Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
# fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xf7941c52. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Wa

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?What would I need other than the partition table sizes ?I know I had boot, swap and / partitions... Is there any way to copy (and possibly recover) the raw data from the drive ? Possibly using dd or something ? I tried using partimag

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
What are the chances that the drive controller in the laptop caused this problem ? I just tested the drive in the laptop BIOS and it says its fine. SMART and what it does for a surface scan. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

OT: SSD recommendations for XPS17 laptop.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
It appears as though my Intel X-25 160 GB SSD has died. I just ordered a new Dell XPS17 laptop with a single 500 GB drive (it has 2 drive bays) because I expected to replace the drives in it with the SSD and 750 GB hard drive from my old laptop. So... I now need a new SSD for my new laptop. Del

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Craig White wrote: > definitely possible - might be useful to see if you can connect it to a > different computer with a different interface I've done that. Its now connected to a server that I'm using for my desktop machine via a USB interface. That is how I g

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:09 PM, fred smith wrote: Thanks for sharing that, Fred. I just spent some time going through the files that did copy and I can't see anything critical missing. :HUGE, HUGE sigh of relief. If the situation were worse, I'd be on your suggestion like white on rice. Tha

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Yes, I'm sure it's fine now. Please clarify, what do you think is fine now ? The drive ? Or the laptop/drive controller ? Looks to me like some pages went bad, and the > drive mapped them out and replaced with some spare pages held in

Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
I experienced a complete SSD failure this week on my laptop. I've ordered a new Dell XPS 17 laptop which has an eSATA port. Given the nature of the SSD failure I experienced, from now on I wish to have my laptop running a RAID1 setup via the eSATA port when its used on my desk. However, when it

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
Is there any chance that some of this was caused by hot plugging an SSD device into a hot plug SATA port ? Do SSDs support hot plugging ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:02 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM, linux guy wrote: >> Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?    What would >> I need other than the partition table sizes ?    I know I had boot, >> swap and /

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:43 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > I have never heard of any "sometimes" RAID setup. I don't think that > is possible. I know... it was a longshot. I would say just do incremental backups every night. > There are many tools, rsync being the most commonly used. If you use > LVM

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
One thing that luckybackup does is send status emails for each backup attempt. That would be really handy for me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread linux guy
Good discussion. Thanks for the replies. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://a

Re: File copy errors on EXT4 SSD but fsck says its clean ????

2011-12-28 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:54 AM, linux guy wrote: > # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb > smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.1.5-1.fc16.i686] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION =

Re: File copy errors on EXT4 SSD but fsck says its clean ????

2011-12-30 Thread linux guy
That is what I though, when I read it during the session. Thanks for confirming that I had it right the first time. Update: the drive went back to Intel this week. They are sending me a new replacement. The service rep was telling me all about the 1.2 million hour MTBF spec as we completed th

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-30 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Pete Travis wrote: > A 17" laptop cuts an awfully large profile.   Are you sure there aren't two > SATA bays? My XPS 17 will have 2 SATA bays. One for the SSD with the OS and the other for a conventional HD with my data.I want to back both of these drives u

Re: OT: How much RAM should I get in a new laptop ?

2011-12-30 Thread linux guy
Update. After a bunch of order tuning, I ordered my XPS 17 with the 3D screen (which got me 4 DIMM slots) and 16GB of RAM. Yes, 16 GB. I don't feel I need that much right now, but as a package, it was cheap to add it. Not to advertise for Dell, but the complete system (i7, BD player, 16 GB, 3D

F16 rocks. Thanks.

2012-06-27 Thread linux guy
I've been using F16 since before Christmas and I must say that it has become a very polished and powerful release. Kudos to those who have worked so hard on it. We don't thank you people enough. Your work is greatly appreciated. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

F17 yum update failure on F16 packages. Solution ?

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
I cannot run 'yum update' due to dependency problems with F16 packages. I have exactly the same problem as Bob Mckay in this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820351 Running 'yum --skip-broken distro-sync' does not fix it. How do I resolve this issue ? Thanks -- users mailing l

Re: F17 yum update failure on F16 packages. Solution ?

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
I was able to update by issuing the following command. yum --skip-broken --exclude mesa-dri-drivers -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/M

Fedora 17 sound issues

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
I installed Fedora 17 today. Finally got it fully updated. Sound works fine when I run the test sound in Settings-> System Settings -> Multimedia-> Phonon Internal Audio Analog Stereo. I have no sound from apps in a KDE session. $ uname -a Linux XPS.localdomain 3.4.4-3.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue J

Re: Fedora 17 sound issues (Solved)

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
Great tip. I installed pavucontrol and found out that ALSA playback was set to Digital Stereo out. I changed it to Analog Stereo Out and it works great. Thanks ! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: Fedora 17 sound issues- NOT solved !

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
I spoke too soon. Everything works fine as long as I keep pavucontrol running. As soon as I close it sound stops. I'm running pavucontrol as root. What gives ? I ran authconfig --updateall as a regular user and have rebooted several times. Any ideas ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Fedora 17 sound issues- NOT solved !

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
I get the same behavior running pavucontrol as a regular user. I'll look into it tomorrow. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_li

Re: Fedora 17 sound issues- NOT solved !

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
$pulseaudio --check $ pulseaudio --start N: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {2e60fd9218d4616ea9ac2ab30007}unix:/home/me/.pulse/2e60fd9218d4616ea9ac2ab30007-runtime/native, which appears to be local. Probing deeper. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Fedora 17 sound issues- NOT solved !

2012-07-02 Thread linux guy
$ lsmod | grep pulse -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-07-04 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:29 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > I've discovered a solution. It is now necessary to remove two > packages: > > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio > alsa-plugins-maemo You just saved me a lot of time. I was fighting the same issue the other night. I deleted these package

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
Comments below. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer. On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:13 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 11Jan2022 14:15, linux guy wrote: > >I'm trying to add a few directories to PATH in F35. I'm embarrassed to > >admit it isn't going well. >

Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm using a server to run a bunch of simulations. By bunch I mean hundreds. Each simulation takes from 10 minutes to 10 hours to run. All of the simulations are run from the command line. Every day I generate more simulation cases. I'm looking for a method/system/app that I can giv

Re: ocatve

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 5:01 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > When I run octave with > > pkg load symbolic > and > syms x > I > get > Symbolic pkg v2.9.0: Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 28, in > AttributeError: '_PrintFunction' object has no attribute '__globals__' > Tr

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the replies, I'll look into the mentioned packages. I have never heard of Torque. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Is there anything simpler than Torque ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Thought: I'll write a simple one in nodejs and make the user interface a webpage. That way I can log into the webpage from anywhere and check on the status of my simulations as well as add and delete them. I'm not running a cluster. Just my little ole server. Thoughts ? __

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:19 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > If you can define a task in a single line of text I can define my tasks in a single command line. > you could run > something like this on the server: > > tail -f task_list.txt | while read -r spec; do run the task from > $spec; do

Re: ocatve

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Yes, use pip (or pip3) to install sympy It should install the dependencies too. Don't use the dnf packages for what you want to do. I know it is confusing. I am NOT a Python or pip expert. But I've run into similar errors and have always tracked it down to something not being installed proper

Re: ocatve

2022-01-23 Thread linux guy
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 6:50 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I fixed the issue (temporally!) by > pip3 install sympy==1.5 > > (be a user). > Excellent ! I knew it was just a dependency issue. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: ocatve

2022-01-23 Thread linux guy
BTW... are you aware that VSCode has a bunch of Octave extensions for writing, debugging and running Octave code ? On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 3:29 PM linux guy wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 6:50 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I fixed the issue (temporally!) b

My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-17 Thread linux guy
I need to use Mobius 1 Action cameras in a project. When I connect these cameras to VLC or guvcview they play correctly for about 10 seconds and then freeze.They work properly in Windows 11. How do I troubleshoot this issue or get someone from the appropriate community to help me ? Thanks __

Re: My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-17 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the reply. Here is the output when it fails. The "Unable to dequeue buffer: no such device" message happens hundreds of times. ... Oct 17 13:54:05 workstation1 plasmashell[16214]: V4L2_CORE: (VIDIOC_DQBUF) Unable to dequeue buffer: No such device Oct 17 13:54:05 workstation1 plasmashe

Re: My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-17 Thread linux guy
kernel: usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 12 Oct 17 14:15:23 workstation1 plasmashell[19468]: V4L2_CORE: (VIDIOC_QBUF) Unable to queue buffer 3: No such device Oct 17 14:15:23 workstation1 plasmashell[19468]: V4L2_CORE: (VIDIOC_DQBUF) Unable to dequeue buffer: No such device Oct 17 14:15:23 work

Re: My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-17 Thread linux guy
"Unless you keep unplugging it, it appears to be having a problem. Are you using it with windows on this same computer on the same port?" Not with this log I'm not. But my laptop dual boots F36 and Windows 10. F36 freezes just like on this computer. Windows 10 runs it fine. __

Re: My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-18 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:07 PM Tim via users wrote: > Is the computer powering other things via its USB ports? > > Inadequate power is one potential cause for USB disconnects. I'm not > sure if the USB power negotiation is done entirely in the hardware, or > if the OS has a say in the matter.

How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

2017-03-06 Thread linux guy
I have a non booting installation that I need to get running. I would like to know how to change the run target to the command line and disable several services that are causing issues during the boot process. How does one manually change the run target on a non booting installation ? What do I

Re: How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

2017-03-06 Thread linux guy
​I'm doing this on an RPi 3 running F25. It boots using extLinux, not grub2, from what I can tell. There are grub and grub2 files in /boot, but it doesn't seem to use them. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

2017-03-06 Thread linux guy
​I've got it booting to a command prompt by adding 'init=/bin/bash' to the kernel parameters, but it shuts off USB and other services before it gets there, thus leaving me with no keyboard. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

2017-03-06 Thread linux guy
There is a grub.conf file in /boot/grub, but it isn't current to the installation and doesn't appear to be used. It references a kernel that isn't installed. It appears the boot process is controlled by /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf. That file is set up similar to a grub.conf file. There is no c

Re: How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

2017-03-09 Thread linux guy
I got the installation booting on my RPi3 again. I couldn't update it with dnf update because the update was simply too large to run. I might try again in the near future. Here are some things that I learned in this effort. 1) RPi3 boots with extlinux, not grub or grub2. 2) To change the kernel

Fedora 30 workstation keeps crashing...

2019-11-05 Thread linux guy
My Fedora 30 workstation keeps freezing up. Can't open another session or reboot via the keyboard. Only thing it responds to is a hard reset. I've been using it for 3 years with no issues. Ideas ? How do I troubleshoot it ? LG $ uname -a Linux Brix 5.3.8-200.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 29 14:4

Re: Fedora 30 workstation keeps crashing...

2019-11-05 Thread linux guy
I'm getting an SE Linux error on boot A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted (flags:POE). Explanation: P - Proprietary module has been loaded. O - Out-of-tree module has been loaded. E - Unsigned module has been loaded. Kernel maintainers are unable to diagnose tainted reports

Re: Fedora 30 workstation keeps crashing...

2019-11-06 Thread linux guy
It froze again this morning. I received this SELinux error: SELinux is preventing abrt-action-sav from write access on the file /var/lib/rpm/.dbenv.lock. * Plugin restorecon (99.5 confidence) suggests If you want to fix the label. /var/lib/rpm/.dbenv.lock default l

Re: Fedora 30 workstation keeps crashing...

2019-11-08 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm happy to report that my computer no longer crashes. I made 2 changes: - I uninstalled the broadcom-wl package and started using a wired network connection. - I upgraded to Fedora 31. I also noticed that the crashes seem to have happened when I was running openOffice-Libre. It ap

What does a highlighted directory in ls in Konsole mean ?

2019-11-25 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm loving Fedora 31. Kudos to the developers, testers and everyone involved. Great work ! Much appreciated ! Sometimes when I ls in Konsole the directory is highlighted. Why is it highlighted ? Thanks ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: What does a highlighted directory in ls in Konsole mean ?

2019-11-25 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the quick reply, Samuel. Here is the output. # ls -ld Samba drwxrwxrwx. 2 me me 4096 Nov 25 11:36 Samba On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:49 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/25/19 10:44 AM, linux guy wrote: > > Sometimes when I ls in Konsole the directory is highlighted.

Sharing a USB drive with Samba ?

2019-11-25 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm running Samba on Fedora 31. It's working great. I want to share a USB drive using Samba. I've tried mounting it to a directory within a Samba share and it does work due to permission errors. - I create the mount directory (USB) as a normal user, thus giving it "normal" permissio

Re: What does a highlighted directory in ls in Konsole mean ?

2019-11-25 Thread linux guy
OK, good to know. Where is this documented ? Does it highlight directories for other reasons ? On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:24 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/25/19 10:50 AM, linux guy wrote: > > Here is the output. > > > > # ls -ld Samba > > drwxrwxrwx. 2 me me 4096

Re: What does a highlighted directory in ls in Konsole mean ?

2019-11-25 Thread linux guy
Thanks ! I should have known it was in man ls. Duh. On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 2:43 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 13:34 -0700, linux guy wrote: > > OK, good to know. Where is this documented ? Does it highlight > > directories for other reasons

Re: Sharing a USB drive with Samba ?

2019-11-25 Thread linux guy
e N. White III wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 14:59, linux guy wrote: > >> Hi people. >> >> I'm running Samba on Fedora 31. It's working great. >> >> I want to share a USB drive using Samba. I've tried mounting it to a >> directory within

Re: Sharing a USB drive with Samba ?

2019-11-26 Thread linux guy
error. The directory just appears empty on the client. On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:42 PM George N. White III wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 18:06, linux guy wrote: > >> I never thought of selinux causing the issue. I'm not getting an selinux >> error ? >> >

F31 Eclipse-platform won't install, dnf --skip-broken ?

2019-12-14 Thread linux guy
Seems the eclipse-paltform package has a broken dependency, glassfish-el. # uname -a Linux Brix 5.3.15-300.fc31.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 5 15:04:01 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux dnf install eclipse-platform Error: Problem: conflicting requests - package eclipse-platform-1:4.12-6.module_

Re: F31 Eclipse-platform won't install, dnf --skip-broken ?

2019-12-14 Thread linux guy
=== Is this ok [y/N]: y Complete! [root@Brix me]# dnf install eclipse-platform Last metadata expiration check: 1:03:05 ago on Sat 14 Dec 2019 03:08:00 PM MST. Dependencies resolved. On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 4:07 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2019-12-15 04:04, linux guy wrote: >

Re: F31 Eclipse-platform won't install, dnf --skip-broken ?

2019-12-16 Thread linux guy
It has worked fine thus far. LG On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 6:33 PM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > Please note that your installation is most likely going to have other > package > issues now, as a result of re-enabling the eclipse module, which was > recently > disabled because of a package collisi

Please add OpenVSP to the Fedora repositories.

2019-12-16 Thread linux guy
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Please add OpenFOAM to the Fedora repositories.

2019-12-16 Thread linux guy
Subject says it all. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https:

Re: Strange that no Fedora 30 updates since Dec 24?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
Lol. Too funny to see this post because I was wondering too and thought of writing the same post. Fedora rules ! Big thanks to all the people that make Fedora what it is. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed on it. I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like to leave it on the hard drive. Question

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the reply. Rsync everything ? *Everything* ? Would that work ? I was thinking of doing a minimal install and then obtaining the list of packages from my old workstation and running dnf with that list. Then copying all the user data over from /home. I'd still lose some settings thou

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
I want to keep my old computer fully functional as a backup. Thus I'd like to leave the existing drive in it. It would be super easy to clone my existing drive with dd if it wasn't for the Windows install. Do a minimal install, dd the Linux stuff and then somehow fix the boot entries ? On Mon,

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
ed up the price of Windows 10 Home... wow ! On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:50 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 1/6/20 10:35 AM, linux guy wrote: > > I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current > > workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-08 Thread linux guy
le running the new computer off a USB drive ? Thanks On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:35 AM linux guy wrote: > Hi people. > > I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current > workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed > on

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Thanks, guys. rsync is running right now. I'll let you know how I make out. I'll post when I find something that works. LG ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedo

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
BTW, you might want to check the speed of the network interfaces and router being used.I was seeing very slow file transfer speeds with rsync (hint: use --progress).When I investigated I found that the speed limit on the wired network interface on my current computer was set to 100 Mb/sec.

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
So which directories do I need to sync ? bin - link that points to /usr/bin boot - going to try NOT copying it. dev - no, the system generates this at boot etc - yes home - yes lib - link that points to /usr/lib lib64 - link that points to /usr/lib64 lost+found - no media - no mount - no opt ? pr

Authentification error in kdm, gdm after rsync cloning an OS... console fine.

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Hello wonderful Fedora people. ;) I cloned an operating system using rsync using the following, basically: sudo rsync -aHxv --numeric-ids --progress root@brix:/* /mnt/drive --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/boot It worked fantastically well. I'll post the

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Aside from an Authentication issue, this worked really well. I'll post it up as soon as I get the issues resolved. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Authentification error in kdm, gdm after rsync cloning an OS... console fine.

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
The problem stems from fstab... one of the filesystems is mounted read only. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.or

Re: Authentification error in kdm, gdm after rsync cloning an OS... console fine.

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
thank you very much for that tip ! I'll report back. On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 5:03 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-01-10 07:52, linux guy wrote: > > Hello wonderful Fedora people. ;) > > > > I cloned an operating system using rsync using the following, basically

Re: Authentification error in kdm, gdm after rsync cloning an OS... console fine.

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
That fixed everything, Ed ! I nominate you and that top for the "bestest / fastest" online support ever ! Have a great day ! LG ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Solved the authentication issue. It was SELinux related. This was the best system transfer that I have ever done. Really happy with how it turned out - everything transferred over and works out of the box on the new machine. I'm totally impressed. Would 10/10 would do it this way again. I'll

Best way I've found to clone an OS.

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
I recently purchased a new computer. My old computer had Fedora 31 installed on an M.SATA drive. My new computer did not have an M.SATA slot. I could have added one via a PCIe card, but decided against it. I've been using Linux since RH8 days as my sole workstation. I've migrated OSes from h

Re: Best way I've found to clone an OS.

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
This method would probably work well on a computer with Windows installed because installing the OS with the Live USB drive will take care of setting up the dual boot part of the system. Because this method doesn't touch /boot, the dual boot functionality will remain after the OS is cloned onto t

Re: Does Fedora 31 works fine on an AMD Ryzen 7 2700?

2020-01-10 Thread linux guy
I did an install yesterday on a X570 with a 3600X. It works perfectly. Only issue is sensors isn't seeing any fan speeds. It's amazing how many processes you can run in the background while the computer remains responsive to regular work. ___ users mai

Swapped a dual boot drive into another computer and it will only boot Windows ?

2020-01-12 Thread linux guy
I have 2 computers, nearly identical, similar age. AMI BIOS in both. I swapped the M.SATA drives from each. One drive has F31. One has dual boot Windows 10 + F31. The F31 alone hard drive boots and runs fine in the first computer. So does the dual boot drive. The dual boot hard drive will

Distorted HDMI audio in 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64

2020-01-14 Thread linux guy
I've had issues with distorted audio played via HDMI since Sept. 2019 on 3 different computers. You can make out speech played via HDMI, but it is really distorted. After a time it sounds normal, ie undistorted. It used to occur the every time when a computer was booted. Now it seems to occur

Re: Distorted HDMI audio in 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64

2020-01-14 Thread linux guy
Might be related to this bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-osp1/+bug/1838243 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https:

Re: Distorted HDMI audio in 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64

2020-01-14 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the reply. What do you mean by "Just opening pulseaudio fixed the buzz" ? A pulseaudio application ? Pulseaudio volume control ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedo

Re: Distorted HDMI audio in 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64

2020-01-14 Thread linux guy
quite some time. I never want to complain about OS software, but this bug has been very annoying. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:05 PM Mike Wright wrote: > On 1/14/20 2:59 PM, linux guy wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > What do you mean by "Just opening pulseaudio

Re: Distorted HDMI audio in 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64

2020-01-14 Thread linux guy
Spoke too soon. Now it is delayed and distorted ! On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:07 PM linux guy wrote: > Thanks for the tip. > Opening pulse audio volume control didn't fix it, but going to the > Configuration tab and changing the output from one HDMI device to another > and b

Re: Distorted HDMI audio in 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64

2020-01-14 Thread linux guy
pulseaudio -k fixes it. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:08 PM linux guy wrote: > Spoke too soon. Now it is delayed and distorted ! > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:07 PM linux guy wrote: > >> Thanks for the tip. >> Opening pulse audio volume control didn't fix it, but goin

Re: Does Fedora 31 works fine on an AMD Ryzen 7 2700?

2020-01-24 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:24 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > > That looks like it only affects mobile chips (with a U on the end) and > looks like the fix is committed so should find its way into Fedora kernels > soon-ish. > I've found that Linux has been extremely responsive to the recent processor re

Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...

2020-01-24 Thread linux guy
I'm running Fedora 31/KDE and it is great. Fantastic, actually. Kudos to the team that delivers and supports Fedora, release after release. Things just keep getting better and better and the update process is so smooth and easy. Especially compared to those other operating systems... However,

Re: Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...

2020-01-25 Thread linux guy
Interesting comments, Ed.One of the benefits of making a post like this is the feedback it will get from the unique and talented audience on this list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...

Re: Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...

2020-01-25 Thread linux guy
Me too ! On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:44 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 20:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 2020-01-25 19:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > 4) It would be really, really nice if KDE remembered which desktop an > > > > application was on when you reboot

Re: F31 install fail AMD Zen2

2020-01-27 Thread linux guy
Send it to me... I'll get it running ! You might want to contact Wendell of Level1Techs on YouTube. He has installed and tested Linux on a lot of high end AMD machines. He is a "server guy" too. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:34 PM Neal Becker wrote: > I ordered a new workstation from a well-know

Re: Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...

2020-01-27 Thread linux guy
"But, I just confirmed that if I have the setting set for "Restore previous session" and if I have a window rule for firefox to be in a certain desktop it will start in that desktop upon logout/login." Where is this setting ? On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 5:39 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-01-25 1

Re: Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...

2020-01-27 Thread linux guy
Wow, I didn't even know that setting was in System Settings. Thanks for the tip. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:58 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-01-28 10:30, linux guy wrote: > > "But, I just confirmed that if I have the setting set for "Restore > previous session"

How did Calligra* get installed on my computer and how do I remove it ?

2020-02-06 Thread linux guy
I have a bunch of Calligra apps installed on my computer. I don't remember installing them. I want to remove them. I cannot figure out how and where they got installed. # dnf list Calligra\*<- shows none installed via dnf. Last metadata expiration check: 1:32:44 ago on Thu 06 Feb 2020 04:

Why isn't ProjectLibre in the Fedora repository ?

2020-02-06 Thread linux guy
Subject says it all. https://snapcraft.io/install/projectlibre/fedora Is the CPAL-1.0 license not compatible with Fedora ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...

2020-02-06 Thread linux guy
FWIW, this setting made no difference to how my applications behaved on a restart. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:38 PM linux guy wrote: > Wow, I didn't even know that setting was in System Settings. > > Thanks for the tip. > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:58 PM Ed Greshko wrote

Re: How did Calligra* get installed on my computer and how do I remove it ?

2020-02-06 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the reply. Oops... copied wrong rpm command: $ # rpm -qa | grep calligra $ dnf history list calligra-core No transaction which manipulates package 'calligra-core' was found. On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:26 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-02-07 09:28, linux guy wrote:

Re: How did Calligra* get installed on my computer and how do I remove it ?

2020-02-06 Thread linux guy
Comments below. On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:39 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-02-07 12:29, linux guy wrote: > > $ dnf history list calligra-core > > No transaction which manipulates package 'calligra-core' was found. > > Well, first of all, you should probably run &

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