Re: Thunderbird issue (OT). [CLOSED]

2018-03-19 Thread Tim Evans
ot at all.  The postmaster address is where you're supposed to send reports on issues like this.  If Yahoo is ignoring them, that's their fault, not yours. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court |

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-15 Thread Tim Evans
ut .5 (which came out just a day later) doesn't seem to have changed it. I've booted back to the dot-three version. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailin

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 07/15/2018 01:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 12:20 -0500, SternData wrote: On 07/15/2018 11:19 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 07/15/2018 08:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I woke up this morning at 5:30 to head to the airport, I heard my system fan going at

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-27 Thread Tim Evans
for me as well for the better par of a week now. (I was one of the folks who reported this issues a couple of weeks back. My system was hanging during backups to an NFS-mounted NAS.) -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills

Re: Kernel 4.17.11 suspend seems to work

2018-08-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 08/07/2018 12:10 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just upgraded to the new kernel.  I will say that I believe that even kernel 4.17.7 was good. But the overnight lockups have returned with 4.17.11. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Tim Evans
drives which did 400GB in 8 hours. Try this: # cd /drive1 # find . -print -depth | cpio -pdm /drive2 -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864

Re: Failed to start jobs message from today's F39 update

2024-03-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/13/24 14:42, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/13/2024 12:33 PM, Mike Wright wrote: I couldn't find any way to pass grep options to -g but grep itself has -A and -B for showing "n" number of lines After or Before the matched context. If you need to pass options to grep, consider piping the output of

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Tim Evans
On 3/26/24 16:21, Beartooth wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote: It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? If you know the path

Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade. 'dnt clean' does not remove these. Is it safe to manually clear out this subdirectory? (FWIW, I tried the now-recommended GUI softwar

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, The key is automatically imported when followin

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 4:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-05-09 12:50, Tim Evans wrote: Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade.  'dnt clean' does not remove these. dnf s

Re: Cleanup after Failed dnf Upgrade

2024-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/9/24 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-05-09 13:59, Tim Evans wrote: Since (I think) the gnome-software app is flat-pack based, have I messed anything up by running its upgrade instead of the dnf/rpm-based one? There are no flatpacks installed by default.  The gnome-software app is

F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-17 Thread Tim Evans
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx'.) External mail is handled by my hosting pro

Re: F40 Sendmail "Connection Refused"

2024-05-19 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/17/24 11:40 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail.  That is, output from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these messages using good-ole command-line '

MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-20 Thread Tim Evans
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to reboot. Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre-installed and an empty second HDD. I D

Re: MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/20/24 3:35 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed.  So, I decided to

Re: MS Bitlocker Blue Screen on Reboot

2024-05-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/20/24 10:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed.  So, I decided to reboot. Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC.  It came with two disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre

Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
[I posted a similar question a couple of months back, but mistakenly thought I had resolved the issue] One of my F40 systems fails to deliver local, system-generated e-mails (logfiles and such) UNTIL it gets rebooted. sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64 is installed for local e-mail handling. On r

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/3/24 11:25 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 12:16 PM George N. White III <mailto:gnw...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:43 AM Tom Horsley mailto:horsley1...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 10:04:30 -0400

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot--SOLVED

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/3/24 4:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 10:04 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: Jul 03 09:45:07 kestrel sendmail[1526]: 45T7V2ou003307: to=, delay=4+06:14:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=9500566, relay=kestrel.mynetworksettings.com., dsn=4.4.1, stat=Deferred: Connection

Re: Local, system e-mails only delivered on reboot--SOLVED

2024-07-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 7/3/24 5:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:45:30 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: Se, we find where the bogus domain name comes from. AND, changing it to my actual domain name, then running the sendmail queue clears everything out of the queue. But will the network software put back

Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-03 Thread Tim Evans
How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting| Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ | tkev...@tkevans.com -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 15 -- Samba configuration

2011-06-03 Thread Tim Evans
hat's now, I think, the default datastore for samba, rather than the older smbpasswd. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting| Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ | tkev...@tk

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: >> How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? >> > Open Systemsettings and set your default browser there That's what I > did and it worked for me. Thanks. FireFox

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 10:55 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >>> On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: >>>> How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? >>>> >>> Ope

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 07:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:42 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 06/05/2011 10:55 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >&g

Re: Flash update questions for f14

2011-06-08 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/08/2011 10:00 AM, Alex wrote: > I bought some Adobe stock a few years ago, thinking they were a good > company, and it hasn't moved much :-) Hope they get with it soon. Doubt whether Adobe does a 64-bit upgrade will have much effect on its stock. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-11 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 08:45 PM, Tim Evans wrote: > On 06/05/2011 07:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:42 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: >>> On 06/05/2011 10:55 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >>>&

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread Tim Evans
Check recent archives for this list. I have been reporting the same problem in reverse--that is, my system invokes Chrome when FF is set to default browser. Sent from my iPad On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread Tim Evans
Sent from my iPad On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/12/2011 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote: >>> On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I inst

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-13 Thread Tim Evans
lt: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js :: openLinkExternally :: line 188" data: no] Don't understand this completely, but it seems clear it tried to open Chrome. Re-installing Chrome reverts to previously

F15 Dependency Problems Suddenly

2011-07-12 Thread Tim Evans
res of libnm-util.so.1()(64bit) openbios-ppc-1.0-2.fc12.noarch has missing requires of openbios-common = ('0', '1.0', '2.fc12') 'yum clean all' doesn't help. What next? Thanks. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Tim Evans
er learn to love gnome or quit gnome :-( > > Not quite the open source way: someone can always fork Gnome 2 and start > a new project around it. Third way would be to go with CentOS. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting| Owings Mi

FireFox 4: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2011-05-01 Thread Tim Evans
-depth -name libdbus-glib-1.so.2 -ls 7926510 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 23 10:59 ./lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 -> libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0 What am I missing? -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting| Owings Mills, MD 21117 h

Re: FireFox 4: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2011-05-01 Thread Tim Evans
On 05/01/2011 04:23 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 1 May 2011 21:15, Tim Evans wrote: >> Newly installed Fedora 14 >> >> # uname -a >> >> Linux osprey.tkevans.com 2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 22 >> 16:01:29 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux &g

Re: howto boot from usb iso?

2011-05-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 05/03/2011 10:21 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I tried copying f15 tc1 iso to my 16G usb using dd, but laptop doesn't try to > boot from it. I did change boot order at power up. https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX S

Re: howto boot from usb iso?

2011-05-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 05/03/2011 10:54 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Tim Evans wrote: > > Doesn't seem to work. I get: > Unsupported filesystem: iso9660 As the package name suggests, you need to *create* the USB key and install the Fedora ISO on it. That is, start over with an empty USB key an

Re: F15- IMPORTANT Network Manager

2011-05-31 Thread Tim Evans
ly, there are major issues for users. Just look up the update > ticket in bodhi and the bugzilla ticket(s). I had to remove /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Auto* then re-start NetWorkManager. This solved the problem I saw after pre-upgrade F14->F15. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Tim Evans
p, but doesn't use the ftp protocol. You do not need to maintain a vsftpd server to support folks using sftp. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 tkev...

Re: Recommendations for web-based photo album

2014-02-11 Thread Tim Evans
allery.net/ -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

F20 Yum Transaction Error

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Evans
a lot of "conflicts between attempted installs of..." reports in bugzilla, but not this specific one. Suggestions? Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-386

Re: F20 Yum Transaction Error

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Evans
On 04/17/2014 11:13 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Tim Evans wrote: Since yesterday, F20 yum update reports: Transaction check error: file /usr/include/ImageMagick-6/magick/magick-baseconfig.h conflicts between attempted installs of ImageMagick-devel

How/Where to Report google chrom repo errors

2014-05-05 Thread Tim Evans
-unstable-36.0.1964.2-1.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. How/where to report this? -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 -- users mailing list users

Re: How/Where to Report google chrom repo errors

2014-05-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 05/05/2014 05:09 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Getting this from yum for the last several days: google-chrome-unstable-36.0.19 FAILED http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-unstable-36.0.1964.2-1.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Trying other mirror. Error

Re: Off topic: web hosting sites

2014-05-23 Thread Tim Evans
s even remotely related to my issues, and it's often not the right one. They do provide command-line (shell) access via ssh, which is important to me. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting| Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-28 Thread Tim Evans
links in SOURCE" Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions? I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size, and I was not sure if this would cause problems. find | cpio pipelines work well here, using cpio in 'pass' mode. See the man page. -

Laptop 'Sleep' with 4.1.x Kernels

2015-08-13 Thread Tim Evans
Anyone else lost the ability for laptop acpi "sleep" since 4.1.x kernels came out? My Lenovo T530 works properly when lid is closed with 4.0.8-300.fc22, but does not with any 4.1 kernel. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings

Re: Laptop 'Sleep' with 4.1.x Kernels

2015-08-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 08/13/2015 08:54 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Anyone else lost the ability for laptop acpi "sleep" since 4.1.x kernels came out? My Lenovo T530 works properly when lid is closed with 4.0.8-300.fc22, but does not with any 4.1 kernel. Now appears fixed in kernel 4.1.4-200, which dnf

Win 7->10 Upgrade on Dual-Boot (Win 7/F22) Machine

2015-08-28 Thread Tim Evans
the grub2 boot setup alone? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

[Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Evans
mount shows: raptor:/data/win on /win type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.252.6,mountvers=3,mountport=60363,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.252.6) Where to look? Thanks. -- Tim Evans

Re: [Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Evans
/aixbman/baseadmn/jfs_size_under.htm Well, I see, but it's odd this would occur just when the F23 upgrade was done. The last prior backup to the upgrade was a full backup; what's failing now is an incremental. Would've thought a filesize limit would've been hit before. Th

Screen Blacking out Reliably After 15 Seconds Inactivity

2016-04-25 Thread Tim Evans
after 15 second of inactivity. Touching the mousepad lights it back up, but often with a different app on screen. Does not occur in Windows 10, so would not seem to be hardware-related. Presumably, this is an X thing. Anyone else seeing anything like this? -- Tim Evans |5

Invisible Thunderbird Scrollbars in F24

2016-07-08 Thread Tim Evans
Minor issue after upgrade via DNF: Scrollbars in Thunderbird are invisible--they're still there and usable, but you can't see them. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Invisible Thunderbird Scrollbars in F24

2016-07-09 Thread Tim Evans
Thunderbird involved is the current 47.0b2 (beta) release, downloaded directly from Mozilla and installed in /usr/local. The current version in the Fedora repo is the a non-beta version (thunderbird-45.1.1-2.fc24.x86_64), and it does not suffer from the invisible scrollbars issue. -

Dump Upgraded Today, Now, Um, Dumps

2016-08-11 Thread Tim Evans
es] DUMP: estimated 1045164 blocks. DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Thu Aug 11 12:43:00 2016 DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Tim Evans |

Re: Dump Upgraded Today, Now, Um, Dumps

2016-08-13 Thread Tim Evans
On 08/11/2016 12:59 PM, Tim Evans wrote: After literally decades of counting on good ole 'dump' for backups, I find it failing and dumping core this morning, right after dnf upgrade to the latest version (1:0.4-0.28.b45.fc24.x86_64). Downgrading to prior version (1:0.4-0.27.b44.f

Re: calendar program loops

2016-08-25 Thread Tim Evans
ve SunOS prior-to-Solaris versions had it, though. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/

Re: Screen rapidly blanking on and off

2016-10-10 Thread Tim Evans
after I touch a key, it often returns to a different window (e.g., I was reading mail in Thunderbird when it blanked, but Chrome appears when it lights back up). AND, after a second or two, the screen switches back to the original window (e.g., t-bird). This tends to suggest someth

Re: Screen rapidly blanking on and off

2016-10-11 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/11/2016 10:55 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 10/10/2016 09:30 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 10/10/2016 02:59 PM, Ted Roche wrote: I regularly see something *somewhat* similar on my Lenovo T530. Specifically, after running for a couple of days, it begins blanking the screen after a reliable 15

[OT?] Dell XPS 8900

2016-11-28 Thread Tim Evans
Dell's got a cybermonday offer on this machine today. 6th Gen i7, 16GB, 1TB disk, Nvidia GT 730/2GB. Any reason F25 won't run on it? Other comments? Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills

Re: [OT?] Dell XPS 8900

2016-11-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/28/2016 11:20 AM, Kenneth Marcy wrote: On 11/28/2016 06:16 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Dell's got a cybermonday offer on this machine today. 6th Gen i7, 16GB, 1TB disk, Nvidia GT 730/2GB. Any reason F25 won't run on it? Other comments? Thanks. I haven't tried this combinat

Install Woes with F25

2016-12-03 Thread Tim Evans
pe for booting F25 single user and doing something to restore sanity to the filesystems, or just clean up the mess so I can try the install again? At this point, with neither a working Fedora nor any Windows, the system is without an OS. Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court

Re: [spam?] Re: Install Woes with F25

2016-12-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/03/2016 04:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote: During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of the following ilk showed up: [nn] printk messages dropped [timestamp] pcieport :00:1c.0 PCIebus Error: severity: corrected, type=physical

Re: Install Woes with F25

2016-12-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/04/2016 12:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote: I've had multiple failed installs on a brand new Dell XPS 8900 today. I'm guessing it's an Intel Skylake chipset inside. During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages o

OT: Flash on (Linux-Based) Samsung SmartTV

2016-12-20 Thread Tim Evans
won't load. While I've suggest he do a general upgrade of the TV firmware, in hopes there's a usable Flash upgrade included, I'm thinking of pointing him in a different direction--say, a ChromeCast. Any other suggestions? Thanks. -- Tim Evans

Anything Like Solaris' Live Ugrade?

2013-01-28 Thread Tim Evans
well as for maintaining redundant boot environments on separate system disks for disaster situations. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com

Apparently Incomplete Fedup 18->19

2013-07-28 Thread Tim Evans
18 I don't see anything untoward in /var/log/fedup.log. Seems whatever has happened occurred after the reboot into the upgrade. Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 44

Re: Apparently Incomplete Fedup 18->19

2013-07-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 07/28/2013 10:37 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Tim Evans writes: Nearly everything seems to suggest that my fedup upgrade from F18 only partially F19 succeeded. $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) $ head /var/log/boot.log [ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen

OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Tim Evans
Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as well as other suggestions. Thanks. -- Tim Evans

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-31 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/04/2013 04:14 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Looking to move up from my ThinkPad T61p (Fedora 19) to something more current. Looks like the T530 might be an option, as might be the Dell Latitude E6350. Both are priced in the same ballpark. Comments welcome, as well as other suggestions. Thanks

Re: f20 - gedit

2013-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
. Even for me. Well, my F19 system says: # rpm -q gedit gedit-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64 Would expect F20 to give you a similar answer... -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394

Re: Error 403 on Apache server, You don't have permission to access / on this server.

2012-01-31 Thread Tim Evans
ation. # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks "Indexes" is the keyword here. See the referenced URL. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.| 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting| Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/

Re: split pdf file into two

2012-02-16 Thread Tim Evans
On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Dear friends, Does anyone know how to do this on F16? Sorry for the terseness of the question. man split (might also need 'man wc' to calculate where half is). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: telnet to adjacent computer fails

2012-03-04 Thread Tim Evans
On 03/04/2012 08:35 PM, don fisher wrote: What does telnet require that ping does not? A running telnet daemon on the destination host. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gu

Re: How to change network address ?

2012-03-31 Thread Tim Evans
On 03/31/2012 12:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I need to change the address of this computer temporarily to a 192.168.2.? instead of 192.168.1.9 to connect to a device that I reset. There used to be a menu that I used for this but with F16/XFCE I am lost. Would someone be kind enough to tell me how

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/7/18 5:52 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: This is the dismount part of my script: sync; sync umount $StickTarget Calling sync twice? Dates back at least (in my memory) to VAX 11/750, BSD 4.2 days. -- Tim Evans

Plymouth/Graphical Startup Fails on F29

2018-11-10 Thread Tim Evans
umably, the installed Nouveau driver (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.15-6.fc29.x86_64) isn't working here. There are no Nvidia-specific drivers installed. Next steps? Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 211

Re: Plymouth/Graphical Startup Fails on F29

2018-11-10 Thread Tim Evans
, and they were working under F28. Does 'dnf' installing the Nvidia driver do all the kernel stuff that's involved? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ us

Re: Plymouth/Graphical Startup Fails on F29

2018-11-11 Thread Tim Evans
On 11/11/18 4:38 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 10/11/18 23:39, Tim Evans wrote: On 11/10/18 3:12 PM, John Pilkington wrote: I don't have f29 experience, but if you have previously used a proprietary mVidia driver and want to use nouveau, I suggest reinstalling nouveau and trying again.

OT: Xtra-PC?

2018-11-29 Thread Tim Evans
Looking to help a family member extend the life of a failing laptop. This would appear to be a bootable device that essentially turns a PC into a ChromeBook-like thing. Anyone tried it? Worth $35? https://getxtra-pc.io/blog-turn-your-old-slow-computer-to-like-new-again/ Thanks. -- Tim Evans

Re: OT: Xtra-PC?

2018-11-29 Thread Tim Evans
belive they even sell this thing. as others have mentioned... dd any linux or other... chromeos to a $10 usb stick and have at it So, has anybody stuffed a whole Raspberry Pi into a thumbdrive? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings

Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-23 Thread Tim Evans
(/dev/input/event17) Dec 22 22:21:38 osprey nvidia-settings-user.desktop[3812]: ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded Is something missing? What else to look at? Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117

Re: Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/23/18 5:21 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/23/18 1:51 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Dec 22 22:21:38 osprey nvidia-settings-user.desktop[3812]: ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded I don't see why you have the "falling back to Nouveau" in the subject since I don't see that in

Re: Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-24 Thread Tim Evans
a-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-410.78-1.fc29.x86_64 Have I not installed all the required packages? -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___ users mailing lis

Re: Nvidia module not loaded; falling back to Nouveau

2018-12-25 Thread Tim Evans
/headers in place, I could force the module to build and it all worked great from there. It appears my "Solved" message from yesterday morning did not make it to the list. Here's what I wrote in response to francis.montag...@inria.fr > > Hi. > > On Mon, 24 Dec 20

Re: Fedora 30 chuckle for the day

2019-05-02 Thread Tim Evans
to read it (at least that's what it always meant the 47,000 times it happened to me :-). The classic one is of course: Not a typewriter -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 ___

F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
. Do you want to search for an application to open this file?" Now, Alt-F2 brings up a window that says "Enter Command." Typing "xterm" or "thunderbird" or "google-chrome" into this box does start the application. (So, at

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 4:25 PM, Tim Evans wrote: Second (MAJOR), once logged into my normal account, the graphical desktop no longer shows an "Applications" drop-down; all I get is the "Places" dropdown with no immediate way to start applications. Answering myself... The applicatio

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 6:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 2:46 PM, Tim Evans wrote: The applications menu drop down is an (apparently-not-working-in-F30) Gnome extension.  Browsing to extensions.gnome.com generates "We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system" error. Gnome-twea

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 5:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 1:25 PM, Tim Evans wrote: First (minor), after final reboot, I was forced to create a new user, which is now the default user on the login screen.  Existing userid is still there, accessible via the "not listed?" link. Everything is

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-14 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 7:28 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:04 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/14/19 6:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Make sure you have the package "chrome-gnome-shell" installed. Now installed.  Have rebooted, and nothing changed.  While accesssing the extensions home page, Goo

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/14/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:07 PM, Tim Evans wrote: # cat tkevans [User] Language= XSession= Icon=/home/tkevans/.face SystemAccount=true There's the problem, change that to false.  I wonder if this is such an old install (originally) that the userid is below

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/15/19 11:21 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/19 6:59 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 5/14/19 7:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/14/19 4:07 PM, Tim Evans wrote: # cat tkevans [User] Language= XSession= Icon=/home/tkevans/.face SystemAccount=true There's the problem, change that to false.  I w

Re: F29->F30 In Place Upgrade Issues

2019-05-15 Thread Tim Evans
On 5/15/19 12:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/15/19 8:59 AM, Tim Evans wrote: Yes, several times.  I have also successively: (1) restored the contents of /var/lib/AccountsService/users from my last F29 backup; (2) moved the newly created userid's file completely out of that directory; a

GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-17 Thread Tim Evans
mAccount=false Modification time on these files is same as the userid's last login, and manually changing the SystemAccount flag has no effect; it's set back on next login. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864

Re: GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-17 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/17/19 3:42 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 17.06.19 17:00, Tim Evans wrote: of flag, but they are apparently created on login, rather than being permanent.  On both systems the primary userid (UID 1000) is shown as: SystemAccount=true Have you checked /etc/login.defs? Thank you, Ulf. Don&#

Re: Hplip.

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Evans
3, in _find_and_load File "", line 965, in _find_and_load_unlocked ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ui5' $ -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864|Owings Mills, MD 21117 __

Re: Hplip.

2019-06-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/28/19 12:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/28/19 11:52 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 6/28/19 11:24 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: Hi all , It seems the whole world has problems with this piece of beautiful software . Hp-setup functionates fine : After the setup run HP-check and be sure

nvidia-kmod Build Fails on Recent F30 Debug Kernels

2019-06-29 Thread Tim Evans
ssage say? The fallback was skipped or the condition check was skipped? Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court | Owings Mills, MD 21117 | 443-394-3864 ___ users

Re: GDM Login Screen Doesn't Show Primary User After F30 Upgrade

2019-06-29 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/17/19 11:00 AM, Tim Evans wrote: I have experienced similar issues with two different F29->F30 upgrades via dnf.  Although what happened wasn't identical on both upgrades, the results were the same: After upgrade/reboot, the GDM login screen does not show the primary (previously

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