Re: F23 on Raspberry Pi 2

2015-12-23 Thread Tom
berry-pi-2/ -Tom On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at how to get Fedora on an Rpi 2, but then I realised the > latest Pidora version is an F20 based RC from 2014. Is this all we > have? Maybe someone knows a way to install from the latest A

How to compile a standalone gtk problem using mingw?

2012-01-25 Thread Tom
4.6-1.fc16.noarch mingw32-gtk2-static-2.24.8-1.fc16.noarch mingw32-libpng-1.4.8-2.fc16.noarch mingw32-gtk2-2.24.8-1.fc16.noarch mingw32-zlib-static-1.2.5-4.fc16.noarch Tom-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
hi just installed F12 on a pc with 60GB hdd. but when i click on the users home directory, it says only 1.7 gb available. i dont see anythign about a quota nor do i recall having selected antyhing like that during install what is my mistake? thx -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
ext44,5G 2,5G 1,8G 60% /home needed something 'light', and i didnt like the lubuntu wiki. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 15.12.2011 11:17, schrieb tom: > > just installed F12 on a pc with 60GB hdd. but when i click on t

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. so how do i change that now? thx On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > well, you have a 47 GB big systemroot and > a 4.5 GB /home - bad idea! > > Am 15.12.2011 11:55, schrieb tom: > > [goldie

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
1 at 4:03 AM, tom wrote: > > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > > so how do i change that now? > > First, you need to shrink your root (/) volume. This will shrink it > to 10GB, but you can change that if you'd like, just change the &qu

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:32:44 + Terry Barnaby wrote: > Does the system " target Network is Online" get reached after DHCP > configuration ? Probably doesn't matter because systemd has no idea what "up" means when it comes to networks :-(. ypbind is one of the services I always just start in r

Re: Easily add text and arrows on images: what is the best tool?

2018-02-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:46:05 +0100 Frédéric wrote: > I would like to arrows/shapes + text on pictures. What is the best > tool for that? With gimp, it is easy to add text but the arrow is > difficult. Any tool? Gimp works for me: Find an arrow you like in an image with a transparent background, p

What is this gibberish?

2018-02-02 Thread Tom Horsley
Just did a dnf update, this comes out: ... Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0.1-1.fc27.x86_64 18/18 Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0-4.fc27.x86_64 18/18 Running as unit: run-r1880116b569f49288e6d0da0c5832367.service Running as unit: run-r329e0197

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:17:10 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > But please be aware that you're subverting the plot by a secret society to > produce > copious indecipherable output so users will switch over to GUIs and have > things > hidden from view.  :-) :-)   And then the secret society can cause gre

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/11/2018 01:23 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 11/2/18 5:46 pm, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >>> >>> grub2-install is not needed I think. >> >> Thanks Francis, I'll check that out. Grub2-install is still required >> to update the mbr

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 12/2/18 9:12 pm, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> >>> Also, I don't know what grub2-install would do to a GPT formatted >>> disk. >> >> You can

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-19 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 14/2/18 8:18 pm, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Morris >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Tom. My statement was from having seen other threads on this >>> list saying to not run

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I thought that with SB all your drivers etc had to be signed to be > able to boot from a SecureBoot system, and as such Fedora were using > Microsoft certificates, whereas Ubuntu was going down the path of self > signing. Given what you sa

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:54 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/20/2018 03:41 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Ubuntu's using an MS sig. The difference between Fedora and Ubuntu is >> that the latter doesn't require that kernel modules be signed. > > If that's true

What was systemd doing to me yesterday?

2018-02-23 Thread Tom Horsley
First I noticed lots of things taking forever, such as logging in via ssh. Then I found log messages like: 2720.scope: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms) Feb 22 09:55:56 tomh su: pam_systemd(su:session): Failed to create session: Conn

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:24:06 +0100 François Patte wrote: > user > name and password are required! I keep reading this is possible, but ever since samba 4 came around it seems to be impossible. I eventually gave up and made a .bat file with the net command to mount the share with a user and passwo

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

2018-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:03 AM, bruce wrote: > > Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat > etc.. > > I'd like to simply remove the 1st part ztcloud_nfs_parsezt from the > files, renaming

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:29:36 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > Instead of putting it all in a batch file, including your credentials > a safer way... I'm doing the equivalent of a public share. Having the credentials in a world readable .bat file on the windows system is no less secure than an actual pub

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:27:54 -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote: > Logged in with no password. But can a windows 10 box automatically mount it with no user interaction like it once could do with public shares before they got rid of the public share mode? ___ us

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

2018-02-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:14:49 -0500 > Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:03 AM, bruce wrote: >>> >>> Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: >>> ztcloud_n

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

2018-02-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 23:40 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:14:49 -0500 >> Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Is "rename" provided by util-linux or is it a perl-p

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

2018-03-04 Thread Tom Horsley
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. I've never found a mail client that could do filtering worth spit. What I

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file >> /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing binary executable >> /usr/bin/rpm2cpio? > > The best place to ask would be at one of the resou

Re: change user id

2018-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I am on a single-account F27 system with an user id 1000. I want to > change this user id. From what I understand, I should do the following: > > sudo usermod -u 54321 > > However, when I do this, I get: > > usermod: user is currently used

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>> >>>> subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the fi

Re: Wow, KVM is great :-)

2018-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:20:07 - Raman Gupta wrote: > Running in the default NAT mode I always use the "bridge" networking. That way the KVM looks like just another machine on my local network, gets an IP from the DHCP on my router, etc. And I can delete the "default" network and turn off all t

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

2018-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:25 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including format > conversion, library maintenance, etc. And the really important bit is that you can get calibre plugins to strip DRM from books so you are no longer forced to k

Re: Installing connman broke my /etc/resolv.conf

2018-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Artur Iwicki wrote: > > After I installed the connman package, my system failed to resolve > domain names. Even after removing connman, the errors persisted. I > fiddled around with /etc/resolv.conf and noticed that I get "failed to > write to linked file" errors.

Re: Installing connman broke my /etc/resolv.conf

2018-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Artur Iwicki > wrote: >> >> After I installed the connman package, my system failed to resolve >> domain names. Even after removing connman, the errors persisted. I >> fiddled ar

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Tom Horsley
Possibly relevant enhancement that might appear someday is discussed in this bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=766068 (I don't get the impression you should hold out hope for "someday" to be soon though). ___ users mailin

USB issues in fedora-27 ("can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable") not happening when booted into CentOS-6.2, same hardware

2018-03-29 Thread Tom Hodder
versions of fedora, and probably 3/4 years. Any ideas on what might be causing this? Many Thanks, Tom Various debugging output; *Fedora-27* lsusb -v https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/qYxQ2rH-tlsE8pJqWz442w dmidecode https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/gW9D10O0fy6-p58I

Re: USB issues in fedora-27 ("can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable") not happening when booted into CentOS-6.2, same hardware

2018-04-01 Thread Tom Hodder
t; So I've got a new webcam which is working, and I'm happy to scrap that old webcam as broken, but I'd like to fix those errors that occur in the lsusb output Cheers, Tom ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to correctly log without journald (and its blobs)?

2018-04-09 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Christian Kujau wrote: > > I was able to disable journald similar to this: > > systemctl stop systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald.socket > systemd-journald.service > systemctl mask systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald.socket > systemd-jour

Bug in cups web interface?

2018-04-12 Thread Tom Horsley
I used localhost:631 last night to turn on the global setting to make my printers visible on the network. It said it was restarting the server, but apparently all it did was stop the server until I manually did a "systemctl start cups" in a root window. Anyone else noticed this? If I wanted to rep

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I am attempting to set up an NFS server on a new Fedora 27 computer I have > assembled using instructions I found, "Fedora > Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS" and I am having a problem accessing it. > > $ cat /etc/exports > /var/ftp/pub 192.16

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-17 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: >> >> Does "192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0" work?! >> >> The prefix is usually "24" not "255.255.255.0". > > Yes, that also works NFS supports both contiguous mask length and > prefix. Now that you mention it, my memory's clearer about this. I shou

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 04/18/2018 08:43 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >> # mount 192.168.1.86:/home/exports/home /mnt/test >> mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting >> 192.168.1.86:/home/exports/home >> >> What am I missing and/or doing wrong? > > If you

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:28:04 - home user via users wrote: > 3. has printing, scanning, and copying. Good luck getting scanning to work. It may not be impossible, but the available info on what scanners can work with linux is microscopic. (I gave up and use a networked device and do my scannin

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:16:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: > For scanning, check out SANE's (Common Unix Scanning System > [cuss]) list of supported scanners: > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html I hope it is better now. The last time I was trying to find a working scanner

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:13:27 - home user via users wrote: > After doing back-ups this evening and upgrading to Fedora-27 tomorrow Fedora 28 is being released next week, might want to go with it :-). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 1:25 PM, stan wrote: > I think I remember reading that there will be no default root account > after install of F28 or later. For Fedora 28 Workstation. > Again, I think I remember the workaround was to use sudo, and then > create a root account with useradd. The root

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >> >> 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 :-) > > Same here. If I ever had to work with Ubuntu, one of the first things > I'd do

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/26/2018 01:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >>> >>> 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 :-) >> >> Same here. If I ever had to

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. >>> >>> If I need to do more t

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:26 AM, D&R wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: >>>> On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/27/2018 05:13 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> >>> I suppose that's true, but in that case, there's probably a larger issue >>> involved and you&

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/27/2018 07:26 AM, D&R wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 >> Tom H wrote: >>> >>> sudo -s >>> sudo su >>> sudo su -l >>> sudo sh >>> sudo sh -l >>&

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 10:21 AM, D&R wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 06:15:08 -0400 Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 04/27/2018 07:26 AM, D&R wrote: >>>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 >>>> Tom H wrot

What is target #1?

2018-04-30 Thread Tom Horsley
I see fedora 28 schedule says release is tomorrow, then there is another release next week for target #1. What on earth does that mean? (I clicked on the link and the word "target" does not appear in in the page it takes me to, so the meaning seems well disguised). _

No way to set hostname during install from f28 live?

2018-05-02 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm installing fedora 28 from the "install to disk" option of the workstation live CD. I don't appear to ever get an opportunity to set the hostname to anything other than the default localhost.localdomain. Did I miss it, or is this just something I need to change following the install? _

repo checksum errors for fedora 28 i686 arch?

2018-05-02 Thread Tom Horsley
I saw there was an i686 fedora 28 workstation this time (didn't fedora 27 drop i686?) and I just installed the workstation iso as a virtual machine, but if I try to run DNF, I get this: [root@fed28i ~]# dnf -v install ksh Loaded plugins: builddep, config-manager, copr, debug, debuginfo-install, d

F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
ogin: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty3 FOR tom, Authentication failure or if I try to ssh in, I get: May 4 15:02:18 tomh sshd[13139]: fatal: Access denied for user tom by PAM account configuration [preauth] What new mystery has been introduced to the config

Re: F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 4 May 2018 13:51:14 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > Might I suggest using "compat" or "files sss" instead of "files nis" in > your /etc/nsswitch.conf file for passwd, group and shadow? E.g.: Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried both, same results, no login for NIS users. I enabled and star

Re: F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2018 13:51:14 -0700 > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Might I suggest using "compat" or "files sss" instead of "files nis" in >> your /etc/nsswitch.conf file for passwd, group and shado

Re: F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 5 May 2018 06:09:22 -0400 Tom H wrote: > Do you have nss_nis installed? Yep: nss_nis-3.0-3.fc28.x86_64 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

No graphical boot, but wayland comes up in gnome3

2018-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
With this video card: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] (rev a1) when I boot the system I see a handful of funny errors that go past too fast, then the screen turns blank, the animated fedora logo never appears, but eventually the login screen pops up and things seem to work OK from that

Re: F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2018 06:09:22 -0400 Tom H wrote: >> >> Do you have nss_nis installed? > > Yep: nss_nis-3.0-3.fc28.x86_64 OK. I set up two F28 VMs, nis server and client, with selinux and iptables disabled. And I end up

Re: F28: Why doesn't NIS work?

2018-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
> Could it be pam-related? I suspect there are about 50 things that it could be related to. I submitted this bug which mentions some of them: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575297 I used nss_nis as the component, just because I had to have a component, not because I know that is th

postfix relayhost to office365?

2018-05-06 Thread Tom Horsley
I had postfix setup to relay all the mail from my desktop to the stoopid office365 server we are forced to use at work. It worked fine on fedora 27. Now, with everything configured identically on fedora 28, postfix can't seem to send out any mail. I don't suppose anyone else has this combo workin

Re: postfix relayhost to office365?

2018-05-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 6 May 2018 15:05:55 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > SASL mechanisms LOGIN XOAUTH2 Hey! I just found the problem. The XOAUTH2 is what doesn't work. I finally discovered the smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter parameter and set it to just login, and the mail is flowing again. Since oauth2 was

Re: repo checksum errors for fedora 28 i686 arch?

2018-05-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 6 May 2018 12:56:58 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Due to several unfortunate events, the repodata was messed up on the > 2nd/3rd. Everything should be back to normal now. Yep. I tried it again the next day and it worked OK. ___ users mailing list -

My fedora 28 story so far

2018-05-06 Thread Tom Horsley
Most everything seems to be functioning as well as always. Improvement: x2go finally sees all the fonts without me having to beat on it. The bugs: NIS users can't login: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575297 Haven't found a work around for this yet. Nouveau driver won't run X (o

Re: Rescue kernel after upgrade

2018-05-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > > I upgraded from F25 to F27 a while ago and everything seems good except at > boot up the rescue kernel is still showing F25. The other three kernels are > all F27 versions. > > What's the proper way to get an appropriate F27 rescue kernel

Fedora 28 killed bugzilla :-).

2018-05-07 Thread Tom Horsley
I get a internal server error 500 when I try to go to the redhat bugzilla now (Monday evening). Has the flood of fedora 28 bugs killed it? :-). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedo

Re: Fedora 28 killed bugzilla :-).

2018-05-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 8 May 2018 06:52:10 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > > Has the flood of fedora 28 bugs killed it? :-). > > Bummer.  I wanted to add a comment to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575297. Just tried it again, seems to be back up now. ___

Re: Unmount delayed -

2018-05-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 7 May 2018 18:44:51 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I copy the data to the device in a terminal, it takes perhaps 30 > seconds, when finished I close that to make the flash drive free and > then go to the desktop, click on the unmount and this last time waited > ~125 seconds for it to unmoun

glibc-static compiled with -fpic?

2018-05-08 Thread Tom Horsley
I see scads of relocation codes for things like PLT references in the object files in /usr/lib64/libc.a from the glibc-static package. Why would a static library be compiled with what looks like dynamic options? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: Kernel task 276 consumes 100% of io bandwidth on boo drive

2018-05-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 9 May 2018 16:55:03 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Right, so it's not actually transferring any data, it's just waiting on > I/O for some reason. If it is a brand new just formatted ext4 system mounted for the first time, the system writes all the initial journal data structures (or somethin

Make a systemd user service go away?

2018-05-11 Thread Tom Horsley
I installed the grive2 package so I could manually, when I need to upload a file to google drive via a command line tool. It works (clumsily) for this. But the package also installs a bunch of systemd user services and timers that unsuccessfully try to sync some nonexistant directory every half ho

Re: Make a systemd user service go away?

2018-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I installed the grive2 package so I could manually, > when I need to upload a file to google drive via > a command line tool. It works (clumsily) for this. > > But the package also installs a bunch of systemd user > ser

Re: Make a systemd user service go away?

2018-05-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 11 May 2018 06:30:37 -0600 Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:55 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > > > > So I have to ask, is there some "official" way to make > > systemd user services go away and stop bothering me? > &g

Re: Make a systemd user service go away?

2018-05-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 11 May 2018 08:36:09 -0400 Tom H wrote: > Were some user services installed in $HOME? There wasn't anything in $HOME with the name '*grive*' in it that find could find. Just the entries installed by the package in /usr/lib/systemd/user > Do they show up with &quo

Re: Make a systemd user service go away?

2018-05-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 11 May 2018 15:03:24 +0200 Ahmad Samir wrote: > # systemctl daemon-reload I always forget that exists. I'll try it if grive2 ever gets an update and re-installs the files. Thanks. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

WTF is this nonsense from bash -x ?

2018-05-15 Thread Tom Horsley
DULES_RUN_QUARANTINE=LD_LIBRARY_PATH ... + PATH=/usr/share/Modules/bin:.:/userland/tom/scripts:/userland/tom/profile/progs/bin/amd64-lx:/userland/tom/profile/progs/bin/i86-lx:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local + export PATH ++ manpath + manpath=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr

Re: F27 problems with pam?

2018-05-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 15 May 2018 17:05:36 +0200 Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Anyone else? I haven't noticed those specific problems, but pam being messed up was certainly the reason NIS logins weren't working: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575297 Possibly the new authselect stuff has messed up mo

Re: WTF is this nonsense from bash -x ?

2018-05-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:24:28 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > Probably you have installed, and perhaps enabled, the > environment-modules package. Not me, anaconda did it :-). I've now erased it and things are back to normal. Thanks. (I read the description of this in rpm -i, and I still have no ide

Re: WTF is this nonsense from bash -x ?

2018-05-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:58:56 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > I'm not sure what exactly pulled it in for you -- possibly a new soft > dependency of some package you have installed. It was listed as coming from the @anaconda repo when I removed it, so it is apparently installed by default on the work

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

2018-05-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 May 2018 17:07:55 +0200 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > What happens if you also remove the battery during the power off period? Yea, I don't know if laptop makers are copying Android now, but I've got a Samsung Android camera which you can tell to "power off", but it wants to be "helpful" and

sound from virtual machine gone?

2018-05-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I have just noticed that my Windows 10 virtual machine no longer sends sound out to the host where I can hear things. Unfortunately I got the annoying Windows 10 April update and about the same time I switched to Fedora 28, so I have no idea when sound might have vanished or which changes might be

Re: sound from virtual machine gone? [Not VM at all]

2018-05-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 May 2018 20:23:19 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I have just noticed that my Windows 10 virtual machine > no longer sends sound out to the host where I can > hear things. Ha! It wasn't the virtual machine at all, it was my output audio device selection failing to stick to H

Re: sound from virtual machine gone? [Not VM at all]

2018-05-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 18 May 2018 22:05:32 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I've not lost a configuration across reboots It did save it today. I got some updates (including pulseaudio updates) and when I rebooted this time, it was still on hdmi, so it saved it this morning, but I know I changed it when I first instal

Re: xhost or firefox - cannot use firefox with su

2018-05-20 Thread Tom Horsley
I gave up on trying to get direct access as a different user to the display, sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't work, and I could never track down why. I always use ssh with X forwarding now to run apps as a different user. Something like this: ssh -l auser -X localhost firefox & mig

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:46:22 -0700 stan wrote: > switch desktop managers. > I ignored it since it didn't apply to me. Pretty simple really. Just do something like: systemctl disable gdm.service systemctl enable kdm.service If you don't have the one you want installed, you can do something like:

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 May 2018 22:33:59 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > IIRC KDM is deprecated, so SDDM (now the default for KDE/Plasma) would > probably be better. No doubt so they could prevent me from changing any X server options :-). That's why I switched to kdm in the first place: https://bugzilla

Re: Enable mDNS name (.local) resolution on Fedora 28

2018-05-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 May 2018 20:11:56 +0200 Marek Howard wrote: > I don't know what authselect is (yet). I don't really know either, but I tend to suspect it is only run once when you install, or later if the sysadmin explicitly invokes it. It is apparently a replacement for "authconfig" which I also neve

Is glibc busted?

2018-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
Just saw this confidence inspiring message go past during dnf update: Running scriptlet: glibc-2.27-8.fc28.i686 59/73 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lnbjPP: line 5: /sbin/sln: No such file or directory ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 May 2018 06:28:21 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: > > KillUserProcesses=yes Does that get all the "user mode daemon" stuff that runs under the "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user" process? Those hanging around forever always seemed to make a reboot take foreve

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 May 2018 20:42:30 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, like any good tech, I just tried it and it did kill all of those.  No > traces of > the logged-out user remain. Cool. I'll have to configure my system with that. Of course I'll still need my reboot script to umount -l nfs filesystems

Re: localhost refuses connection

2018-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 May 2018 06:21:05 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > New fedora 28 install. What have I forgotten? I don't believe fedora installs any kind of mail daemon by default any longer, so perhaps you just don't have anything that can process mail on your system? I usually install postfix, but the

Re: Chrome does not start on f28 & kernel 4.16.x

2018-05-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 24 May 2018 20:19:57 +0100 lejeczek via users wrote: > I'm on Intel i5-6300U(dell latitude e7470) and my > Chrome(google-chrome-stable-66.0.3359.181-1.x86_64) stopped > working recently, does not start. > But if Iboot with kernel from f29, 4.17.x then Chrome works. > Do you experience an

Re: gitlab on Fedora 28

2018-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 12:58 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I was trying the centos rpm. I wonder why there is no source rpm. > Perhaps I should look around for that in order to see if it can be > modified for Fedora. 1) Build an srpm using "into_srpm.sh" which can be pulled in with git clone htt

Re: Xorg.log.0

2018-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 28 May 2018 06:39:27 + (UTC) Amadeus WM wrote: > Should there be an Xorg.log.0 in fedora 28? How come I don't have one > after a brand new install? Probably because you are using gnome which now conveniently stuffs the log into journal where you can't see it for the noise. _

What is this firefox dnf update line about?

2018-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
Just curious. Every time I run dnf update, I see this at the beginning: Running transaction Running scriptlet: firefox-60.0.1-3.fc28.x86_64 1/1 Preparing:1/1 Then it starts the "real" update: Upgrad

Re: Tip: my notes on 28's new core dump

2018-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 23:15:24 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > On the machine where you do development work, and have to deal with core > dumps all the time, you can rig this to be done automatically during the > boot, and completely avoid having to deal with all that brain damage. Permanently g

Re: Tip: my notes on 28's new core dump

2018-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 15:04:17 +0200 Ahmad Samir wrote: > Most likely a typo, you meant 'echo' not cat. True! Thanks for the correction. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Tip: my notes on 28's new core dump

2018-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 09:23:35 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Actually, it's better to manually set the ulimit in your shell. This way, if > some random process dumps core it won't spew it somewhere. Right, that is what the DefaultLimitCore change accomplishes. Without it, everything that aborts

Re: Okular defaults to A4 paper size

2018-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:30:09 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Okular (and any other QT apps) always default to paper size of A4. Not sure if this will work, but for libreoffice, the following nonsense sets the paper size to U.S. Letter by default: dnf install libpaper echo Letter > /etc/papersize

Re: "plumbing" problem during weekly update.

2018-06-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:17:53 - home user via users wrote: > 2. Running scriptlet: kernel-core-4.16.13-200.fc27.x86_64 >187/187 > 3. cat: write error: Broken pipe This has been happening for a while: htt

Re: Uninstalling {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi

2018-06-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:43:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I do not know the role they play.  I suppose you could move them out of the > way and > see if there are any adverse effects.  Their removal may cause subsequent > problems,  > verification may fail, when those packages are updated. If you

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