On 02/02/18 00:41, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> I've not tried this since I don't have a need for ypbind. >>> >>> One may also consider copying /lib/systemd/sy

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/18 06:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred >>> music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in the >

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/18 08:21, Ed Greshko wrote: > I've found that folks have a tendency to overvalue lossless formats but in > fact their > ears aren't up to the task. I also should have included that their audio equipment isn't "good" enough to make the difference no

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/18 09:57, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 02/02/2018 04:31 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> Just did a dnf update, this comes out: >>> >>> ... >>>Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0.1-1.fc27.x86_64 >>> 18/18 >>>Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0-4.fc27.

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/18 11:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/03/2018 04:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I've found that folks have a tendency to overvalue lossless formats but in >> fact their >> ears aren't up to the task. > > I definitely do notice mp3 artifacts sometimes. 

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/18 22:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i just did a quick test with abcde, ripping a CD to flac both with > and without the "-1" option (diff being ripping to a single FLAC file > versus individual FLAC files). the difference in final, total size is > negligible, both directories around 267

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/07/18 06:56, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I bought twoptz cameras which can be viewed and controlled with the family > iPhonesand of course they would like to use the "Armcrest" cloud/server in > order to > view them while away during the day. The cameras would connect to my LAN and > via my > rout

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/07/18 06:56, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Thoughts and advice appreciated, Oh, and aren't you using a satellite internet connection?   In the past you've indicated if you exceed your data quota it is expensive.  Are you concerned about the uploads of video may impact your wallet?  :-) -- A mot

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/07/18 13:27, Dave Close wrote: > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" First, check the file /home/dave/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log for the complete Xorg log.  Looking for EE lines On all of my systems that file doesn't exist since everything is determined by the kernel.  That l

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/07/18 18:31, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 11:24 +0530, Prasad K wrote: >>>startkde: Shutting down... >>>kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : >>> No such file or directory >>>Error: Can not contact kdeinit5! >>>xprop:

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/07/18 18:31, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 02/06/18 21:54, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/07/18 06:56, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> I bought two ptz cameras which can be viewed and controlled with the family >>> iPhones and of course they would like to use the "Armcres

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 04:59, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 7 February 2018, Ed Greshko sent: >> I guess I'm not clear on how things are supposed to work. It sounded >> to me as if the camera was uploading videos into their cloud and if >> someone wanted to view it they woul

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 04:59, Tim wrote: > Some cameras merely use a central server as a way of finding your > camera by a name (ala dynamic DNS, mine initially lets you find it by > serial number, if I recall correctly) and for traversing NAT. Come to think of it, you are probably totally right on this whe

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 13:40, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" >> First, check the file /home/dave/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log for >> the complete Xorg log. Looking for EE lines > I found only two such lines

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 19:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 21:46 -0800, Dave Close wrote: >> "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: >> >>> You might want to post on the Fedora KDE list for this kind >>> of problem. >> I may try that. But the XIO errors and the failure to open the >> display made m

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 20:21, François Patte wrote: > I have problem with lightdm greeter: one user cannnot log-in: I have > this message in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: > > Authenticate result for user cath : User not known to the underlying > authentication module > > What does it mean and how to recover?

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 23:53, François Patte wrote: > Le 08/02/2018 à 14:39, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/08/18 20:21, François Patte wrote: >>> I have problem with lightdm greeter: one user cannnot log-in: I have >>> this message in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: >>> &

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/18 23:57, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 02/08/18 19:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> I think you said that Gnome does start but KDE doesn't, so it's likely >>> that something in the KDE config is causing the problem. >&g

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/18 12:37, Samuel Sieb wrote: > I'm pretty sure you're just missing some piece because of how you're starting > it.  > Gnome and KDE are really not designed to be started this way. FWIW, KDE starts just fine for me on several F27 systems using "startx". -- A motto of mine is: When in

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/18 13:26, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Looking at your Xorg.0.log I see this at the end. >> >> [ 221.964] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch >> [ 222.058] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:65 >> [ 222.058] (II)

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/18 15:33, François Patte wrote: > Le 08/02/2018 à 22:45, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/08/18 23:53, François Patte wrote: >>> Le 08/02/2018 à 14:39, Ed Greshko a écrit : >>>> On 02/08/18 20:21, François Patte wrote: >>>>> I have problem wit

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/18 22:13, François Patte wrote: > Seems to be an empirical way to solve the problem! Nobody knows what is > responsible for such a message (Authenticate result for user cath : > User not known to the underlying authentication module)? What is this > module and how to inform it that a new

Re: Epson XP-860: available printer driver won't print in duplex

2018-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/18 23:09, Temlakos wrote: > On 01/30/2018 06:20 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 01/30/18 19:13, Temlakos wrote: >>> On 01/29/2018 10:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 01/30/18 11:27, Temlakos wrote: >>>>> Recently I bought an Epson XP-860, to repl

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/18 13:55, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Is your system a desktop with a single monitor? A laptop with >> external monitor? Or something else? > It's a desktop with a single monitor. > >> If you do use either sddm or kdm do you get a login s

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/18 06:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: > I'm confused about how you're trying to do the convert to html.  You should > open > Firefox using the old profile.  Go to the bookmarks window and use the > "export to > html" option.  Then in the new profile, you go to the bookmarks window and > use the

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/18 14:25, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >>>> Is your system a desktop with a single monitor? A laptop with >>>> external monitor? Or something else? >>> It's a desktop with a single monitor. >>> >>>> If you do use

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/18 16:12, François Patte wrote: > Le 09/02/2018 à 18:46, Rick Stevens a écrit : >> On 02/09/2018 08:05 AM, François Patte wrote: >>> Le 09/02/2018 à 15:33, Ed Greshko a écrit : >>>> On 02/09/18 22:13, François Patte wrote: >>>>> Seems to be

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/18 16:42, François Patte wrote: > Le 10/02/2018 à 09:32, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/10/18 16:12, François Patte wrote: >>> Le 09/02/2018 à 18:46, Rick Stevens a écrit : >>>> On 02/09/2018 08:05 AM, François Patte wrote: >>>>> Le 09/02/2018

Re: Cannot upgrade libdvdcss after a recent upgrade push

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/18 22:21, Temlakos wrote: > > Everyone: > > This morning I received a notice that a new version of libdvdcss was > available. > > But when I tried to upgrade it, the upgrade choked on a problem with the GPG > key. > Note the repository is "livna".   This is not a repository for which th

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 02:42, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >>>> You do get a login screen and then when you enter your PW you end >>>> up with a black screen with a cursor you can move around? >>> Yes. Exactly. >> OK then at that point the X-server is

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 03:56, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Can you run "dnf distro-sync" just to make sure all packages are >> at the most current level? > Dependencies resolved. > Nothing to do. OK If you ssh into the failing system and run "to

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 04:21, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> If you ssh into the failing system and run "top" does anything >> seem odd? A process stuck at the top or hogging CPU? > 99.7% idle. Occasionally, plasmashell or vncserver will show a few > percent.

Re: webcam

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 04:15, Patrick Dupre wrote: > lsusb > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 04:56, Dave Close wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Grasping at straws here >> >> Are you running vnc server as a systemd service that gets started >> at boot time? I've never had a problem with thatbut if you're >> doing that how abo

Re: webcam

2018-02-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 10:01, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> On 02/10/2018 05:30 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> OK, >>> >>> It works from liveUSB >>> >>> So, what should I do? >> Well, at least we know it's not a hardware issue. >> ___ > My understanding is that I did not in

Re: webcam

2018-02-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 18:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> >> What is the output of "lsusb" and "lsmod" when you've booted to the LiveCD? >> > lsmod > difference between on and off > < uvcvideo 90112 1 > --- >> uvcvideo 90112 0 > 71c71 > < videodev 172032 4 uvcvideo,vide

Re: webcam

2018-02-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/18 20:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> On 02/11/18 18:31, Patrick Dupre wrote: What is the output of "lsusb" and "lsmod" when you've booted to the LiveCD? >>> lsmod >>> difference between on and off >>> < uvcvideo 90112 1 >>> --- uvcvideo 90112 0 >>>

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user [more info]

2018-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 01:10, François Patte wrote: >> light(dm)   dm=Display Manager >> >> You could try sddm, kdm, or gdm? > I don't want to do that: I dislike gnome or kde and do not want to > introduce a lot of dependancies For future reference This is what one gets from adding sddm to a pure GN

Re: Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 04:21, Terry Barnaby wrote: > I have just noticed that most of my systems now have their Ethernet interfaces > running at 100 MBits/s half duplex rather than the expected 1GBits/s. > > I think some update has caused this to happen, probably about 5 days ago > (noticed > something was s

Re: Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 05:43, Stephen Morris wrote: > I am using a home plug device to get ethernet access across the home > electrical > wires. The home plug device is provide 500 Mb/s, so having seen this thread > I've > checked my ethernet configuration and like Terry is saying my settings have > auto >

Re: Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 05:46, Stephen Morris wrote: > Just further to this, on my system when the auto negotiate box is checked the > link > entry and the duplex entry are removed from the dialog. Which makes perfect sense, right? If the negotiation is automatic then displaying the manual choices would b

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 07:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Some time in recent weeks vlc stopped working for me, i.e. it will no > longer play .avi, .mp4 or .mkv files but just lists a continuous stream > of errors to the console (see below). I'm currently on: > > $ rpm -qa vlc\* > vlc-extras-3.0.0-25.2018010

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 19:31, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 08:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/13/18 07:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Some time in recent weeks vlc stopped working for me, i.e. it will no >>> longer play .avi, .mp4 or .

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/18 20:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. The repo name misled me into thinking it was > an official Fedora one. Understandable.  IMO, they should be discouraged from using the "fedora" name for that very reason.  -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: > I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very > tardy > with their Nvidia binary files in keeping pace with kernel version changes. I > have > all the negativo17 repositories enabled and all the rpmfusion repositories > enab

Re: Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 05:35, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 13/2/18 9:42 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/13/18 05:46, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> Just further to this, on my system when the auto negotiate box is checked >>> the link >>> entry and the duplex entry are remove

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 07:54, James wrote: > hello, i have thunderbird and when i click on url, it is dead. it wont > connect to > my default browser, firefox. I have done web searching for this and have found > nothing that works. i have to copy the link and paste it in firefox. anyone > have an > idea?

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 10:19, James wrote: > On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> What does >> >> xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http and >> >> xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https >> >> return > > Firefox.Desktop I w

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 10:25, James wrote: > On 02/13/2018 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/14/18 10:19, James wrote: >>> On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> What does >>>> >>>> xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http and >&

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 10:57, James wrote: > On 02/13/2018 09:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/14/18 10:25, James wrote: >>> On 02/13/2018 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 02/14/18 10:19, James wrote: >>>>> On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>&g

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 11:12, James wrote: >> I don't this very often so I keep forgetting how things work, or don't work. >> >> I rediscovered that one cannot separately set the  >> default-url-scheme-handler. >> Setting the default-web-browser will alter those. >> >> That being said, I just switched back a

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 11:27, James wrote: >> OK   If you run >> >> gtk-launch firefox.desktop    does firefox start? >> > Yes, it does. On the term, it includes this: > > ###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel] Error: > (msgtype=0x150084,name=PBrowser::Msg_Destroy) Closed channel: cannot send/recv > > > ###!!! [

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 11:52, James wrote: > On 02/13/2018 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> xdg-openhttp://fedoraproject.org > > no error(s) and it opens the url > OK Could you bring up T-bird.  Then find out the PID of /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird process. Then in a terminal ses

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 12:29, James wrote: > On 02/13/2018 11:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/14/18 11:52, James wrote: >>> On 02/13/2018 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> xdg-openhttp://fedoraproject.org >>> >>> no error(s) and it opens the url >>>

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 13:00, James wrote: > the one i posted was already open, a new one is about 2600 lines. Sorry, I wasn't clear   The file I'm asking you to post is .config/mimeapps.list Mine is... [egreshko@meimei ~]$ cat .config/mimeapps.list [Added Associations] application/pdf=okularApplica

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 13:06, James wrote: > $ cat .config/mimeapps.list > [Added Associations] You have x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;mozilla-thunderbird.desktop;userapp-Nightly-FCZ06Y.desktop; x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;userapp-Nightly-FCZ06Y.desktop;mozilla-thunderbird.desktop;c

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 13:56, James wrote: > On 02/14/2018 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/14/18 13:06, James wrote: >>> $ cat .config/mimeapps.list >>> [Added Associations] >> >> >> You have >> >> x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;m

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/18 17:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i want to put together a wiki page for my students with links to >> all of the interesting git-related packages they might want to >> peruse after an upcoming course, and i'm looking for what would be >

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/15/18 04:24, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 02/13/18 16:59, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very >>> tardy >>> with their Nvidia binary files in keep

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/15/18 10:06, Tim wrote: > On 02/13/18 20:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Sorry for the confusion. The repo name misled me into thinking it >>> was an official Fedora one. > Ed Greshko: >> Understandable. IMO, they should be discouraged from using the &g

Re: does "isovfy" actually *do* anything?

2018-02-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/16/18 21:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just downloaded some sizable centos 7 iso images, and thought i > would validate them to whatever extent "isovfy" can do that, but > here's what happened in the blink of an eye: > > $ isovfy CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso > Root at extent 1d,

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/17/18 18:12, François Patte wrote: > I just updated f27 and the new installed kernel > (4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64), sends these messages at boot time: > > kernel: Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline > kernel: Spectre V2 : System may be vulnerable to spectre v2 > > What do they mean a

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/17/18 20:25, François Patte wrote: >> [egreshko@acer vulnerabilities]$ cat spectre_v2 >> Mitigation: Full generic retpoline > this one gives: > > Mitigation: Full generic retpoline - vulnerable module loaded > > But does not give the module name!! Do you have any modules, such as a Wifi dri

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 02:10, François Patte wrote: > returns that virtualbox drivers (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, > vboxpci) and nvidia driver were not compiled with a retpoline compiler > > As these modules are compiled on board with gcc using akmod, I suppose > that gcc is not a retpoline compiler

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 05:12, François Patte wrote: > Le 17/02/2018 à 20:31, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/18/18 02:10, François Patte wrote: >>> returns that virtualbox drivers (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, >>> vboxpci) and nvidia driver were not compiled with a retpoline co

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/17/18 23:48, François Patte wrote: >> Do you have any modules, such as a Wifi driver, that you've built yourself? > No! Well, vbox and nVidia do qualify.  :-)    See my other response. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 06:32, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Thanks for sending me on a fun hunt Ed. I sure am glad you did it.  I was too lazy.  Figured it works for vbox it "must" be the same for nVidia.  :-) :-) -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 06:41, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/17/2018 02:32 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> If that's accepted, I or someone else can work on adding the >> same V=1 to the make command for the other nvidia-*-kmod >> packages. > > The question is, how many people would want to see the extra output or know

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 17:01, François Patte wrote: > $ strings > /usr/lib/modules/4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64/extra/nvidia-340xx/nvidia.ko | > grep gcc > > gcc version 7.2.1 20170915 (Red Hat 7.2.1-2) (GCC) OK.   I believe that RETPOLINE support isn't available in that version of gcc. gcc-7.3.1-2.fc27   is the

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: > fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a > patch for retpoline, why the patched version is not available in fedora > repos? What do you mean it isn't available in the repo?   That is where mine came from. [egreshko@meimei

Re: weird effect: gnome-terminal does not open links correctly

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 18:04, Joachim Backes wrote: > I'm running f27 under gnome with gnome-terminal as preferred  terminal > application. > > Anybody has seen that opening URL's found within the gnome-terminal output is > not > done correctly (popup menu: Open link ... in gnome-terminal)? Only the > issu

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: > Le 18/02/2018 à 11:20, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/18/18 18:14, François Patte wrote: >>> fc27 is the last "stable" version of fedora, and gcc-7.3 seems to have a >>> patch for retpoline, why the patched version

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: > but I am unable to reinstall virtualbox For the virtualbox drivers just run... sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup This will rebuild the modules for the running kernel only. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Desc

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/18/18 21:55, François Patte wrote: > Le 18/02/2018 à 14:36, Ed Greshko a écrit : >> On 02/18/18 21:03, François Patte wrote: >>> but I am unable to reinstall virtualbox >> >> For the virtualbox drivers just run... >> >> sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vbox

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 04:59, Stephen Morris wrote: >> >> strings /usr/lib/modules/4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko | >> grep gcc > > I get my nvidia source from the negativo17 repository and all this command > does is > list the version of gcc used And that was the entire purpose of asking t

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 07:49, Patrick Dupre wrote: Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? > xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 > HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 609mm x 347mm >1366x768 59.7

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 08:21, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? > Yes >>> xrandr >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 >>> HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y >>> axis) 609mm x 347mm >>>13

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 17:05, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> I suspect that the high-res computer screen copies somehow its >> own resolution to the lower res TV. That's why I asked in another >> message for the xrandr output for all three monitors, including the one >> for the built-in computer monitor. I didn't

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 20:14, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected > against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities? (Resend to List, oops) Yes.  As long as you don't have kernel modules which were built with a non-patched

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 21:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > What do these mean, and what is the needed mitigation, if any? Basically, it means that everything that can currently be done to lessen the chances of a security breach is being done. Otherwise you may see something like... Mitigation: Full generic ret

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 04:41, Stephen Morris wrote: >    I'm using the nvidia drivers from negativo17. I have the nvidia source > module > registered with dkms and it seems to be being compiled when I get a new > kernel, if > that is the case what do I need to do to resolve the following messages shown > b

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 04:14, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Now I am running 1368x768 > I do not think that it is what I wanted. As I've said before, that is the resolution your monitor is designed to provide the best performance. I would not concentrate on picking the best looking fonts.  I have a Samsung TV t

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 09:25, Ed Greshko wrote: > would not concentrate would NOW concentrate -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 09:25, Ed Greshko wrote: > If I can only find the mini-HDMI cable that would connect > to my laptop.  I have never used a TV as a monitor so I don't know how well > suited > they are for this purpose. I found my HDMI cable.  The TV is a 48 inch model.  It just so

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 15:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > In earlier email in this thread, you stated: > > Yes.  As long as you don't have kernel modules which were built with a > non-patched gcc. > > ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* > > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 16:26, Tim wrote: > I think the DPI issue is a bit of a red herring, in this instance. If > you take three different 1920 by 1080 sets, each with a different > screensize, they'll each have a different DPI. But they can each show > the display as good as each other, though you'd use t

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/18 04:59, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 20/2/18 8:54 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/20/18 04:41, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>     I'm using the nvidia drivers from negativo17. I have the nvidia source >>> module >>> registered with dkms and it se

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora > (more R > deb packages than R rpm packages). > > Is there a rationale for this? I don't use R or Ubuntu.  But I wonder if coun

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/18 08:23, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 21 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: >> I been in the situation of compiling kernel modules in other linux >> distributions where you could put statements in your source to stop >> these messages, but I have forgotten what they were. > A in

Re: [Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/18 11:14, Max Pyziur wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > [...] >> >> # Non-R packages: >> fonts-KOI8-R.noarch >> fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch >> fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch > > Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? > > That might be like ask

Re: Speech-dispatcher

2018-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/22/18 03:30, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/20/2018 02:40 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> >>> I never use it.  It gets in the way and uses computer resources. >> >> Any resources besides disk space? > > Funny that this just came up here.  Since yesterday, there are suddenly 4

Re: Speech-dispatcher

2018-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/22/18 03:01, Beartooth wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:55:32 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > [] >> I went ahead and implemented it, >> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-df2dba5a2b >> >> With that, speech-dispatcher can now be removed if you wish. > I find nothin

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