Re: Who has created a directory called "~/updates"

2018-01-31 Thread stan
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:08:11 +0100 Joachim Backes wrote: > I'm running F27, and found coincidentally a directory called > ~/updates containing megs of RPMs in my home directory. Does anybody > know wherefrom these entries are coming? Did you by chance define a local repository in /etc/yum.repos

Fw: Who has created a directory called "~/updates"

2018-01-31 Thread stan
Sent to me personally instead of the list, forwarded. Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:10:07 +0100 From: Joachim Backes To: stan Subject: Re: Who has created a directory called "~/updates" On 01/31/18 19:49, stan wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:08:11 +0100 >

Re: secure boot disabled

2018-01-31 Thread stan
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:53:22 +0100 AV wrote: > However after install I find 'secure boot disabled'. > $ dmesg | grep -i secure > [0.00] secureboot: Secure boot disabled > [5.630671] Loaded UEFI:MokListRT cert 'Fedora Secure Boot CA: > fde32599c2d61db1bf5807335d7b20e4cd963b42' linked t

Re: how to audit chmod syscall system wide? a wired problem of home directory group write permission got set

2018-01-31 Thread stan
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:06:38 + (UTC) "mr.cheng" wrote: > I checked all bash_history and system logs, didn't see any explicit > bash call of "chmod g+w ..."  ; so I suspect some software is calling > by chmod syscall, What is your umask set as? That determines what permissions new files get.

Re: Fedora 27 curl 7.55.1 ignore self-signed certificates

2018-01-31 Thread stan
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:26:39 -0200 Kleber Rocha wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problema with curl, in Fedora 26, I imported the certificate > into the /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/, and after I run the > command: update-ca-trust extract, after that, curl trust on the > self-signed certificate. >

Re: how to audit chmod syscall system wide? a wired problem of home directory group write permission got set

2018-01-31 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 01:41:43 + (UTC) "mr.cheng" wrote: > On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 4:37:02 PM PST, stan > wrote: > > I checked all bash_history and system logs, didn't see any explicit > > bash call of "chmod g+w ..."  ; so I suspect so

Re: secure boot disabled

2018-02-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:17:26 +0100 AV wrote: > I very much doubt this. On a pc with secure boot you see: > > $ dmesg |grep -i secure > [0.00] secureboot: Secure boot enabled > [0.00] Kernel is locked down from EFI secure boot; see man > kernel_lockdown.7 > [1.364686] Loaded U

Re: Copying/duplicating files from ServerA to ServerB

2018-02-02 Thread stan
On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 08:36:25 -0500 bruce wrote: > Looking to completely duplicate/replicate one server to > another.Running Centos/Fed. I've seen a number of different > articles/etc on different ways of doing this. > > Assuming I'm not using chef/puppet/ansible/etc can anyone give > thoughts on

Re: Copying/duplicating files from ServerA to ServerB

2018-02-03 Thread stan
On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:12:27 -0500 bruce wrote: > does the rsync handle "hidden" files/dirs?? Yes. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: rsync question

2018-02-10 Thread stan
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:16:47 -0500 bruce wrote: > Is there an attribute or approach to allow/force rsync to redo a > "complete" xfer of files..? I'm not aware of a way, and it makes sense. If the identical file is already there, why would rsync spend the resources to replace it? If you want to

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-17 Thread stan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:25:19 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > The Hardware of the PC does not let me access to any monitor > configuration. It seems that every thing is automatic (It is a recent > Asus Motherboard). This doesn't seem right. Have you checked on their website? > The new monitor sa

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-17 Thread stan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:18:59 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > Do you happen to remember the program's name? If so, it would be a > great help to anybody who needs it. It's a package, not a program, and it turns out to be freetype. They switched default font rendering, and turned off hinting. Here is

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-17 Thread stan
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:18:59 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > Do you happen to remember the program's name? If so, it would be a > great help to anybody who needs it. In thinking about this a little more, I wonder if fred doesn't have the right of it. Using monitors with different resolutions and dot

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-02-23 Thread stan
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:48:22 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > VDH will not download most videos from YouTube. (Was that the idea?) That's been a suspicion I've had as well. A requirement for further funding? For some reason, content providers frown on the practice of viewers downloading their creations.

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-02-23 Thread stan
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:46:48 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > Did it make any difference that I tried to install it system-wide, > and not for a user only? I can't say for sure, but it didn't for me as I followed the instructions from their web page for user. If it works for Andras, it must be something

Re: Uefi/csm -

2018-02-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:15:05 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I ordered another Asrock motherboard to replace the one I haven;t > been able to install Fedora 27 on. The user manual says it can be > setup to boot uefi or legacy bios by enabling csm. I do not need to > dual boot with Windows, only Fedora

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:49:12 + (UTC) Amadeus WM wrote: > I accidentally deleted my inbox messages. I'm accessing my email via > pop3 and they are still on the server, but when click "Get Mail" in > claws- mail, nothing happens. Probably claws-mail knows I once had > them and deleted them, so

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-25 Thread stan
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:52:31 + (UTC) Amadeus WM wrote: > That's what I've been looking for, seems to be working. Thank you > very much! You're welcome. > I'm glad I wasn't using IMAP. No kidding. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Fedora 26 & 27 are unable to boot with normal graphic mode on this PC with AMD/ATI RS740 [Radeon 2100] GPU

2018-02-27 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:58:36 - "Farhad Mohammadi Majd" wrote: > Hello, I have an old PC from 2008 which has integrated graphics > processors (IGP), I did install Fedora 26 few months ago and it had > mentioned problem, I used "nomodeset" kernel parameter for boot > during installation and loc

Re: Fedora 26 & 27 are unable to boot with normal graphic mode on this PC with AMD/ATI RS740 [Radeon 2100] GPU

2018-02-28 Thread stan
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:07:52 +0330 Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote: > > What does lsmod show for the module the kernel is using? > > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/h7C~gfz~QdvZ~nueqbbXBQ > The radeon driver is not being loaded by the kernel. It has support for your card, from what I can

Re: setting screen resolution at boot

2018-03-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:47:25 -0700 JD wrote: > Hi all, > on fc27: > how do I set the screen resolution to less than 1920X1080 ? > I would like to reduce it to something like 1280X1080 > Is that "doable"? (Pardon my use of doable :) :) > I would like the DT (Mate) to respect that resolution and s

Re: Weirdnes on screen when booting.

2018-03-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:53:45 +0100 "Ger van Dijck" wrote: > Hi Fedora, > > > When booting Fedora 27 (fully updated) suddenly totaly unpredicted > sometimes I get three aps on screen : Home , Filesystem root and Boot. > > If this is the case suddenly in the directory Computer appears the > ap

Re: Fedora 26 & 27 are unable to boot with normal graphic mode on this PC with AMD/ATI RS740 [Radeon 2100] GPU

2018-03-02 Thread stan
On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:29:18 - "Farhad Mohammadi Majd" wrote: > Instead of upgrade, I did install LightDM, then stop-disable > gdm.service and enable lightdm.service, then I did boot Fedora without > "nomodeset" kernel parameter and the result was LightDM ran on the > highest resolution suppo

Re: setting screen resolution at boot

2018-03-02 Thread stan
On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:54:08 -0700 JD wrote: > Interesting!!! I am not familiar with that, as this is the first time > I am encountering this problem of fedora on a 1920x1200 screen. > 1. Default fonts are just too small. > 2. Icons of running apps on the bottom panel of Mate DT > are incre

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

2018-03-04 Thread stan
On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 10:49:02 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I wanted to try Claws-Mail but after several days of sporadic > attempts to filter messages into my usual directories I am ready to > admit defeat and remove Claws. It was installed via dnf in this > updated Fedora 27. I asked on the Claws li

Re: Razer laptop Caps-lock key of the death

2018-03-04 Thread stan
On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:26:10 +0100 Jeandet Alexis wrote: > I tried to add XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" in /etc/default/keyboard. This won't work for wayland. You would have to run X. > I'm using Gnome with Wayland. Any idea? Stop using wayland. This is an area of wayland that hasn't been brough

Re: Starting programs when no internet connection is available

2018-03-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:48:35 +0100 ni...@posteo.de wrote: > Hello, > > I'm encountering a strange issue with my Fedora 27 Gnome installation. > I'm sometimes connected to a WiFi network without a working Internet > connection. When that's the case, some programs like Firefox, > Thunderbird or eve

looking for nonlinear optimizer with constraints accessible from python

2018-03-14 Thread stan
I want to solve a small (a few hundred variables) nonlinear optimization problem with constraints in Fedora. I've found the scipy optimization routines, but they are for unconstrained problems. And there are the coin-or routines (ipopt, etc.), but they are not easily accessible from python. Fedora

Re: sound problem

2018-03-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:36:33 +0100 François Patte wrote: > When I log-in, sound is deactivated and I have to manually start it, > doing: Are you sure sound is deactivated? Is it possible it is trying to use the digital output associated with your video card? It is usually found first because v

Re: What do you open .mobi files with??

2018-03-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:18:08 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I > try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be > some Fedora- native ebook reader! package fbreader ___ us

Re: What do you open .mobi files with??

2018-03-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:45:43 -0700 stan wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:18:08 + (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > > > Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I > > try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be > > some

Re: sound problem

2018-03-15 Thread stan
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:03:32 +0100 François Patte wrote: > > After 3, when sound is working, open pavucontrol, go to the output > > devices tab, and click the green checkmark on the device that you > > want pulseaudio to start with. > > That is what I do evetime I lo-in but this does not surv

Re: sound problem

2018-03-16 Thread stan
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:06:12 +0100 François Patte wrote: > journactl -u pulseaudio (or alsa*) returns nothing > > > How about problems during > > discovery at boot in recognizing the sound devices? > > How can I check that? It sounds like you need a stronger approach. Can you go here https:

Re: sound problem

2018-03-16 Thread stan
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:50:20 +0100 François Patte wrote: > Here is the link: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5ebae0714f190eceb8b6ff7ceb435f434d48ad85 From that output, you should have sound. Your system put the PCM (analog) card in the 0 slot, and that is the default location for sound t

Re: sound problem

2018-03-17 Thread stan
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:08:46 +0100 François Patte wrote: > But in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/ I have a dist-alsa.conf file with: > > # ALSA Sound Support > # > # We want to ensure that snd-seq is always loaded for those who want > to use # the sequencer interface, but we can't do this automatically > t

Re: sound problem

2018-03-18 Thread stan
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:36 +0100 François Patte wrote: > > You must have run alsainfo.sh after you corrected your system > > because this is not what it showed. It showed that the default was > > pcm (analog). For some reason, at start up, your system is > > defaulting to the iec958 (digital)

Re: Administrivia: DMARC mitigations enabled -- applies to Yahoo addresses, at least (was Re: HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.)

2018-03-29 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:27:40 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Hi all, > > As we've discussed in this thread and others recently, > messages from subscribers @yahoo.com do not reach > subscribers @gmail.com (among others). This is due to an > aggressive policy set by Yahoo which breaks mail sent vi

Re: Administrivia: DMARC mitigations enabled -- applies to Yahoo addresses, at least (was Re: HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.)

2018-03-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:49:28 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > This shouldn't be related to that. All it does is change > the From: field of messages sent from domains with very > strict DMARC policies, so that they use the list address. > The sender name is kept, with 'via $list_name' appended. Th

Re: Administrivia: DMARC mitigations enabled -- applies to Yahoo addresses, at least (was Re: HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.)

2018-03-29 Thread stan
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:49:28 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Would this change be why I'm suddenly seeing oodles of old messages > > showing up on the list? Messages that I've already seen, since I > > don't have a problem with messages from yahoo addresses being > > invisible. > > This shou

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread stan
On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700 Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after whatever the default is (10 minutes?). I don't know where the actual setting is, though. But you co

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread stan
On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700 Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and > you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how > that would work from rc.local. How would I tell it to do that to all > the vt's? (I trie

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-12 Thread stan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:16:52 -0700 "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: > stan writes: > > A quick search turned up these pages, which should get you a little > > further on your journey. > > > > https://superuser.com/questions/152347/change-linux-console-s

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-14 Thread stan
On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:20:28 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/12/2018 04:04 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > And again, if you don't allow your browser or mail client to install > > software (which is a spectacularly bad idea in the first place) and > > you're careful about which links you click and w

Re: Fedora 27: Remmina and VNC incoming connection

2018-04-19 Thread stan
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:29:43 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > IMHO > I think Fedora must buil the remmina package with this option enabled > > If this plugin is enable, and sometime and in some circumstance not > work, is better than it's not enable and alway do not work. > > What is the best way to

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:03:58 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system and > created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I > haveonly user bobg, no root account. Sometimes it's convenient to > keep a work space for root and I

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:30:37 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > There *has* to be a root account. By default there is no root > password unless you set one during the installation. I think there > has been talk of removing that option from the installer. All you > have to do is "sudo passwd" to set th

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > The home directory for root is /root. Good to know that it will always be there. Habit for me is to use root and su instead of sudo. old dog - new tricks :-) > I think the majority opinion now is that logging in as the root user > is d

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:54:08 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. I used > to use that all the time, but gradually I switched over and on my > desktop system, it is extremely rare that I use it. (I think only > when the graphical display is mess

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:41:46 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, > claiming lack of H.264 codec support. > > Googling around, found this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 > > But none of the packages are currently available:

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:38:16 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > If you go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 does it tell you that > your browser has H.264 support? > > Fedora 27 Firefox does. Fedora 28 Firefox does not. Yes, it does. I thought of a reason why this might be true. I had been running

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-26 Thread stan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:23:28 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > To Todd's point, I noticed in my updates today that rpmfusion had > > ffmpeg updates, so that might solve your problem. > > Yes, that seems to be one way to get there. > > I already had rpmfusion, and this us where I had full HTML5

Re: pip install as non-root on Fedora

2018-05-02 Thread stan
On Wed, 2 May 2018 09:48:36 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Ian Pilcher wrote: > > Is it possible to get $SUBJECT working? I need to install 'grip' > > from https://github.com/joeyespo/grip, and trying to do so as a > > normal user isn't working (permission denied errors trying to write > > to /us

Re: F28 - kernel-PAE missing?

2018-05-02 Thread stan
On Wed, 2 May 2018 06:26:23 -0400 Jim Simmons wrote: > I upgraded a 32-bit Fedora 27 system to Fedora 28 using the normal dnf > upgrade procedure. The upgrade finished but the system is still > running a Fedora 27 kernel. > > There don't appear to be any kernel-PAE* packages in the repos and I

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

2018-05-02 Thread stan
On Wed, 2 May 2018 17:24:41 -0400 Temlakos wrote: > The syntax I have worked out for the commands to mount the auxiliary > filesystem as /crypt is: > > $ sudo mkdir /crypt > > $ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 /crypt > > (Here I start with "$ sudo" instead of "#" because to get a "#" > prompt I

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

2018-05-02 Thread stan
On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:02:01 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/02/2018 03:57 PM, stan wrote: > > Then the links in home just point to the various directories > > under /mnt/[disk-identifier]/crypt as you have above. From then > > on, it is maintenance free. And it allow

Re: Any way to disable debugsource generation on fedora >= 27

2018-05-02 Thread stan
On Thu, 3 May 2018 11:08:47 +0800 Robin Lee wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgrade my host from f26 to f28. But to keep compatible > with old behavior, > I am figuring out a way to revert the change 'Separate Subpackage and > Source Debuginfo'[1]. > That means let rpm not generate debugsource and s

Re: Any way to disable debugsource generation on fedora >= 27

2018-05-03 Thread stan
On Wed, 2 May 2018 23:57:53 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > stan wrote: > > From the man page for rpmbuild: > > """ > > --with OPTION > > Enable configure OPTION for build. > > > > --without OPTION > > Disa

Re: desktop background image

2018-05-05 Thread stan
On Fri, 4 May 2018 18:57:30 -0400 Jeffrey Ross wrote: > I upgraded my system to Fedora 28 (from 26 -> 27 -> 28) and when I > upgraded to 28 I no longer had a desktop background image, the > desktop was simply "black".  I dismissed it as a minor issue and [snip] > Suggestions? I don't have much

qutebrowser fails with a certificate error in F28 - Seems that it is looking for linux-vdso.so.1 and not finding it in libnssckbi.so

2018-05-09 Thread stan
So, I'm trying qutebrowser from the Fedora package, and it starts, but can't reach the web. It has this error that it is unable to verify the certificate, not only for this website, but for any website I try. [1853:1870:0509/180934.705609:ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(902)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert fo

Re: qutebrowser fails with a certificate error in F28 - Seems that it is looking for linux-vdso.so.1 and not finding it in libnssckbi.so

2018-05-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 May 2018 11:11:13 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Just FYI.  Sorry, I can't shed any light on this since I just > installed qutebrowser on a fully updated F28/KDE system and it starts > and runs just fine. Actually, that does shed some light. qutebrowser uses qt5 with qtwebengine and pyqt5

Re: kernel not configured for semaphores

2018-05-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 May 2018 07:57:29 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Folks, >   twice now in the last 2 days when I have sat in front of my PC I > have found the following message on the screen: > > Kernel not configured for semaphores (System V IPC). Not using udev > synchronization code. > Halting. >

Re: qutebrowser fails with a certificate error in F28 - Seems that it is looking for linux-vdso.so.1 and not finding it in libnssckbi.so

2018-05-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 May 2018 08:40:51 -0700 stan wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2018 11:11:13 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Just FYI.  Sorry, I can't shed any light on this since I just > > installed qutebrowser on a fully updated F28/KDE system and it > > starts and runs

SOLVED: cruft, bad ldconfig path Re: qutebrowser fails with a certificate error in F28 - Seems that it is looking for linux-vdso.so.1 and not finding it in libnssckbi.so

2018-05-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 May 2018 09:50:49 -0700 stan wrote: This turned out to be a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d that had a path set to /usr/local/lib/firefox. When I removed that file and ran ldconfig, qutebrowser started just fine. And it had no effect on running nightly (firefox), which is installed in

Re: Package dependency paradox with package 'tuned'

2018-05-14 Thread stan
On Mon, 14 May 2018 13:05:41 +0200 Eino Virtanen wrote: > Error: Package: tuned-profiles-realtime-2.8.0-5.el7.noarch (@rt) >Requires: tuned = 2.8.0 >Removing: tuned-2.8.0-5.el7_4.2.noarch (@updates) >tuned = 2.8.0-5.el7_4.2 >Updated By: tuned-2.

Dialog box pops up now when double clicking on desktop icons in LXDE, asking for confirmation. Want to stop this behavior.

2018-05-15 Thread stan
Hi, The subject pretty much says it. In the last week or so, the behavior of the icons on the desktop has changed to require confirmation before opening the application in LXDE. There is one icon, the one for spectacle, the screen capture application, that this does not happen for. So there must

Re: Package dependency paradox with package 'tuned'

2018-05-15 Thread stan
On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:34:07 +0200 Eino Virtanen wrote: > Ah, allright, thanks for clearing that up for me Stan! You're welcome, glad it helped. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: How to repair a Fedora28 file system ?

2018-05-15 Thread stan
On Tue, 15 May 2018 17:14:28 +0200 "Ger van Dijck" wrote: > Question : Is there a way to repair the unix file system under Fedora > 28 ? I think it depends on the filesystem, and the problem you are having. For ext[2-4] file systems, there is e2fsck. Be very cautious with using any tool, since

Re: Dialog box pops up now when double clicking on desktop icons in LXDE, asking for confirmation. Want to stop this behavior.

2018-05-15 Thread stan
On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:55:38 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/15/2018 08:06 AM, stan wrote: > > The subject pretty much says it. In the last week or so, the > > behavior of the icons on the desktop has changed to require > > confirmation before opening the application i

Re: Dialog box pops up now when double clicking on desktop icons in LXDE, asking for confirmation. Want to stop this behavior.

2018-05-15 Thread stan
On Tue, 15 May 2018 14:18:35 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > When I double-click a .desktop file in Nautilus, Gnome pops up a > dialog box saying that the file is not trusted and do I want to trust > it and execute it. After agreeing, the proper icon shows up instead > of the basic file icon. I don'

Re: Dialog box pops up now when double clicking on desktop icons in LXDE, asking for confirmation. Want to stop this behavior.

2018-05-16 Thread stan
On Tue, 15 May 2018 16:02:12 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > You can go into the ~/Desktop folder and see the files that > correspond to the icons. They should be .desktop files, but maybe > they weren't before. They are all desktop now. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed if they weren't before,

Re: Unable to lower cpu frequency

2018-05-16 Thread stan
On Tue, 15 May 2018 19:59:53 -0600 JD wrote: > # /bin/cpupower --cpu all frequency-set -g performance 2G > # /bin/cpupower --cpu all frequency-info | grep "current CPU > frequency is" current CPU frequency is 2.80 GHz (asserted by call to > hardware). current CPU frequency is 2.80 GHz (asserted b

Re: after F27->F28 upgrade, hangs at end of boot

2018-05-16 Thread stan
> > On May 15, 2018, at 1:51 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > It's likely that the vbox video driver doesn't have the full > > support that works with Wayland. On Wed, 16 May 2018 06:50:44 -0500 Bev in TX wrote: > Is this a Gnome specific issue, or does it affect all Linux desktops? It would affect

Re: F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-16 Thread stan
On Wed, 16 May 2018 10:09:04 +0200 Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > BTW: with latest updates there is also a problem with audio card, not > detected any more. > From hwinfo point of view I see this: > > snd_hda_codec_hdmi: /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/hdaudioC0D3 > snd_hda_codec_hdmi: module = snd_h

Re: Compile issues after F27 -> F28 upgrade

2018-05-16 Thread stan
On Wed, 16 May 2018 10:16:26 -0700 a...@clueserver.org wrote: > I did an upgrade from Fedora 27 to the Fedora 28 beta a while back. > (About a week before final release.) After the update I tried to > recompile a program I use often. The program would compile after a > bit of patching, but it woul

Re: F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 10:54:57 +0200 Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Thanks Stan for your feedback. > Actually it seems I've narrowed the origin of the problem. > I have been using Mate as DE for many months without any problem. > Only recently (when still in F27 and some days before

Re: after F27->F28 upgrade, hangs at end of boot

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 06:52:29 -0500 Bev in TX wrote: > Thanks for the info. I’ll try to remember to bottom post in this > group. Yeah, it's exactly the opposite of business communications, where everyone just puts their response at the top, and the whole chain is in the message below. There, e

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 08:39:24 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > on my F27 system with MATE desktop.  First issue is that when I tried > to logout it didn't, even though it prompted for logout.  What's > The second issue is that now whenever I plug in an external USB drive > I get a popup saying I'm

Re: Unable to lower cpu frequency

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 13:13:34 -0600 JD wrote: > You hit the nail on the head. > I found that the command line I was using contained the word > performance. Now, I am doing: > /bin/cpupower --cpu all frequency-set -u 2.00G > > and cpu-info is showing: > current CPU frequency is 1.60 GHz (asserted

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 12:51:47 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > The system is about 80% idle.  What is interesting is I tried using > the Gnome Classic desktop and I had the same issue regarding logging > out. The difference is I was never able to logout of Gnome Classic > until I killed off the proce

Re: Unable to use DNF on Fedora 28 KDE

2018-05-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 May 2018 14:39:38 +0800 Robbi Nespu wrote: > I just fresh installed Fedora 28 KDE but I got something like th is > when run dnf update. "Unable to detect release version (use > '--releasever' to specifyrelease version)" which need me do define 28 > each time using DNF You could try ru

Re: gimp-2.10

2018-05-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 May 2018 16:28:14 +0200 François Patte wrote: > I have seen that in fedora 28, 2.8 version of gimp is still > provided Is there any chance to have the 2.10 version before f29 > release? You could open a request bugzilla asking the maintainer if they would put the f29 version in f2

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: > I'd like to try replacing LDM with something else; how do I > do that?? (I like Mate well, and would prefer not to swap it out,too) I use openbox (it's in the Fedora repositories) with lxde. I usually use startx from multiuser, but ope

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: Forgot this: > Finally, #1 has two F28 kernels -- which do no better than on > #2 nor #3 -- and a rescue kernel from F26. Sic. Twenty-six, not 27 > nor 28. But that rescue kernel does support almost my whole GUI (I > miss Pan badly.), and

Re: yum hangs and results in problems (Centos 7)

2018-05-24 Thread stan
On Thu, 24 May 2018 20:44:08 +0100 Gary Stainburn wrote: > Sorry for cross posting folks, but I'm a bit desperate and the Centos > mailing list doesn't seem to like me at the moment. > > All of this is on a Centos 7 system, but I'm hoping someone here can > help It's been years since I used yum

Re: gitlab on Fedora 28

2018-05-26 Thread stan
On Sat, 26 May 2018 09:37:39 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > An user had, in 2016, installed a gitlab (8.x, don't recall x > anymore) version that was the latest at the time using the EL7 RPM. > However, the upgrade to Fedora 28 has stopped this from working. We > tried upgrading gitlab using step b

Re: dmesg spam after f26 -> f27 upgrade

2018-05-26 Thread stan
On Sat, 26 May 2018 13:38:29 +0100 John Pilkington wrote: > I just upgraded my kde/f26 system to f27 using dnf. It seems to be > working well but dmesg has > > rc rc1: error -5 > > repeated around 10 times per second. ISTR that when I first saw it > it was rc0: > > Searching hasn't been mu

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-02 Thread stan
On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 20:03:59 +0200 (CEST) "peterlesterh...@telfort.nl" wrote: > Hi, > I purchased an Asus laptop with 2 hard drives (SSD 256 GB and HDD 1 > TB). Windows10 was preinstalled on the SSD and the HDD drive is used > for data. I wanted to install fedora alongside Windows. > So I shrinke

Re: any upcoming resolution on rubygem-prawn-templates install issue?

2018-06-05 Thread stan
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 07:47:23 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > it's been impossible to install rubygem-prawn-templates on fedora > for some time, as documented here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553711 > > "Error: >Problem: conflicting requests > - nothing

Re: FC27 packages after upgrade

2018-06-16 Thread stan
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:10:36 +0100 Ronaldo Mercado wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded last week to fedora 28. > > Today I found that 'dnf upgrade' could not complete. > > $ sudo dnf upgrade > Last metadata expiration check: 0:10:55 ago on Sat 16 Jun 2018 > 12:26:26 BST. Error: > Problem 1: package k

Re: FC27 packages after upgrade

2018-06-17 Thread stan
On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:31:30 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 16 June 2018, stan sent: > > anaconda is the Fedora installer, so those are probably leftovers > > from the install of F27. > > I've always wondered *why* anaconda gets installed on

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:55:23 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, JD sent: > > Reason I am posting this is because the normal speed of the cores > > is 2.8GHz, and that is causing numerous kerneloops interrupts > > (overheating). > > Fans are at full speed all the tim

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:27:04 -0600 JD wrote: > Manpage of cpu power make no mention of the > selection of governor. > How can set the governor to be the user mode governor > instead of the performance governor and not the ondemand governor? This might get you closer. I didn't see anything direc

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:27:04 -0600 JD wrote: > Manpage of cpu power make no mention of the > selection of governor. > How can set the governor to be the user mode governor > instead of the performance governor and not the ondemand governor? You can check which governor was compiled as default in

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:45:27 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, stan sent: > > I've thought about buying one of those little fridges and putting > > the system in it. > > I remember seeing a page or two about people doing that, many ye

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:26:04 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/24/2018 09:13 PM, Doug wrote: > > What makes you folks think that a computer will run faster in a > > refrigerated environment?  Only if it was too hot to begin with > > should it make any difference. > > Remember, this thread started

Re: [OT] modula-2 compiler [ISO] for fedora 28

2018-06-25 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:28:27 +0200 Joachim Backes wrote: > anybody knows where to get an ISO version of the modula-2 compiler > for LINUX, especially FEDORA-28? http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/download.html Covers all versions, apparently. Will have to use legacy gcc (6 or less). ___

Re: How to install MPEG-4 AAC decoder ?

2018-06-25 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:35:01 + 郭 灵贤 wrote: > How to install MPEG-4 AAC decoder ? I am a beginner of linux , I need > detailed step . I'll presume you want to play mp4 videos on linux. Go here, https://rpmfusion.org/ and click the link to enable rpmfusion on your system, https://rpmfusion.

Re: Live ISO image creation

2018-06-26 Thread stan
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:31:02 +0300 Jozsef K via users wrote: > I have a question about live ISO image creation. What I would like to > achieve is to install exfat-utils and fuse-exfat while I am in live > environment and then to create a new ISO image file which would be > the same as the one I b

Re: pychess endless loop - does anyone know, whom to address?

2018-06-26 Thread stan
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 03:25:08 -0400 Joerg Lechner via users wrote: > I like to play chess with Pychess, on Fedora and Win. Sometimes > Pychess seems to run in an endless loop. Does anyone know whom to > address? I attach the log of this play. The log doesn't give any insight. However, this is pr

Re: Live ISO image creation

2018-06-26 Thread stan
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:09:54 +0300 Jozsef K via users wrote: > Thanks. It's useful. But it > seems I'll have to install Fedora first. In that case, if I take the > Fedora Security Lab Live image and install that, am I going to get > all the applications available on that live system even after >

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