Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 04:41, Barry Scott wrote: On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra HDR and also have a LG HDR monitor. The Dell has the HDR checkbox in the Display Settings. But the LG needed me to enable

Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/11/24 04:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, This happened to me again when I went to upgrade my shop computer from FC40 to fc41.  So I though I'd repeat my fix here: Note: dnf dose not use /etc/redhat-release as it release version.  It uses    /usr/share/licenses/fedora/fedora-rele

Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/11/24 08:46, Stephen Morris wrote: On 11/11/24 04:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, This happened to me again when I went to upgrade my shop computer from FC40 to fc41.  So I though I'd repeat my fix here: Note: dnf dose not use /etc/redhat-release as it release version

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 10:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/24 2:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/11/24 04:41, Barry Scott wrote: On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra HDR and also have a LG HDR monitor. The

Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/11/24 09:10, home user via users wrote: On 11/10/24 10:30 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, [snip] On my stand-alone home workstation, that is a link to a link to /usr/lib/fedora-release: -bash.1[~]: ls -l /etc/redhat-release lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Apr 11  2024 /etc/redha

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 12:29, Steve Underwood wrote: On 08/11/2024 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I've had a look at some LG 4K monitors with HDR10 and HDR 400, and it seems that with those to get all the features of the monitor avai

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 13:46, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2024-11-10 at 01:29 +, Steve Underwood wrote: I don't think anyone has mentioned which graphics hardware they are using. I'm not sure the HDR support is equal amongst them. As someone who's worked in video production since the 1980s, I've trie

Re: DNF Needs Restarting Repository Update

2024-11-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/11/24 19:30, Barry wrote: On 6 Nov 2024, at 22:11, Stephen Morris wrote:  Hi, I ran a sudo dnf update which updated and loaded the two F41 Updates repositories and then put on the updates. Immediately after the update finished I ran a dnf needs-restarting which said there was no

Re: DNF Needs Restarting Repository Update

2024-11-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 8/11/24 08:57, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 6, 2024, at 17:11, Stephen Morris wrote: why was that updated again, surely that repository was flagged as up to date by the prior dnf update? Not 100% sure but I suspect something in dnf needs-restarting is looking for the extra dnf metadata

Re: Remove Packages From _dnf_local

2024-10-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/10/24 12:36, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 08:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: When did _dnf_local come into effect?, the last couple of months are the first time I've seen any reference to that repository as a repository being refreshed when all the repository list

DNF Needs Restarting Repository Update

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I ran a sudo dnf update which updated and loaded the two F41 Updates repositories and then put on the updates. Immediately after the update finished I ran a dnf needs-restarting which said there was no reboot required, but before it said that it updated and loaded all the existing repo

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/11/24 20:40, Barry Scott wrote: On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:10, Stephen Morris wrote: In my case I need a BENQ EL2870U driver to get HDR enabled in Windows. That would indicate they have a non-standard implementation in the monitor. Unless someone adds a way to support that to linux I do

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-24 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 02:34, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-11-23 17:50, Stephen Morris wrote: On 24/11/24 05:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:43:08 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41 thunderbird-128.4.3-1.fc41.x86_64 firefox-132.0.1-2.fc41.x86_64 Since upgrading

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-24 Thread Stephen Morris
On 24/11/24 15:11, Tim wrote: Going on past experience, if I have done a "dnf update", then did another one within a certain time period no attempt was made to see if data needed refreshing. That time period could be longer than you'd expect it. I've been in the situation where running a dnf che

What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-24 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have to questions around what that command is doing.     1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn't do anything? This functionality is independent of whether the command is

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-24 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 09:04, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-11-24 16:32, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 02:34, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-11-23 17:50, Stephen Morris wrote: On 24/11/24 05:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:43:08 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 09:58, Will McDonald wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 22:21, Stephen Morris wrote:     1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between th

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 22:43, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: 1).Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn't do anything? This fun

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 10:13, Barry wrote: On 24 Nov 2024, at 21:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I've been in the situation where running a dnf check-upgrade has refreshed the two Fedora Updates repositories and then issued dnf upgrade immediately after and had it refresh the two updates repositories

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 10:30, Will McDonald wrote: And, just for the record because I still had the Vagrant box running: [vagrant@localhost ~]$ id uid=1000(vagrant) gid=1000(vagrant) groups=1000(vagrant) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 [vagrant@localhost ~]$ dnf check-upgrad

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 13:08, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:38 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Which then begs the question, if I issue the command "sudo dnf clean all" which cleans out the system state, does it also clean out the current user's data if it exists as well, or

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 12:48, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:46 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: This is true, and I know this can be done under DNF, but I'm using that to decide whether it is worth doing the upgrade in terms of the volume of updates that will be put on. If there are o

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 12:59, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 09:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed th

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 14:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/26/24 1:38 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/24 11:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/25/24 1:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/24 09:15, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM Stephen Morris wrote: [...] dnf check-upgrade seems to me to be new with dnf5 I've been using dnf check-upgrade for years. Thankyou. I'd only noticed that command as a result of issuing dnf --help since I upgra

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 05:01, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:39 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all th

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/24 15:21, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 09:19 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I forced a refresh and below is the info requested. I've also just noticed that the refresh and load is also being done twice for the Fedora 41 repository as well. I've also listed the c

IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
HI,     When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird really starting that many threads?     Also when I run IOTOP I get a display in the middle of the screen tha

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 04:51, home user via users wrote: (on 2024-11-26, Stephen Morris said) When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome reposit

Re: security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 04:37, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM home user via users wrote: (f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome) A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following warning from "chkrootkit": - - - - - - bash.1[~]: chkrootkit ROOTDIR is `/' Checking

Re: IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 09:45, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 at 22:31, Stephen Morris wrote: HI,     When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird

Re: security issue?

2024-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 10:59, Barry wrote: On 28 Nov 2024, at 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: being /usr/bin/egrep and /usr/bin/fgrep because it has said they have been replaced by a script, is that standard Fedora? Did you check what was in the files and where they were installed from? The scripts

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 10:50, Barry wrote: On 28 Nov 2024, at 21:41, Stephen Morris wrote: Just possibly off topic here, but quite some time ago I was playing around with python and needed a package (I don't remember which one it was) that wasn't installed, so I used pip3 to do the inst

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/24 20:08, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/27/24 1:35 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 27/11/24 14:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you run it under sudo, it has no knowledge of a user running it.  You will have to do the clean as the user if you want to do that. Apparently I did test this at some

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/24 20:54, Tim via users wrote: Stephen Morris wrote: Just an off topic question, I've noticed recently that when I preview a mail from this list I no longer get any indication of who the email came from in the body of the mail, and if there is no signature, with the from

DNF Selinux Upgrade Failure

2024-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     Doing a sudo dnf upgrade I got the following failure: [ 29/106] Upgrading snapd-selinux-0:2.66.1-0.fc41.noarch  100% |   1.5 KiB/s |  45.4 KiB |  00m30s >>> Running post-install scriptlet: snapd-sel

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/24 20:11, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/27/24 1:57 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 27/11/24 12:48, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:46 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: This is true, and I know this can be done under DNF, but I'm using that to decide whether it is worth doin

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/24 11:54, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen Morris said:     To test my hard disk performance I have run Kdiskmark and used the Real World Performance Profile. For its sequential read performance it is showing around 156 MB/s on my ST3000DM007-1WY1 (3TB Seagate Barracuda

Strange DNF Scriptlet Message for F42 Received on F41

2024-11-18 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     What do these messages mean for F41? Running post-install scriptlet: java-17-openjdk-headless-1:17.0.13.0.11-3.fc41.x86_64 >>> Finished post-install scriptlet: java-17-openjdk-headless-1:17.0.13.0.11-3.fc41.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> dnf 5 is printing bash only to logs >>> The j

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/11/24 10:36, Samuel Sieb wrote: Yes, a full cache can cause performance issues, but I would expect to be able to play around with the caching algorithms to control what gets cached and what doesn't, particularly when looking at sequential vs random access, combined with disk fragmentation

Packagekitd KDE Issue

2024-11-18 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I having a little difficulty understanding the R+W graph display from IOTOP, and what the difference between a graph displayed by dots and graphs displayed by a solid block.     Having said that though, the thrashing of my hard disk for several minutes after the KDE desktop displays whe

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/11/24 13:22, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-19 at 08:39 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: 40 years ago mainframe storage controllers provided functionality to control what files were loaded into the storage cache and how much of the file was loaded, I just thought hard disks had advanced enough to

Re: Packagekitd KDE Issue

2024-11-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/11/24 09:13, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I having a little difficulty understanding the R+W graph display from IOTOP, and what the difference between a graph displayed by dots and graphs displayed by a solid block. Having said

Re: Strange DNF Scriptlet Message for F42 Received on F41

2024-11-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/11/24 16:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 4:21 PM Stephen Morris wrote: What do these messages mean for F41? Running post-install scriptlet: java-17-openjdk-headless-1:17.0.13.0.11-3.fc41.x86_64 Finished post-install scriptlet: java-17-openjdk-headless-1

Re: thunderbird junks new messages when folder is opened

2024-11-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/11/24 17:44, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: However I remember seeing an option to "perform filter actions before the Junk classification" but cannot find it now to check the setting. In Message Filters under "Apply filter when:" the "Getting New Mail:" entry for me is a drop down containing

Re: HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/11/24 21:08, Barry Scott wrote: On 15 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: (the hard disk light is permanently on, not flickering) There are better tools for investigating this type of I/O issue. You could have a read of this article that explains how to track down disk I/O

Re: HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/11/24 10:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-11-15 14:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, With the IO tab in HTOP, how do I determine which devices it is monitoring and how do I change it to look at multiple volumes? While KDE is still thrashing my hard disks after the desktop displays

Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-16 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     To test my hard disk performance I have run Kdiskmark and used the Real World Performance Profile. For its sequential read performance it is showing around 156 MB/s on my ST3000DM007-1WY1 (3TB Seagate Barracuda), which given that device support 1/3/6 Gb/s I/O speeds and the device is p

Re: thunderbird junks new messages when folder is opened

2024-11-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 15/11/24 10:06, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: I'm using the daily version of Thunderbird with two email addresses and local folders, and the "Message Filters" interface provides the ability to input rules for both mailboxes and the local folders. I see it now. I use only one email address so

Re: Tracer is broken - was: Is the dnf tracer plugin working?

2024-11-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 15/11/24 21:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That all seems correct. I normally run it as 'sudo tracer -a'. I was not surprised that I got the traceback when not running it under sudo. When I did that it said there were two processes that required a reboot, so my query on that (which possibly

Re: Strange loss of graphic display

2024-11-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/11/24 09:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-15 at 16:52 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: similar to earlier thread. System goes blank and does not resume from wherever.  Using LXDE and have set all the suspend, etc. options I can find to never. I can access the system fro

Re: HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/11/24 10:48, Will McDonald wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: While on the subject of HTOP internals, at the bottom of its screen it shows a list of keyboard shortcuts, one of which is F10 for Exit. The issue I have with that is Konsole has taken over

HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-15 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     With the IO tab in HTOP, how do I determine which devices it is monitoring and how do I change it to look at multiple volumes?     While KDE is still thrashing my hard disks after the desktop displays (the hard disk light is permanently on, not flickering) HTOP is telling me the R/W%, R

Re: DNF Group Issue

2024-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
gards, Steve On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM Stephen Morris wrote: On 13/11/24 09:14, Stephen Morris wrote: Why do, for example the Gnome group and the KDE/Plasma group no longer get listed as installed groups as they used to? Why have they removed the user friendly list outp

Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

2024-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/24 09:31, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-13 at 08:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Not even 'rpmconf' to merge .rpmnew files? Traditionally no, I have never understood the functionality involved with those when creating an rpmsave or rpmnew, when those fi

Re: Tracer is broken - was: Is the dnf tracer plugin working?

2024-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/24 22:24, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 23:22 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 11:26 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 09:25 +, Barry wrote: On 31 Oct 2024, at 12:07, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: AFAIK the tracer plugi

Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

2024-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/24 14:38, Tim wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan: Not even 'rpmconf' to merge .rpmnew files? Stephen Morris: Traditionally no, I have never understood the functionality involved with those when creating an rpmsave or rpmnew, when those files are created relative to config fi

Re: Tracer is broken - was: Is the dnf tracer plugin working?

2024-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/24 22:24, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 23:22 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 11:26 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 09:25 +, Barry wrote: On 31 Oct 2024, at 12:07, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: AFAIK the tracer plugi

Re: HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/24 20:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-11-16 15:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/11/24 10:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-11-15 14:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, With the IO tab in HTOP, how do I determine which devices it is monitoring and how do I change it to look at multiple

Re: Tracer is broken - was: Is the dnf tracer plugin working?

2024-11-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/11/24 09:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Try this: sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update tracer I ran that command and it updated python3-tracer and tracer-common to 1.2 (the command in the link you provided did nothing for me) and it also updated python3-libdnf5 After the update

Re: thunderbird junks new messages when folder is opened

2024-11-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/24 15:50, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: On 5/11/24 4:32 am, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-04 at 23:03 +1100, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: Note the fact that these messages are NOT junked when they arrive, but rather a significant time later, when the folder is opened. Are the o

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
x up the usage of 1024 or 1000 bits and bytes multipliers. Stephen Morris: If that is the case why does the specs for that device under performance say it will support speeds of 1Gb/s, 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s. Because big numbers are a marketing ploy... Sure, there's *something* that the SATA port

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/24 16:02, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: I've always hdparm -Tt to test drives. hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 10716 MB in 1.99 seconds = 5377.96 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 700 MB in 3.00 seconds = 232.99 MB/sec For me on my hard disk its giving: /dev/

Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/24 16:20, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 10:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: All I'm doing is right clicking on a desktop icon with the mouse, where the icon is a soft link, that was create by the install of a package from it repository (Google Chrome), selected properties and

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/24 16:36, Tim wrote: Jonathan Billings: But seriously, was there something about these errors or other effects that made you think it was something other than DNS being broken? Stephen Morris: I would have thought that if my wifi connection had been temporarily disconnected, hence

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 11:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/25/24 1:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and lo

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 11:35, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/25/24 2:02 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 22:43, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:" and "Repositories loaded

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 12:10, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the standard system locations which a normal user can't update, I didn't know it was caching the data elsewhere. If yo

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 09:47, Will McDonald wrote: Repo metadata is this stuff: https://blog.packagecloud.io/yum-repository-internals/ It's hosted remotely with the repositories, mirrored locally for speed when cache expires and is pretty much entirely throwaway, because you can (normally) always get a

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 08:50, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 26, 2024, at 16:30, Stephen Morris wrote: My main concern was, if I use dnf to install a local rpm and afterwards I issue sudo dnf clean all to reclaim space (not that at the moment I have a need to be concerned about disk space) does that

DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository twice. Why is DNF doing that when there is only one repository definition in the .repo

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 09:17, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:51 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/24 12:10, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the standard system

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 24/11/24 05:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:43:08 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41 thunderbird-128.4.3-1.fc41.x86_64 firefox-132.0.1-2.fc41.x86_64 Since upgrading from Fedora 39 to Fedora 41, when I go into --> Firefox -> File -> eMail link I

Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

2024-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 24/11/24 10:38, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/24 16:20, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 10:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: All I'm doing is right clicking on a desktop icon with the mouse, where the icon is a soft link, that was create by the install of a package from it repos

C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors?

2015-01-14 Thread Stephen Morris
I have a driver for a wifi usb device that I need to compile because there are no drivers in the kernel, which has been obtained from the vendor of the device. When I attempt to compile the code the compile fails on the grounds that some warnings are being translated into errors. From my perspe

Re: C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors?

2015-01-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/15/2015 11:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Stephen Morris writes: I have a driver for a wifi usb device that I need to compile because there are no drivers in the kernel, which has been obtained from the vendor of the device. When I attempt to compile the code the compile fails on the

Re: C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors? - Realtek RTL8811AU USB WiFi

2015-01-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/15/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: On 15.01.2015 08:50, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a driver for a wifi usb device that I need to compile because there are no drivers in the kernel, which has been obtained from the vendor of the device. When I attempt to compile the code the compile fails on

Re: C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors? - Realtek RTL8811AU USB WiFi

2015-01-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/16/2015 08:38 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/15/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: On 15.01.2015 08:50, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a driver for a wifi usb device that I need to compile because there are no drivers in the kernel, which has been obtained from the vendor of the device. When I

Re: C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors? - Realtek RTL8811AU USB WiFi

2015-01-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/17/2015 08:07 PM, poma wrote: On 17.01.2015 04:02, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/16/2015 08:38 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/15/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: On 15.01.2015 08:50, Stephen Morris wrote: I have a driver for a wifi usb device that I need to compile because there are no

Re: C/C++ Compiler Invalidly Turning Warnings into Errors? - Realtek RTL8811AU USB WiFi

2015-01-24 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/19/2015 08:02 AM, poma wrote: On 18.01.2015 20:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/17/2015 08:07 PM, poma wrote: On 17.01.2015 04:02, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/16/2015 08:38 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/15/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: On 15.01.2015 08:50, Stephen Morris wrote: I have

Load Kernel Modules Failure

2015-01-24 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, Immediately after booting from the grub menu in F21 the first message I get is 'Failure to start Load Kernel Modules'. Does anyone know what this message means and how I rectify it? regards, Steve <>-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: WiFi

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/25/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: On 25.01.2015 00:05, Stephen Morris wrote: ... pci adapter. The only problem I have now is that it is very hard to get devices that support Linux from retail stores. Help yourself with these two references to search: http://wireless.kernel.org https

Re: Load Kernel Modules Failure

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/25/2015 07:40 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 25.01.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: Immediately after booting from the grub menu in F21 the first message I get is 'Failure to start Load Kernel Modules'. Does anyone know what this message means and how I rectify it? Welcome to anoth

Re: Load Kernel Modules Failure

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/27/2015 09:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/27/15 05:30, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/25/2015 07:40 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 25.01.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: Immediately after booting from the grub menu in F21 the first message I get is 'Failure to start Load Kernel Modules&#x

Re: WiFi

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/27/2015 09:30 AM, poma wrote: On 26.01.2015 21:47, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/25/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote: On 25.01.2015 00:05, Stephen Morris wrote: ... pci adapter. The only problem I have now is that it is very hard to get devices that support Linux from retail stores. Help

Re: WiFi - Atheros

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/28/2015 03:17 AM, poma wrote: On 25.01.2015 13:46, poma wrote: On 25.01.2015 00:05, Stephen Morris wrote: ... pci adapter. The only problem I have now is that it is very hard to get devices that support Linux from retail stores. Help yourself with these two references to search: http

Re: WiFi - Atheros - miniPCIe

2015-01-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/28/2015 09:09 AM, poma wrote: On 27.01.2015 21:42, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/28/2015 03:17 AM, poma wrote: On 25.01.2015 13:46, poma wrote: On 25.01.2015 00:05, Stephen Morris wrote: ... pci adapter. The only problem I have now is that it is very hard to get devices that support

Re: WiFi - Realtek - rtl8812au

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/30/2015 06:47 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 20:25, poma wrote: ... Try this $ git clone https://github.com/vsurrel/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git $ cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux/ $ git log -1 commit 7a427372bf5540285d95f090ad5523019a365415 Author: MilhouseVH Date: Thu Dec 18 11:42:48 2014 +00

Old Kernel Modules Directories not Cleaned up

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, DNF is currently configured to keep 3 kernel versions, consequently when I exceed that number of kernels it automatically uninstalls the oldest kernel, which I don't have any issues with, but what I do have an issue with is when these uninstalls are done it does not clean up the /lib/m

Re: WiFi - Realtek - rtl8812au

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/30/2015 08:34 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 06:47 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 20:25, poma wrote: ... Try this $ git clone https://github.com/vsurrel/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git $ cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux/ $ git log -1 commit 7a427372bf5540285d95f090ad5523019a365415 Author

Re: WiFi - Realtek - rtl8812au

2015-02-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/30/2015 10:26 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 23:00, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 08:34 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 06:47 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 20:25, poma wrote: ... Try this $ git clone https://github.com/vsurrel/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git $ cd

Re: fedora 20 to 21

2015-02-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/02/2015 01:08 AM, g wrote: On 01/31/2015 10:00 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 01/31/2015 08:55 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Patrick Dupre writes: Hello, Trying to upgrade to fedora 21. I did: mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom fedup --device /mnt/cdrom --product=nonproduct then 'System Upgrade sda (fedup

Re: Old Kernel Modules Directories not Cleaned up

2015-02-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/31/2015 06:26 AM, poma wrote: On 30.01.2015 15:15, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:41 PM, poma wrote: On 30.01.2015 00:21, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/29/2015 01:55 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I had to delete a dozen of these directories this morning manually, why are these not

Re: WiFi - Realtek - rtl8812au

2015-02-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/02/2015 10:07 AM, poma wrote: On 01.02.2015 22:57, poma wrote: On 01.02.2015 21:19, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 10:26 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 23:00, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 08:34 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 06:47 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 20

Re: WiFi - Realtek - rtl8812au

2015-02-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/02/2015 08:57 AM, poma wrote: On 01.02.2015 21:19, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 10:26 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 23:00, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 08:34 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 01/30/2015 06:47 AM, poma wrote: On 29.01.2015 20:25, poma wrote: ... Try this

Re: What are *.xz compressed kernel modules for (Fedora 21)

2015-02-03 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/03/2015 06:34 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I have Fedora 21 (x86_64). Under /usr/lib/modules/3.17.4-302.fc21.x86_64/kernel, all the kernel module are in compressed form. (xz files). Under /usr/lib/modules/3.17.4-302.fc21.x86_64/kernel, the kernel modules are in the *.ko form What are the

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/04/2015 04:42 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 4 February 2015 at 00:43, inode0 wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 02/03/2015 04:48 PM, inode0 wrote: There is another exploit in the wild that adobe expects to fix with another release sometime this week. I have

Re: WiFi - Realtek - rtl8812au

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/04/2015 11:10 AM, poma wrote: Any throughput measurement, any at all? :) I haven't been able to get any measurements as yet, I'm having trouble synchronizing times with my son to use his Arch linux system to do the measurements. One thing I have noticed is that since switching to this

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your flash player. On this F21 system I am using: ado

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