Re: alternative to skype

2018-03-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/3/18 12:05 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 08:29 -0400, fred roller wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 00:09 +, Néstor wrote: You can actually use Google voice in another country as long as you have access

Re: alternative to skype

2018-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/3/18 10:09 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/20/2018 02:10 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/3/18 12:05 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 08:29 -0400, fred roller wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 00:09 +00

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
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 when the battery dies because, with VERY few exceptions, you can't replace the battery in new phones.

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/3/18 4:46 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 09:48 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: My Note 3 is a Samsung, but from what I've seen the only new phones that have replaceable batteries are certain models from LG. Everyone else has gone the "sleeker is better" or "waterproofing i

Re: alternative to skype

2018-03-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/3/18 11:40 pm, chicago wrote: I've worked in seven different organizations, they all happened to use Lotus Notes as their mail system Say no more. You've suffered enough. I think notes is a great system if used properly. The organization I currently work for is looking at replacing note

Re: Dual screen

2018-03-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/3/18 11:19 pm, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I noted a small issue when using dual screening (primary and secondary displays). If you have windows open in different workspaces, they all move in workspace 1 after a screen lock. Is it a configuration issue or something else? This may be a n

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

2018-03-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/3/18 6:34 am, home user wrote: Some of you have neat sayings beneath your signature. A good one in this thread is "Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.". I'm seeing comments implying that messages from yahoo-based member accounts are not rea

Dnfdragora Issues

2018-04-02 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have encountered some issues with dnfdragora, one of which is fairly serious for me.     If I use the search function to get a list of specific packages, it displays the details for the first package which is fine. If I then click on another package it does not show the details for

Thunderbird Issue Possibly Related to System Update

2018-04-02 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have an issue with Thunderbird that may or may not be system related.     This issue surfaced after a system update a few updates back. Whenever I start Thunderbird now it always starts unmaximised even though on last shutdown it was maximised, and when I reply to a mail or compose

Re: Thunderbird Issue Possibly Related to System Update

2018-04-04 Thread Stephen Morris
On 3/4/18 8:24 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/02/2018 03:21 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: This issue surfaced after a system update a few updates back. Whenever I start Thunderbird now it always starts unmaximised even though on last shutdown it was maximised, and when I reply to a mail or

Re: Thunderbird Issue Possibly Related to System Update

2018-04-04 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/4/18 12:10 pm, Stephen Morris wrote: On 3/4/18 8:24 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/02/2018 03:21 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: This issue surfaced after a system update a few updates back. Whenever I start Thunderbird now it always starts unmaximised even though on last shutdown it was

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/4/18 3:45 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/18/2018 08:43 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/17/18 06:47, Tim via users wrote: The /etc/fstab file points to where devices get mounted onto the directory tree. If you have mounts like /dev/wrong-device pointing to /my-preferred-storage-space Simply

Re: Switching to Wayland on F27

2018-05-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/4/18 12:46 am, digimer wrote: On 2018-04-19 10:36 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: Once you select the user to log in as there's a dropdown menu (I forget what it's called I'm at work) that lets you select your session type (Gnome/Wayland or Gnome/Xorg) or whatever desktop managers you have insta

Re: problems to install NetBeans 8 on fedora 27

2018-05-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/4/18 5:49 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/22/2018 01:17 AM, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 04/22/2018 02:14 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/21/2018 01:59 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: I found a clue to change the session type of Gnome.. : I editedthe file  /etc/gdm/custom.conf , end  uncommented the ro

Re: Switching to Wayland on F27

2018-05-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/5/18 7:42 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/07/18 05:34, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/4/18 12:46 am, digimer wrote: On 2018-04-19 10:36 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: Once you select the user to log in as there's a dropdown menu (I forget what it's called I'm at work) that lets

Makemkv Incompatible with mmdtsdec

2018-05-06 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     With the sudo dnf upgrade I have just done I received the following messages, which I'm not sure what to do about.  Problem: package makemkv-1.12.2-2.fc27.x86_64 obsoletes mmdtsdec < 1.12.2-2.fc27 provided by mmdtsdec-1.12.0-1.fc27.i686   - cannot install the best update candidate for

Re: Makemkv Incompatible with mmdtsdec

2018-05-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/5/18 12:25 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/07/18 06:08, Stephen Morris wrote:     With the sudo dnf upgrade I have just done I received the following messages, which I'm not sure what to do about.  Problem: package makemkv-1.12.2-2.fc27.x86_64 obsoletes mmdtsdec < 1.12.2-2.fc27

Re: Makemkv Incompatible with mmdtsdec

2018-05-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 8/5/18 8:28 am, Stephen Morris wrote: On 7/5/18 12:25 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/07/18 06:08, Stephen Morris wrote: With the sudo dnf upgrade I have just done I received the following messages, which I'm not sure what to do about.   Problem: package makemkv-1.12.2-2.fc27.x

Re: Makemkv Incompatible with mmdtsdec

2018-07-08 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/5/18 10:24 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/11/18 08:19, Temlakos wrote: On 05/10/2018 07:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/11/18 07:13, Temlakos wrote: What sort of problems does that "overlap" cause, and how does one work around them? They both contain some of the same packages.  You may run

Re: Makemkv Incompatible with mmdtsdec

2018-07-08 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/5/18 8:39 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/11/18 05:16, Stephen Morris wrote: I'm now even more confused after having used --allowerasing, even though it got rid of the messages, issuing dnf info makemkv and dnf info mmdtsdec, the version of mmdtsdec listed in the message is the only ve

F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-10 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     Yesterday I downloaded all the F28 packages necessary to upgrade my system from F27 to F28 by using the following command:             sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=28 --allowerasing --skip-broken    I added the last 2 parameters because dnf told me there w

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/7/18 8:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/10/2018 03:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: 1). Can anyone shed any light on why the install may have failed and what I need to do to work around it? I'm hoping I don't have to run a 'sudo dnf clean all' and then a 'sudo dnf

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/7/18 8:38 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/11/2018 03:16 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/7/18 8:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/10/2018 03:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: 1). Can anyone shed any light on why the install may have failed and what I need to do to work around it? I'm hop

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
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't work because dkms

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/7/18 9:24 am, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/7/18 8:38 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/11/2018 03:16 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/7/18 8:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/10/2018 03:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: 1). Can anyone shed any light on why the install may have failed and what I

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/7/18 8:16 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/12/2018 02:57 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: 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

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/7/18 8:30 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/12/2018 03:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I've checked things out on this front and among others packages clang5.0-libs, gcc and libstdc++-devel which are all already installed have stdarg.h in their various folder structures under their in

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/7/18 8:50 am, Stephen Morris wrote: On 13/7/18 8:30 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/12/2018 03:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I've checked things out on this front and among others packages clang5.0-libs, gcc and libstdc++-devel which are all already installed have stdarg.h in their va

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-04 Thread Stephen Morris
On 3/9/18 9:48 pm, Richard Shaw wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:07 PM ToddAndMargo > wrote: Hi All, Fedora 28, x64 Two questions: 1) Is there a way to convert a Fedora hard drive that     is set up to boot off the old BIOS into a EUFI boot?

Firewall Configuration Details

2018-09-04 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     Is there any step-by-step documentation anywhere on setting up a linux firewall from scratch that is designed for someone who has never even looked at what is required for this before?     Is there any recommended gui packages that simplify the setting up/ongoing configuration of the

Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password

2018-09-13 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     After the last system update in F28 Network Manager is not retaining the wifi password entered into its security tab. When I enter the password and select apply then 'OK' to exit network manager, when I get back in the password is gone. Is anyone else seeing this issue or have any tip

Re: Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password

2018-09-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/9/18 12:29 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/13/18 7:39 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: After the last system update in F28 Network Manager is not retaining the wifi password entered into its security tab. When I enter the password and select apply then 'OK' to exit network manager, when

Re: Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password

2018-09-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/9/18 7:21 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/26/18 4:34 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 14/9/18 12:29 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/13/18 7:39 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: After the last system update in F28 Network Manager is not retaining the wifi password entered into its security tab. When I enter

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/9/18 3:56 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 9:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 12:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 8:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Anyway I hate the LEDs.  I put tape over their big LED, but the roller has its LED.  My search on the web says that the LEDs

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/9/18 11:17 am, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 7:55 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/21/18 7:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 6:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/21/18 4:24 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Can anyone recommend a mouse with a REAL light touch and for the scroll wheel as

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/9/18 2:39 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/27/18 9:18 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Below is my results from listing the properties of both devices, and from what I can see there doesn't appear to be any properties relative to the leds on either device, but then I can't say I

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/9/18 2:39 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/27/18 9:18 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Below is my results from listing the properties of both devices, and from what I can see there doesn't appear to be any properties relative to the leds on either device, but then I can't say I

Re: Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password

2018-09-30 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/9/18 1:25 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/28/18 11:49 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I switched my wife definition in networkmanager back to "Store password for this user only (encrypted)" and that put a uuid entry into the maps area, while I was watching, that matched the uuid in the

Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-08 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I am using KDE as my desktop and have my networkmanager wifi definition configured to store the wifi password encrypted, hence it is stored in Kwallet. This morning, as the kettle had boiled, after supplying my password to log into KDE I went and made myself a cup of coffee and my wif

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/10/18 8:20 am, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I am using KDE as my desktop and have my networkmanager wifi definition configured to store the wifi password encrypted, hence it is stored in Kwallet. This morning, as the kettle had boiled, after supplying my password to log into KDE I went

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/10/18 10:46 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/10/18 5:13 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Is this a defect that I should raise in bugzilla if I can remember how to do it (including resetting my password if I need to)? I doubt it is a "defect'.  More likely a conscience decision to add a t

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/10/18 6:33 am, Rex Dieter wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/16/18 7:58 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: my login pw is the same as my wallet pw and I'm still prompted for the kwallet pw on login. Interesting, that should be all that is required. Clearly something is going wrong so

Re: Can't play .mov video -

2018-10-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/10/18 3:25 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/16/18 12:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Ok, so it tries the DVD first and then falls back to playing whatever it finds.  I've never tried that before. Yeah, I hadn't tried that before either.  I was a bit surprised. And/or maybe just "file *" in the di

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/10/18 7:42 am, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/10/18 6:33 am, Rex Dieter wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/16/18 7:58 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: my login pw is the same as my wallet pw and I'm still prompted for the kwallet pw on login. Interesting, that should be all th

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/10/18 9:35 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/22/18 5:57 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: It might be worth noting that I am not using pam_kwallet or possibly kwallet either (as neither of those are installed), I am using kwalletmanager5. There is no connection between pam-kwallet (note you wrote

Networkmanager Wait Online Failing at Boot Time

2018-10-22 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     My Nas Devices are failing to mount at boot time because the Networkmanager Wait Online Service is failing at boot time. The following is the output from systemctl that the boot process recommends being run. Is there anything in that output that would indicate why the service is faili

Re: Networkmanager Wait Online Failing at Boot Time

2018-10-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/10/18 8:06 am, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     My Nas Devices are failing to mount at boot time because the Networkmanager Wait Online Service is failing at boot time. The following is the output from systemctl that the boot process recommends being run. Is there anything in that output

Fedora 39 python3-pygame Module Issue

2024-03-19 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have installed python3-pygame V2.5.2.1 from the Fedora repositories, and when I import it into python3 3.12 (installed from the Fedora repositories) I get the following message: :488: RuntimeWarning: Your system is avx2 capable but pygame was not built with support for it. The perfo

Re: Fedora 39 python3-pygame Module Issue

2024-03-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/3/24 10:24, Jerry James wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/19/24 15:25, Stephen Morris wrote: I have installed python3-pygame V2.5.2.1 from the Fedora repositories, and when I import it into python3 3.12 (installed from the Fedora repositories) I get

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

2024-03-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/3/24 11:28, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 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 actuall

Re: Fedora 39 python3-pygame Module Issue

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/3/24 00:18, Barry wrote: On 20 Mar 2024, at 22:19, Stephen Morris wrote: Just a couple of silly questions: AVX cpu's, both Intel and AMD, have been around since 2008, and this is 2024, why does Fedora not have support for the AVXx instruction sets? Not all recent CPUs hav

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

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/3/24 08:36, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 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

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

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/3/24 09:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/24 15:30, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that you are indicating that you are booting off a raid environment and hence have Fedora installed on raid, I'm assuming you are using Fedora server, is that correct? I'm just curious because I pla

Re: Fedora 39 python3-pygame Module Issue

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/3/24 09:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/21/24 14:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 22/3/24 00:18, Barry wrote: On 20 Mar 2024, at 22:19, Stephen Morris wrote: Just a couple of silly questions: AVX cpu's, both Intel and AMD, have been around since 2008, and this is 2024, why does F

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

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/3/24 09:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/21/24 15:06, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/3/24 09:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/24 15:30, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that you are indicating that you are booting off a raid environment and hence have Fedora installed on raid, I'm assuming yo

Re: If X11 login goes, what happens with x2go?

2024-03-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/3/24 03:34, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 09:59:04AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: I totally depend on x2go for connection to my remote server. With f40, what happens? Is login to X11 desktop supported? I assume this is required for x2go to work. In f40, the kde desktop is no

Re: Failed to find a suitable stage1 device

2024-04-03 Thread Stephen Morris
On 4/4/24 00:50, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated. Ah!  With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI pa

Re: If X11 login goes, what happens with x2go?

2024-04-03 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/3/24 09:06, Barry wrote: On 27 Mar 2024, at 21:57, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a BenQ EL2870U monitor on my F39 system. The last time I looked at Wayland in KDE or Gnome it refused to scale the monitor to 4K, whereas X11 would do so quite happily. If X11 support is being dropped in

Re: If X11 login goes, what happens with x2go?

2024-04-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/4/24 19:20, Barry Scott wrote: On 3 Apr 2024, at 23:23, Stephen Morris wrote: Thanks Barry. I just tried Wayland on KDE plasma and it does set the resolution to 4K, but it has its scaling of the taskbar horribly wrong. Having scaled the display to 150% so that things can be read, in

My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-16 Thread Stephen Morris
I used dnf to system-upgrade to F40, which downloaded all the relevant packages, and then I rebooted through dnf. The restart updated all the packages and automatically rebooted when it was finished. When the grub menu was displayed after the reboot it was obvious that the upgrade did not update

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 6:46 AM Stephen Morris wrote: I used dnf to system-upgrade to F40, which downloaded all the relevant packages, and then I rebooted through dnf. Did you do all the steps in <https://docs.fedoraproject.org

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/5/24 22:13, John Pilkington wrote: On 16/05/2024 12:33, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 6:46 AM Stephen Morris mailto:samor...@netspace.net.au>> wrote:     I used dnf to system-upgrade to F40, which downloaded all the relevant     packages, and then I re

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/5/24 22:43, John Pilkington wrote: On 17/05/2024 13:08, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:04:21 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote: Many users have had problems with the akmod-nvida install. For 470xx the module failed

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/5/24 09:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 5:46 AM Stephen Morris wrote: I used dnf to system-upgrade to F40, which downloaded all the relevant packages, and then I rebooted through dnf. The restart updated all the packages and automatically rebooted

Re: My Fedora 40 experiences

2024-05-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/5/24 18:10, John Pilkington wrote: On 18/05/2024 03:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 17/5/24 22:43, John Pilkington wrote: On 17/05/2024 13:08, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:04:21 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/5/24 21:33, George N. White III wrote

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 2/6/24 23:00, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Hello, There is bug reported about grub2-install 2240994 for a while but no solution are proposed. grub2-install: error: This utility should not be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. If you really wish to procee

How do I Contact the Rpmfusion List?

2024-06-10 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have installed Jellyfin from rpmfusion by following the instructions on the Jellyfin web site for Fedora.     After activating Developer Mode on my TV I used Docker to install the Jellyfin client on the TV.     I ran the Jellyfin script to open up Jellyfin in Firewalld (After starting

Re: How do I Contact the Rpmfusion List?

2024-06-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/6/24 23:08, David King wrote: On 6/10/24 18:18, Stephen Morris wrote: When I invoke Jellyfin on the TV and supply the require IP address of my pc and required port, the Jellyfin client tells me the server (I think) needs to be upgraded and gives me the Github URL to get the upgrade

Re: Thunderbird - Wayland / other apps

2024-06-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/6/24 23:24, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. I think it came with an update a few releases ago - Thunderbird no longer stays on the monitor it was on, prior to screen-saver. After screen-saver was invoked, Thunderbird goes onto the main monitor always - for those of us who have two-mon

Re: Thunderbird - Wayland / other apps

2024-06-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/6/24 04:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2024, Stephen Morris wrote: I'm not sure this is helpful, but it may be an attempt to emulate windows. I have a similar issue under Windows 10 where all apps, not relative to the screen saver, when minimised and subsequently maxi

Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-17 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I select "Shutdown" KDE displays a black screen (it used to be that you could press the escape key and it would show you the apps that were closing down so you could see which apps were causing shutdown/reboot lag, but that doesn't see

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/6/24 09:23, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I select "Shutdown" KDE displays a black screen (it used to be that you could press the escape key and it would show you the apps that were closin

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/6/24 20:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2024-06-18 at 18:03 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 09:23, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I select "Shutdown" KDE displays a b

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/6/24 22:25, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/18/24 01:03, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 09:23, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I haven't done a restart yet to see if that rectifies the issue. Have you tried executing "systemctl poweroff"?

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/6/24 09:26, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 20:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2024-06-18 at 18:03 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 09:23, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,   Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I s

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/6/24 09:31, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 22:25, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/18/24 01:03, Stephen Morris wrote: On 18/6/24 09:23, Mike Wright wrote: On 6/17/24 15:28, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I haven't done a restart yet to see if that rectifies the issue. Have you tried exec

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/6/24 18:51, Barry wrote: On 20 Jun 2024, at 09:43, Stephen Morris wrote: there was nothing stopping the system from shutting down, so I'm at a loss at the moment to work out what is preventing shutdown from the KDE throbber. An experiment you could try is to login on a consol

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/6/24 08:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/24 18:51, Barry wrote: On 20 Jun 2024, at 09:43, Stephen Morris wrote: there was nothing stopping the system from shutting down, so I'm at a loss at the moment to work out what is preventing shutdown from the KDE throbber. An exper

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/6/24 08:44, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/6/24 08:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/24 18:51, Barry wrote: On 20 Jun 2024, at 09:43, Stephen Morris wrote: there was nothing stopping the system from shutting down, so I'm at a loss at the moment to work out what is preventing shu

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/6/24 20:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 23:36 +0100, Barry wrote: [...] Please don't post in HTML. See the list Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#No_HTML_Mail,_Please Sorry Patrick, I wasn't aware that I was. I'm not sure how to set up

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/6/24 20:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 23:36 +0100, Barry wrote: [...] Please don't post in HTML. See the list Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#No_HTML_Mail,_Please I have Thunderbird to auto select the sending format, in which case

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/6/24 23:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-06-21 at 23:46 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/6/24 20:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 23:36 +0100, Barry wrote: [...] Please don't post in HTML. See the list Guidelines: https://fedorap

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/6/24 04:41, Jonathan Billings wrote: Hi,     Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I select "Shutdown" KDE displays a black screen (it used to be that you could press the escape key and it would show you the apps that were closing down so you could see which apps were causing

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off

2024-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/6/24 11:11, Stephen Morris wrote: On 22/6/24 04:41, Jonathan Billings wrote: Hi,       Ever since a couple of updates ago, from KDE, when I select "Shutdown" KDE displays a black screen (it used to be that you could press the escape key and it would show you the apps that we

/boot too Small in F40

2024-06-29 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to be created when a new kernel is installed. The rescue image in F40 seems to be around 102MB in size which is more that dou

Re: Fedora F40 Won't Power Off (Resolved)

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/6/24 19:23, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/6/24 08:44, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/6/24 08:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/24 18:51, Barry wrote: On 20 Jun 2024, at 09:43, Stephen Morris wrote: there was nothing stopping the system from shutting down, so I'm at a loss at the m

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/7/24 08:27, Lukas Middendorf wrote: On 30/06/2024 03:36, Stephen Morris wrote: I've tried dropping the number of kernels retained to 4, but that still produces out of space conditions on new kernel installs with the rescue image. You can also consider disabling the rescue k

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/6/24 23:01, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/6/24 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/29/24 6:36 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to be created when a new kernel is

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/7/24 02:29, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable

Re: SOLVED: Thunderbird can't read Mail

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi Mickey, Just my 2 cents worth, which may or may not help. As I understand the way Thunderbird works, the mail files in your profile directory that Thunderbird uses are defined in the Local directory text box in the Message Storage section at the bottom of your Sever Settings in your Acc

Re: System start halts due to Nvidia drivers

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi Eirik, I assume from this you are trying to use the proprietary nvidia drivers which are not in the Fedora repositories, would this be correct? Either way, when you system hangs you should be able to press Alt-F1 or Alt-F7 depending on how your system is configured to start a new session

Re: SOLVED: Thunderbird can't read Mail

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen Morris
original system. But either method will work as long as appropriate precautions are taken. regards, Steve On 04/26/2014 10:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/25/2014 05:06 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just my 2 cents worth, which may or may not help. As I understand the way Thunderbird works

Re: Flashplugin for Chrome ??

2014-04-27 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi Ed, Thankyou, that worked great. The 4th plugin appears to be the Adobe installer installing a version into the chrome plugin directory (I should have expected this). regards, Steve On 04/27/2014 12:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/27/14 09:02, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a side

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I have an F20 installation that has been upgraded using Fedup through every version on Fedora from F17. I don't use Gnome, instead I use KDE (personal preference, I believe they stuffed Gnome with the introduction of Gnome 3 and I believe KDE has always been more configurable) and unde

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Morris
under KDE, KDE has modified that command to not require root privileges for execution. regards, Steve On 04/29/2014 07:35 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have an F20 installation that has been upgraded using Fedup through every version on Fedora from F17. I don't use Gnome, ins

Re: Sound not working on 3.12.x and 3.13.x kernels for Fedora 20

2014-04-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 04/30/2014 08:30 AM, Mark C. Allman wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:51 -0500, dwoody1 wrote: On 04/29/2014 02:46 PM, poma wrote: On 29.04.2014 20:49, dwoody1 wrote: I installed F20 shortly after it's release. Everything worked as expected. All kernels released since then have resulted in t

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, As I understand hard disk processes in order to use hard disks bigger than 2TB in a single partition you must format those hard disks using a GPT partition table. From what I have read the traditional DOS partition table is only capable of addressing up to 2TB, and GPT was developed t

Re: grub2

2014-05-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, My experience with kernel installs in a grub 2 environment is that I have to always manually run grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install as the kernel install wants to run Gruby to update the grub configuration and on my system, from Fedora 17 onwards, Gruby always fails with authorisation is

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 05/10/2014 10:16 AM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Stephen Morris writes: From experience I have also found that you can't install the windows system partition on a GPT device and I thought I read somewhere that you also can't put Linux /boot on GPT either. I don&#x

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