Fedora trashes my NTFS drive

2022-04-23 Thread Lily White
Hi, I have a NTFS flashdrive. When I plug it into Fedora, it reads and writes normally. However, when plugged into M$ Windows, only an icon and a not-so-informative ``Removable media'' is shown. When I try to reformat it with Windows Disk Management, another not-so-informative error ``Window

Re: Fedora trashes my NTFS drive

2022-04-25 Thread Lily White
7;s interesting is that the broken drive works on both Fedora and macOS, but not Windows. That's why I didn't speculate the drive itself was broken before. On 4/25/22 19:30, Matt Morgan wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:16 AM Lily White <mailto:lilywhite2...@outlook.com>> w

Re: Fedora trashes my NTFS drive

2022-04-26 Thread Lily White
eeks before? Anyone know about the progress? On 4/26/22 05:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 10:41 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:11 AM Lily White wrote: I got a spare drive and it does work (at least for now, this drive worked for a while befor

Using Fish as default shell crashes KDE

2022-05-11 Thread Lily White
When I use fish as the default shell (via chsh). After a system reboot, The KDE login screen would show up, but after logging in, it displays only a blank screen. I quit X to look at the logs and saw core dumps left and right. Moreover, some commands like `reboot' and even `init' are not found

Re: Update to f36: problem with wine libvkd3d-1.dll not found

2022-07-20 Thread Lily White
> BTW: do I have to worry about the message above "wine-staging 7.12 is a > testing version containing experimental patches"? Why this choice in case? Generally, no, `wine' should be relatively stable even it is staging. Moreover, when a Fedora version rolls out, the corresponding wine *usual

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for,>,> the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-20 Thread Lily White
I remember furiously inserting `g$' on my file until I remembered I'm using nano. Anyway vi commands are easier to remember compared to Emacs, by a margin. On 7/21/22 12:00 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 7/20/22 09:38, Ron Flory via users wrote:   Careful there-  even today, a very large number of n

Re: This is...disturbing...

2022-07-26 Thread Lily White
On 7/27/22 7:36 AM, Tim via users wrote: So, yes, I do see the value in locking down closed-source systems, to make them a reliable and safer system. The world would be a better place if Windows wasn't such an utter disaster. You might think you don't care if Windows self destructs while yo

Re: 32-->36?

2022-08-01 Thread Lily White
This is reasonable. My suggestion would be 1. keep the original installation, create a snapshot of current configs and installed packages. 2. If possible, use a new server, or use a VM, to install F36. 3. Import the package and configs, fix everything that don't work 4. When most obvious proble

Re: Firefox issue

2022-08-06 Thread Lily White
Nuking is often the best solution if your config files, certs and whatnot are broken beyond repair. Though you often need to remove everything the package manager didn't touch. I remember reinstalling php for dozens of times because I'm stupid enough to migrate php files from my previous Ubunt

Re: Noto fonts - ugly and unreadable for everyone or just me?

2022-09-18 Thread Lily White
Also, please attach a screenshot so we'll know if it's actually a problem or a personal taste issue. And don't forget to go to the test list. On 9/18/22 6:37 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: So I upgraded from Fedora 35-ish to 37 recently, and the most obvious thing is the change to Google Noto