Very slow boot in F27 after recent update

2018-05-03 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I'm in F27. After updates of two days ago (the previous update was about one week ago if I remember correctly) the boot has become quite slow. It seems due to something related to Network / NetworkManager-wait-online service It seems both ntp client and GSSAPI Proxy wait for some minutes...

Re: Very slow boot in F27 after recent update

2018-05-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
I'm not subscribed to receive all the e-mails, so I answer to my own. Hope not to scramble the thread order... Thanks for answering. Here the output requested. Possibly before the update, chronyd and gssproxy (and I see also libvirtd) went into a sort of parallel background not preventing display

[SOLVED] Re: Very slow boot in F27 after recent update

2018-05-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I'm not subscribed to receive all the e-mails, so I answer to my own. > Hope not to scramble the thread order... > > Thanks for answering. > Here the output requested. > Possibly before the update, chronyd and g

F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-15 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, an update this morning and after that I register several problems: 1) delay in login session (lightdm) 2) delay/fail of logout/shutdown from inside gui 3) unable to open wifi connections from gui verified both with mate and cinnamon For 1) and/or 2) I see May 15 16:29:12 ope46 journal[428

Re: F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > an update this morning and after that I register several problems: > > 1) delay in login session (lightdm) > 2) delay/fail of logout/shutdown from inside gui > 3) unable to open wifi connections from gui >

Re: F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-17 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Thanks Stan for your feedback. Actually it seems I've narrowed the origin of the problem. I have been using Mate as DE for many months without any problem. Only recently (when still in F27 and some days before the start of the problems described in this thread) I switched from gdm to lghtdm because

Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?

2018-05-18 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have recently begun to use again gnome session and I have reinstalled nautilus. I see that nautilus depends on tracker and so the reinstall put in tracker and its things And this morning in my F28 system with SSD disk (I don't imagine on a normal sata based environment) I had to kill trac

Re: Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?

2018-05-21 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno ven, 18/05/2018 alle 09.03 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi ha scritto: > > Any pointer about configuring and/or disabling it? > > > # Disable tracker... > > sudo -E dnf -y -C remove tracker-miners > > >

Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-21 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I'm starting here in F28 to use gnome session again, after some Fedora versions... I was in Mate up to some days ago and the ssh passphrase was in need to be inserted only once in mater-terminal, because I had this in my .bashrc (I think) export SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ksshaskpass" Now I se

Re: F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-21 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:36 PM, wrote: > > Hi. > > On Thu, 17 May 2018 10:19:52 -0700 stan wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 May 2018 10:54:57 +0200 > > Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > >> Now (I'm in F28) it is simply sufficient to re-enable gdm and > &g

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-22 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/21/2018 06:37 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > >> I was in Mate up to some days ago and the ssh passphrase was in need to >> be inserted only once in mater-terminal, because I had this in my .bashrc >> (I think)

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-24 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/22/2018 06:41 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > >> >> Do you have number of bugzilla? >> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795699 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568895 &g

Latest update no more wifi

2018-05-24 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
It seems today update I lost wifi support, that i used yesterday without problems today kernel: 4.16.10-300.fc28.x86_64 yesterday kernel: kernel-4.16.8-300.fc28.x86_64 other possible related packages: NetworkManager-openvpn.x86_64 1:1.8.4-1.fc28 NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome.x86_64 1:1.8.4-

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-05-25 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/24/2018 07:31 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > >> It seems today update I lost wifi support, that i used yesterday without >> problems >> > > What is the device including chipset and how is it connected?

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-30 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/24/2018 01:24 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > >> Actually latest updates brought in better (if you mind usability) or >> worse (if you mind security) behavior, not covered in the two bugs... >> >> In fac

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-05-30 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: [snip] > Actually it seems I solved, or better, for some reason the wifi was > disconnected, but from a sw point of view, not with the buttons > combination, that are Fn+F2 in my case. > See below > > [snip] > W

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-06-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/30/18 16:44, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > After doing some tests, I can confirm my suspects about different > behavior > > depending on lan cable connected or not when opening the Gnome session. > > Some deta

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-06-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > I've never configured additional LAN profiles since I have only one > interface. Not > sure what the value in that would be. > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nOOmm_wA9T3TOUg-b-VoHAte3FYMRski > > I noticed in your screenshots the "netwo

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-06-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: [snip] > > After rebooting I had the same problem you are seeing. So, the issue is > related to > multiple profiles. And is easily reproduced. > > I deleted the new profile and upon rebooting everything was back to normal. > > I suppose you ca

F28 how to disable dim of display on gnome DE?

2018-06-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, when using mate desktop I remember I could define different settings fir my laptop display when on ac and when on battery. In particular for the display brightness. I see now in F28 with gnome desktop that after 15 seconds my laptop screen dims and I don't know how to disable this function,

Re: F28 how to disable dim of display on gnome DE?

2018-06-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/13/2018 06:32 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > >> I see now in F28 with gnome desktop that after 15 seconds my laptop >> screen dims and I don't know how to disable this function, neither overall >> nor when on

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Very slow boot in F27 after recent update

2018-06-25 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: [snip] > Possibly before the update, chronyd and gssproxy (and I see also libvirtd) >> went into a sort of parallel background not preventing display manager >> login completion? >> In fact in about 10-13 seconds (I ha

Re: Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?

2018-07-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno lun, 21/05/2018 alle 10.57 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi ha scritto: > > Just a confirmation: the last command is needed only to purge old > generated files/databases for that connected user, correct? > > > Yes >

copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?

2018-08-01 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem: - I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names - if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a location where the pag

Re: copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?

2018-08-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Tim via users wrote: [snip] >2. Laboriously go into the edit menu (at the top of the window, > presuming you're not using a desktop manager that has removed the > feature), and pick PASTE from the EDIT menu. > > It'd be nice if you could simply add

Brother MFCL2710DW on Fedora?

2018-08-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, i'm replacing an Hp Officejet 4620 after print heads problems in 2 years of life. I got tired with inkjet and their imitations and due to my sporadic needs and only b/w, I would like to buy a black white laserjet with scanner capabilities too. I see the product in object that seems quite go

Re: Brother MFCL2710DW on Fedora?

2018-09-01 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:40 PM Fred Smith wrote: > > > I am not familiar with that particular Brother priinter but in general > they offer linux drives (downloaded from their web site) for every > brother printer I've used (3 or 4, not all) and they all work for me. > > go to their page for that

[OT] replace a word with a multiline with sed

2010-05-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, sorry for the offtopic. it seems a simple thing but I can't find an escape char or something correct... I have this setup in place source file input.txt: bla bla bla bla TAG bla bla sed command file sed.txt: /TAG/c\ BLABLA BLABLA so that the command sed -f sed.txt input.txt gives as

Re: [OT] replace a word with a multiline with sed

2010-05-17 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On *Thu May 13 16:27:09 UTC 2010*, *Mohamed El Morabity *wrote: > Hi, > > simply using the following pattern for sed? >/TAG/c\ >BLABLA\nBLOBLO > > Thanks. I then also found that it works this way too, probably easier to be read: /TAG/c\ BLABLA\ BLOBLO Anyway, thanks again for helping! G

akonadi google resources for F13?

2010-06-25 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, trying to use kmail/kontact with Google calendars/contacts integration and found some web links regarding possible good results using Akonadi Google Calendar and Akonadi Google Contacts I found many akonadi resources on my F13 system, but not these two. And neither making some "yum search"

display problem through hdmi to tv

2010-07-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a Dell laptop, XPS M1330. I had this problem with f12 originally but didn't go deeper with it. Now I have updated the same system to f13 and experiment the same. It has an hdmi-out connector and I'm trying to correctly configure it to send audio/video to hdmi only. The connection is t

Intel 82852/855GM and fc13 problems with videos

2010-07-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, trying to configure F13 x86 on an old laptop for a friend of mine, tired of WIndows viruses and problems; the pc is a Dell Latitude D505 ALso basically works apart from video and video contnts in browser... lspci says 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrat

Re: Problems with network speed setup in F12

2010-02-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I revamp this thread, as I tested all combinations of cables and duplex mode getting again the problem without any difference. Resuming: after starting a large transfer, I soon get this in /var/log/messages Feb 9 15:40:14 tekkaman kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is down. Feb 9 15:40:14 tekkaman N

info about how much memory ramfs is using

2010-03-01 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, If I set a ramfs file system like this on a Fedora 12 system (but I think it is the same in general): mkdir /ramfs mount -t ramfs -o size=10m ramfs /ramfs I can see it via mount but not via df command. [r...@tekkaman ~]# mount ramfs on /ramfs type ramfs (rw,size=10m) As ramfs is dynamic a

[OT] info about filesystem directly on disk device and not partition

2010-03-23 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, sorry for the off-topic. Tipically when I work with LVM on Linux (RHEL/CentOS 5 and/or Fedora 11/12), I create the physical volume directly on the whole disk. Historically one created a partition on the disk, eventually big as the whole disk and then marked it as 8e type (LVM), and then the

libgpod from rawhide repo to manage iPod on F12?

2010-03-24 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, on my F12 x86_64 I have libgpod at level libgpod-0.7.2-8.fc12.x86_64 (as from offical repo) it seems from http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ that to manage iPod 3G/GS I need >= 0.7.90 running the command # yum update --enablerepo rawhide libgpod I get --> Running transaction check ---> Pack

sync write to .bash_history file?

2010-04-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I remember "my" plain old days (1995) when working on HP-UX typing on DCE terminals connected by MUX to the Unix host... At that time there were several guys using the same administrative root account at the same time with the Korn shell... and you had a synchronous write to the history file

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri Apr 2 17:46:24 UTC 2010 *Javier Perez* wrote: > can I just > install yum install the virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest > the already isntalled win2k ? I used this kind of approach some years ago with VMware workstaion installed on a Linux partition, starting WIndows vm dir

fedora 15 and usb tethering on iphone anyone?

2011-06-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, in my fedora 14 I was able to do usb tethering with fw 4.2.1 on my iphone 3gs. NetworkManager was apparently not able to manage this kind of connection so I had to: - connect iphone via usb - enable usb tethering on iphone menu - automatically the ipheth kernel module was loaded and an inter

Re: fedora 15 and usb tethering on iphone anyone?

2011-06-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > in my fedora 14 I was able to do usb tethering with fw 4.2.1 on my iphone 3gs. ... > Now I'm testing on the same PC with Fedora 15 and iphone updated to 4.3.3 fw > What it was usb tethering is now called personal h

problem mounting a cifs share at boot in f15

2011-07-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
In /etc/fstab in both f14 and f15 I have this entry: \\XXX\YYY\ZZZ /sharecifs credentials=/etc/filename,uid=500,workgroup=mydomain.dom 0 0 But in F14 it correctly mounts on boot, while in F15 it fails. I get this in /var/log/messages: Jul 6 10:38:42 mypc systemd[1]: share.mount mount proce

info on mgmt of double video adapter

2011-09-22 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, some laptops have both an integrated video chipset, and a pci one. Eg Asus U36SD-RX196X has one I7-2620QM processor with Intel HD Graphics 3000 and provides a NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M with 1 GB of dedicated ram too. For normal operations the embedded Windows 7 OS should use the integrated one

libvirt from 0.7.7 to 0.8.2 in fc13 but no changelog in rpm

2010-07-28 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, just to notice that right today running yum I updated my libvirt related packages from 0.7.7-5 (updated three weeks ago) to 0.8.2-1, but if I run rpm -q --changelog libvirt I get only: * Thu Jun 17 2010 Cole Robinson - 0.7.7-5.fc13 - Add qemu.conf options for audio workaround - Fix parsing

Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-29 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, two days ago I updated my FC13 x86_64 from Jul 28 08:52:35 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64 to Aug 28 16:20:47 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13.x86_64 and now I'm noticing I'm not able to disable wireless any more. My nm-applet process is active gc

re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon Aug 30 12:01:10 UTC 2010 Genes MailLists wrote: > Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option are > grayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio > buttons. Hi, I posted same problem a few hours ago: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/

info on hibernate in F13

2010-09-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, having F13 on my Dell XPS M1330 I'm verifying functionality of hibernation. Configuration: Actions on battery power a) put computer to sleep when inactive for: Never b) When laptop lid is closed: Suspend c) When battery power is critically low: Hibernate Display on battery power: a) Put dis

cgroups on F13 and F14 are ok?

2010-12-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Probably not the best list, but I suppose others are trying to use their Fedora environments as a test bed for learning how to use control groups before going to production level OS and hw Attempts done on both F14 and F13 x86_64 but apparently without success.. Reporting the F14 ones, where

Re: cgroups on F13 and F14 are ok?

2010-12-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > The guest consumes one whole cpu during the bench, but still floating > around all the four available host cpus during the 46 seconds > duration. > At least this is what "top" on host is telling me. Ok, proba

how to consolidate gnome panels

2010-12-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, by default with Fedora you get Gnome configured with: - the top panel with "Applications, ..." notifications, ecc - the bottom panel where there is trash icon, workspace switcher and open windows information (to minimize,restore, ecc) I would like to have a configuration with only one panel

Re: how to consolidate gnome panels

2010-12-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 15:37:04 UTC 2010 suvayu ali wrote: > Just right click and go to customise panel and delete the panel you don't > want. I tried the right click way before posting the answer, but actually in both f13 and F14 I don't have this "customize" option I have only Add to panel

kde 4.5.5: some jerkiness F13

2011-01-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, just updated kde to 4.5.5 on my Fedora 13 and going to test something about the progress. Not tested very much, but it seems quite good as look and feel and general organization. Some sudden showstoppers are: - I'm usually using kmail in gnome and it seems it is far more fluid in gnome tha

XI2 progress in F14! Any further hint on usage?

2011-01-21 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, from test plan section inside features page of Fedora 12: "Verify that the cursors work independently. If both master devices are used in two different applications, they should work independently and simultaneously. If both devices are used in the same application, some restrictions apply.

systemd in f14 possible?

2011-01-25 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, from this page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd it seems systemd could be almost finished and usable for F14 too... Is this true? Any faq/drawback/limitations? Thanks, Gianluca -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: systemd in f14 possible?

2011-01-26 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue Jan 25 18:36:57 UTC 2011, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > # yum install systemd > Boot with init=/bin/systemd Thanks for your answer, Rahul. It seems to work: I tried on a laptop (Dell XPS M1330) and on a Athlon X4 based PC. Both systems are with sata disks. As first impression boot time seems quit

google calendar in evolution 2.32

2011-01-26 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, as I had some problems before in getting calendar sync between evolution and gmail account, but it seems it works now in F14 I would like to share. I also would like to share some problems and questions On an Ubuntu post (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleCalendarWithEvolution) I read

problem sending mail with exchange mapi account

2011-01-31 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
I'm using F14 and testing exchange mapi to connect to an exchange 2007 server. I'm currently able to receive, but unable to send e-mail Did anyone succed instead? In the mean time I opened the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674034 as it seems there is an upstream fix for opench

[OT] perl help on number modification

2010-01-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, any hint on trasforming with perl a number using only one substitute function for reg exp? Todo: 1.20 must become 1.2 1.00 must become 1 1.25 must remain the same So that if after the dot are all zeros, I have to subtitute with corresponding integer, and in general I have to remove trailing

Re: Fedora 12: no sound update

2010-01-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:28:07 -0800 Rich Emberson wrote: > As root when I execute: > # aplay -L > default > Default > front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 > HDA Intel, AD198x Analog > Front speakers >From an Alsa point of view, you could put in your user ~.asoundrc (or /etc/asound.conf for system wide

Re: [OT] perl help on number modification

2010-01-15 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Todo: > 1.20 must become 1.2 > 1.00 must become 1 > 1.25 must remain the same Thanks to Dave, Jake and Geoffrey even if my answer was OT... thanks also for the perl links For Jake: the problem is that in your example I thi

Re: [OT] perl help on number modification

2010-01-19 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri Jan 15 23:04:38 UTC 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Does that do what you want? I would think that you want "1." to become just > "1" > as well. > > In perl: perl -e 'while(<>) { s/[.0]+$//; print "$_\n" }' Ok Bill, this is unlikely to happen, as I get values from another application and in c

Re: [OT] perl help on number modification

2010-01-19 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > BTW also the second suggestion by Jake worked; it only was with more > typed characters > Thanks again > I missed Bruno suggestion too that was a simple substitution of + with * Now the credits are ok (hopefull

Problems with network speed setup in F12

2010-01-22 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, in f11 I had a line into /etc/rc.d/rc.local to force speed/duplex/autoneg: /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off >> /tmp/ethtool.log 2>&1 In F12 I see that this setting is not maintained. After I log in in Gnome I see that: [r...@tekkaman ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0

Re: Problems with network speed setup in F12

2010-01-26 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri Jan 22 17:48:03 UTC 2010 Rick Stevens wrote: > It's NetworkManager doing that to you. Ok, as I supposed. > Is there a reason they've set that up as fixed? Is there an autoneg > issue with the switch (some don't do autonegotiation correctly). There was a problem on older gigabit switches a

Re: Problems with network speed setup in F12

2010-01-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue Jan 26 17:24:38 UTC 2010 Rick Stevens wrote: > I'd first try a new cable from your system to your wallplate (if you're > wired like that). If there's no improvement, I'd have your IT people > check the wiring in the wall and on your wallplate. If it's a typical > 66-type punchdown wallplat

RFC about socket/cores numbers and HT info

2010-01-28 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, after digging around different systems (Fedora, RHEL) and mailing lists suggestions I arrived at this script about identifying on a system: - number of sockets - number of cores per socket - number of logical processors (so computational units) seen by OS - info about presence/enablement of

Re: RFC about socket/cores numbers and HT info

2010-01-28 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu Jan 28 11:30:31 UTC 2010 John Aldrich wrote: > /dev/mem: Permission denied I thought that if run by root, it should not give this permission denied problem strange I didn't mention in general that on RH EL based systems, the dmidecode rpm is needed and that the binary is in /usr/sbin (I

Re: RFC about socket/cores numbers and HT info

2010-01-28 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu Jan 28 13:18:20 UTC 2010 John Aldrich wrote: > Here's the output of the command run using sudo: Ok, so if you change inside the script NSOCKETS=$(dmidecode | grep -c "Central Processor") with NSOCKETS=$(sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep -c "Central Processor") and put in sudoers the permiss

Best repo for cinnamon themes, applets, desklets and extensions?

2014-02-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I'm just enjoying latest cinnamon desktop on my Fedora 20 I see this web site http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/ are these provided also in rpm based format in some way/repo, in particular for extensions? At first sight on my Fedora 20 desktop a search for packages gives only: cinnamon c

[OT] how to see if an rpm file will modify config files upon update

2014-05-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, sorry if this question is more for rpm devs... I know that in a spec file the definition %confg .../file_name1 will cause update of an edited file_name1, saving the on disk one into .rpmsave before overwriting while %confg(noreplace) .../file_name2 will retain the edited file_name2

Re: [OT] how to see if an rpm file will modify config files upon update

2014-05-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Finally I found the culprit.. in other occasions I have searched for it but I was not able to find. Probably the correct google search combination today ;-) http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-October/msg00134.html " The bit that implements %config(noreplace) maps to (from lib/rpmlib.h):

info on multiboot f23 and c7

2016-04-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a nuc6i5 where I have 2 SSD disks. The M.2 one (250Gb) is seen as sdb, while the sata one (500Gb) as sda. Initially I have installed f23 on the one seen as /dev/sdb and I presume the boot loader has been installed on it, correct? How to check? In a second moment I installed CentOS 7.

info on multiboot f23 and c7

2016-04-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a nuc6i5 where I have 2 SSD disks. The M.2 one (250Gb) is seen as sdb, while the sata one (500Gb) as sda. Initially I have installed f23 on the one seen as /dev/sdb and I presume the boot loader has been installed on it, correct? How to check? In a second moment I installed CentOS 7.

error connecting bluetooth mouse in Fedora 23

2016-05-26 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
hello, I have a Samsung S Action Mouse ET-MP900D that I'm trying to connect from my laptop: Asus U36SD with Fedora 23. I can pair and connect to the mouse both from a Samsung S2 phone and from a Samsung Pro 12.2 tablet. I remember in the past on the same PC with Fedora 21 I was able to connect to

Re: error connecting bluetooth mouse in Fedora 23

2016-05-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > hello, > I have a Samsung S Action Mouse ET-MP900D that I'm trying to connect from > my laptop: Asus U36SD with Fedora 23. > > I can pair and connect to the mouse both from a Samsung S2 phone and from > a Samsung

Birthday gift

2016-06-21 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Today it's my birthday and I discovered that one of the gifts for me is Fedora 24... Thanks to all the developers and contributors ;-) I'm going to update during the next few days Keep on! BTW: is still the link below the right one to upgrade from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24: https://fedoraproject.or

3.6.x version necessary before upgrading to 4.0

2016-06-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, is there any requirement to update at latest 3.6.x version the engine before upgrading to 4.0? Or could I have for example 3.6.3 and directly upgrade to 4.0? Do you test upgrade only from latest previous version or what? And what about nodes in case they start as plain CentOS 7.x in 3.6.x?

cifs mount not working with uid option?

2017-01-24 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, my system is an updated Fedora 25. A previously working windows share mounted via cifs is not working now (I have not the details of it but I know only that it is a DFS share, managed by a cluster of two windows 2012 R2 servers) After some attempts, I have verified that the critical point se

Re: cifs mount not working with uid option?

2017-01-24 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > my system is an updated Fedora 25. > A previously working windows share mounted via cifs is not working now (I > have not the details of it but I know only that it is a DFS share, managed > by a cluster of two

Strange panic with latest kernels and/or updates

2012-11-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, it happens even after booting the system in a few minutes if these conditions are met - manually mount a windows share Its entry in fstab is something like this \\ /myshare cifs noauto,_netdev,credentials=/etc/smbcred,uid=1000,workgroup=YYY 0 0 - go inside the share under

Re: Strange panic with latest kernels and/or updates

2012-11-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
System is Fedora 17 x86_64. Reproduced with both 3.6.3-1.fc17.x86_64 and kernel-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 yum update shows no package to be updated bash-4.2.37-2.fc17.x86_64 gawk-4.0.1-1.fc17.x86_64 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Strange panic with latest kernels and/or updates

2012-11-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Yum can get a 3.6.6 update from: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/**koji/buildinfo?buildID=364595 > I meant that I had no packages in yum update queue, so my system was full upd

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hi, I don't directly get ml e-mails in my inbox and I see that Bill Oliver post is empty at archive link: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-November/426712.html I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in other users' replies... It would also be good to

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue Nov 13 17:25:14 UTC 2012 Matthew Miller wrote: > I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking here. You can use the > graphical users and groups tool to add people to the wheel group. I'll try to explain better. Tipically when I want to give my user admin privileges (on F16 and F17 for

fedora 18 unable to mount any usb based device

2013-01-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I get errors and nothing mounted when inserting usb key, disk or ipod on my Fedora 18... It seems it is not able to create special files: when inserting for example a key like this # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 1018 MB, 1018167296 bytes, 1988608 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 5

hostapd and fedora19 wifi hotspot

2013-07-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, on my laptop (Asus U36sd) I had fedora 17 and configured hostapd setting bridge on virbr0 and using wpa2. Reinstalled in fedora 19 with same settings (only changed name of wlan interface) apparently this doesn't work with this same hw. I get: nl80211: Failed to set interface wlp3s0 into AP m

Re: hostapd and fedora19 wifi hotspot

2013-07-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > on my laptop (Asus U36sd) I had fedora 17 and configured hostapd > setting bridge on virbr0 and using wpa2. > Reinstalled in fedora 19 with same settings (only changed name of wlan > interface) apparently this do

Re: hostapd and fedora19 wifi hotspot

2013-07-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 16.07.2013 17:14, schrieb Gianluca Cecchi: >> Possibly NetworkManager that keeps wpa_supplicant running could >> interfere and prevent hostapd to set AP mode? >> >> [g.cecchi@ope46 ~]$ sud

RE: How 2 view apple movie trailers using F19

2013-07-18 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed Jul 17 18:02:55 UTC 2013 Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > I'm really stumped here. I've got F17 on one netbook and with it am able > to view apple movie trailers using Firefox. > On the OTHER netbook, now with F19, I have, AFAIK, all the same browser > plugins and underlying packages installed,

How to disable module in initrd

2013-11-19 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello I would like to recompile initrd on f19 without qla2xxx that is giving me problems on boot. How to do it? Dracut seems to ignore blacklist in .conf file under modprobe.d Thanks Gianluca -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: How to disable module in initrd

2013-11-19 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue Nov 19 13:30:32 UTC 2013 Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > man 5 dracut.conf -> section: omit_drivers It seems not to work. Created /etc/dracut.conf.d/qla2xxx_omit.conf # cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/qla2xxx_omit.conf omit_drivers+="qla2xxx " dracut --force "initramfs-3.11.8-200.fc19.x86_64.img" 3.

Re: How to disable module in initrd

2013-11-19 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue Nov 19 15:13:24 UTC 2013 Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm pretty sure the initrd files are really just gzip compressed > cpio archives, so you could uncompress it, extract the files, and > do anything you want to them, then rebuild it (probably a good > idea to keep the original in case everything g

graphic garbage exporting display from rhel 6.2 (or Fedora 16) to Fedora 16

2012-01-18 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, connecting from an F16 system to an RH EL 6.2 system with ssh and -X option and running virt-manager command inside RH EL 6.2 terminal session, I get this garbage. Does anyone have any hint about missing Xorg packages / bugs at RH EL and/or Fedora side of the connection? The same is true co

[OT] how to share a directory under ntfs mount point with selinux enabled?

2012-01-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, using Fedora 16 and its samba 3.6 stack I would like to share a directory that is under a local ntfs mounted (with ntfs-3g) path... For normal dirs I'm able to share after chcon -t samba_share_t /dir/to/share/path But for dirs under ntfs? Is there any directive to tell samba to skip selinu

Re: [OT] how to share a directory under ntfs mount point with selinux enabled?

2012-01-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri Jan 20 16:08:49 UTC 2012 David Quigley wrote: >>The best thing that you will be >> able to do is make it so your entire ntfs-3g mount is labeled >> samba_share_t and then just export the folders you want. You should >> be >> able to do this by adding -o context=system_u:object_r:samba_share_

Re: [OT] how to share a directory under ntfs mount point with selinux enabled?

2012-01-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > Unfortunately putting the line > /dev/sda1                                       /w7                  ntfs-3g > context=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t       1 0 > > I get this when trying to mount: > ntfs-3

f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present

2019-05-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, on a pc where I had both Windows 7 and Fedora 29, with boot loader configured in linux and grub2, I have run the update to Fedora 30 using the usual procedure described here, and already completed on another pc (but without the dual boot...): https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-29-to

Re: f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present

2019-05-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:34 AM Gianluca Cecchi wrote: [snip] > So I think something went bad in updating grub2 config... > Any hint on how to recover grub, eventually booting from a usb stick in > any way? > > Already happened to anyone else with f29 to f30? > I followed on t

Re: f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present

2019-05-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:03 PM Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > How can I configure the kernel-5.0.11-300.fc30.x86_64? > It seems that "grub2-install /dev/sda" didn't make it... > Simply reinstall kernel packages or what? > > BTW: if I rung grub2-mkconfig I get ag

Re: Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?

2019-05-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:36 PM Dario Lesca wrote: > > the it's useful put "exclude=tracker-miners" into /etc/dnf/dnf.conf > > In this way, tracker-miners is non installed > > Thanks > > -- > > Dario Lesca > (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 28 Workstation) > Just to notice that after updating to Fed

how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install fedora 30 too. Current layout of partitions on disk is this one, if I start from an usb live: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

  1   2   >