Re: Uh-oh...

2024-03-30 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Dave, Eddie, Good to hear your stories! - see inline comments: On 2024-03-31 10:42, Dave Ihnat wrote: On 30 Mar at 17:46, Eddie O'Connor wrote: ...and while I'm not a developer?...I would LOVE to BE one!...as my son is now college bound and I don't have "babies" to tend to...I work from ho

Can Fedora REPLACE Android on Smart Phones?

2024-05-29 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I have messed around with Android ROMs in the past - mostly for fun - now I would like Fedora running on my old Pixel2XL, which is currently running the last available Lineage ROM available for it. I have been experimenting with proot and chroot - but these things just create Fedora

Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

2024-06-03 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, A while ago I was in a hurry to start using F40 (Sway) and installed Rawhide from a live usb to get started. Everything went pretty well and I had minimal problems up until after f40 was release. However now, when I tried to do a: dnf system upgrade download --releasever=40 I ge

Re: Installed Rawhide with btrfs; dnf system update to v40 has errors ; re-install from Live USB without affecting a non-root subvolume?

2024-06-03 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
George, On 2024-06-04 09:37, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 4:43 PM Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, A while ago I was in a hurry to start using F40 (Sway) and installed Rawhide from a live usb to get started. Everything went pretty well and I had minimal

btrfs send command - why do I get these long times?

2024-06-08 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, For decades I have been using rsync for all my backup needs - but with F40 I finally made the break from extx to btrfs for my workstation which introduced me to the concept of btrfs subvolumes and the possibility of snapshots. Since subvolumes don't provide security if the whole part

Re: btrfs send command - why do I get these long times?

2024-06-09 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
George, On 2024-06-09 20:36, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM Philip Rhoades via users wrote: [...] What I don't understand is that when creating the snapshots originally, the time to create them is almost zero but when using btrfs send to the other partitio

Re: Risc-v computer with Fedora on it?

2024-06-22 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Ryan, On 2024-06-23 11:44, Ryan Bach via users wrote: I can't wait until this is real. Me too! P. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Risc-v computer with Fedora on it?

2024-06-22 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Geoffrey, On 2024-06-23 14:02, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:44:18 - Ryan Bach via users wrote: I can't wait until this is real. -- It's not clear which "this" you're referring to, but, FWIW, Framework has announced a development-level risc-v mainboard from DeepComputing

Re: Script for making a KVM VM from a kickstart

2022-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Chris, On 2022-01-16 10:01, Chris Adams wrote: I have been building up a script to quickly and easily make CentOS/RHEL and Fedora VMs from kickstart files for a long time, and thought I'd see if anyone else was interested. It's especially useful IMHO if you are working on building kickstarts

Re: FYI: My book on Podman, preview is available.

2022-05-04 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Daniel, On 2022-05-04 21:00, Daniel Walsh wrote: I have written a book on Podman which is coming out this summer. Podman in Action for Manning Publishing. Manning has an early access program where you can read the first few chapters (4) and is available now. https://www.manning.com/books/podm

Interrogating BIOS from CLI? - dmidecode doesn't have the info

2022-08-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I have a fairly recent ASUS ROG motherboard that I want to interrogate from the CLI - specifically to see which SATA drives are hot-swappable but dmidecode does not supply that information - is there some way of getting the info without rebooting into the BIOS setup screen? I am runn

Re: Interrogating BIOS from CLI? - dmidecode doesn't have the info

2022-08-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 9:01 AM Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, I have a fairly recent ASUS ROG motherboard that I want to interrogate from the CLI - specifically to see which SATA drives are hot-swappable but dmidecode does not supply that information - is there some way of getting t

Re: Interrogating BIOS from CLI? - dmidecode doesn't have the info

2022-08-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
ToddAndMargo, On 2022-08-22 16:11, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/21/22 21:29, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 00:00 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I have a fairly recent ASUS ROG motherboard that I want to interrogate from the CLI - specifically to see which SATA

Trying to install from ISO via grub.cfg - almost there?

2022-08-26 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, My old Zenbook has problems running LiveUSBs so I generally use dnf updates but the last update to F36 has caused problems with audio that I can't resolve so I want to do a clean install and have been trying to do this via running the iso from a grub2 config by adding stuff to 40_cust

Re: 1 line null webserver

2022-12-04 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Mike, ruby -run -e httpd . -p 5000 P. On 2022-12-04 21:01, Barry wrote: On 3 Dec 2022, at 21:40, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I'm using dnsmasq to create an ad/media blocker. Whenever it receives a request for any listed domain I want to return a specific IP that points to a dummy web

Tenacity

2023-02-07 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, Has there been any discussion about getting a Tenacity RPM going for Fedora? - I would prefer that to having to use the AppImage version . . Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au _

Is there some way of getting interactive access to a Fedora boot menu to a computer on the same LAN?

2023-04-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I am guessing this is not possible since the network is not even running yet . . could a mini-network of some kind be possible for the menu? My next-best alternative is to just a let a normal boot take place, get network access, log in and change the default boot order and reboot . .

grub-customizer only show OSs on secondary HDs

2023-04-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I thought grub-customizer might help me do something but I have loaded it onto two computers now (F37 KDE WS) and a server (F34 XFCE) and after I run the program (it takes minutes to get info), the listing of OSs only shows info for the secondary HDs on each computer - instead of also

Re: grub-customizer only show OSs on secondary HDs

2023-04-20 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
stan, On 2023-04-21 01:39, stan wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:37:39 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I thought grub-customizer might help me do something but I have loaded it onto two computers now (F37 KDE WS) and a server (F34 XFCE) and after I run the program (it takes minutes to

Installed Fedora 38 (sway) / grub2 on a new HD - boots OK but does not have a menuentry item in grub.cfg ?

2023-04-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, My Fedora WS has 4 drive bays and I access old boot and other HDs in bays 2-4. I just did a clean install of Fedora Sway to /dev/sda - everything is fine and the system boots OK but I am confused: - cat /etc/os-release NAME="Fedora Linux" VERSION="38 (Sway)" . PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Li

Re: Installed Fedora 38 (sway) / grub2 on a new HD - boots OK but does not have a menuentry item in grub.cfg ?

2023-04-22 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Francis, On 2023-04-22 17:18, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:37:53 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: - but why is there is not a line like this in /boot/grub2/grub.conf for Fedora 38 Sway? I can see that the appropriate other Sway files are in the /boot

Re: Anyone got RoundCubeMail installed happily in a host / VM / Podman Container?

2023-07-20 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
suomi, On 2023-07-21 14:30, fedora wrote: Hi Phil I don't think that this is of any help for you, but here RoundCubeMail 1.5.2 runs flawlessly on Oracle Linux Server release 8.8, kernel 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64.with mysql/mariadb 10.3.35 As far as I remember, the installation was simple

Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-24 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I want remote siblings to be able to upload large numbers of photos from their iPhones (using my existing ZeroTier network as the preferred connection mechanism) to my Fedora server or Fedora workstation - so I can do a lot of processing on them. I have been looking around for days f

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-24 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Tim, On 2023-08-25 07:05, Tim Evans wrote: On 8/24/23 17:01, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, I want remote siblings to be able to upload large numbers of photos from their iPhones (using my existing ZeroTier network as the preferred connection mechanism) to my Fedora server or

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-24 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
ug 24, 2023 at 4:06 PM Tim Evans wrote: On 8/24/23 17:01, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > People, > > I want remote siblings to be able to upload large numbers of photos from > their iPhones (using my existing ZeroTier network as the preferred > connection mechanism) to my Fed

Re: Very simple iOS file uploads (JPGs) to a Fedora server? - HTTPS?

2023-08-25 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, On 2023-08-25 07:01, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, I want remote siblings to be able to upload large numbers of photos from their iPhones (using my existing ZeroTier network as the preferred connection mechanism) to my Fedora server or Fedora workstation - so I can do a lot

Creating a ScreenShot HotKey Script

2023-09-16 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I want to scroll through doc pages in a script loop doing a screenshot for each page eg the procedure would be: 1. Display the first page of the doc you want to screenshot. 2. Hit CTRL-PrtScrn (say) to start the script loop. The script does a screenshot of the current screen. T

Re: startx equivalent for Wayland

2023-09-26 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
George, On 2023-09-26 23:45, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 1:13 AM Dave Close wrote: I detest a graphical login and insist on running in multi-user mode (old runlevel 3). To start an X11 session after login, I can use the startx command. But I haven't found an equivalent

Re: Creating a ScreenShot HotKey Script

2023-09-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
wwp, On 2023-09-17 07:19, wwp wrote: Hello Philip, On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:12:02 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I want to scroll through doc pages in a script loop doing a screenshot for each page eg the procedure would be: 1. Display the first page of the doc you want to

Re: Creating a ScreenShot HotKey Script

2023-09-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Jonathan, On 2023-09-17 04:44, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sep 16, 2023, at 10:28, stan via users wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:12:02 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: Is this possible? Should I be trying to do this from Sway? I don't have an answer for you, but isn

Is this possible?: Convert /dev/sdd[1-5] Ext4 => /dev/sdd [btrfs - whole disk] - without losing data in sdd5 (old /home)

2023-12-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I have been using Fedora since Core 1 and still have the old HDs and I have kept using ext[234] FSs just for simplicity / consistency up to the current time (F39) - but now I want to experiment with btrfs and I was thinking I could go through the exercise of converting an old SATA boot

F33 Xorg XFCE4 ALSA => F34 Wayland Gnome PipeWire - Issue #1

2021-07-06 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, There doesn't seem to be a dedicated Fedora Gnome list so I am posting here - I have looked around a lot for info before posting. In my traditional XFCE4 environment, on the top task bar I have had direct access to everything I need to get to: workspaces and stacked programs of each

Re: F33 Xorg XFCE4 ALSA => F34 Wayland Gnome PipeWire - Issue #1

2021-07-06 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Doug, On 2021-07-07 04:31, Doug H. wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, at 10:30 AM, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, There doesn't seem to be a dedicated Fedora Gnome list so I am posting here - I have looked around a lot for info before posting. In my traditional XFCE4 environment, o

Re: F33 Xorg XFCE4 ALSA => F34 Wayland Gnome PipeWire - Issue #1

2021-07-07 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Bob, On 2021-07-07 09:22, Bob Marcan wrote: On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:11:23 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: Doug, On 2021-07-07 04:31, Doug H. wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, at 10:30 AM, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: >> People, >> >> There doesn't seem to b

Re: F33 Xorg XFCE4 ALSA => F34 Wayland Gnome PipeWire - Issue #1

2021-07-08 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Samuel, On 2021-07-08 16:33, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/6/21 10:30 AM, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: In my traditional XFCE4 environment, on the top task bar I have had direct access to everything I need to get to: workspaces and stacked programs of each app eg:  Chrome, FF, Brave, X

Re: F33 Xorg XFCE4 ALSA => F34 Wayland Gnome PipeWire - Issue #1

2021-07-08 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Kevin, On 2021-07-08 23:29, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:30:41AM +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: People, There doesn't seem to be a dedicated Fedora Gnome list so I am posting here - I have looked around a lot for info before posting. You could try the de

/dev/sdb5 = /home => /devsda5 - at login can't chdir to /home/phr -> left in "/" - but then "cd" works ?!

2021-08-11 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I installed a new disk with F34 and made the old disk with F33 on it the backup disk - but I continued to use partition /dev/sdb5 mounted on /home while I sorted out stuff. When I finally rsynced everything from /dev/sdb5 to /dev/sda5 and mounted that on /home I got this weird proble

Re: /dev/sdb5 = /home => /devsda5 - at login can't chdir to /home/phr -> left in "/" - but then "cd" works ?!

2021-08-11 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Samuel, On 2021-08-12 05:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-08-11 12:19 p.m., Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I installed a new disk with F34 and made the old disk with F33 on it the backup disk - but I continued to use partition /dev/sdb5 mounted on /home while I sorted out stuff.  When I

Does Chrome, FireFox, Brave etc use the PipeWire server now? - I get mic problems

2021-09-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, Some told me they thought that browsers talked directly to the soundcard? With upgrading from F33 (X/XFCE4/ALSA) to F34 (Wayland/Sway/PipeWire) I have been thrashing the system a bit to see how it goes and found trying to serially record stuff online from three different browsers and

Re: Does Chrome, FireFox, Brave etc use the PipeWire server now? - I get mic problems

2021-09-22 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
stan, On 2021-09-22 23:01, stan wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:41:04 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: Some told me they thought that browsers talked directly to the soundcard? Not for a long, long time. If you have pulseaudio or pipewire installed, and are using them as default, then

F33 => F34 - gphoto2 not working?

2021-10-25 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, Upgrading from: F33 / Xorg / XFCE to: F34 / Wayland / Sway seems to have caused gphoto2 to stop working (it does not discover any device plugged into a USB port) when I plug in my GoPro Black 4 now. I can't see why Wayland and Sway would make a difference - what else could it be?

Debugging USB device issues

2021-10-26 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I didn't get a response to my previous Q re an apparent problem with getting gphoto2 to work with my GoPro Hero 4 Session camera - I hadn't used the camera for a while and I thought maybe the Fedora upgrades since then were the cause of the problem - but maybe the problem is actually

Re: Debugging USB device issues

2021-10-26 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Samuel, On 2021-10-27 11:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-10-26 10:10, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I didn't get a response to my previous Q re an apparent problem with getting gphoto2 to work with my GoPro Hero 4 Session camera - I hadn't used the camera for a while and I thought

Re: Debugging USB device issues

2021-10-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Tim, On 2021-10-27 19:01, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2021-10-27 at 04:10 +1100, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I am getting nothing recorded in /var/log/messages when I plug in the GoPro and push its power button (plugging in any other USB device is working of course) so maybe it is the

Re: Debugging USB device issues

2021-10-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Samuel, On 2021-10-27 19:31, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-10-26 10:10, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: I am getting nothing recorded in /var/log/messages when I plug in the GoPro and push its power button (plugging in any other USB device is working of course) so maybe it is the USB port on

Jerky scrolling in Chrome, FF, Brave, VimB

2021-10-28 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, I have had a reasonably powerful PC for the last few Fedora versions: i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz 8 core 32GB RAM 40GB Swap 50% free on 4TB Seagate drive and even though the PC seems unloaded according to Glances eg: < 40% CPU loading < 80 RAM used ~ 1% Swap used - Disk IO m

Re: Message threading on this list

2021-11-23 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
John, On 2021-11-24 09:06, John Pilkington wrote: I'm used to reading messages in order of time of arrival. Threaded display in Thunderbird, or the presentation of the archive by Hyperkitty, doesn't do this; the current thread about NVIDIA drivers is utterly disjointed in both, with recent pos

Re: I need a temporary imap client

2021-12-15 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
ToddAndMargo, On 2021-12-16 11:39, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 35 thunderbird-91.3.0-1.fc35.x86_64 Every time I want to see new eMail on my zoho accounts (3), I need to restart Thunderbird. It is a pain in the neck. My gMail account are unaffected. This is the bug: https://

Re: I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-04 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Tom, On 2022-01-04 06:43, Tom Horsley wrote: https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly

Re: I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-04 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Grumpey, On 2022-01-04 23:24, Grumpey wrote: Hmm - I switched to Wayland and Sway a little while ago on both the desktop and the ZenBook - I love the environment on the desktop but since I only occasionally use the ZenBook, I have just been putting up with the lack of double-tapping etc on the

Re: I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-04 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Tom, On 2022-01-04 23:58, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:37:39 +1100 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: Would what you have done fix my ZenBook issue? Don't see how since the mousepad is built in to the hardware. My gadget works by sitting between the mouse and the computer

Re: Upgrade time again - in-place or fresh install? - Postgresql and Podman DBs?

2024-12-07 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Barry, On 2024-12-08 00:57, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 04:14, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: Does an in-place upgrade handle major changes in Postgresql and, more importantly, Podman now? - if so, how does it do it? Podman implements the container standard. As such I would not

Upgrade time again - in-place or fresh install? - Postgresql and Podman DBs?

2024-12-06 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
People, Years ago I got caught when there was a major change of PG and I had to go back to a previous version of Fedora to export the PG data so I could import it into the new PG on the new Fedora - so I have been routinely (more-or-less) doing these exports as part of my normal backup process