How to increase size of /boot partition

2024-05-03 Thread richard emberson
Just today I upgraded from 39 to 40 but there was an issue: dnf told me I needed some 800k more space in my /boot partition to proceed. I had two kernels in /boot so I dnf removed those associated with the older of the two kernels. I then successfully upgraded. I fear the next time I do a dnf upda

How to increase size of /boot partition

2024-05-03 Thread richard emberson
Just today I upgraded from 39 to 40 but there was an issue: dnf told me I needed some 800k more space in my /boot partition to proceed. I had two kernels in /boot so I dnf removed those associated with the older of the two kernels. I then successfully upgraded. I fear the next time I do a dnf upda

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread richard emberson
Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question: "How to increase size of /boot partition" I had the same problem. As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, long time: "This type of layout and partition sizes is ancient. /tmp isn't even a partition now." So, I decided to re-install. I

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread richard emberson
ue, May 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 08:27 -0700, richard emberson wrote: Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question: "How to increase size of /boot partition" I had the same problem. As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, long time:

Re: Firefox foul ups

2024-06-22 Thread richard emberson
Starting about 2 or 3 months ago, I started to 1) uses multiple Firefox profiles and 2) after using one of the profiles, exiting Firefox. I have one profile where I do all my non-anonymous interactions (sites were I do not want to clear particular cookies after each interactions) and the a coupl

Latest upgrade KDE Wayland high CPU

2024-06-26 Thread richard emberson
Just upgraded from 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 to 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64. With both using KDE Wayland. With 6.9.5-200.fc40 there is high idle CPU usage: around 35% for /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn around 25% for /bin/kwin_wayland --wayland-fd 7 --socket wayland-0 --xwayland-fd 8 --xwayland-fd 9 --

fedora upgrade to 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64: no /bin/thunderbird-wayland

2024-06-26 Thread richard emberson
With fedora 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 thunderbird packaged contained /bin/thunderbird-wayland. With fedora 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64 the thunderbird package 115.12.1 does not contain /bin/thunderbird-wayland dnf search thunderbird === Name & Summary Matched: thunder

Re: Latest upgrade KDE Wayland high CPU

2024-06-27 Thread richard emberson
in sleep mode). Thanks On 6/26/24 3:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2024-06-26 at 14:30 -0700, richard emberson wrote: Just upgraded from 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 to 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64. With both using KDE Wayland. With 6.9.5-200.fc40 there is high idle CPU usage: around 35% for

Re: Latest upgrade KDE Wayland high CPU

2024-07-02 Thread richard emberson
It did happen again after a /bin/reboot but then settled down to 1% after 2 or 3 hours. On 7/1/24 9:27 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 08:11 -0700, richard emberson wrote: Never Mind. Within 2 hours of posting the original post, Idle CPU usage settled down less than 1% and

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

2024-07-27 Thread richard emberson
Hi, I've wondered lately what it means to "run" an Android App on a Linux platform: 1) If you have some kitchen appliance that has an associated App, can you communicate with the appliance with the App using your Linux Wifi? 2) Can the appliance communicate with the appliance maker's cloud syst

Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-05 Thread richard emberson
Background Start: On 11/01/2024 upgraded 40->41 on my old Jetta laptop and everything was fine. The Jetta does not have encrypted disks. On 11/02/2024 upgrade 40->41 failed on old supermicro X10Sat media server with some encrypted disks. After upgrade, everything seemed fine. Then, upon reb

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-05 Thread richard emberson
One must enter the encryption passphrase before you get to select what kernel to load. On 11/5/24 3:44 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: But more importantly, have you tried booting older kernels in GRUB2 on boot? It’s possible (albeit unlikely) that the new kernel was built with broken cryptsetup

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-05 Thread richard emberson
Early in Maintenance Mode I tested the keyboard and typed in the passphrase, twice, and it appeared on the screen correctly. On 11/5/24 6:17 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 18:44 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: Sometimes it’s a broken keyboard. Oh the fun (not) of trying to log

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-05 Thread richard emberson
I tried to upgrade 3 different machine from 40 to 41. All older that boot with /boot/efi. Two machines were laptops and one machine was a desktop media server. All three failed the same way. The disk decryption mechanism did not work. Same error message generated. If I had to guess, I believe th

version hplip: HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

2024-10-26 Thread richard emberson
On Fedora 40, the version of hplip is 3.23.12. On https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip the version is Version: 3.24.4. The release notes at the above url seem to indicate that the only changes are addition kinds of HP printer. So, is it correct that there is no need t

HP 4050 N LaserJet only prints first page then errors.

2024-10-26 Thread richard emberson
I've got an old HP 4050 N LaserJet. A couple of years ago it stopped being able to print without generating an error after the first page. The error is printed on the second page (then nothing more is printed): ERROR: typecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: idiv STACK: 5 --nostringval-- --nostringval--

Re: Remove disk encryption in Maintenance Mode

2024-11-06 Thread richard emberson
the original /home directory, all of the media was on other, non-encrypted drives which I've now been able to mount in this new installation. Thanks again. On 11/5/24 8:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 18:25 -0800, richard emberson wrote: Early in Maintenance Mode I teste

Re: Strange loss of graphic display

2024-11-15 Thread richard emberson
I had something similar happen to me, repeatedly, recently; after the screen saver kicked in (goes blank) I would have to reboot the system. Hunting about (I do not remember exactly how I stumbled upon it) it was due to firefox (org.mozilla.firefox) inhibiting the power manager. I could click on

Help: Interrupted dnf update, second update fails with duplicate packages

2023-07-31 Thread richard emberson
I had a "dnf update" interrupted. Running "dnf clean all" and then "dnf update" again results in: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by

Re: Help: Interrupted dnf update, second update fails with duplicate packages

2023-07-31 Thread richard emberson
e I back a lot of stuff up on other machines, doing a new installation from a CD is my last resort. On 7/31/23 15:41, Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 5:12 PM richard emberson mailto:emberson.r...@gmail.com>> wrote: I had a "dnf update" interrupted. Running &qu

Need help sending message

2023-08-05 Thread richard emberson
Repeated tries at sending a message... I had a "dnf update" interrupted. Sent original help message on 08/02/2023. I've managed to fix my system. Would like to share what I had to do. I appears the interruption occurred while removing the oldest kernel (only partially removed leading to lots of co

Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes

2023-10-06 Thread richard emberson
Back in 10/04/2023 I got "Pri Master Hard Disk SMART status BAD" # smartctl -a /dev/sda | more Western Digital VelociRaptor WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 SATA 2.5 3.0 Gb/s 1 rpm ... health test result: FAILED! failure less than 24 hours SAVE ALL DATA ... Vendor Specific SMART Attribu

Re: Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes SOLVED

2023-10-06 Thread richard emberson
, at 15:57, richard emberson wrote: Back in 10/04/2023 I got "Pri Master Hard Disk SMART status BAD" # smartctl -a /dev/sda | more Western Digital VelociRaptor WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 SATA 2.5 3.0 Gb/s 1 rpm ... health test result: FAILED! failure less than 24

Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

2023-11-02 Thread richard emberson
I had firefox continually freezing (Xorg) taking the gui with it. I then aliased firefox to: cpulimit -i -l 200 /usr/bin/firefox "$@" and it stopped taking the rest of the gui with it. Recently I (had to) switched to Wayland and firefox (with the alias) has only crashed 3 or 4 times but it has not

Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue

2023-11-30 Thread richard emberson
Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue KDE Screen Issue (or Plasma issue, or...) 1) Login screen comes up and can login. 2) KDE screen mix of colors and black... moving mouse and screen continues to redraw random colors (but, mostly black). 3) Bottom panel (in hide mode)

Re: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue

2023-12-01 Thread richard emberson
Where do I find "the Fedora KDE list"? On 12/1/23 03:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 15:16 -0800, richard emberson wrote: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue KDE Screen Issue (or Plasma issue, or...) 1) Login screen comes up and

Re: Upgrade KDE Wayland Spin 38->39 KDE Background Screen Issue

2023-12-06 Thread richard emberson
in the graphic display code but it now takes a path that displays correctly. On 12/1/23 06:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 05:43 -0800, richard emberson wrote: Where do I find "the Fedora KDE list"? k...@lists.fedoraproject.org but I see you

Re: thunderbird problem

2025-02-13 Thread richard emberson
Has been happening to me for a couple of years - multiple IMAP google accounts. Mostly, it happens when I delete a bunch of stuff from the Archives folders. Thunderbird would freeze. Using Wayland, after Thunderbird crashes, Wayland UI was frozen and I had to reboot. So, went back to X (xfce4); Th