Re: webcam

2018-02-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Dupre writes: > > On 02/10/2018 05:30 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > OK, > > > > It works from liveUSB > > > > So, what should I do? > > Well, at least we know it's not a hardware issue. > ___ My understanding is that I did not install the driver

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
JD writes: Hi all, I have an app that has no manpage, but has about 170 html files, all of which index into a subset of the 168 files. I would like to use an app that will produce a single manpage like text file. Is there an app that can do this? I saw a few apps on google search, but none of

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Cameron Simpson writes: On 01Apr2018 18:19, sam varshavchik wrote: If this is your app and your documentation, I suggest you spend the time converting your app's documentation to Docbook XML, and then use docbook tools to generate both HTML and man page documentation from your do

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Cameron Simpson writes: On 01Apr2018 23:55, sam varshavchik wrote: Cameron Simpson writes: There are plenty of popular human friendly formats out there like markdown and restructured text etc which render to various output formats. Which "human friendly" format can I use which a

Re: html to man page

2018-04-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andras Simon writes: 2018-04-04 13:53 GMT+02:00, Tim via users : > Allegedly, on or about 2 April 2018, Cameron Simpson sent: >> I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source >> format for human written content. It is massively hostile to >> authoring by hand. > > As I recall,

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: I'm pretty sure I've looked at Docbook, though could have been another thing. But what I found when using *some* form of intermediate language, that the conversions to other forms were not optimal. I might write a page with headings and subheadings, properly in sequence,

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 04/24/2018 10:54 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar -R bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar Although it shows the change to "tribar" it continues to display the original "spinner" when I reboot. Did you try regenerating the initramfs

H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming lack of H.264 codec support. Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 But none of the packages are currently available: [root@thinkpad yum.repos.d]# dnf config-manager --set-enabled fedor

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
stan writes: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:41:46 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, > claiming lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 > > But none o

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming > lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 I think that H.264 implementation is somewhat

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
stan writes: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:38:16 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > If you go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 does it tell you that > your browser has H.264 support? > > Fedora 27 Firefox does. Fedora 28 Firefox does not. Yes, it does. I thought of a reason why this might

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: Except that you can't at the moment. :) That's what I was saying in my reply to Sam. The compat-ffmpeg28 package is not in the rpmfusion-free repositories for f28. This is most likely just a matter of things needing to be synced from what was in the rpmfusion-free-rawh

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: That package is now in the rpmfusion-free repo for f28, on the master rpmfusion mirror. It should sync out to other mirrors in the next few hours/days. Thanks to Nicolas Heh, so I guess I manually installed the rpmfusion rawhide repo, in order to get another laptop u

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/27/2018 01:38 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> I installed the f27 packages in f28 to test and that was >> not sufficient for H.264 on youtube though. That might >> be the same thing you did. (I just changed $releasever >> in the fedora-cisco-openh

Re: My fedora 28 story so far

2018-05-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: Nouveau driver won't run X (only wayland): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575391 Might be video card and/or monitor specific, it worked OK on my system at work with different hardware. Or, it could be desktop-specific. No issues with XFCE with two different

Re: Reports of gcc8 vector-validation problems in F28

2018-05-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Federico Bruni writes: In fact, lilypond is another package affected: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568274 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-05/msg00081.html It's been my experience, over the last decade, or so, that each successive major gcc release has had

Re: nothing provides libgfortran.so.4

2018-05-08 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Smith writes: On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > > When trying to install > > R-mvtnorm > > I get the following error: > > - > # dnf install R-mvtnorm > Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'virtualbox', disabling. > Last metadata expiration check: 0:4

Re: Tip: my notes on 28's new core dump

2018-06-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
ToddAndMargo writes: These commands will give you a list of core dumps # coredumpctl --reverse list # ls -l /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ You need the PID of the core dumps parent to create a coe dump: An even better solution is simply: echo "core" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_patter

Re: Tip: my notes on 28's new core dump

2018-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 23:15:24 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > On the machine where you do development work, and have to deal with core > dumps all the time, you can rig this to be done automatically during the > boot, and completely avoid having to deal with all t

GnuCash's new reconciliation behavior

2018-06-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I just experienced a slightly unexpected, new behavior of GnuCash's account reconciliation dialog. Doing a quick check of my package installation details, looks like I had GnuCash updated two weeks ago, and I guess this is the first time I reconciled an account since then. It seems that aft

Re: GnuCash's new reconciliation behavior

2018-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ron Yorston writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: >It seems that after clicking a transaction, to mark it as reconciled, what >happens now is that not only does the little checkbox next to the >transaction gets set, but the entire transaction gets shuffled to the bottom >of the transact

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stephen Morris writes: and that installed all the package updates that caused the conflicts. Having done this I was able to complete the upgrade to F28, but now I have big problems. Under F28 my USB network device doesn't work because dkms can't compile the driver for it, and, either beca

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stephen Morris writes: On 12/7/18 9:28 am, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Stephen Morris writes: and that installed all the package updates that caused the conflicts. Having done this I was able to complete the upgrade to F28, but now I have big problems. Under F28 my USB network device doesn&#

Re: Software to create bootable USB stick

2018-08-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Danny Horne via users writes: On 29/08/18 11:29, Danny Horne via users wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Fedora Workstation 28.  What software can I use to install a > downloaded OS .ISO onto a USB stick so the OS can be installed on > another machine? > > Thanks for looking > ___

Re: rpmbuild error

2018-09-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ranjan Maitra writes: RPM build errors: Macro expanded in comment on line 11: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Am2P0X (%build) I wonder: what is causing these errors? Line 11 of the file seems to be something else. Line 11 has nothing to do with t

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:42:20 -0700 stan wrote: > I'm wondering how the people who regularly use fedora-users mailing > list feel about that. There is already a fedoraforum which I don't use at all because I despise forums because they are nothing like as useful as mailing l

Re: dmesg suddenly fails when run as normal user on FC39

2024-03-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ron Flory via users writes: »Hi-  does not happen on FC38, or any prior RedHat/Fedora version since forever. Sounds like this has landed: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/U2XA6J5BGPKMS54YM7DTOI4QHUXQTARI/ pgpHS0_YMt3pr.pgp Description: PG

Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Which scanner/copier does everyone use, that works out of the box with Xsane? Printing would be nice but I already have an HP that does the job for me. pgpxrfExOehoA.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. But: [root@jack ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-install:

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update.  From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stephen Morris writes: resynced all RAID partitions, I ran grub2-install and I'm fairly certain there was a definitive change in grub's behavior, afterwards. Originally three periods were initially shown, for a few seconds, before the grub menu opened. I have a recollection that the number

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: My Brother all-in-one units (I've had two) have never done that. Also, I can get third-party toner cartridges for very reasonable prices. Did you get that unit after crossing your fingers, and hoping that it works, or did you verify compatibility somehow. I tried

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

2024-03-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Dave Ihnat writes: But with the talk of using HP AiOs, I had to pipe up. I have advised all my clients to no longer buy HP printers of any type, including the AiOs, and will personally never buy another HP printer until and unless they back off their current policies and practices. I believe t

F40: mock fails with (some) explicit paths in BuildRequires:

2024-04-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I cannot mock-rebuild packages that have /some/ BuildRequires: with explicit file dependencies, for F40. I have no idea why just /some/ of them are rejected. I'm using mock to rebuild SRPMS in an F40 chroot, and it fails thusly: Updating and loading repositories: updates

Re: F40: mock fails with (some) explicit paths in BuildRequires:

2024-04-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: > So, can anyone tell me why %{_includedir}/ltdl.h, which is > /usr/include/ltdl.h, got rejected by mock+dnf5, but %{__make}, which is > /usr/bin/make was just peachy? Using file or directory paths in requires is only allowed for /usr/bin /usr/sbin, and /etc, per the pack

systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I've been made aware that it takes two minutes for systemd-networkd-wait- online.service to spin its wheels, before giving up with a squeal: Apr 09 22:03:30 shorty.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Starting systemd-networkd-wait-online.service - Wait for Network to be Configured… Apr 09 22:05:30 short

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 22:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Everything comes up normally. Network connectivity on this box is normal. > Originally I was looking into why it took a long time for keepalived to come > up on this box and grab its virtual IP ad

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: I have a similar problem where the wait-online service suddenly started taking a very long time and then failing. My system that used to boot in a few seconds now takes over a minute. So I have two questions. What is it waiting for? My main ethernet card gets an addre

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
could tell, systemd- networkd-wait-online did nothing at all, for me, whatsoever, except to delay other units from starting for a couple of minutes. On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:20 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Samuel Sieb writes: > > > I have a similar problem where the w

Re: systemd-networkd-wait-online times out

2024-04-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: "The service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service invokes systemd- networkd-wait-online without any options. Thus, it waits for all managed interfaces to be configured or failed, and for at least one to be online." Could it be that you have some additional interfaces conf

Which keys did I hit?

2024-04-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
My fingers had a mind of their own and apparently hit some combination of keys that had a very weird result. I'm using an XFCE desktop. And, apparently, it became, maybe, fourty or so virtual pixels wider. Of course, the monitor still has the same number of pixels, so what was happening is

Re: Which keys did I hit?

2024-04-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sjoerd Mullender via users writes: On 12/04/2024 10.11, Sam Varshavchik wrote: My fingers had a mind of their own and apparently hit some combination of keys that had a very weird result. I'm using an XFCE desktop. And, apparently, it became, maybe, fourty or so virtual pixels wide

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jeffrey Walton writes: Wayland is still pretty immature when compared to X11. It would be nice if Wayland was more mature before we are forced to switch to it.  The question on everyone's mind is: well, here's a video card that works fine with X. It's 5-10 years old, one of mine is even old

Re: [correction] The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Suse Shi writes: »from my exprience, fedora xfce spin is a good choice for old hardware, and I'm using fedora+xfce for desktop 10yrs+. The XFCE spin is also a pretty good choice for new hardware, too. pgpyIKEJnGyB2.pgp Description: PGP signature --

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Barry writes: The problem is no one is maintaining the X11 code. All the people that used to work on X11 moved on to wayland after it became very clear that X11’s design was preventing implementation of features that end users wanted. So if you stick on X11 you will be running code that is unm

What's up with debuginfod?

2024-04-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Can anyone vouch for having a reliable, established, experience with debuginfod? My 'make check' runs valgrind a bunch of times. Right now, each invocation is sitting and doing nothing for about ten minutes, before it apparently times out downloading something from debuginfod.fedoraproject.

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
George N. White III writes: I definitely know what I'll be missing with Wayland, though. There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented.  The latter may not get much attention if they aren't considered important by large enterprises.  Colleagues in

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg vulnerabilities as an excuse for dumping the Xorg/X11 system as a whole. I don't see much value is discussing the validity of those excuses. It is what it is. They don't want to work on

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:01:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11

Re: Live USB extra space

2024-04-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
ToddAndMargo via users writes: Hi All, I "Finally" have a customer interested in Fedora. I talked him into letting me spin a Live USB flash drive for him to play with before we jump ahead. Question: Is there a way to use the extra space on the drive to install a few more programs for him to

F40 Live image boot failure

2024-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
With all the talk of Wayland, I followed up on the idea of downloading an F40 Live image and seeing if it boots on my existing hardware. Well, it did boot on two out of three laptops that are currently running F39. On a 2013-era Thinkpad W520 it immediately fails with a: error: ../../grub-cor

Re: F40 Live image boot failure

2024-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
ToddAndMargo via users writes: On 5/3/24 15:42, Sam Varshavchik wrote: With all the talk of Wayland, I followed up on the idea of downloading an F40 Live image and seeing if it boots on my existing hardware. Well, it did boot on two out of three laptops that are currently running F39. On a

Re: F40 Live image boot failure

2024-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: error: ../../grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c:531:invalid buffer alignment -1112264040 error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:258:you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue... Although my plans are to use dnf system-upgrade, this looks like a kerne

Re: F40 Live image boot failure

2024-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 5/3/24 17:26, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: error: ../../grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c:531:invalid buffer alignment -1112264040 error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:258:you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue... Although

Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I updated from F39 to F40. I used to have: /etc/resolv.conf -> /run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf Everything got messed up because the update hijacked this symlink again: lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 May 29 09:44 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf I was confident t

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jeffrey Walton writes: On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I updated from F39 to F40. I used to have: > > /etc/resolv.conf -> /run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf > > Everything got messed up because the update hijacked this symlink again: &

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Barry Scott writes: > On 29 May 2024, at 23:49, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I updated from F39 to F40. I used to have: > > /etc/resolv.conf -> /run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf > > Everything got messed up because the update hijacked this symlink again: > &

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Fenzi writes: So, I think if you: disable systemd-resolved or make /etc/resolv.conf a real file, not a link. or set 'DNSStubListener=no' in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf It will not be replaced anymore. I did not even /have/ systemd-resolved installed. dnf system-upgrade installed it on

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: Kevin Fenzi wrote: [...snip loads of useful information...] > So, I think if you: > > disable systemd-resolved To that end, the change proposal¹ when systemd-resolved was enabled by default (F33) contains an example of how to ensure the service remains disabled -- which w

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 5/30/24 3:44 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 6:06 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/30/24 2:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I guess what the logic or script is missing (the one Kevin detailed) is, what to do if NetworkManager is installed and running. That see

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-05-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Fenzi writes: On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 04:25:44PM GMT, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Kevin Fenzi writes: > > > So, I think if you: > > > > disable systemd-resolved > > or > > make /etc/resolv.conf a real file, not a link. > > or > > set &#

Re: chroot

2024-06-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Dupre via users writes: Hello, To update a system installed on a specific partition that way? (after dnf update --refresh) mount /dev/sdx /mnt/linux chroot /mnt/linux dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=40 A bunch of other stuff will likely need to be mounted. Pretty much anythi

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-06-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: Tim: >> Is Anaconda more than just the OS installer, now? Is it needed post- >> install? Kevin Fenzi: > No, it's not needed. It's somewhat of a historical artifact of the way > some installs work that it's there. There was some talk about it > removing itself at the end,

Re: Please stop hijacking /etc/resolv.conf

2024-06-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jeffrey Walton writes: On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 6:42 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Tim via users writes: > > > Tim: > > >> Is Anaconda more than just the OS installer, now? Is it needed post- > > >> install? > > > > Kevin Fenzi: > > >

No screen blanking after inactivity, Framework 16 laptop

2024-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I installed the F40 XFCE Spin on a Framework 16 laptop. Display power management is enabled but the laptop display does not blank after the prescribed period of inactivity, whether the laptop is plugged in or on battery. I tried uninstalling xfce4-screensaver, this made no difference. Does

How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
So I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why attempts to push via DAV to a git repo were failing. Eventually I succeeded in stracing the httpd process sto capture the request. It was getting an EROFS when it tried to write to the git repo. Amusing. To make a long story short, the

Re: How to remove settings from a systemd unit file

2024-06-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Felix Miata writes: > I tried using > systemctl edit httpd > And putting this in there: > [Service] > ProtectHome= > However this apparently did not work. Please show us the override file in /etc/systemd* that resulted from your edits. Using systemctl edit for for over a year had me baff

Re: Interesting mount problem - F40

2024-06-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Frank Bures writes: What is happening now is that the machine boots from /dev/sda, but then mounts /dev/sdg for its /boot and /boot/efi. So in df I see /dev/sdg instead of /dev/sda that the machine booted from. I solved the problem by editing /etc/fstab and pointing /boot and /boot/efi t

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alex writes: « HTML content follows »Hi, I've just upgraded from fedora38 to fedora39 and directly to fedora40 and now apache won't start: (30)Read-only file system: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /home/httpd/http://www.mysite.com/logs/error_log>www.mysite.com/logs/err

Re: apache won't start after upgrade - read-only filesystem

2024-07-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alex writes: Do you have any idea why this option isn't part of the systemd service file on the other systems I upgraded? The document root for the other systems uses/var/www, but they didn't have this problem, and their home directories are also defined with this path. I checked my other

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Javier Perez writes: »Hi. How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep getting crashes. Something about UMIP and SIDTs and similar stuff. I did some VM tinkering earlier this year. My recollection is

Re: Installing MS Edge Browser

2024-07-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jonathan Ryshpan writes: « HTML content follows I am trying to install the MS Edge Browser (to access a web site that doesn't work properly under Firefox or Chrome of the KDE native browser). The installation fails when I attempt to install the repo, as follows: # curl -v https://packag

emacs packaging glitch

2024-07-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Am I the only lucky one who: 1. Has only emacs-gtk+x11 installed 2. Every update of emacs-gtk+x11 also installs the emacs package 3. Then running emacs shows a loud, annoying warning, scolding me for doing something stupid and telling me that I should be running emacs-gtk+x11 4. Manually execu

scroll lock shortcut in emacs

2024-07-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Anyone happen to know which alternate key combination toggle scrolls lock mode in emacs? I'm constantly using two different laptops, and, of course, their keyboards have Fn and Ctrl in opposite order. Somehow my fumbling around activates scroll lock mode in Emacs. define- function says tha

Re: OT: UEFI settings for DDR5 RAM

2024-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: Apologies in advance if this is too OT. I recently installed a new system based on an MSI B650-P motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7600 and Corsair DDR5 RAM. The RAM specs show a recommended frequency of 5200 MHz, but the UEFI screen shows it running at 4800MHz (even tho

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: When I reboot the system, there's a delay of around a minute before anything happens. This is a single-user desktop and I really don't need to stare at a spinner for so long. Is there a setting somewhere that lets me change this? I'm aware of 'reboot -f' but I assume

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 07:15 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan writes: > > > When I reboot the system, there's a delay of around a minute before > > anything happens. This is a single-user desktop and I really don

Re: Managing guest VMs on Fedora KVM host

2024-08-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Philip Prindeville via users writes: Hi, I have some Linux VMs that are running out of space. Is there a tool I can use to manage their .IMG or .QCOW files? In particular, I have a build farm with some Linux machines using LVM filesystems, and I need to resize their PV’s and LV’s, grow t

Gmail Notifier Firefox plugin gone mute

2024-09-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After installing a recent batch of updates the audio notification from this Firefox plugin is MIA. I still get a popup notification but there's no audio. In the extension's settings the "Play" button has no effect. All the dancing cats on Youtube are still meowing, loud and clear, so I see

Re: F13 Delayed-Please Include OpenOffice On LiveCD...

2010-05-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jesse Palser writes: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:17 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> I'm sure I am not alone in anxiously awaiting your insight into which >> 1/3 of the packages you think should be dropped from the LiveCD in >> order to provide OpenOffice... >> > > Live CD is actually a compressed squa

Re: Screensaver weirdness with nvidia/nouveau

2010-05-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andrew Haley writes: I wonder if anyone else has seen this. This is F12, gnome, nouveau video driver. I have my screensaver setup as Regard computer as idle after 1 minute Power management: Put display to sleep when inactive for 5 minutes Sometimes the screen blanks, sometimes it doesn't.

Re: Updating

2010-05-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
terry writes: do I need pinyin engine and open phrasedb for chinese since I use English. and how do i keep the updater from offering it. Remove the older versions of these packages which you already have installed. You are prompted to update to newer versions of any packages you have insta

Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a couple of minutes left, an automatic shutdown gets initiated. I would like to adjust the thresholds. I want to be alerted when I have about 30 minutes of p

Re: tricky perl question - ascending order

2010-05-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jozsi Vadkan writes: or maybe in bash.. script/"one liner" e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ i want to make this output from it: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kH8VxT0A So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things are under a "SOMETHING-XX" You reve

ABRT is not reporting my bugs

2010-05-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla login ID and password set in the bugzilla ABRT plugin. I don't think my oops reports are going anywhere. Any suggestions as to what might be broke

Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/24/2010 08:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla login ID and password set in the bugzilla ABRT plugin. I don't thi

Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/25/2010 03:43 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/24/2010 08:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla

Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matthew Saltzman writes: On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between > 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a > cou

Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matthew Saltzman writes: Not always. If you allow the battery to drain just a percent or two and plug it back in, it won't charge. If you drain it a bit more, it will. The Thinkpad battery manager from Lenovo takes that a step further, I think this battery manager thingy is some custom job f

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/28/2010 04:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: So, you are suggesting that existing users that are aware of http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ bookmark those pages, yes? What about newcomers to Linux and Fedora? How would they determine they should bookmark these pages?

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: d...@chatham.org writes: I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD)

How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I have a rack server with two drives, partitioned identically and assembled into RAID-1 arrays using mdraid. No CD/DVD drive. There is a USB port. Don't know if the server's BIOS will boot off a USB drive. I upgrade the server using pxeboot. I want to juggle these partitions around. It's not

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Wolff III writes: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:31:11 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I want to juggle these partitions around. It's not clear to me if parted will handle RAID partitions. I think I should resize each partition on each drive identically, and parted should end up prod

Desktop effects -- yeah!

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
For the first time ever, I have eye candy, thanks to mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, on my laptop with an NV40 chip. Kudos all around. This is quite an accomplishment. pgpRYgklZYUOX.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Desktop effects -- yeah!

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/29/2010 08:52 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: For the first time ever, I have eye candy, thanks to mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, on my laptop with an NV40 chip. Kudos all around. This is quite an accomplishment. I assume you are referring to Compiz here. Have you

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Roberto Ragusa writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: That bad news, since these are existing partitions, so presumably the raid metadata is at the end. The good news is that I took a look at the current parted online manual, and it looks like there's some support in parted now. The current ve

Compiz configuration problem

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I have "Audible Bell" checked in ccsm, but "echo -e '\007'" from a gnome-terminal window does not play the alert sound. I get the alert sound if I turn off compiz, or if I manually play it in Preferences → Sound. My audio configuration is fine. I played with other various settings in ccsm, bu

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Roberto Ragusa writes: I never used parted, so if I had to achieve what you want I'd try something completely different. You have to use something to adjust the size of the ext3 filesystem. Growing the underlying mdraid device is not sufficient. Once the underlying block device is larger, th

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Konstantin Svist writes: On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote: Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network connection. I do have, so I conti

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