A question about Virtuality

2018-02-21 Thread John Pilkington
I have just acquired an i3 box with 2*500 GB disks, 4 GB ram and Windows10, essentially 'because it was there' and because my grandson's homework typically assumes an M$ environment. Fact. In the past I would have installed Fedora as a double-boot, but this list has much of talk of virtual bo

Re: A question about Virtuality

2018-02-21 Thread John Pilkington
On 21/02/18 16:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 15:04 +0000, John Pilkington wrote: I have just acquired an i3 box with 2*500 GB disks, 4 GB ram and Windows10, essentially 'because it was there' and because my grandson's homework typically assumes an M

Re: Yumex Getting Bus Connection/Network Issues

2018-02-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/02/18 20:37, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     Has anybody seen these messages before and know what is causing them, and hence why yumex is getting them? These are potentially new since the last system update. (, DBusException('Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call",

Re: Yumex Getting Bus Connection/Network Issues

2018-02-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/02/18 21:25, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/2/18 7:55 am, John Pilkington wrote: On 25/02/18 20:37, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, Has anybody seen these messages before and know what is causing them, and hence why yumex is getting them? These are potentially new since the last system

Re: Yumex Getting Bus Connection/Network Issues

2018-02-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/02/18 22:44, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/26/18 06:17, John Pilkington wrote: I have always found the yumex gui a helpful source of package info too - but at present on f26 yumex-dnf tells me that 'dnf is locked  by another process. Yum-extender will exit.' I suspect that process is

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/03/18 00:40, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/01/2018 04:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Well, that then seems to be inconsistently applied. Maybe not.  If any of it's sent through the expected server, you'll see it. I have the original post, listing HyperKitty as user agent. The rpmfusion list has a t

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-05 Thread John Pilkington
On 05/03/18 05:31, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 05/03/18 15:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 12:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/04/2018 05:55 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: While it mostly works, this specific command fails: $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' This is consistent, and also happens on a sec

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-05 Thread John Pilkington
On 05/03/18 08:50, John Pilkington wrote: I know this thread is about dnf, but I've seen exactly this font problem. mythtv will be looking for /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf which may be a real file derived from the mythtv distro or may be a link to the system fonts location

Re: Issues trying to lock-down display resolution and overscan

2018-04-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 04/04/18 17:47, Go Canes wrote: A while back my Intel NUC failed, and I replaced it with a newer one. Since then I have been having a few issues with my display. The first is overscan - the NUC is used as a media PC, and is hooked up via an A/V receiver to a HDTV using HDMI. Unfortunately

Re: gthumb crash (after enabling vdpau?)

2018-04-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/04/18 06:04, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: If anyone is interested, this is now on redhat bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564794 HTH On 03/04/18 11:21, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I recently replaced my graphics card (with NVIDIA GT 710). A newer nvidia module was installed

Re: Weird repo problem

2018-04-21 Thread John Pilkington
On 21/04/18 17:51, Danny Horne via users wrote: Hi all, I have a PC and laptop both running Fedora 27 Workstation and both fully updated, they both have an identical set of repos installed and enabled.  The only difference is the PC has Wine installed.  For reasons I won't go into I have to rein

Reports of gcc8 vector-validation problems in F28

2018-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
The MythTV lists have had several reports of problems apparently arising from new (and improved) vector-validation in gcc8. Is there a temporary workaround? It may be a coincidence, but the MythTV bug-tracker is currently reporting a temporary and apparently Fedora-related error: Something

Re: Reports of gcc8 vector-validation problems in F28

2018-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/05/18 10:13, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 09:51:52AM +0100, John Pilkington wrote: The MythTV lists have had several reports of problems apparently arising from new (and improved) vector-validation in gcc8. Is there a temporary workaround? If you don't provide de

Re: Reports of gcc8 vector-validation problems in F28

2018-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/05/18 12:14, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 10:40:39AM +0100, John Pilkington wrote: On 07/05/18 10:13, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 09:51:52AM +0100, John Pilkington wrote: The MythTV lists have had several reports of problems apparently arising from new

dmesg spam after f26 -> f27 upgrade

2018-05-26 Thread John Pilkington
I just upgraded my kde/f26 system to f27 using dnf. It seems to be working well but dmesg has rc rc1: error -5 repeated around 10 times per second. ISTR that when I first saw it it was rc0: Searching hasn't been much help. I use MythTV but not the lirc infra-red remote-control features

Re: dmesg spam after f26 -> f27 upgrade

2018-05-26 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/05/18 21:04, stan wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2018 13:38:29 +0100 John Pilkington wrote: I just upgraded my kde/f26 system to f27 using dnf. It seems to be working well but dmesg has rc rc1: error -5 repeated around 10 times per second. ISTR that when I first saw it it was rc0

Re: dmesg spam after f26 -> f27 upgrade

2018-05-27 Thread John Pilkington
common or some similar card. To find it I did lsmod | grep dvb and then lsmod | grep cx88 and modinfo the various pieces and mine does have a disable for ir. On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:48 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 26/05/18 21:04, stan wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2018 13:38:29 +0100 John Pilkingt

Re: better subject

2018-06-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/06/18 16:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 08:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: François Patte wrote: Bonjour, such inflammatory subject lines are not welcome, please do better next time. I know you were joking, but that was a greeting rather than a Subject line. poc

Re: Redshift has an issue with geoclue2

2018-06-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/06/18 22:24, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Fedora 28, x64 redshift-gtk-1.11-8.fc28.x86_64 redshift-1.11-8.fc28.x86_64 geoclue2-libs-2.4.10-2.fc28.x86_64 geoclue2-2.4.10-2.fc28.x86_64 When starting Redshift, I get the following error $ redshift     Trying location provider `geoclue2'...

Re: off-topic : Adobe reader doesn't show file window

2018-06-30 Thread John Pilkington
On 30/06/18 06:48, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/30/18 13:35, Todd Chester wrote: On 06/29/2018 04:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/30/18 06:10, ToddAndMargo wrote: You actually got Adobe reader to work at all.  Wow! Even though I use okular, I just installed AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm for

Re: off-topic : Adobe reader doesn't show file window

2018-06-30 Thread John Pilkington
On 30/06/18 08:38, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/30/18 15:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 30/06/18 06:48, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/30/18 13:35, Todd Chester wrote: On 06/29/2018 04:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/30/18 06:10, ToddAndMargo wrote: You actually got Adobe reader to work at all.  Wow

Re: How to read pdf's with animations

2018-07-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/07/18 10:22, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:40:56 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/10/18 12:27, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I have a pdf with animations. However, when I try to read it in evince or okular, in the first case, nothing happens with the animation. In the case of okular

Re: How to read pdf's with animations

2018-07-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/07/18 17:38, Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/10/2018 02:22 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:40:56 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/10/18 12:27, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I have a pdf with animations. However, when I try to read it in evince or okular, in the first case, nothing happe

Re: Update problem: soundtouch (F27)

2018-07-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/07/18 10:15, Frank Elsner wrote: Hello, on my fully updated F27 system todays "dnf update --refresh" gave the error # dnf update --refresh --exclude="kernel*" Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Thu 19 Jul 2018 11:12:27 AM CEST. Dependencies resolved. Problem: package gstr

Re: Update problem: soundtouch (F27)

2018-07-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/07/18 11:00, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/19/18 17:58, John Pilkington wrote: On 19/07/18 10:15, Frank Elsner wrote: Hello, on my fully updated F27 system todays "dnf update  --refresh" gave the error # dnf update  --refresh --exclude="kernel*" Last metadata expiration c

Re: Select packages missing from repo

2018-07-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/07/18 20:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/22/2018 06:36 AM, Alex wrote: One of the previous writers on this thread cut that part out of my initial post: # dnf search perl-Encode This was not in your initial post. Check your dnf.conf file and see if you have an exclude line in there. In

Re: astropy.io.ascii

2018-09-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 14/09/18 12:13, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, How can I install astropy.io.ascii in fedora? Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosph

Re: astropy.io.ascii

2018-09-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 14/09/18 16:13, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank, I am running fedora28. But, by default it run python2 Also under geany, it run pyhton2 even if I put #!/usr/bin/python3 in my file if I run python3 mypy.py Then it run pyhton3 However, I get an error: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ModuleN

Re: astropy.io.ascii

2018-09-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/09/18 20:46, Patrick Dupre wrote: I am sorry. It seems that there is some confusion. The following lines, can be commented or not. It does not change anything from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d as axes3d) I do not use pip. However pip list provides

Re: fc29 beta

2018-09-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/09/18 08:55, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 15:46 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/28/18 3:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 11:48 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, I just upgraded one of my machines to FC29 Beta. Looks pretty. Haven't had a cha

Re: fc29 beta

2018-10-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/10/18 11:07, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-09-30 at 17:06 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/29/18 12:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: F29 is not released. The guidelines for the User list state that it's for discussion of the released version of Fedora (currently 28 and 27). If

Re: After having updated nvidia drivers, cannot start obs

2024-03-30 Thread John Pilkington
On 30/03/2024 16:55, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/30/2024 10:43 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Have you wait for akmods to compile the nvidia kernel modules before rebooting ? Unless things have changed considerably since I used those drivers, the akmod module runs at boot, and checks to see

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/04/2024 00:52, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:36, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:05, home user wrote: /tmp/akmodsbuild.2VNb1GB1/BUILD/nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.223.02/_kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64/nvidia-drm/n

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/04/2024 12:58, John Pilkington wrote: On 12/04/2024 00:52, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:36, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:05, home user wrote: /tmp/akmodsbuild.2VNb1GB1/BUILD/nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.223.02

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 14/04/2024 16:22, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: On 15 Apr 2024 at 0:29, Michael D. Setzer II via user wrote: Just as an additional note. I have an older Acer notebook that has an NVIDIA GT 650M that had been working fine with the rpmfusion driver. Have BOINC using its GPU for a pro

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/04/2024 20:02, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 11:19 AM, home user wrote: After a few days of being seriously side-tracked, I can try to get back to this. Those who explained the kernel numbering: thank-you. (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx dri

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/04/2024 04:28, Felix Miata wrote: Andre Robatino composed on 2024-04-27 02:49 (UTC): I have an old machine from 2008 with very old integrated graphics (GeForce 6150SE nForce 430). Up to and including F39, I was able to do a Live Workstation install simply by using the nomodeset boot opt

System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-04-30 Thread John Pilkington
Hi all: I have two old systems (with old nVidia graphics), recently upgraded from f38 to f39 and both at present using nouveau. One was OK-ish, the other had screen-recognition and HDMI-audio issues, and I thought it might be worth trying the more-mainstream f40. Now the main problem is with

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-05-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/05/2024 00:54, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 2024-04-30 10:58 AM, John Pilkington wrote: (fedoraforum) has a suggestion of trimming the journalctl log, but neither that nor any other space-clearing actions that I have tried has made any difference. Have you made snapshots of your system

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-05-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/05/2024 15:51, Felix Miata wrote: John Pilkington composed on 2024-05-01 09:31 (UTC+0100): I'm not aware of any snapshots, and suspect that Felix has a quicker way of finding the relevant 'freespace' than waiting for dnf's version to appear. Perhaps it's show

Re: How to increase size of /boot partition

2024-05-03 Thread John Pilkington
On 03/05/2024 18:52, richard emberson wrote: Just today I upgraded from 39 to 40 but there was an issue: dnf told me I needed some 800k more space in my /boot partition to proceed. I had two kernels in /boot so I dnf removed those associated with the older of the two kernels. I then successfully

Fedora 40 and nouveau

2024-05-06 Thread John Pilkington
Both my old HP boxes have F40 up-to-date. Both are connected to an HDMI tv and vga monitor, but the one dual-booted with Windows has a fixed 800x600 screen size that appears only on the HDMI screen but lacks HDMI audio. I reinstalled the (Fedora provided) nouveau driver on both boxes before t

Re: Fedora 40 and nouveau

2024-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/05/2024 05:12, Felix Miata wrote: John Pilkington composed on 2024-05-06 12:32 (UTC+0100): Both my old HP boxes have F40 up-to-date. Both are connected to an HDMI tv and vga monitor, but the one dual-booted with Windows has a fixed 800x600 screen size that appears only on the HDMI

Re: Fedora 40 and nouveau

2024-05-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/05/2024 14:07, Andre Robatino wrote: I have a very old computer with GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 integrated video. I had video trouble as well, had been using just "nomodeset" to work around it, but got 1024x768 pincushioned video on my old CRT with 1280x1024 as the maximum resolution. (Thi

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 10:18, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as part of their network, and when handing out the same IP to a new host, re-uses the saved hostname. I've yet to come across

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 17:54, Roger Heflin wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:09 AM John Pilkington wrote: On 08/05/2024 10:18, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as part of their network

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: The harware was working well, before my recent upgrades from f38, briefly to f39 and now to f40.  Then I was using the rpmfusion 470xx builds of the nvidia legacy drivers.   Now the dual-boot box has no nvidia

F40 dual-boot problem, was Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/05/2024 21:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/8/24 1:13 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: The harware was working well, before my recent upgrades from f38, briefly to f39 and now to f40.  Then I was using the rpmfusion

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/05/2024 15:00, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM John Pilkington <mailto:johnpilk...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: >> The harware was working well, before

Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/05/2024 15:51, John Pilkington wrote: On 10/05/2024 15:00, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM John Pilkington <mailto:johnpilk...@gmail.com>> wrote:     On 08/05/2024 20:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/8/24 10:50 AM, John Pilkington wrote: &g

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 14/05/2024 08:54, Michal Schorm wrote: Hi, for an immediate workaround, remove the oldest kernel. Here are the steps together with an example output: 1) List installed kernel-core packages: # rpm -qa | grep kernel-core | sort kernel-core-6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64 kernel-core-6.8.6-200.fc39.x86_

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/05/2024 12:33, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 6:46 AM Stephen Morris > wrote: I used dnf to system-upgrade to F40, which downloaded all the relevant packages, and then I rebooted through dnf. Did you do all the steps in

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-17 Thread John Pilkington
On 17/05/2024 13:08, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:04:21 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote: Many users have had problems with the akmod-nvida install. For 470xx the module failed to compile. For newer cards, users sometimes

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/05/2024 03:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/5/24 22:43, John Pilkington wrote: On 17/05/2024 13:08, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:04:21 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote: Many users have had problems with the akmod

Re: Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end??

2024-05-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/05/2024 09:48, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Error: Transaction test error: file /usr/share/gir-1.0/GLib-2.0.gir conflicts between attempted installs of glib2-devel-2.80.2-1.fc40.i686 and glib2-devel-2.80.2-1.fc40.x86_64 # rpm -qa | grep glib2-devel glib2-devel-2.78.6-1.fc39.x8

Re: Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end??

2024-05-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/05/2024 18:08, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 19 May 2024 at 14:50, John Pilkington wrote: Date sent: Sun, 19 May 2024 14:50:55 +0100 Subject:Re: Updated 3 machines from 39 to 40, but on 4th machine get this error at end?? To: users

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/07/2024 09:50, Frédéric wrote: Hi, It took me a while to understand that Wayland was the source of my problem so I share my experience so that others can be quicker to solve this issue. I moved to F40 and Plasma came only with Wayland. Then, everything seemed OK apart that my Windows VM r

Re: nvidia drivers installation

2024-07-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/07/2024 17:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 10:10 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:48 AM George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:50 AM François Patte wrote: [...] I have secure boot enabled. Is there some how-to explaining with d

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

2024-08-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 11/08/2024 18:30, Dave Close wrote: I can't make sense of this output, can you? # rpm -q kernel-core kernel-core-6.9.9-100.fc39.x86_64 kernel-core-6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 That kernel runs for me, but I have romm for only two. How big is /boot ? -- __

Re: boot stops before startx....

2024-08-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/08/2024 09:51, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-08-18 16:05, francis.montag...@inria.fr a écrit : Hi. On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:59:09 +0200 François Patte wrote: Le 2024-08-17 06:07, Robert McBroom via users a écrit: The 6.10.x kernels are not yet supported for nvidia. I checked past fri

Re: boot stops before startx....

2024-08-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/08/2024 19:52, home user via users wrote: On 8/22/24 3:53 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 22 Aug 2024, at 02:58, home user via users wrote: I'll just say I can only keep one old kernel and not go into the details. FYI: dnf update will never remove the kernel that you are currently runn

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/08/11 11:02, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/12/2011 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use Google >> translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy from a .pdf. >> >> I don't care a

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/08/11 12:21, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 04:51 +1000, Roger wrote: >>> sounds like one of them is set to use UTC and the other is not. >>> >>> on Fedora, run the command (as root) >>> >>> system-config-date >>> >>> check the tab 'Date and Time', verify the time server, under 'A

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 20:29, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report > that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. > Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) > and a new kernel. > >> [joe@khorlia Desktop]$

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 22:34, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >> Haven't seen any problems yet... > > I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox > and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to update my system. Both were

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/08/11 17:00, linux guy wrote: > Here is my grub.conf file. > > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot p

Re: Update on needs-restarting

2011-08-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/08/11 19:46, Joe Zeff wrote: > As some of you may remember, I opened a bug report for the > needs-restarting script on August 25. If any of you out there are > having difficulties with it, go to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733537 and download the > *second* version of it, f

Re: Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/09/11 21:28, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > On 2011-09-02 22:06, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200 >> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: >> >>> I've read about rd.blacklist boot parameter [2] which should work >>> starting with Fedora 12 (as I understand it) [3], but in my case i

Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

2010-11-12 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: I'm new to this list and haven't found a searchable archive, but I haven't seen this topic in Google. My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully updated until near EOL. Later I added a second disk and f12, and recently I used preupgrade for f12-to-f13. That went

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

2010-11-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:11, Rick Stevens wrote: > > I don't think a preupgrade which skips three releases (10->14) is > supported. Single upgrades (10->11, 11->12, 12->13, 13->14) generally > work, but skipping intermediate stages is quite problematic. There's > a lot of stuff that changed significantly

Re: Fedora-14-i386-dvd.iso, file corrupted

2010-11-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:06, William Stock wrote: > in a terminal window, cd to the directory with the bittorrent files > (example: cd Download/Fedora-14-i386-DVD) and enter: sha256sum -c > *CHECKSUM > > (This is the lazy man's way to do it. The system will try to find all > the CDs too, and fail them, but

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target (solved?)

2010-11-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/11/10 22:04, John Pilkington wrote: > Hi: I'm new to this list and haven't found a searchable archive, but I > haven't seen this topic in Google. > > My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully > updated until near EOL. Later I ad

Firefox scrolling: breakup under overlying window

2010-11-20 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: I have no idea what is the best place to post this, but it feels like new behaviour and I haven't found a clear reference to it elsewhere. If I scroll in a Firefox window that is partially obscured by another window the emerging display is corrupted. Anyone else/fix? F13 x86_64, Firefox 3

Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-25 Thread John Pilkington
Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an iso image. atop often shows disk activity above 90%. I do most of this using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle' scheduling) which is supposed to reduce impact on o

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-26 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/11/10 08:46, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: >> Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often >> with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an >> iso image. atop often shows disk act

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-12-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/11/10 14:21, John Pilkington wrote: > On 26/11/10 08:46, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: >>> Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often >>> with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/12/10 15:01, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > Some package-management questions: > > 1.The package called "smart" doesn't seem to work anymore. It seems > to me that it can't keep up with its channel files. I wonder why F14 > even has a version of "smart" in its repos, if we already have y

Re: java problem

2011-01-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/01/11 07:22, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Peter Larsen > > wrote: > > I wonder what problem is preventing you from simply: yum install > @java ?? openjdk/icedtea works fine. > > > > We can use either Sun java or th

Re: no sound in FC 14

2011-01-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/01/11 22:05, CAPT Dave Giurintano, USPHS-retired wrote: > I have tried everything. Nothing is muted. I reinstalled pulse audio. > Still no sound. Videos work great but no sound. > > Any suggestions of where to look or what to try would be appreciated. > I had a similar problem some time ago w

Re: F14 K3b and ISOs

2011-01-20 Thread John Pilkington
On 20/01/11 13:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 07:20 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Tom Horsley wrote: >> Mind filing a bug someone? (both for k3b to use growiso by default, as well as against wodim for the big fail here). >>> I'll help make sure they both get at

Re: Sony Laptop Sound Problem

2011-02-01 Thread John Pilkington
On 01/02/11 10:35, Apurva Tripathi wrote: > Hello , > I have sony vaio laptop I am running fedora 14 now but it > have the same problem as fedora 13 that is no sound. No sound come when it > turns on or when we try to play music or movie anything related to sound is > not getting soun

Re: Fedora 19 problem

2014-03-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/03/14 10:30, Roger wrote: Hi all. Last night Fedora 19 updated 189 files, akmod and kernel among them. Now Fedora boot stops, I think because the kernel-devel file is faulty and nvidia cannot compile, or maybe partially compiled. I have tried reverting to earlier kernels and down loading th

Re: Hard Freezes with F20 on Lenovo ThinkPad T430

2014-03-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 14/03/14 20:44, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, Rawhide? As far as I know I have F20 installed. Perhaps something went wrong when I upgraded from F19 to F20? Best, Oliver Not you: The rawhide ref was from Kevin Martin. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: fedup failure [SOLVED]

2014-03-24 Thread John Pilkington
On 24/03/14 07:20, Ahmad Samir wrote: The other link I posted[1] is about the gpgkey entry in fedora .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo; IIUC at some point it was changed to be: gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch note the $releasever bit there; the erro

Re: CPU / GPU fan control

2014-04-05 Thread John Pilkington
On 05/04/14 11:22, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 07:16 +0200, Raf Roger wrote: i didn't get any answer regarding the FAN control of my CPU/GPU to avoid it to run at 100% all the time, when i'm just watching a movie or reading on internet. Some of those things may be causing your CPU to run

Re: Fedora 20 Update: unetbootin-603-1.fc20

2014-05-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/05/14 11:19, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 05/01/2014 11:22 PM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:23 +, upda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a C

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/09/15 18:48, Patrick Dupre wrote: Now, I have: Local time: Mon 2015-09-07 17:46:49 CEST Universal time: Mon 2015-09-07 15:46:49 UTC RTC time: Mon 2015-09-07 17:46:49 Time zone: Europe/Paris (CEST, +0200) NTP enabled: yes NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/09/15 22:32, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 07/09/15 18:48, Patrick Dupre wrote: Now, I have: Local time: Mon 2015-09-07 17:46:49 CEST Universal time: Mon 2015-09-07 15:46:49 UTC RTC time: Mon 2015-09-07 17:46:49 Time zone: Europe/Paris (CEST, +0200) NTP e

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/09/15 10:52, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/08/15 17:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: I cannot synchronize the date: My undestanding is that it should be set by: timedatectl set-ntp yes Here, the results of some commands: netstat -a |grep ntp udp0 0 localhost.localdo:51314 ns346276.ip-94-2

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/09/15 18:02, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/08/2015 03:27 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 08/09/15 10:52, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/08/15 17:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: I cannot synchronize the date: My undestanding is that it should be set by: timedatectl set-ntp yes Here, the results of some

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/09/15 22:31, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: On Sep 9, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Shaheen Bakhtiar mailto:shashan...@hotmail.com>> wrote: On Sep 9, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Rick Stevens mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote: On 09/09/2015 10:37 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Still the same (always as root) jou

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/09/15 23:43, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/10/15 06:18, John Pilkington wrote: ... and (on my SL7 box) # tcpdump port 123 shows the outgoing probe and the response, for calculation of the transit time: 23:01:55.706587 IP HP_Box.home.ntp > vpn.webersheim.de.ntp: NTPv3, Client, length 48 23

Re: NTP synchronized: no

2015-09-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/09/15 00:01, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: On Sep 9, 2015, at 3:47 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 09/09/15 23:43, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/10/15 06:18, John Pilkington wrote: ... and (on my SL7 box) # tcpdump port 123 shows the outgoing probe and the response, for calculation of the transit

Re: HD+ LED-backlit LCD screen washed out

2015-09-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/09/15 17:16, CS DBA wrote: Will this fix the screen issue? I'd be a bit cautious. The KDE-fedora list isn't entirely happy with F22 at present. http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg15597.html On 09/10/2015 10:02 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Sure, use Fedora 22 KDE... 20

Re: F22/23 + nvidia = no boot...

2015-10-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/10/15 15:32, linux guy wrote: lspci says my laptop has an NVIDIA GF116M [GeForce GT 555M/635M] rev a1 http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gt-555m/features My laptop is only a few years old. Seems funny the video card wouldn't be supported by the nvidia driver. There's

Re: VLC 2.2.2 Change Language option missing

2015-11-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/11/15 06:58, Javier Perez wrote: Does anyone else have this problem, that the Language Option is missing from the Tools Preferences menu? My VLC installations on *buntu trusty and SL7 (2.1.6 and 2.2.2) appear to offer entry of language codes for subtitle preferences. I don't see any ot

Re: DNF Update Error

2015-12-12 Thread John Pilkington
On 12/12/15 14:17, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi Anyone any idea how to deal with this one ? FC23. I've tried 'dnf clean packages' and this still happens after running 'dnf update'.. Delta RPMs reduced 127.7 MB of updates to 104.6 MB (18.1% saved) Running transaction check Transaction check

Re: burner

2015-12-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/12/15 18:39, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Patrick Dupre mailto:pdu...@gmx.com>> wrote: Hello, How do I get information about a burner ? +rw -rw I'm not sure if this has enough granularity but give it a try: $ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info Thanks

Re: VLC VideoLAN

2016-02-19 Thread John Pilkington
On 19/02/16 09:34, Angelo Moreschini wrote: I installed VLC on my computer (fedora 21) with the purpose to play .VOB files. Actually I can run LVL on the line command, but I am not able to do anything in this way... The help command give me this output : - It is a possibility to use

Re: codec missing....

2016-02-21 Thread John Pilkington
On 21/02/16 19:49, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, I try to convert a .flac audio file into an mp3 audio file, using the command: ffmpeg -i Input.flac -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 Output.mp 3 This fail with this message: Encoder (code

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