Re: Thunderbird issue (OT).

2018-03-20 Thread home user
Bug summitted. It's bug #1447360: "[CLIENTBUG] Select Command is not valid" when signing in to yahoo accounts. You might want to make sure that the e-mail address that I used for you in the bug is the one you prefer. thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing li

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-20 Thread home user
Before starting a new thread, one point and a couple of questions. Point: downloading in Thunderbird of folder structure, message headers, and messages (especially with attachments) are the only cases in which I experience slowness. Youtubes, high-resolution weather satellite loops, and the do

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-21 Thread home user
Here are the results of "ifconfig", with ip addresses replaced with "[private?]": = bash.2[~]: ifconfig eno1: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet [private?] netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast [private?] inet6 [private?] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0 inet6 [private?] prefixlen 64 sc

HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.

2018-03-26 Thread home user
Good afternoon, In the recent thread "alternative to skype", one member commented "Don't quote the entire email. In fact, don't quote anything at all when you reply. On k-9 mail there's a little x button (in the default config) that I can click to get rid of all the quotes text." Another respond

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-26 Thread home user
I did the comcast speed test twice. I got download speeds of 66-68 Mbps and upload speeds of about 6.6 Mbps. I tried Evolution several times over the last few days. Fedora users lists show up just fine. Downloads seem almost instantaneous. I used Thunderbird to send a 5+megabyte (not megapix

Re: Thunderbird issue (OT).

2018-03-26 Thread home user
The Thunderbird team believes release 52.7 will fix this. It was released this past Friday (March 23). How long does it typically take for Thunderbird releases to arrive in the Fedora repository? thanks, Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fe

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

2018-03-27 Thread home user
> On 03/27/18 07:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I did not get it either and my domain's email is handled by gmail.  I'm > pretty sure I > saw where "Home User" (a.k.a. Bill) is a yahoo user. Yes, I am a yahoo user. If it makes a difference, I used HYPE

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

2018-03-27 Thread home user
Some of you have neat sayings beneath your signature. A good one in this thread is "Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.". I'm seeing comments implying that messages from yahoo-based member accounts are not reaching members with gmail-based member a

font issue.

2024-03-18 Thread home user
(f38 last patched last Thursday; gnome) I'm have some trouble with the display of Chinese characters in some situations. 1. In Firefox, Chinese characters show up as rectangles with 4-digit hex numbers in them.  The font is set to the AR PL UKai family of fonts. 2. In the gnome-font-viewer, th

planning for upgrade.

2024-04-05 Thread home user
Good morning, I have a stand-alone 2013 workstation (11 years old). It's dual-boot; the other OS is windows-7. I'm planning to upgrade from f-38 to f-39 in a few days. I've had hard drive space issues before. So I'd like to know how to determine in advance if I have enough hard drive space

Re: planning for upgrade.

2024-04-05 Thread home user
Thank-you, Samuel. On 4/5/24 11:34 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/24 09:09, home user wrote: === -bash.5[~]: df "df -h" is much more pleasant. -bash.1[~]: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs

Re: planning for upgrade.

2024-04-07 Thread home user
Thank-you, Samuel. I was severely side-tracked Friday afternoon. I'm ready to resume now. On 4/5/24 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/24 12:11, home user wrote: On 4/5/24 11:34 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/5/24 09:09, home user wrote: tmpfs    8158696    0   8158696   0%

Re: planning for upgrade.

2024-04-07 Thread home user
On 4/7/24 8:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/7/24 14:17, home user wrote: On 4/5/24 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Run the following command: echo 'dracut_rescue_image="no"' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/02-rescue.conf Then you can delete the rescue files from /boot and the rescu

Re: planning for upgrade. [SOLVED]

2024-04-07 Thread home user
On 4/7/24 8:20 PM, home user wrote: On 4/7/24 8:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/7/24 14:17, home user wrote: On 4/5/24 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Run the following command: echo 'dracut_rescue_image="no"' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/02-rescue.conf Then you can delete the resc

Re: planning for upgrade. [SOLVED]

2024-04-07 Thread home user
On 4/7/24 8:50 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: One other thing you might want to do. Change the number of kernels to keep. The default is 3. I have one old IBM R61 that has had lot of updates over the years, and its boot partition was to small. As other suggested removing the rescue fre

crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
(f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx driver) I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to upgrading from f-38 to f-39. There were no hints of any problems. The kernel and the graphics driver were replaced during this "dnf upgrade".

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 12:09, Doug Herr wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2024, at 10:19 AM, home user wrote: (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx driver) I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to upgrading from f-38 to f-39. There were no hi

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 12:34, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:09:26 -0700 Doug Herr wrote: I don't have Nvidia currently and can't remember where you find those logs. /var/log/akmod/akmod.log If it doesn't say something about "Success" near the end, then it didn't build correctly. I usually d

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 11:19 AM, home user wrote: (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx driver) I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to upgrading from f-38 to f-39. There were no hints of any problems.  The kernel and the graph

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 4:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 13:01, home user wrote: I tried the command suggested in that log file. -- bash.24[~]: /usr/sbin/akmods --force Checking kmods exist for 6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64 [  OK  ] Building and installing nvidia-470xx-kmod

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 4:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 15:40, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 4:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 13:01, home user wrote: I tried the command suggested in that log file. -- bash.24[~]: /usr/sbin/akmods --force Checking kmods exist for 6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:05, home user wrote: /tmp/akmodsbuild.2VNb1GB1/BUILD/nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.223.02/_kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:748:40: error: 'DRM_UNLOCKED' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 5:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:36, home user wrote: On 4/11/24 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/11/24 16:05, home user wrote: /tmp/akmodsbuild.2VNb1GB1/BUILD/nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.223.02/_kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:748:40: error

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-11 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 7:00 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:52:10 -0600 home user wrote: kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64 Possibly relevant, but I don't know what it means for sure: My system gets regular updates. I've never h

Re: crippling nvidia display issue.

2024-04-15 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 11:19 AM, home user wrote: After a few days of being seriously side-tracked, I can try to get back to this. Those who explained the kernel numbering: thank-you. (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx driver) I just finished doing a &quo

Re: Fedora 40 is available

2024-04-25 Thread home user
On 4/25/24 10:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 23:09 +0930, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I've updated to F40. Everything works as expected, (I don't have an Nvidia card at present so YMMV). I do have some comments on t

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread home user
On 4/25/24 3:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, George N. White III wrote: There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented.  The latter may not get much attention if they aren't I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes? I second Michael's qu

Re: crippling nvidia display issue. [SOLVED]

2024-04-29 Thread home user
On 4/11/24 11:19 AM, home user wrote: (f-38; stand-alone work station; nvidia graphics card; dual monitor; kmod 4xx driver) I just finished doing a "dnf upgrade" as a prerequisite step to upgrading from f-38 to f-39. There were no hints of any problems.  The kernel and the graph

Re: crippling nvidia display issue. [SOLVED]

2024-04-30 Thread home user
On 4/30/24 2:23 AM, Javier Perez wrote: What kernel are you using? The bad patching ("dnf upgrade" early this month) was from 6.7.11-100.fc38x86_64 to 6.8.4-100.fc38x86_64. The good patching Saturday was from 6.7.11-100.fc38x86_64 to 6.8.7-100.fc38x86_64. The full upgrade ("dnf system-upgra

Re: Firefox foul ups

2024-06-22 Thread home user
On 6/22/24 9:16 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Firefox on FC39 with XFCE recently? After rock solid operation for a long time, in the last 2 or 3 weeks the UI has been fouling up every day or two when I do some seemingly mundane operation in Firefox. A couple of

Re: Firefox foul ups

2024-06-22 Thread home user
On 6/22/24 9:57 AM, home user wrote: On 6/22/24 9:16 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Firefox on FC39 with XFCE recently? After rock solid operation for a long time, in the last 2 or 3 weeks the UI has been fouling up every day or two when I do some seemingly

repositories very out-of-date for Thunderbird version?

2019-09-16 Thread home user
I very recently asked a question in the Thunderbird support forum. One person replied "Find yourself an updated Thunderbird...". I have version 60.7.0; the person implied that the current version is 68.  That's 8 versions out-of-date.  I do a "dnf upgrade" every Thursday. I did a "dnf check-up

Re: repositories very out-of-date for Thunderbird version?

2019-09-16 Thread home user
Thank-you, Ed. > I am on F30 and I'm at F29, and hoping to upgrade to 30 in mid-October. Am I stuck at Thunderbird 60.7 until then? > Have you put an "exclude" in the dnf config? "dnf config"? Where is that? And are you saying I do want an "exclude" there, or I don't want an "exclude"

Re: repositories very out-of-date for Thunderbird version?

2019-09-16 Thread home user
> Sorry, the file /etc/dnf/dnf.conf I don't recall ever having touched that file. To check... --- -bash.4[dnf]: pwd /etc/dnf -bash.5[dnf]: cat dnf.conf [main] gpgcheck=1 installonly_limit=3 clean_requirements_on_remove=True -bash.6[dnf]: --- I suppose that until I upgrade

Re: repositories very out-of-date for Thunderbird version? [CLOSED]

2019-09-17 Thread home user
grep excl* ^C -bash.6[yum.repos.d]: grep excl * -bash.7[yum.repos.d]: --- > ah, what version of Fedora are you currently running? Fedora-29, hoping to upgrade to 30 in mid-October. (Tim) > the anonymous home user: My friends call me "Bill", and members of this list

rkhunter --update fails.

2020-07-30 Thread home user
(f31, gnome; just patched) Before doing an rkhunter scan, I do an rkhunter database update. Today, that's not working: - bash.6[~]: rkhunter --update [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.6 ] Checking rkhunter data files... Checking file mirrors.dat [ Update failed

Re: rkhunter --update fails.

2020-07-31 Thread home user
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:55:53 -0000, home user wrote: > > Were you able to access those URLs manually with your favorite web browser > or download tool like wget/curl? Thank-you, Michael, for your reply. It did not occur to me to try that yesterday. The logs gave no hint that a

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-03 Thread home user
In some previous year, I was able to download a Fedora Zoom from the Zoom website and then install it with dnf. Late this past spring, after zoom upgraded, I was again able to download the Fedora version from the Zoom website and then install it with dnf. I've had no trouble using it in Firefox,

Re: rkhunter --update fails. [CLOSED]

2020-08-03 Thread home user
(on Friday, July 31 at 12:50pm mountain time, I wrote) > Am I correct in concluding at least one server was not available? That question was referring to Thursday's "rkhunter --update" run, not Friday's. Since Thursday's problem went away on its own, I'm tagging this CLOSED. I thank Michael

how to control webcam.

2020-08-19 Thread home user
(f31; gnome) I have a Ligitech HD Pro Webcam C920; it connects to the tower via USB port. I have not been able to find anything installed to control it, for example to get it to zoom in or out. I also tried dnf and dnfdragora to try to find something to install. What is available, preferably

Re: how to control webcam. [SOLVED]

2020-08-19 Thread home user
(on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:54 AM mountain time, George wrote;) > I use guvcview. It's in the Fedora repo. Found it. My system claims it's in the rpmfusion-free repository. Installed it successfully (dnf install guvcview). Seems to work.  The real test will be during the next zoom meeting I'm an a

Re: how to control webcam.

2020-08-19 Thread home user
> I use gtk-v4l to control the webcam during meetings ok, I just installed that too. It launches ok, but until I have a zoom (or something similar) meeting, I won't know if it really works. > guvcview has a "-z" option to bring it up in control-only mode, > otherwise it grabs the video stream t

Re: how to control webcam.

2020-08-19 Thread home user
> From a script you can use uvcdynctrl. My experience is you can use > this while something else is actively using the webcam. Thank-you, Roger. If the other two don't work, I'll give this a try. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to control webcam.

2020-08-19 Thread home user
> > > guvcview has a "-z" option to bring it up in control-only mode, > > > otherwise it grabs the video stream too. > > I did not see that option in the man page. How did you know (or find out) > > about it? > I ran "guvcview --help" and hoped it printed help :-) Where would we be without th

Re: Thunderbird changes to tree view - added icons taking up space

2020-10-12 Thread home user
> I just got around to doing an update and reboot, been running for 40+ > days and got some changes in Thunderbird that are rather distracting. > > In the tree view, there are now icons along with the name.  I did some > googling and this is "a new vector style"? > > Just takes up screen space

Re: Policy regarding opt-out telemetry and privacy

2020-11-03 Thread home user
My opinion: * I strongly prefer telemetry to be off by default, thus opt-in, in *everythng*. * I strongly prefer auto-updating (including checking for updates) to be off by default, thus opt-in, in *everything*. * I want *everything* to by default keep pre-update preferences, settings, etc. M

mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread home user
Fedora-32 home workstation; gnome. In ksysguard, I've been noticing internet activity that I can't explain. This has been going on for weeks, and it's making me uncomfortable. What I do: 1. After the system has been powered down overnight, I boot it up. 2. I sign in to a user account. 3. My .ba

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread home user
> The pictures you shared look to me like very low amounts of data (2-6 > kilobytes).This is > going to be the standard networking which goes on with linux all the > time.System and > network-based services are reaching out to the router (gateway)periodically > to verify > connectivity and the

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread home user
> On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:57 +0000, home user wrote: > > Only one of your image links loaded for me, the browser just spent ages > with the spinning circle. This one worked: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AyZDRvcKYHYypNSU6AF9Fh34rh_l3q2J/view > Ah-ha! So that&

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread home user
(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 18:37 +, Tim wrote) > ...you really want to do something like "netstat -atuevp" to see what, where, > and who is involved in network traffic. (on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 21:03 +, Ed Greshko wrote) > Along with watching the output of wireshark, you should run "netstat

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread home user
(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 18:37 +, jtj wrote) >AKAIK, Fedora checks for updates at intervals to notify them > via dnfdragora. May be that. (I replied to this hours ago, but I don't see my reply in the thread.  Trying again.) A few years ago, with the help of members of this list, I turned off

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread home user
(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 23:56 +, Ed wrote) > I thought you said your system was "quiet"? > > For your "network activity" issue the lines of interest are those > which include "ESTABLISHED" as the state. > > It shows both "thunderbird" and "firefox" are both running and connected > to hosts.  So

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-02 Thread home user
(I sent this to the list three times in the past two days; it apparently never arrived, and it did not bounce.) I rebooted, and did a few netstat's and an iftop while the workstation was "quiet".  I pasted output from 2 netstat runs into a text file. I paused the iftop display many times to g

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-02 Thread home user
(I sent this to the list three times in the past two days; it apparently never arrived, and it did not bounce.) I rebooted, and did a few netstat's and an iftop while the workstation was "quiet". I pasted output from 2 netstat runs into a text file. I paused the iftop display many times to gra

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
My posts to this list were apparently not reaching the list for a couple of days. This was fedora infrastructure issue 9509. It's fixed. Since the fix, I've been buried in personal business. I now have some time to get back to this problem. Prior to opening this thread, I did try digging in

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
> On 2020-12-03 19:40, home user wrote: > > > Yellow? Is that safe? (Joke.) I could use a good laugh these days. I 'm missing the joke. Please explain it. > Sometimes what users think is just a "modem" also contains a small > router > and enough of

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
In gnome, I click the little network? symbol in the upper right corner of the display, just left of the speaker symbol. In the little box that comes up, from top to bottom, there is * a volume slider, * "Wired Connected >", * "Settings >", and * "Power Off / Log Out >". I click the "Wired Connec

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
On 12/3/20 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You will need to add your user to the "wireshark" group: sudo usermod -a -G wireshark username Then logout and log back in.  Run wireshark.  There should be a list of interfaces.  Double click on your ethernet one. When I "opened" the cap.pcap that Ed se

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
On 12/2/20 9:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I think this would be easier for you to capture network traffic at this time.. With a quite system, open a terminal and as root use the following to capture some packets tcpdump -c 500 port 22 -w cap.pcap This will capture 500 packets and then

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
On 12/3/20 6:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/3/20 5:28 PM, home user wrote: On 12/3/20 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You will need to add your user to the "wireshark" group: sudo usermod -a -G wireshark username Then logout and log back in.  Run wireshark.  There should be a list of

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
J. Witvliet responded to my original post, but his response showed up in the list as a new thread. I'm responding here. (on Dec. 01, 2020 at 02:35am US mountain time, J. Witvliet wrote) > What puzzles me, is that you don’t refer to the firewall. > It’s the firewall responsibility to block unexpe

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
This afternoon, I did some more experimenting.  As at first, I booted up.  I then logged in, but this time as root.  I did *not* launch Thunderbird (or any other e-mail client) or Firefox (or any other browser) or anything else that I know uses the internet.  So the workstation should be "quiet

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread home user
On 12/3/20 8:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I believe the firewall on your system is already dropping all incoming connection requests. Provide the output of sudo firewall-cmd --get-active-zones and then using the result from that command sudo firewall-cmd --info-zone=whatever-was returned.

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-04 Thread home user
On 12/2/20 2:11 PM, Barry Scott wrote: 3. My .bash_profile sources my .bashrc, sets PATH, and launches xeyes.  My .bashrc sources /etc/bashrc, sets PS1 and PATH, and defines aliases. Set PATH in your .bash_profile not .bashrc. This is because if you set it in .bashrc you cannot override PATH

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-04 Thread home user
On 12/3/20 10:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: The virbr0 interface is the interface between your system and any qemu/kvm Virtual Machines you deploy.  This is an "internal" interface not connected directly to the Internet. I've never heard of this. I'm not sure, but this seems like something I don

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-04 Thread home user
On 12/4/20 8:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I've never heard of this.  I'm not sure, but this seems like something I don't use, at least not explicitly.  Is this something that I can remove from the system, or at least turn off (so it won't use CPU), Or is this "under the hood" of things I do use?

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-04 Thread home user
On 12/4/20 9:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I've never heard of this.  I'm not sure, but this seems like something I don't use, at least not explicitly.  Is this something that I can remove from the system, or at least turn off (so it won't use CPU), Or is this "under the hood" of things I do use?

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/4/20 10:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: [... snip ...] So, you can just sudo systemctl --now disable libvirtd Without the "--now" you'd have to reboot for this to take effect. hmmm...  Samuel beat you to it.  I'll very soon be shutting down for the night anyway. I was unaware of bei

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

2020-12-05 Thread home user
(part 1) After the experience of this thread, a tool I'd like to see is something like netstat or ss or the network activity (bottom panel) of the ksysguard, except it would show: * incoming traffic after firewall screening but before the "passed" traffic reaches the rest of the system, and *

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

2020-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/20 7:43 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 19:28:15 -0700 home user wrote: and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

2020-12-05 Thread home user
On 12/5/20 9:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally this is more useful for things connected to the internet at large since you'll

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

2020-12-06 Thread home user
On 12/5/20 11:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: If you want to make your system "invisible" and won't be running any services you should simply change the zone of your internet interface from "public" to "drop". firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=drop --change-interface=eno1 firewall-cmd --reload -bash.

Re: no mail from users/test lists since about 5 days

2020-12-09 Thread home user
On 12/9/20 4:08 AM, AV wrote: [... snip ...] A few (very few) times, I've had problems with posts reaching the list. The most recent was earlier this month. I took the problem to the "fedora-infrastructure" part of the "fedora PAGURE" web site. The people there were quick, efficient, and e

how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
Once in a while, I want to download a video that I enjoyed watching in Firefox. I googled this. One recommended tool was the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on for Firefox. I installed it; it worked fine for one video, but not the second. Another article pointed to by google is: "https://www.pc

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 10:46 AM, Mike Wright wrote: This is not rocket science but not exactly amateur hour either. Since you have the .deb file (an ubuntu .rpm) you can examine its layout.  Go to your $HOME and mkdir tmp. e.g. "dpgk-deb -R 4kvideodownloader_4.13.4-1_amd64.deb tmp". I assume you mea

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 1:30 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/20 12:21 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:    I too use youtube-dl. It has a reddit page and you can download it with pip pip install youtube-dl Or just "dnf install youtube-dl". Thank-you Mauricio and Samuel. The dnf command suggested by Samu

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 2:49 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Note that VLC isn't your only choice. I use mpv a lot myself. dnf isn't finding mpv. youtube-dl looks for a config in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config. Mine says: --cache-dir '~/.cache/youtube-dl' --add-metadata --xattrs --no-mtime

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 3:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: First thing to know is that usually a video file is a container holding a video stream and one or more audio streams.  You need to tell youtube-dl which combination you want. That is helpful. There's quite a lot of other terminology, but it's looking

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread home user
On 12/12/20 8:41 AM, David King wrote: Installing 4kVideoDownloader on Fedora isn't all that difficult: 1)  Use the "alien" tool to convert the deb package to an rpm package: sudo alien --to-rpm --scripts 4kvideodownloader_4.13.5-1_amd64.deb I had to install alien. This seemed to work. 2)

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread home user
On 12/13/20 6:39 AM, David King wrote: Another, better, way to set up the rpm build tree is to install the rpmdevtools package and run the "rpmdev-setuptree" script that it provides.  That adds a hidden ~/.rpmmacros config file that is used by the rpm builder tools. rpmdevtools was already

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread home user
On 12/13/20 8:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: Is there an 'rpmrebuild' command?  I have used 'rpmbuild --rebuild' - but not exactly in this context. Yes. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le..

Re: no mail from users/test lists since about 5 days

2020-12-15 Thread home user
for everyone's information, this problem has been taken to the fedora-infrastructure team, issue #9531. Link: "https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/9531";. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
> On 12/14/20 8:56 AM, David King wrote: > > Ok, here's an idea.  Maybe you need to use the -p|--package option with > the rpmrebuild command.  I already had the package installed so it's > using my installed package contents to rebuild the RPM in my case.  You > don't have the package yet, so

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
I misunderstood what dnf was saying. So I installed libQt5Core.so.5: - -bash.1[~]: dnf install libQt5Core.so.5 Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:17 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. Dependencies resolved.

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/15/20 11:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You installed the 32-bit versions. [... snip ...] dnf install 'libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)' -bash.4[~]: dnf install 'libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)' Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:41 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. No match for

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"? [SOLVED]

2020-12-15 Thread home user
I do not plan to upgrade to Fedora-33 until April or May 2021.  I'm suspending my efforts to install 4kvideodownloader until after that.  I think that between the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on and the "youtube-dl" command line program, I can download most if not all that I want. I thank every

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
This thread seems to have been accidentally started as a continuation of my original thread with the same subject. I do not plan to upgrade to Fedora-33 until April or May 2021. I'm suspending my efforts to install 4kvideodownloader until after that.  I think that between the "Video DownloadHe

Re: Screenshot software recommendations

2020-12-15 Thread home user
I use Gnome on Fedora-32, but I'm not certain that it's Wayland. I've been using "Spectacle" successfully. Does that work for you? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved] [REALLY SOLVED]

2020-12-15 Thread home user
After a weekly patching and several boots, what Ed suggested continues to work.  This includes e-mail, browser, dnf upgrade, dnf install, zoom, and video downloads (via Firefox add-on and via command line).  As best as I can see, nothing got broke and everything works as it should.  So I'm tagg

serious rkhunter warnings not seen before (by me).

2021-01-21 Thread home user
I just finished doing my weekly patches for my F32 workstation. The sequence (done as root): 1. rkhunter --check (clean) 2. dnf --refresh upgrade dnf (nothing to do) 3. dnf upgrade (no hint of trouble) 4. reboot (no hint of trouble) 5. rkhunter --check (trouble!) I put the rkhunter log file on

Re: serious rkhunter warnings not seen before (by me). [CLOSED]

2021-01-21 Thread home user
On 1/21/21 1:32 PM, Colin J Thomson wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:24:14 GMT home user wrote: > [... snip ...] Nothing serious, the bug report can be found here and a new rkhunter is in updates-testing for F32/33/34 and fixes the warnings.. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

Re: serious rkhunter warnings not seen before (by me). [CLOSED]

2021-01-21 Thread home user
On 1/21/21 4:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 22/01/2021 04:51, home user wrote: On 1/21/21 1:32 PM, Colin J Thomson wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:24:14 GMT home user wrote: > [... snip ...] Nothing serious, the bug report can be found here and a new rkhunter is in updates-testing

Re: serious rkhunter warnings not seen before (by me). [SOLVED]

2021-01-28 Thread home user
[not replying to any specific post] I patched my F32 work station several minutes ago.  The patching included rkhunter.  After the patching, the warnings about "libkeyutils.so.1.9" no longer occur. I consider this thread SOLVED. My thanks to the rkhunter and Fedora teams for the fix. Bill.

Re: rkhunter warnings

2021-01-28 Thread home user
> On Thursday, 28 January 2021 10:44:09 GMT François Patte wrote: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914662 > > rkhunter-1.4.6-10 fixes this and according to bodhi it should be in the > stable > repo now for F32 I confirm this. I patched my F32 work station several minutes

Re: LibreOffice Calc chart printout missing axes and gridlines. [SOLVED]

2022-02-05 Thread home user
> I agree. Even with 0.02-inch thickness and 170-170-170 (light gray) > color, the grid lines come on too strong. I'll get around to trying > 0.01 inch one of these days, and if that's still too much or LibreOffice > doesn't allow it, a yet lighter gray. This past Thursday (02/03/2022), I I

Re: Build an arm static executable on Fedora

2022-03-15 Thread home user
On 3/15/22 3:48 PM, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote: I try to create a hello word arm static executable, with the default example but I got these errors. I search on the web and fedora packages to find a way to solve this issue. I used a basic example source code: cat hello.cpp #include using nam

display problem (probably OT?)

2022-04-02 Thread home user
(f34; gnome (is that relevant?), NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660], Dell U2711) This is a dual-monitor home workstation. This afternoon, the left monitor suddenly started displaying only dim vertical stripes and lines and a black background, nothing else.  The right monitor still wor

Re: display problem (probably OT?)

2022-04-03 Thread home user
On 4/2/22 10:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Thank-you, Samuel. On 4/2/22 19:21, home user wrote: (f34; gnome (is that relevant?), NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660], Dell U2711) This is a dual-monitor home workstation. This afternoon, the left monitor suddenly started displaying only

Re: display problem (probably OT?)

2022-04-03 Thread home user
On 4/3/22 1:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 4/3/22 13:13, home user wrote: Assuming it's the monitor, is it realistically possible to replace bad components (a cpu, memory, etc.) within the monitor, or are such components available only to monitor manufacturers?  If replacement is possible, ho

Re: display problem (probably OT?)

2022-04-03 Thread home user
On 4/3/22 1:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 13:13 -0600, home user wrote: Assuming it's the monitor, is it realistically possible to replace bad components (a cpu, memory, etc.) within the monitor, or are such components available only to monitor manufacturers? If replac

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