Re: Making Fedora search smarter

2018-01-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/30/2018 01:17 PM, cen wrote: Another simple improvement would be to place more used programs on top. If I launch Sound 30 times a month and audacity 1 times you could use that information to order them appropriately.  Something in the sense of Firefox top sites that accumulate on your bla

Re: unusual networking question - have DHCP assign the same IP to a computer, regardless of which ethernet port is used

2018-01-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/31/2018 07:58 AM, Greg Woods wrote: I'm pretty sure this would work; we have done similar things at work:               host oddbox {                         hardware ethernet C8:3A:35:DC:54:59;                         fixed-address 192.168.1.12;                         option host-nam

Re: Easily add text and arrows on images: what is the best tool?

2018-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/01/2018 05:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 Frédéric wrote: I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is difficult. Any tool? Gimp works for me: Find an arrow you like in

Re: Easily add text and arrows on images: what is the best tool?

2018-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/01/2018 08:59 AM, Alex Aycinena wrote: Import the image into a blank Libreoffice Draw document and scale it. Then add text and arrows. The problem with this is that he wants to save it back to the same size jpeg which Draw is not designed for. ___

Re: Easily add text and arrows on images: what is the best tool?

2018-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/01/2018 07:34 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: On 02/01/2018 01:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/01/2018 05:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 Frédéric wrote: I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/02/2018 04:31 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Just did a dnf update, this comes out: ... Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0.1-1.fc27.x86_64 18/18 Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0-4.fc27.x86_64 18/18 Running as unit: run-r1880116b569f49288e6d0da0c5

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/02/2018 02:29 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: in short, any recommendations on simply ripping all these CDs to hard drive, while having no idea what i will eventually use to play them? I use grip to do it. I used to rip to ogg, but now I have started using flac and I'm trying to go back

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/03/2018 04:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I've found that folks have a tendency to overvalue lossless formats but in fact their ears aren't up to the task. I definitely do notice mp3 artifacts sometimes. However, the reason I've switched to flac is just to have a true archive of the original

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/03/2018 05:57 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: The unit tasks are logged, so you can see them with journalctl or in syslog. (Not that it's at all ideal to have to look around to find what may have caused this less-than-useful output.) How is it not useful? I'm happy to be aware of that part of

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/03/2018 09:30 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: How is it not useful? I'm happy to be aware of that part of the transaction. It would certainly be more useful if there was some indication of what specifically it was for. IMO, it's not useful because it tell

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/03/2018 09:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I happen to be the type of person that is more interested in just listening to the music than thinking I may want to do more conversions later.  That is why I spent the time when I did to find what works best for "me".  As a matter of fact, in the 3 yea

Re: Permission Problems on NAS

2018-02-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/04/2018 12:02 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: about transfer of the permissions on the files.    However, createrepo gets into trouble and gives errors of the form C_CREATEREPOLIB: Warning: Cannot copy Packages/repodata/1f3b3f3f1e6f83cd3ce15c483203d0233352bef2c1fb9bdc84cf264c24637984-other.sql

Re: Permission Problems on NAS

2018-02-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/05/2018 09:43 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: Curious things.  Using a LINKSYS AC3200 router as the server for the NAS.  Can connect the NAS either as usb or esata.  Swapped from the usb to the esata line and createrepo worked. That's good for you. But I'm still curious about what was failing

Re: Problem browsing at some hotspots

2018-02-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/06/2018 11:09 AM, JD wrote: some hotspots are censoring many websites which they find offensive or objectionable, including websites that discuss evolution and the possible changes that can occur due to the current weakening of Earth's magnetic field, and the expanding south atlantic hol

Re: java applets, firefox 57 fedora 27

2018-02-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/07/2018 05:49 AM, François Patte wrote: How to run java applets with firefox 57 on fedora 27? IcedTeaPlugin.so has disappeared and even if you install Icedtea from f26, applets are not running! I just ran into this with SeaMonkey. I updated last night and even though SeaMonkey still su

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/07/2018 09:44 AM, JD wrote: What is the best way to import the bookmarks file from one profile into another? If you open the bookmarks window on the first profile, you can export to HTML. Then you can do import from HTML on the other profile. ___

Re: java applets, firefox 57 fedora 27

2018-02-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/07/2018 11:34 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/07/2018 05:49 AM, François Patte wrote: How to run java applets with firefox 57 on fedora 27? IcedTeaPlugin.so has disappeared and even if you install Icedtea from f26, applets are not running! I just ran into this with SeaMonkey.  I updated

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/07/2018 12:23 PM, JD wrote: On 02/07/2018 01:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/07/2018 09:44 AM, JD wrote: What is the best way to import the bookmarks file from one profile into another? If you open the bookmarks window on the first profile, you can export to HTML.  Then you can do

Re: CUPS - Some apps can't print

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/08/2018 05:45 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Trying to print from LibreOffice - no data is sent and the Printer State shows:   Idle - Filter failed Any suggestions about further debugging? Have you looked in the journal to see if there is more useful information? Try using "journalctl

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/08/2018 06:26 PM, JD wrote: On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb <mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: You're using the wrong option.  You would have to use the "Restore" option and that would wipe out all your existing bookmarks first. In the bo

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/06/2018 09:27 PM, Dave Close wrote: One of the systems is a 32-bit laptop with little local content. I chose to simply do a fresh install on this one to get it working quickly. Fedora doesn't offer an installation image for 32-bit F27 so I installed F25 and then did successive upgrades to F

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/06/2018 09:27 PM, Dave Close wrote: I have two systems that were recently upgraded from Fedora 26 to 27 using DNF system-upgrade. Both were successfully running a KDE desktop for several generations previously, including on F26. In both cases, after the upgrade, starting KDE showed the spla

Re: CUPS - Some apps can't print

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/08/2018 09:38 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: I posted a "SOLVED" followup - this fixed the problem:   dnf update cups-filters   systemctl restart cups Sorry about that. It was further down in my inbox so I didn't see that until after I sent my reply. It would have been better if you had

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

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/08/2018 01:44 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a slightly off topic question regarding /boot, in /boot I have an efi sub-directory. Why is this when I am booting Fedora 27, Ubuntu 17.10 and Windows 10 with the bios configured as legacy mode and Ubuntu doesn't have an efi directory in /bo

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/08/2018 09:26 PM, Dave Close wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Looking at your Xorg.0.log I see this at the end. [ 221.964] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch [ 222.058] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:65 [ 222.058] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:69 [ 222.059]

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2018 09:31 AM, JD wrote: Yes Sam. I tried to restore, and I tried to convert to html. In both cases, for all the files in bookmarksbackup dir, I am getting Unable to process the backup file. I'm confused about how you're trying to do the convert to html. You should open Firefox using

Re: certificate expiry

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/05/2018 01:01 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: As of a month ago I started getting warnings from certwatch saying The certificate for Certificate Shack has expired and The certificate for Frank Alpha has expired which have now expired a week ago. I wanted to find out who these hosts ar

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2018 05:59 PM, JD wrote: On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Samuel Sieb <mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: On 02/09/2018 09:31 AM, JD wrote: Yes Sam. I tried to restore, and I tried to convert to html. In both cases, for all the files in bookmarksback

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2018 10:04 PM, Dave Close wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm not switching consoles. I haven't yet reached the opportunity to do so when the system hangs and the black screen appears. After that, yes, I can and do switch to a text console so I can kill the hung KDE session. You

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2018 10:27 PM, Dave Close wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: Well, I'm certainly seeking hints. The VNC session got me to a blank screen image. I opened an xterm on it and ran startx. You what? You ran startx from within an X session? Well, it's been a few days. I agree that do

Re: rsync -- permission denied issues

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2018 02:49 PM, bruce wrote: Doing a test to "clone"/cpy a test vm from a base server to a target server the user on the base/target server is a basic user.. not in the sudoers file How do you expect this to work? All the files will be owned by non-root and the system won't work.

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

2018-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2018 09:40 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: IIRC, /boot/efi/* is created by the initial anaconda install sequence and is in place in case you use UEFI at some point in the future. Since it's only about 15MB in size, it's pretty innocuous and I wouldn't worry about it. Ubuntu's install mechanism i

Re: Cannot upgrade libdvdcss after a recent upgrade push

2018-02-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/10/2018 10:46 AM, Temlakos wrote: I think you mean to suggest to bring it to the RPM Fusion list. They confirmed to me that they are the place to discuss all things Livna. They managed to solve my problem, by the way. Could you say how that was solved? I'm trying to figure out why there

Re: Cannot upgrade libdvdcss after a recent upgrade push

2018-02-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/10/2018 02:12 PM, Temlakos wrote: The problem is: the Livna repository is supposed to be dead. Another user named Remi is maintaining the one remaining package that RPM Fusion didn't take over (and likely put into its Nonfree and Ugly repos). Anyway, someone gave me this pathway to the pr

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

2018-02-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/10/2018 04:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/2/18 5:46 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/09/2018 09:40 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: IIRC, /boot/efi/* is created by the initial anaconda install sequence and is in place in case you use UEFI at some point in the future. Since it's only about 15

Re: rsync question

2018-02-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/10/2018 09:16 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Feb2018 20:50, Robert Nichols wrote: On 02/10/2018 12:31 PM, bruce wrote: Hey... Got it.. or think I do.. It appears the -I --ignore-times  attribute will essentially force a redo of any/all files in the rsync... Actually it will do the op

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

2018-02-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/11/2018 12:58 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I've issued the command rpm -qf /boot/efi and it tells me it was owned by fwupdate-efi-10-1.fc27.x86_64. I've also issue the command rpm -qf /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv and that is owned by grub2-efi-x64-2.02-19.fc27.x86_64. The command rpm -qf

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

2018-02-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/11/2018 01:19 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just further to this, I have checked my boot order in the bios and it is set to SSD, CDROM, UEFI: Builtin efi shell. If at boot time I display the boot menu it shows this as SSD, HARD DISK 1, HARD DISK 2, CDROM 1, CDROM 2, UEFI: Builtin efi shell,

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

2018-02-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/11/2018 01:23 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/2/18 5:46 pm, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: grub2-install is not needed I think. Thanks Francis, I'll check that out. Grub2-install is still required to update the mbr on non-efi (legacy) systems. That's true, but it very rarely needs

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/13/2018 09:50 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Keep in mind that the vast majority of VM implementations use sparse filesystems (e.g. qcow2). This can confuse the filesystem massively if you simply take a sparse 60G filesystem (where only 20G is used) and stick it on a 40G drive. Yes, only 20G is ac

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/12/2018 06:34 PM, bruce wrote: 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 digitalocean. My last hope is to iteratively rsync, testing

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/13/2018 01:27 PM, bruce wrote: For the "/etc" what files/dirs would you suggest to be copied from the base to the target?? That really depends on what the server is doing. What services are you running on it? For example, if you're running Apache, then you'll want the /etc/httpd dire

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

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/13/2018 01:57 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: This surprises me, as this is saying the home plug device is only running at 100 Mbps, but it is packaged as 500 Mbps and the device itself has 500 Mbps physically stamped on the front of it. I did set the manual configuration to 500 Mbps and full d

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/14/2018 09:33 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I mistakenly installed the Gnome Desktop from a live DVD - my SSD is small, and I want KDE, so I have burned a disk with the Spin. Problem now, though, is that Fedora appears to have turned UEFI back on, and I can't find any way of getting back to p

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/15/2018 04:15 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Samual and Steve, When I installed Fedora I got the screen where you can turn UEFI off. Since I wanted to promote the DVD drive over hard disk boot, I turned it off. I thought that was permanent. However, now I can no longer get to that screen. I

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/16/2018 07:51 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: GOT IT! - In case someone else reads this thread, this is what you need to know. If your function keys are marked in orange or blue, you need to hold down the Fn key. From the Power menu, select Restart and, with the Fn key firmly down, start tapping

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

2018-02-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/16/2018 12:29 PM, InvalidPath wrote: So just curious, whats the reason behind not updating it? What do you mean? It's in updates-testing and once it's considered to be tested sufficiently, it will get pushed out for general use. Feel free to update to it and provide a comment on the u

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/16/2018 11:38 PM, José Abílio Matos wrote: On Saturday, 17 February 2018 00.30.34 WET Stephen Morris wrote: > I'm using a desktop with a microsoft > keyboard, which has separate keys for volume, mute and play/pause > controls and even a key for a calculator, but by default none of the

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

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/14/2018 01:51 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: It could be. As I understand it the default functionality updates the mbr on the specified device, and from what I've read in other threads, I thought they said that to get the grub menu displayed at boot you don't update the mbr on an efi system an

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

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/12/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Wouldn't grub2-install be used to install the boot sectors to the /boot partition? This question is coming from the days when I formatted an entire hard disk as GPT and tried to install an older Fedora system on it and had the install fail with the

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

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/19/2018 12:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I thought that with SB all your drivers etc had to be signed to be able to boot from a SecureBoot system, and as such Fedora were using Microsoft certificates, whereas Ubuntu was going down the path of self signing. Given what you said around the /u

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/20/2018 12:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Looking at dmesg again this morning, and searching for the work 'taints' I get the 2nd message listed above but not the first message (why?), and this search displays a message in the same format as the first message for my wifi driver which is also

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

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/20/2018 03:41 AM, Tom H wrote: Ubuntu's using an MS sig. The difference between Fedora and Ubuntu is that the latter doesn't require that kernel modules be signed. If that's true, then I think they're in violation of the secure boot rules. And even if not, it makes secure boot ineffecti

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

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/20/2018 01:24 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/2/18 7:33 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: EFI systems have a special partition that contains as many bootloaders as you want.  It solves the problem of who gets to control the MBR bootloader location. Are they the .efi files that are in /boot/efi

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

2018-02-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/20/2018 01:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/2/18 7:39 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/12/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Wouldn't grub2-install be used to install the boot sectors to the /boot partition? This question is coming from the days when I formatted an entire hard di

Re: Upgrade from FC 24 to FC 27 broke support for DisplayPort 1.2 three port adapter

2018-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/21/2018 06:21 AM, David wrote: For a real fix, will that come from a Kernel update or a driver fix from Intel?  And would watching those 2 bug report threads be the best way to stay up to date? A fix will come from a kernel update. It's possible that the kernel team would backport a fi

Re: Speech-dispatcher

2018-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/20/2018 02:40 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I never use it. It gets in the way and uses computer resources. Any resources besides disk space? Funny that this just came up here. Since yesterday, there are suddenly 4 speech dispatcher processes running on my laptop an

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

2018-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/21/2018 12:35 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: My question around the time I was installing, I think F26 from scratch the first time on my 2 TB hard disk that now has both Fedora and Ubuntu on it. As a trial I made the entire hard disk GPT. I then ran the install process for Fedora from a live d

Re: livecd-creator -

2018-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/21/2018 03:51 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: How do I make a "livecd" from a fedora 27 iso? It used to be done with an application listed in the menu. It's not clear to me what you're trying to do. Are you wanting to write it to a physical CD or write it to a USB drive or make your own version

Re: livecd-creator -

2018-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/21/2018 04:09 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have a computer that does not want to run from a fedora-27 thumb drive that I used to install fedora on this the computer I am typing this on. I would like to "create" with an external usb drive which has worked for me in the past. I downloaded anoth

Re: Uefi/csm -

2018-02-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/25/2018 09:15 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I ordered another Asrock motherboard to replace the one I haven;t been able to install Fedora 27 on. The user manual says it can be setup to boot uefi or legacy bios by enabling csm. I do not need to dual boot with Windows, only Fedora 27 so it appears

Re: cups sucks!!!

2018-02-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/25/2018 10:42 AM, François Patte wrote: I tried: ipp://name-of-server:631/printers/name-of-printer-on-server. It does not work, the message is now: Filter failed. What fiter? I don't know as cups logs no longer exist since systemd... The cups logs go to the journal like everything else.

Re: gnome-screensaver

2018-02-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/25/2018 04:50 PM, Amadeus WM wrote: I've been happily using the mate desktop until yesterday when, after an upgrade to F27, I decided to give gnome3 another chance. Knock on wood, all seems well, except that the screen does not lock. It doesn't automatically lock after being idle, it does

Re: gnome-screensaver

2018-02-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/25/2018 06:47 PM, Amadeus WM wrote: All of the above. There is even no option to lock the screen in the upper right corner menu. No, I'm not running gnome as root. Probably related to how you're starting it then. There are several supplemental processes (e.g. gnome-setting-daemon) that

Re: Fedora 27 + Gnome 3.26.2: How to add a BRIDGE on VLAN interface with Gnome Network Control Panel ...

2018-02-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/27/2018 02:31 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: ... without use vim or nano, or nmcli or nmtui or nm-connection-editor or other tools external to Gnome Network control Panel? You can't. It doesn't support management of either vlans or bridges. ___ users m

Re: Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

2018-02-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/26/2018 06:56 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that require it.  Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine? I just download the tarball from Mozilla into my home directory and manually run it from th

Re: Fedora 27 + Gnome 3.26.2: How to add a BRIDGE on VLAN interface with Gnome Network Control Panel ...

2018-02-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/27/2018 09:35 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno mar, 27/02/2018 alle 08.39 -0800, Samuel Sieb ha scritto: You can't.  It doesn't support management of either vlans or bridges. Then? I must fill a bugs on Fedora or Gnome? It's not a bug since that has never been a support

Re: digitally signing a PDF file in Fedora

2018-02-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/27/2018 12:37 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: You can use Libreoffice for digitally signing PDF's (Not only the pdf created by L.O., but also existing PDF's) Could you please describe the process for doing this? ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: digitally signing a PDF file in Fedora

2018-02-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/28/2018 05:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/01/18 09:35, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/27/2018 12:37 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: You can use Libreoffice for digitally signing PDF's (Not only the pdf created by L.O., but also existing PDF's) Could you please describe the process

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

2018-03-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/01/2018 07:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Secondly, it appears to be a reply to a message which is not on the mailing list. The original sender is using yahoo and you are using gmail. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EP7DQ36TJB5G3KGV4

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

2018-03-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/01/2018 03:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm not sure what your point is. Why would our respective mail providers matter? List traffic is sent out by the list software, not by the OP's provider. And for the record, the message in question is not in my spam folder. Sorry, I thought you

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/03/2018 08:15 AM, bruce wrote: Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files??? I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and tail to generate the list of files/tail data.. But couldn't figure out the syntax.. tho

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: I created 4 pdf files using 'touch 123.pdf' through '126.pdf' find .  -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2 does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and 126.pdf The find command lists the files in whatever order the filesystem returns

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/04/2018 11:43 AM, bruce wrote: um.. hey guys I wanted to get the last X lines of each file from an input/wildcard list of files !! so.. I wanted the last 5 lines of the 126.pdf as well as the last 5 lines of the 125.pdf... --NOT the last X files from a list of files.. There were alr

Re: tail for a list of files

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/04/2018 01:07 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: From: Joe Zeff On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: find .  -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2 does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and 126.pdf What does it print if you don't run it through tail? That exercise was left

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
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 second machine. Both run f27 fully updated. The following does work: $ dnf provides '*/Droid*' But this one crashes:

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/04/2018 08:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: OK, but isn't this searching for a file that has a "space" in it?  Can't recall ever seeing one like that as part of the O/S. It might not be a query that will return anything, but it's still a bad crash that shouldn't happen. I filed https://bugzill

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/04/2018 09:31 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: True. I was trying to understand why mythtv-setup complains: 2018-03-05 16:28:02.602160 E  MythFontProperties: Failed to load 'Droid Sans', got 'Droid Sans [MONO]' instead     Location: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/04/2018 09:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Interestingly on i386 the segfault is slightly more verbose: # dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*' Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:33 ago on Mon 05 Mar 2018 05:39:27 AM CET. free(): invalid size Aborted (core dumped) I have hit various errors and s

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/05/2018 12:28 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Firstly, am I doing something wrong when I issue the command in a shell and get the segmentation fault but no error message or stack trace messages? No, the problem manifests in various ways. I only got a stack trace because I used gdb on it. ___

Re: video card questions

2018-03-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/05/2018 12:17 AM, François Patte wrote: 1- When there are two video cards on a computer, an integrated one and another one, how can we know which video card is used by the system? "glxinfo" will tell you which device is currently being used for 3D graphics. In my case, it includes lines

Re: Problems Pychess, freezes sometimes during playing

2018-03-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/07/2018 05:24 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: Pychess freezes sometimes.  During freezing the time counter continues, but Pychess doesn't accept a move, it's also not possible to export the data. The only way to get around is a reboot of the system. How can I contribute in analyzing this proble

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/08/2018 12:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 9/3/18 6:13 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... ah, so the replacement of those cross-directory hardlinks with symlinks will happen in F28, is that what you're saying? The change will be in F28, yes.  The few files in /usr/bin

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/09/2018 01:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: that was my understanding -- as long as the files are within precisely the same directory, hard links could still be used, but any cross-directory links (even if within the same filesystem) will use symlinks. is that about right? From what you

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/09/2018 03:06 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: In the git package, there aren't symlinks. Within /usr/bin, the git binaries which are identical are hardlinked to each other. And separately, within /usr/libexec/git-core, the git binaries which are identical are hardlink

Re: Amd Kaveri + AMDGPU kernel driver - any success?

2018-03-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/11/2018 02:11 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Did I miss something or isn't the amdgpu kernel module maybe not included in fedora's initrd? The regular initrd doesn't contain all the modules. It only includes the ones that are necessary to boot. You could try the rescue one as that contai

Re: How do you reset Selinux back to default?

2018-03-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/12/2018 06:28 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: I mean before I started adding things to SELinux based on SEAlerts and such.  In other word, set SELinux back to the way I found it after I installed Linux I thought I had seen something to list changed modules, but now I think I misunderstood. I th

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 09:10 AM, William Mattison wrote: Since March 08, I've received 11 messages from this list that appear empty, including 2 so far today. I have received a few (less) not empty, none today and 3 yesterday. What's causing this problem, and how do I fix it? My e-mail client is Thu

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 10:46 AM, William Mattison wrote: h I did a "View source" on the most recent empty-looking message. Everything is there. The whole thing is 742 lines long. You want the top how many lines? Or how would I recognize the end of the header? The end of the header is the f

Re: Starting programs when no internet connection is available

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 10:24 AM, stan wrote: A few months ago there was a discussion here about how network manager decides that a network connection is live before it has actually connected. I think it would be neat if network manager did a ping of a / the dns address associated with a connection before

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 12:58 PM, William Mattison wrote: Using the "View source" function, here between the lines of '=' is the header (copied and pasted): = Content-Length: 33542 = The header looks fine and there should be 33KB of content. When you view source do you see the message body?

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 04:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Just so you both know, only Samuel's side of this conversation is reaching me via the list. Can I assume that William is using Yahoo and my Gmail account is throwing away his side, or is something else going on? Yes, he has a Yahoo email accoun

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 02:51 PM, William Mattison wrote: The header looks fine and there should be 33KB of content. When you view source do you see the message body? yes. In "View source", I see 759 lines of stuff. But most looks like "meta-data", not message body that I would expect to see in the Th

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 04:43 PM, William Mattison wrote: I saved the "View source" window contents as a text file. What is now the best way to get that file onto Fedora's paste bin? Last time I tried that (last summer), it didn't work well. Making the whole message available might be better than me t

Re: Wow, KVM is great :-)

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 04:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I do that literally every day, for Windows gaming. It took some effort to set up but it works a treat. A good starting point is: https://vfio.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-part-1-hardware.html Also the VFIO mailing list at https

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 04:57 PM, William Mattison wrote: ok, I figured out how to get the message into the Fedora paste site. It can be viewed here: "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/LvQNrf-2pwpvnXbWWxOmow";. I saved that to a file and Thunderbird opened it with no problem. Try that yourself.

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/14/2018 07:38 PM, William Mattison wrote: I saved that [etc.] That does work. Good, so that means that Thunderbird does eventually get the whole intact message and can read it. ... Try closing ... cough gag cough cough choke gag cough On March 06, I started a thread titled

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/15/2018 08:51 AM, William Mattison wrote: What I was suggesting... KSysGuard shows that yahoo feeds data to Thunderbird in very teeny chunks. A message with an attached photo took about an hour to download yesterday. I also access my e-mail from multiple workstation accounts and opera

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/15/2018 08:51 AM, William Mattison wrote: Tried it: bash.4[~]: export MOZ_LOG_FILE=/[myhome]/thunderbird/log bash.5[~]: export MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,timestamp Looking through the source code, I found that the environment variables used are different now. You want "NSPR_LOG_FILE" and "NSPR_LOG_M

Re: F19 RAID1 drive died - what if it was sda that died?

2018-03-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/16/2018 02:55 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi Bill, Thanks for this. However, when I try this I get: [root@lou ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory [root@lou ~]# A quick google shows gives the indication that this is for

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