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

2018-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
ed to cd into every dir containing the wavs and then starts to convert the files via the "for f in *.wav ..." line .. HTH, and good luck! Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

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

2018-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
have difficulties to find a remarkable difference between the wav's and the mp3's ... for f in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 0 "${f/%wav/mp3}"; done For a quick check about what ffmpeg is actually doing here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wik

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

2018-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:55:14 +1030 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 4 February 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > > it's definitely true that with fine tools you can encode to mp3's > > with a quality so high that for me at least it's difficult to find a > &g

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

2018-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 22:52:49 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:55:14 +1030 > Tim wrote: > > > > Well, if you're going to encode to an unusually high bit rate (that > > example did it at 320kB/s), I'm going to agree with you (that most &g

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

2018-02-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 06:55:31 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > that's what i'm getting with "abcde -o flac", so i'm just going to > stick with that. Just for the archives on the internets: Looks like there's an issue if one tries to rip only a few tracks of a CD, in the following case

Re: F27 tracker-preferences missing?

2018-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:11:48 +0100 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:03:49 +, Christopher wrote: > > > So... I just did a fresh install of F27, and I can't seem to find > > tracker-preferences, so I can disable the annoying document indexer that > > keeps crawling my drives. A

Re: F27 tracker-preferences missing?

2018-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:27:53 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:11:48 +0100 > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:03:49 +, Christopher wrote: > > > > > So... I just did a fresh install of F27, and I can't seem to f

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
nd of my life. My responsibility. Not Fedora's. Keep the nannies out. At least keep them very far away from our computers. Please. Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
patched specifically for Fedora. Just vanilla ... Here: % uname -srvm Linux 4.15.3-300.vanilla.knurd.1.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 12 06:36:22 UTC 2018 x86_64 % grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI /sys/devices/system

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
nge noises from the machine: I won't care much. I'd start to care if hardware wasn't detected - things like that ... Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
en needed. Remove the logs from any OS you might think about - and I'd easily quit it in sec if I find software with a decent and better logging system Best Regards, -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: warning about spectre with last kernel update

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
packages are either not installed or not available (i.e. there is no repository where to download the same RPM). - -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
by a cable > (DVI -> HDMI). For the monitor that doesn't give you the nice results you want, try to let software do the job. So get a tool like both cvs and xrandr, if you don't have them already installed, and try the instructions on the page below for the

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:11:54 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > For the monitor that doesn't give you the nice results you want, try > to let software do the job. So get a tool like both cvs and ^^ wrong:

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
*everything* is dumped elsewhere, not. > > Just following on from this, is my setup strange when I have never found > boot.log to be empty and on my system it currently has mountains of entries? boot.log here's full, too. Even with green OK's in it .. :) But a short se

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
60.02 1280x960 60.00 1024x768 60.0460.00 960x720 60.00 928x696 60.05 896x672 60.01 800x600 60.0060.3256.25 700x525 59.98 640x512 60.02 640x480 60.0059.94 512x384 60.00 400x300 60.3256.34 320x240 60.05 HDMI-1 connected 1360x768+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 580mm x 320mm HDMI-1 is the attached TV monitor 1360x768 60.02 + 1920x1080 60.0050.0059.9430.0025.0024.00 29.9723.98 1920x1080i60.0060.0050.0059.94 1280x720 60.0050.0059.94 1024x768 60.00 800x600 60.32 720x576 50.00 720x576i 50.00 720x480 60.0059.94 720x480i 60.0059.94 640x480 60.0059.94 1360x768_60.00 59.80* HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DisplayPort-1-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-1-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
s why I asked in another message for the xrandr output for all three monitors, including the one for the built-in computer monitor. But it might be possible to force via xrandr some sane resolution to an attached monitor. So far I'm confident we'll catch that horse ... :) Early in the mo

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
all monitors turning into black screens. In that case: press the combo again. If that does not help anymore I see four options to save you: -- ssh (good). -- sysrq keys (works often). -- Off button of your computer (bad). -- Throwing both your computer and your monitor against the next avail

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
all monitors turning into black screens. In > > that case: press the combo again. If that does not help anymore I see > > four options to save you: > > I can switch to 1024x768 and back to 1366x768 And the fonts, and the rest, look nice at these resolutions? > > Thank. You're welcome! -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
ommended later on seems to have worked from the beginning ... I missed that. Sorry -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
hics chips might not support higher monitor resolutions as they might have become standard since some time. Someth. like this might tell you about your graphics units: lspci -nnk | grep -A 5 -i vga Good luck! Regards, -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ us

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
to do even more time-saving things with it. But I think the fight it needs is worth the time it takes. Oh yes: and sometimes 'rename' wins ... ;) Good luck -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
name 's/search_for/replace_with/' thanks for the latter sed syntax - good to know on Debian, IINM ... And this: a modern nautilus now does batch renaming of files/folders, it seems ... Regards, -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
bian and Fedora have the simple rename utility that is usable without perl knowledge. Only Fedora actually seems to have the extended version of Larry Walls rename, namely prename, which was done by Peder Stray. While prename utilities on Debian, that I found *so far*, seem to be renamed (sic! ... :)

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:21:24 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Only a tldr: > Both Debian and Fedora have the simple rename utility that is usable > without perl knowledge. > Only Fedora actually seems to have the extended version of Larry Walls "Only Fedora": No ide

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

2018-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
e for bums and retards asking stupid questions. What's going on? Are computer users just dumber today than, let's say, 10 or 15 years ago? Sometimes I think they're actually just more lazy. But I really don't know. What did I miss? TIA, and Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer _

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

2018-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:05:05 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 21:39 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500 > > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:21:43PM +, Patrick O'Ca

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

2018-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:55:09 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second > > time prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary > > as bad weather, I believe

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

2018-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:55:09 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second time > > prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary as bad > > weather, I believe

Re: video card questions

2018-03-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
tps://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.9/gpu/vga-switcheroo.html HTH Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
this ok [y/N]: - Tho' I'm not sure whether all this a feature or a bug ... ;) Regards - thanks again! -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: sound problem

2018-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
; ---> paprefs < Also try reloading your X after changes, if things don't work as expected (might not work on wayland). IIRC on gnome running on X11 reload works with , then exec "r". But I'm not sure, I don't run gnome shell, just gnome apps ... :) In awesome w

Re: sound problem

2018-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:54:33 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:08:46 +0100 > François Patte wrote: > > > > > In ~/.config/pulse I have: > > bd9a117e29a44dd4b335896e866a41d2-default-sink > > bd9a117e29a44dd4b335896e866a41d2-default-sourc

Re: Top-posting & list guidelines (was: alternative to skype)

2018-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
- using Claws Mail since quite some time, but didn't even know about the feature ... Thanks! -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: How do I check a process' memory usage?

2018-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
through - as it seems - all processes that are currently running - search for them, nice or even stop them via a visible menu ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htop -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: shutdown messages

2018-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
ll kernel log messages (i.e. dmesg) over the network to another computer, without involving user space (e.g. syslogd). Name "netconsole" is a misnomer because it's not really a "console", more like a remote logging service." https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netco

Re: Top-posting & list guidelines

2018-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
o indication > > who was being quoted. _ > > > yes, that's right, I was only concerned about the reply-to-a-point > issue. The rub might lie in a missing capability to select multiple separate regions in some MUA: with ctrl- I can do such selections easil

Re: shutdown messages

2018-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
#x27; on that page .. ) I have to set up netconsole for myself - so I might be back if I know more. HTH -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: How do I check a process' memory usage?

2018-03-26 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:53:12 +1030 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 March 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > > Or maybe even 'htop' - which will you give (among other things) the > > option to move down through - as it seems - all processes that are > > curr

Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

2018-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
ta on that container will remain encrypted the moment you shutdown the disk with that encrypted container on it. I used that approach for years successfully. Interested in how to do it? -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

2018-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:41:53 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Interested in how to do it? I got an email off-list to post the instructions. Again: I created the container around ten years ago. Did it on Debian. But used that approach for years once I created this container. Here we go (R

Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

2018-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:53:30 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > ---> > Making an ecrypted file container: > > [ ] > > I got these instructions from somewhere on the internets. Not my > work, IIRC.

Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

2018-04-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:41:53 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Practically this means you'll have to enter a password to open the > encrypted container every time *after* logging in to /home if you want > to see the data in it. It also means your data on that container will &

How to remove second GDM/login screen

2018-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
s a lot in anticipation. -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
they're not active anymore on apple.com it seems - the archived versions still are: https://web.archive.org/web/20140729195527/http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html http://web.archive.org/web/20141018162218/http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490 Good luck, and Regards! -- Wo

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:23:52 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I try monitoring the battery status while draining the device with a > command like this: > watch -dc 'upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1| grep -E > "present|state|to\ full|percentage|capaci

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:23:52 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > You can still try to train the battery for longer run-time > capabilities: basically I do that by running the computer on battery > until the system says the battery is near zero or actually zero. 'Battery' her

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:41:56 +0100 Dave Mitchell wrote: > F27. I ran a new laptop battery down to 4% (as claimed by gnome) and my > laptop didn't auto-suspend, nor hibernate. I'm not that familiar with power settings on Fedora (having F26 here). But a look at upower.service might be useful - m

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:53:09 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/17/2018 04:55 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > >Trying 'upower -d' here results in the display of current power > > settings ... > > So that's why mine works. The output includes this line: &

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:26:22 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > And that looks really interesting: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst Forgot that one: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt Sorry, Wo

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 10:13:25AM +, Stefan Hübner via users wrote: > No, the display is not blank. The login screen is displayed. It's enough to > hover over the top right login menu to crash it. > > I have no issues, when the laptop is used without external monitors. I can > live with that

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 01:18:37AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > To make it work you need an X session instead of a wayland one, so should say: "X11 session" .. > you can use xrandr. Sorry Wolfgang ___ users maili

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:44:51PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: [ ... ] > I copy the data to the device in a terminal, it takes perhaps 30 seconds, > when finished I close that to make the flash drive free and then go to the > desktop, click on the unmount and this last time waited ~125 seconds for

Re: F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays

2018-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
gnome doesn’t support older extensions. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575229 > > Once you can successfully login and launch gnome, you can add back in your > fav extensions. > > William > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:34 PM Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 08:23:53PM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > Generally when I am messing with usb drives I have used these 2 commands: > > grep Dirty /proc/meminfo (dirty is the amount of write buffers that > need to be flushed for all disks, most will usually be the disk that > was just copied

Re: Dell laptop for Fedora (XPS 13 or Latitude 7490) or worthier alternatives?

2018-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:49:28PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have two alternative Dell options (unless more suggestions come in re: what > I should get). [ ... ] > While we are at it, any other suggestions from DEll or others? Yes: Dell Alienware. Machines in this series ar

Re: Dell laptop for Fedora (XPS 13 or Latitude 7490) or worthier alternatives?

2018-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 01:05:40AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > But careful: Dell - at least when I look at their pages - do seem to > offer Nvidia only for their new machines - and I wouldn't recommend to Correction: should say: "for their new Alienware machines" S

Re: Conflicts trying to upgrade

2018-05-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:34:33PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > How do I go about fixing this? I got two FC27 servers I > am trying to upgrade doing the same thing (same errors): > > # dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=28 --allowerasing > --best > > > Many thanks,

Re: WTF is this nonsense from bash -x ?

2018-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:24:28AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Probably you have installed, and perhaps enabled, the > environment-modules package. I have that package installed on F27. And it's anything but clear whether it's enabled or not ... Is it safe to say it's not enabled if these t

Re: After system-upgrade F26->F27, system startup hangs after Reached target System Initialization

2018-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:33:40PM +0200, Frédéric wrote: > > What should I do? Just try to reboot another time? > > Ctrl+Alt+Suppr did not work. > Ctrl+Alt+SysReq works only for key S "Emergency Sync complete". All > other keys in REISUB give "This sysrq operation is disabled. I never heard that

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

2018-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 04:14:44PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > state: fully-charged > warning-level: none > energy: 27.7816 Wh > energy-empty:0 Wh > energy-full: 27.7816 Wh > energy-full-design: 38.115 Wh > energy-rate:

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

2018-05-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Howard Howell, Gordon Messmer: To both of you thanks a lot for the insight - I'm not a pro when it comes to battery chemistry/technology. So I'm definitely grateful for information in that regard. For the sake of brevity, as a response, only a few lines: My knowledge about batteries only come

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-05-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:38:58PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:26:22PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I'm getting curious about your settings, if that's not too intrusive: > > mine a

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-05-31 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 08:44:36AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:12:39PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:38:58PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:26:22PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer w

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-05-31 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:15:51AM +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 29 May 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > > The logs here are interesting anyways, and I'm still wondering where > > the system actually saved the image: in /tmp, or swap partition? >

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:45:50PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/01/2018 09:32 PM, John Morris wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 11:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > You did online updates? This is the reason why offline updates is the > > > default now, because doing updates without a re

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/02/2018 08:44 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > See: 2001 or so unless you had upgraded to a new gblic there wasn't a > > need to reboot Linux machines. Most of the times it was enough to log > > in/out

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:58:11PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: So it tells me the Win10 guest has been resumed. However internally the guest will presumably have panicked and restarted because the GPU was reset by the host reboot. (I'm not enough of a Windows user to be able to tell when i

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2018-06-02 at 18:49 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/02/2018 08:44 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > See: 2001 or so unless you had upg

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:25:03AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 18:13 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:58:11PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > So it tells me the Win10 guest has been resumed. However internally the

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:29:02AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 18:39 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: And for those not so happy with tracer, there's also another tool: dnf.plugin.needs_restarting ("dnf needs-restarting") AFAIK tracer is a re

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:40:59PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 14:05 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: To search for reboots I'd click the "Find" menu, right hand side-bar, if Google images is correct, and then search for "clean" -

Re: mdadm raid1 lost (my fault)

2018-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 08:51:02PM -0500, page p wrote: tldr; what might save you is if you have a backup of your luks header. See further down here and the cryptsetup FAQ. Plus: I'd ask on the luks list for help. Hi, I have two drives in a raid 1 configuration and used luks crypt on the raid

Re: mdadm raid1 lost (my fault)

2018-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:30:42PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 08:51:02PM -0500, page p wrote: tldr; what might save you is if you have a backup of your luks header. See further down here and the cryptsetup FAQ. Plus: I'd ask on the luks list for help. Sorry

Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:13:00PM +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote: On 06/21/2018 07:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: AFAIK Fedora uses the available RAM as a) buffer space, and b) the /tmp filesystem. BTW a slightly more user-friendly way to get that info is with the free(1) command. The joke is,

Re: better subject

2018-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:28:59AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: François Patte wrote: Bonjour, such inflammatory subject lines are not welcome, please do better next time. I wasn't "inflamed" in any way by some subject line. Ever. I agree the subject line (like the rest of the mail) wasn't he

Re: [SOLVED] Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 01:09:55PM +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote: On 06/22/2018 02:50 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I'd try a newer kernel from the 4.17 series from the non-official kernel repo for Fedora, just to narrow down the issue and see, whether it's really a kernel thi

Re: strange error on shutdown

2018-07-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:33:04PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/24/2018 12:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/24/2018 11:55 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Just try running "reboot".  If that doesn't work, then run "sync" and forcefully power off.  This should be a very rare occurrence, you probably won't

Re: sed and grep stopped working!

2018-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 09:49:01AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 08/17/2018 09:17 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 08:34:12AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Todd Chester wrote: And now that you all write me back, they mysteriously started working again. AAHH! This is

Re: sed and grep stopped working!

2018-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 02:20:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Read about kali-linux the other day [ ... ] They write that the system won't neither touch nor mount an internal disk [2]. .. in forensic boot mode! Regards, Wolfgang [1] https://docs.kali.org/introduction/what-is

Re: Software to create bootable USB stick

2018-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 03:01:51PM +0100, Danny Horne via users wrote: On 29/08/18 14:11, Bryce Hardy wrote:       I'm running Fedora Workstation 28.  What software can I use to install a downloaded OS .ISO onto a USB stick so the OS can be installed on another machine?   There are many others b

Re: Startup messages shown twice on EFI boot

2018-09-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 06:17:51PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Well, nice to know I'm not alone but looks like I'm no closer to figuring out the cause... How can we get anywhere near to close to solve the issue if we don't have any data about what's going on in your system? For a closer look:

Re: Videos on Fox news don't work

2018-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 01:54:02AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Fedora 28, x64 Xfce 4.12 Firefox 61.0.2 I have a customer I just installed Fedora Core 28 on. He can not watch Foxnews.com videos, but can watch videos everywhere else. And my machine, also FC28 and Xfve 4.12, Foxnews.com wo

Re: Videos on Fox news don't work

2018-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 01:53:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 01:54:02AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: I have a customer I just installed Fedora Core 28 on. He can not watch Foxnews.com videos, but can watch videos everywhere else. Here: Firefox 61.02 F27 Linux

Re: bugzilla is still down

2018-10-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:52:56PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: Any good work arounds? Maybe I am unlucky to get the one mis-configured server on the server farm? Maybe change my floating WAN IP? I'm not familiar with floating WAN IPs, but if that - after a quick search - means, that your WAN

Re: bugzilla is still down

2018-10-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:30:10PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 06:52:56PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: Any good work arounds? Maybe I am unlucky to get the one mis-configured server on the server farm? Maybe change my floating WAN IP? I'm not familiar

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Short version: Suspend works perfectly here (except when a 2nd monitor is attached) on a laptop with a running GDM 3.26.2.1, kernel 4.18.7-250.vanilla.knurd.1.fc27.x86_64. Window manager is awesome v4.2. Simply closing the lid suspends the machine to S3 sleep) [1]. On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:10:3

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 03:11:02PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:10:38PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: # cat /sys/power/state freeze mem disk Same here: % cat /sys/power/state freeze mem disk Sorry for the lousy formatting: % cat /sys/power/state freeze mem disk

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 09:50:18AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/5/18 6:11 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Short version: Suspend works perfectly here (except when a 2nd monitor is attached) on a laptop with a running GDM 3.26.2.1, kernel 4.18.7-250.vanilla.knurd.1.fc27.x86_64. Window manager is

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Please: See the man pages for the commands below - it looks like they did what I wanted them to do: but obviously that doesn't mean it's right ... On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:16:56PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello Thank, However, I am not sure to peak every things. What does it mean HW-wise

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 06:45:38PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:16:56PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: I would like to make the hard drive sleeping. I can use hdparm -y /dev/sdx seems to work here .. Except "-y" will not mean "sleeping"

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:16:27PM +1030, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 8 October 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: Except "-y" will not mean "sleeping" mode (i.e. complete shutdown, which can be done with the "-Y" switch) but standby mode, which simp

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I made some tests, but it is strange to me. dparm -Y /dev/sdb I don't use the "-Y" (uppercase) option, so I really can't comment on it ... lower case (-y) works lie a charm here ... /dev/sdb: issuing sleep command then

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

2018-10-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 06:35:35AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/21/18 5:42 AM, stan wrote: I'm wondering how the people who regularly use fedora-users mailing list feel about that. I would simply stop contributing. + 1000 Wolfgang ___ users mail

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

2018-10-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 11:21:16AM -0700, stan wrote: It's not surprising that those on the mailing list are so opposed to a web forum; we have all self selected as preferring email lists. As you say, a web forum would let those who prefer web forums have their preference. We won't know how vi

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

2018-10-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:05:57PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ Wow - looks good. Signed up, and in. Thanks .. :) Haven't found who wrote the code for the site, yet - but whoever did it: compliments: Minimal js - Signing in with, IIRC, a google account, FB etc. see

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

2018-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:56:09PM -0700, stan wrote: Silverblue is the new name, only recently changed, for atomic host, Fedora's containerized OS. My understanding is that this is mostly for cloud usage. I don't think so:: "By F30, the Atomic variant will be the preferred Workstation of

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:56:45PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/28/18 10:18 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat

Re: nedit and utf8

2018-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:21:20AM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, How can I get the right display of the character Σ with nedit? I doubt it has much to do with your "nedit" - but probably much more with your keyboard settings. Provided you have xmodmap installed: I'd nearly bet this comm

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:53:16PM -0700, stan wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:32:37 + Rick Stevens wrote: Fedora is the "bleeding edge" development arm of RHEL. Eventually, once enough changes have been made and stabilized in Fedora, it becomes the next release of RHEL. We Fedora users are

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