Re: Organising photos visually

2018-01-30 Thread Rick Stevens
[ -e "$target" ] || break >     n=$((n+1)) >   done >   mv "$f" "$target" >   n=$((n+1)) >   moved=1 >     done >     [ $moved ] || sleep 0.1 >   done > > See how that logic feels to you. If you need this to be asynchronous, have a look at inotifywait(1) and bui

Re: Copying/duplicating files from ServerA to ServerB

2018-02-02 Thread Rick Stevens
rom fresh OS installs. If you need LIVE backup or full bare-metal restoration media, there are things like Clonezilla, mondorestore, Acronis (commercial) and lots of others. YMMV (your mileage may vary) -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldig

Re: Problem browsing at some hotspots

2018-02-06 Thread Rick Stevens
oesn't censor stuff. They're running a deal right now, a 2 year plan for $3.29/month US ($79 US billed every 24 months). I'm not shilling for Nord. It's just a fairly reliable site to use. I'm sure there are others that may be even cheaper (or free). ---

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-06 Thread Rick Stevens
nmcli connection show --active (for only active ones) and locate the connection you wish to modify, then: sudo nmcli connection modify --temporary gateway should change it temporarily. If you omit the "--temporary", it should make a permanent change. The command is buried in the nmcli man page, but the parameters are hidd

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Rick Stevens
one mechanism only allows incoming data from the Armcrest server. So it's something to watch, but I wouldn't panic. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skyp

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/07/2018 10:26 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/06/2018 02:56 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I bought twoptz cameras which can be viewed and controlled with the >> family iPhonesand of course they would like to use the "Armcrest" >> cloud/server in order to view them

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/07/2018 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 02/07/18 13:36, Rick Stevens wrote: >> I should have added that your firewall on your router is NOT a >> replacement for having firewalls on your individual computers. I have >> home automation along with a number of cameras. I d

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-09 Thread Rick Stevens
here in case you need it and it really doesn't take up much space. Your browser cache probably sucks up more disk than /boot/efi does. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Enginee

Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

2018-02-09 Thread Rick Stevens
issue with a laptop before where the PAM system wanted libcrypto.so.6 (which was what was originally installed way back when) but the current version was libcrypto.so.10. -

Re: sda/dev issues.. mounting fstab/exports/mtab..

2018-02-12 Thread Rick Stevens
them. Also check your /etc/fstab and make sure they're not being mounted like that in the future. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Rick Stevens
from > one server to another.. > > I'm thinking that I've screwed up some "dir/files" that are unique to > a droplet and used for the snapshot process.. I can't find any data on > how the "snapshot/vm" process really is implemented within > digit

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

2018-02-13 Thread Rick Stevens
Mbps). I doubt it'll work, but it's quick and easy to try. Just because the device is advertised at 500Mbps doesn't mean it can actually do it and it may be that it's 500Mbps _aggregate_ (i.e. if it has five ports, each can be set to 100Mbps without contention). If that's t

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-15 Thread Rick Stevens
es vlc.i686 3.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-core.i6863.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-devel.i686 3.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-devel.x86_64 3.0.0-1.fc27 r

Re: fed/centos - recovery app/process???

2018-02-15 Thread Rick Stevens
can use gdb or some other debugger to examine the core file to see WHY it died (perhaps), but it won't reveal the environment the process was in when it died. For example, it may have been murdered by the OOM killer and if so, the core file won't tell you--only an examination of the system

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/15/2018 01:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 16/2/18 6:52 am, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 02/14/2018 01:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 14/2/18 10:05 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>> On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 08:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >>&

Re: How to get a recent / maintained version of Mesa for F27?

2018-02-16 Thread Rick Stevens
fox's repos which has a bug. Fedora can't control it since it comes from a repo that's not under their control. People install it, then there's a flurry of messages on the list about how to get around this bug or that. --

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-16 Thread Rick Stevens
er needed to with bluetooth works > fine but the apps don't, and I'm yet to determine whether its an issue > with the apps or the bus which they use (the apps function via the bus > and work fine with the mouse when its on usb but not when its on > bluetooth) where the ke

Re: cssh as non root - No protocol specified

2018-03-02 Thread Rick Stevens
cssh pass a command to the remote end makes this a non-interactive session. In fact, you should see some message like You must be connected to a terminal in the remote end's cssh window while it's open. Thus, once cssh connects to the remote end and gives it the "screen

Re: change user id

2018-03-06 Thread Rick Stevens
nd so on. >   This could take awhile. > 6) logout from 'test' and login as 'bob' Don't forget that many people have /home as a separate filesystem, so an additional "find /home -xdev -uid 1000 -exec chown bob {} \;" wouldn't be out of place. Perhaps s

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Rick Stevens
probably am). -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -- - Careful! Ugly strikes

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-12 Thread Rick Stevens
s NOT expand filenames that start with a dot (to the shell, a dot means "current directory"). If you want to list JUST files/dirs that start with a dot, you can use "du [flags] \.* (so the shell interprets the dot as a dot, not "current directory"). Or you can tell the shel

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Rick Stevens
racteristics of files, while "du" displays disk usage. While they are related, they are, none the less, different things. It's up to you, the user, to use the appropriate command for what you want. The alternative is one program that tries to do EVERYTHING. That's been tried. It's called "Windo

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Rick Stevens
ctories beginning with a '.' and > at least some files beginning with a '.' without having issued the shopt > command. Because you didn't include a shell glob. You told du specifically: "show me the disk usage of /home/steve/workspace". du then walks d

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/13/2018 02:21 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 13/3/18 8:46 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 18:25 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> On 03/12/2018 03:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 07:26 +1100, S

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/13/2018 04:59 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/13/2018 02:21 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 13/3/18 8:46 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 18:25 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>> On 03/12/2018 03:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

Re: Is there a way to get something into a Fedora How To list?

2018-03-14 Thread Rick Stevens
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join and sign up. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -- -

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-14 Thread Rick Stevens
only >> reports the use for the files and directories that are given to it as >> arguments.  In the standard configuration, the shell won't give >> dot-files as arguments when it expands "*", but it will when you >> enable dotglob. >> >> (And if you w

Re: Kernel installed in wrong location

2018-03-19 Thread Rick Stevens
modes and the "g" means "ghost file"). Check your dnf logs to verify that something didn't go wrong during the install process. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Ya

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-20 Thread Rick Stevens
he MUA (Mail User Agent), which is essentially what end users use to view the mail. There's tons of those, but most common I've found on Linux are Thunderbird, claws-mail, mutt, Balsa, KDEMail, etc. Note that it is

Re: alternative to skype

2018-03-20 Thread Rick Stevens
y these apps supported receiving SMS messages ... Asterisk is really a full-boat VOIP PBX system, not a replacement for Skype or Slack or GotoMeeting or anything like that. Really anything that implements SIP and H.323 can be replacements (ekiga, softphone, etc.) for Skype and its ilk, but you need coordination between t

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-20 Thread Rick Stevens
y dies because, with VERY few exceptions, you can't replace the battery in new phones. IMHO, this is absolutely inexcusable! I think only LG phones still have replaceable batteries. LG should be applauded for this, the rest of them should be ashamed of

Re: Top-posting & list guidelines

2018-03-21 Thread Rick Stevens
ll here on the list. We just discuss things..sometimes LOUDLY! That being said, we have been known to occasionally cast doubts upon a poster's ancestry, but that's different. :-p -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, Al

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/21/2018 03:02 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 21/3/18 9:13 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 19:18 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> Why don't I have a new phone? I don't want to spend $1K for a phone I >>> will have to toss out wh

Re: Dual screen

2018-03-23 Thread Rick Stevens
imary display and doesn't really know about the second screen. How you'd get around that, I'm not sure. Sometimes even USB and other external devices (e.g. E-SATA and the like) don't come up from suspend/hibernate modes either. -

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Stevens
using inane social media jargon? This is a mailing list, not a bloody Twitter feed. I can feel my IQ drop when I see such a posting. (Sorry, but someone has to say it!) ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldig

Re: HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.

2018-03-28 Thread Rick Stevens
hat it > so utterly dominated the subscriber count. Remember that anyone with an Android device has a gmail account as well. The ease with which you can set up a gmail account makes many people use those as "scratch" accounts as well (for non-critical mail). ---

Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

2018-03-30 Thread Rick Stevens
futzed with it. There may be a tool that will walk down the directory tree and encrypt the files found. I don't remember. Also, I believe it's more common to use LUKS than ecryptfs, -

Re: gthumb crash (after enabling vdpau?)

2018-04-03 Thread Rick Stevens
but does not use vdpau > (or nvidia card). Yes, for F27 the latest gthumb is 3.6.0-1 and the latest libvdpau is 1.1.1-6. I don't use gnome myself and don't even have gthumb installed so I can't speak to its operation. I'd go ahead and file a bugzilla with all the relevant data

Re: F27 : startx Xfce fails

2018-04-04 Thread Rick Stevens
quot;libinput" > [  2931.502] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:70 > [  2931.517] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" > [  2931.517] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:65 > [  2931.529] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" > [  2931.529] (II) systemd-logind: rele

Re: Help understanding the kernel release schedule

2018-04-05 Thread Rick Stevens
up the test results, karma ratings and such that eventually "bless" a kernel's release on Fedora mainline. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437

Re: Lost touchpad vertical scrolling after upgrading this laptop from F25->F26

2018-04-06 Thread Rick Stevens
works just peachy for me using two fingers on the touchpad. I see these entries in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file: [ 109.192] (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "libinput touchpad catchall" [ 109.192] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePo

Re: GnuCash 3.0

2018-04-06 Thread Rick Stevens
uld love you! > Next plan: try gnucash of F28 beta. That may also work, but with the understanding that it might be dependent on newer packages available only in F28 and you still may be unable to use it. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.c

Re: Which VirtualBox repo to use?

2018-04-06 Thread Rick Stevens
> rpmfusion-free-updates  801 k >  VirtualBox-server x86_64   5.2.8-2.fc26   > rpmfusion-free-updates   15 M >  akmod-VirtualBox  x86_64   5.2.8-3.fc26   > rpmfusion-free-updates   31 k >  akmods    noarch   0.5.6-12.fc26  > updates  24 k >  kmodtool

Re: RPM Fusion down?

2018-04-09 Thread Rick Stevens
in/avg/max/mdev = 154.809/155.253/155.697/0.444 ms [root@golem4 ~]# telnet download1.rpmfusion.org 443 Trying 193.28.235.60... Connected to download1.rpmfusion.org. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. It may be your firewall is blocking it. ------

Re: How to install compiler package.

2018-04-09 Thread Rick Stevens
> > The 'dnf search' command is also handy. And as to installing Xfce (also my preferred desktop): $ sudo dnf groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" should get you there. ---

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Rick Stevens
ind the old adage: "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they AIN'T out to get me!" Good luck! -- -

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/10/2018 01:11 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:03:18PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> I've never understood the underlying concept of bitcoin/xmr/whatever >> mining. Currency (money) is usually tied, ultimately, to some physical >> thing. Thi

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/10/2018 01:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/10/2018 01:03 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> 4. Use a highly restrictive firewall. Mine's set up so that NOTHING >> unsolicited gets in except ssh from specific IPs and DNS responses. >> > > That's a good ide

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/10/2018 02:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 13:40:44 -0700, >  Rick Stevens wrote: >> True, but old DNS uses UDP and thus the responses aren't "related" to a >> given query (a stateful firewall couldn't necessarily determine

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/10/2018 06:13 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/11/18 07:27, Rick Stevens wrote: >> I seem to recall the same thing, that iptables opens incoming UDP port >> 53 for some period of time if it saw an outgoing UDP port 53 request. >> And I, like you, can't recall what t

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-12 Thread Rick Stevens
t which links you click and which packages you download and install, it's sort of a moot point. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-12 Thread Rick Stevens
#x27;s for the current VT. I know of no way of forcing it onto other VTs, and I still really don't see a reason to need to change it unless you're watching a terminal for output for some reason. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - -

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

2018-04-13 Thread Rick Stevens
... Uhm, probably do a "rmmod foo;modprobe foo", THEN rebuild the initramfs image. Also check both the /etc/dracut.conf file and /etc/dracut.conf.d directory to see if they're specifying some ancient version of your module. At worst, add a --add-modules=" to the command.

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-13 Thread Rick Stevens
he "#" in the example command), make sure you add "no_root_squash" to the export at the server: /home/public192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash) Otherwise the server will try to demote the root user down to the anonymous user, who probably doesn't have R/W acce

Re: How to switch to mate?

2018-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
o choose from. >> Choose Mate, then type your password and you are done. > > I don't see any login banner. Which display manager are you running? GDM, SDDM, LightDM? Each has a different way of specifying which desktop to launch. -------

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
192.168.1.* network, and that if a client mounts it as the root user, the root user ID is NOT squashed to the "anonymous" user on the server. You could run showmount -e 192.168.1.86 on the client to see what the server is exporting.

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/18/2018 11:23 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 04/18/18 13:45, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Uhm, that looks like "box86" either isn't in DNS or /etc/hosts so it >> can't be resolved. If this is on the server, try "showmount -e" or >> "showmount -

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/18/2018 12:42 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 04/18/18 15:01, Rick Stevens wrote: >> By default, Fedora uses the LVM (logical volume manager) system to >> partition the disks. It actually creates regular partitions as a raw >> volumes (PVs or "physical volumes").

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/18/2018 02:15 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/18/2018 12:42 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 04/18/18 15:01, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> By default, Fedora uses the LVM (logical volume manager) system to >>> partition the disks. It actually creates regular partitions a

Re: Fedora 27: Remmina and VNC incoming connection

2018-04-19 Thread Rick Stevens
X. Again, I don't have a Wayland system so I haven't tried setting it up on such a system. I'm also sure someone will poke holes in this solution (putting on my flak jacket now). An alternative is to download and install the free version of Te

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-23 Thread Rick Stevens
nectivity they offer...we have them on the network. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734

Re: Iptables rules dont copy to vsphere clone template

2018-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
was only the "running" firewall, the rulechange only exists in memory--not in the ruelsets on disk (which is what you cloned). ---------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
ithout busting my budget too severely. Don't forget to look at Xerox. One is the WorkCentre 6027. It's LED, claims 1200 x 2400 dpi and their website has Linux drivers. I have no experience with it, but it may fit the bill for you. ----

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

2018-04-26 Thread Rick Stevens
e DM, which eventually wends its way down to the windowing system (Wayland or X) for actual display. Like I said, that's sort of a simplified way of looking at it and it's not 100% accurate (these things are a bit incestuous) but it helps keep it straight in your head (well, mine at lea

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread Rick Stevens
sses that use network ports <= 1024, manage disks, mount remote filesystems and many, many other things an active sysadmin has to do. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/26/2018 05:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/27/18 08:29, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 >>>> Samuel Sieb wrote: >>>>> I

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/26/2018 07:50 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:56:22 -0700 > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> and utterly awesome and loveable) self. > > what?? what??? Are you saying I'm not awesome and lovable (despite my misspelling)? That kind of hurts (insert pout

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Rick Stevens
; sudo sh >> sudo sh -l >> sudo bash -l >> ... > > None of the sudo commands listed allow you to run a graphical program ie. > meld. Is there some way to do that? Not really since you're simply running a shell as another user. The user you're sudoing to wou

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

2018-05-02 Thread Rick Stevens
symlinks that must a) be manually maintained; and b) rely on a yet another separate filesystem to be mounted--all to try to prevent such obscure things seems to be a very poor idea and a spectacular waste of time. Deal with the issues IF they come up. ---

Re: F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-04 Thread Rick Stevens
passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat -- or -- passwd: files sss group: files sss shadow: files sss -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Eng

Re: F28 HotPlug not working properly

2018-05-04 Thread Rick Stevens
anually mount my eSATA, as root, to a specific mountpoint since I only use it for backups. I don't want it to automount--but that's just me. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems

Re: F28 HotPlug not working properly

2018-05-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/04/2018 02:58 PM, T_POL wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2018 14:20:13 -0700 > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 05/04/2018 01:30 PM, T_POL wrote: >>> I've noticed that Fedora 28 does not detect an external eSATA disk when >>> it's inserted. >>> If the

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-08 Thread Rick Stevens
he drive gets ejected--a manual umount as root from the CLI completes immediately). I don't believe it to be a filesystem or hardware issue--it seems to be something with the desktop and file manager. I had intended to test it with KDE on the same platform but haven't had a chance to get to

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/08/2018 09:38 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/07/2018 03:53 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >> On 08/05/18 07:48, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> . >>> >>> I've had this problem for more than a year but usually it only bothers >>> mefor a moment and

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/08/2018 10:04 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 05/08/18 12:38, Rick Stevens wrote: >> I have seen the same behavior under F27 and F28 using Xfce and USB >> drives (the desktop freezes until the drive gets ejected--a manual >> umount as root from the CLI completes immedia

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/08/2018 10:18 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 05/08/18 13:10, Rick Stevens wrote: >> I've seen this issue reported to the Xfce group before and they still >> haven't seemed to fix it. I have no idea why. Perhaps we should sharpen >> our sticks a bit and poke them

Re: need help with printer set-up.

2018-05-09 Thread Rick Stevens
g. Some mail clients aren't handling things correctly. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -- - T

Re: Kernel task 276 consumes 100% of io bandwidth on boo drive

2018-05-09 Thread Rick Stevens
bt this is a Fedora-specific issue. If you want stable, long lived stuff, use CentOS. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@a

Re: Kernel task 276 consumes 100% of io bandwidth on boo drive

2018-05-09 Thread Rick Stevens
o indicates he has 7 partitions using ext4 filesystems, but doesn't say which one is getting flogged. That's why I suggested an "iostat -p ALL 2" to identify the active device, followed by an "lsof" to see what processes have that device open to hunt the culprit down. -

Re: Kernel task 276 consumes 100% of io bandwidth on boo drive

2018-05-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/09/2018 04:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/09/2018 04:37 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 05/09/2018 03:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>>    From just that line, it looks like >>> there is no data transferred at all.  I've never understood what 100% of >>>

Re: kernel not configured for semaphores

2018-05-10 Thread Rick Stevens
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 10 10:12 sem -r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 10 10:12 shm which indicates that the SYSV IPC stuff IS there. It'd be odd for a kernel to be built without semaphores as they are a heavily-used IPC mechanism. Can you please let us know what version of t

Re: after F27->F28 upgrade, hangs at end of boot

2018-05-16 Thread Rick Stevens
ot; and the like, one of which may be an alias for your chipset. An "lsmod i915" will list more than 200 PCI IDs it handles and yours is probably buried in there. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllD

Re: gawk

2018-05-16 Thread Rick Stevens
), and the "^M" probably indicates a carriage return in the file. If you changed the ORS (output record separator) to a carriage return from it's default value of newline, that's what you'd get. Patrick, this isn't the first time (or second or third) you've posted a

Re: After system-upgrade F26->F27, system startup hangs after Reached target System Initialization

2018-05-17 Thread Rick Stevens
by then, I go into spelunker mode to sort it out. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
p up an authentication dialog. I wiped my xfce settings, reinstalled lightdm, xfce4-polkit and anything else I could think of to no avail. I finally just punted, disabled lightdm and enabled lxdm and everything started working again. Very, VERY frustrating. Gr! -- - Ric

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > >> And I just had lightdm screw up royally. First, upon login I got an >> XFCE polkit error popup, which is singularly useless in telling you >> an

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 01:24 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> And I just had lightdm screw up royally. First, upon login I got an >>> XFCE polkit e

Re: Open with ,or launching with dnfdragora package manager.

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
you do the manual dnf operation andre-enable dnfdragora when you're done. I always do manual dnf upgrades myself--I don't use any automated tools. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 03:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/23/18 04:24, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >>> On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>>> And I just had lightdm screw up royally. Firs

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 03:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/23/18 06:45, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 05/22/2018 03:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 05/23/18 04:24, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>> On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >>>>> On Tue,

Re: F28 system-config-date?

2018-05-25 Thread Rick Stevens
; System-Config-Date If you don't have the polkit issues, you'll get a popup to authenticate, then you can select a timezone. If you don't have that in your Applications menu, open a console and as root, enter "system-config-date" (again, if you'

Re: F28 and Android mounting

2018-05-25 Thread Rick Stevens
expect automounting of MTP devices, you'd probably need to log out and back in, at least. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 2264373

Re: md5 files - how to use them ?

2018-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
e checksum for the .zip file, compare them and tell you if they match. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
works It's not a kernel issue, it's a privilege or selinux issue. What desktop (LXDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.), display manager (lxdm, lightdm, etc.) are you using and is selinux enabled? Note that there is a problem if you're using the lightdm display manager and have pam-kwallet installed.

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/28/2018 11:34 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2018-05-22 13:56 GMT-03:00 Rick Stevens : >> >> And I just had lightdm screw up royally. First, upon login I got an >> XFCE polkit error popup, which is singularly useless in telling you >> anything you can troubleshoot wit

Re: Latest update no more wifi

2018-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/28/2018 11:31 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2018-05-28 15:18 GMT-03:00 Rick Stevens : >> >> It's not a kernel issue, it's a privilege or selinux issue. What desktop >> (LXDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.), display manager (lxdm, lightdm, etc.) are you >> using and is

Re: F28 - K3b failure on image copy

2018-05-29 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: can' connect to localhost

2018-06-06 Thread Rick Stevens
If you can ping it the address but port 631 is being refused, it's most likely caused by cups not running. Try $ sudo systemctl start cups.service Also check the logs ("journalctl -u cups") for any errors.

Re: can' connect to localhost

2018-06-06 Thread Rick Stevens
re trying to share it, make SURE you tell CUPS that and you'll have to open the firewall port for ipp so other machines can see it. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2

Re: "plumbing" problem during weekly update.

2018-06-07 Thread Rick Stevens
ithreads by default so it's not always clear). > By the way, how do I determine which patch of the kernel is actually running > on my workstation? "uname -r" will show you the currently running kernel: [root@prophead ~]# uname -r 4.16.13-300.fc28.x86_64 So I&#

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