Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Doug
On 08/08/2014 08:49 PM, davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: Sorry about top posting. This old phone only does it this way. I use k3b 2.0.2 under F17 for burning video dvd's and don't have a problem. Also use it for data dvd and install dvd. Would like to know how it is fubar. Dave

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Doug
On 08/08/2014 08:49 PM, davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: Sorry about top posting. This old phone only does it this way. I use k3b 2.0.2 under F17 for burning video dvd's and don't have a problem. Also use it for data dvd and install dvd. Would like to know how it is fubar. Dave

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Dennis Kaptain wrote: > Rick Stevens suggested "systemctl mask tmp.mount" as a fix. I tried > that and then I couldn't log in. It turns out, that command will make > my / partition read only. Following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs#Release_Notes has always worked for me.

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread davidschaak1
Sorry about top posting. This old phone only does it this way. I use k3b 2.0.2 under F17 for burning video dvd's and don't have a problem. Also use it for data dvd and install dvd. Would like to know how it is fubar. Dave Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity -Original

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Doug
On 08/08/2014 06:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/09/14 03:20, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, JD wrote: /snip/ The subject is correct: there is something verkocht in the latest K3b, ver. 2.0.2. I tried on two computers with two OSs to burn a DVD with K3b, and it screwed up with

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/09/14 03:20, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, JD wrote: > >> You cannot copy TO a dvd with dd, cp, mv etc >> because writing to optical media requires specialized SW like >> cdrecord. > > As mentioned, I've done it. > Surprised me that it worked. > That said, it does not work

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you >>> kind of can do it by changing the table type, say f

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/09/14 03:44, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/08/2014 02:28 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> What is a good practice to achieve it in Fedora 20 ? there is no >> /etc/rc.local in my fedora 20, and trying to add an entry in >> /etc/rc.local does not cause it be be run across boots. > > systemctl enable rc-loc

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. I forgot to address this specifically. First, you r

Re: Strange parted behaviour

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 02:32 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I am making progress but saw a strange bit. #parted /dev/sdb mkpart uboot ext3 4 516 # parted /dev/sdb print Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB Sector size (logical/physic

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 02:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am learning how to use parted in command line format. Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/08/2014 02:28 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: What is a good practice to achieve it in Fedora 20 ? there is no /etc/rc.local in my fedora 20, and trying to add an entry in /etc/rc.local does not cause it be be run across boots. systemctl enable rc-local.service -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, JD wrote: You cannot copy TO a dvd with dd, cp, mv etc because writing to optical media requires specialized SW like cdrecord. As mentioned, I've done it. Surprised me that it worked. That said, it does not work any more. 'Tis been a few years since I've done it. -- Mi

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you > kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. I forgot to address this specifically. First, you really should delete the filesystem signatu

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:39:39 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > > It still doesn't seem like an ideal way to handle /tmp when I have a > > perfectly good partition and swapping is a major performance killer. > > I'd rather disk access wait time is caused by accessi

Re: Strange parted behaviour

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > I don't think "uboot" is a valid partition type--it should be > "primary", "logical" or "extended". Thus the format of the command > should have been: Since the disk is GPT there's no such distinction among partitions. Behavior wise they're pri

Re: Strange parted behaviour

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So I am making progress but saw a strange bit. > > #parted /dev/sdb mkpart uboot ext3 4 516 > > # parted /dev/sdb print > Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) > Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Tabl

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am learning how to use parted in command line format. Unfortuately there is > no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by > changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. > > Also learned that the unused 4M

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > It still doesn't seem like an ideal way to handle /tmp when I have a > perfectly good partition and swapping is a major performance killer. > I'd rather disk access wait time is caused by accessing /tmp when I > need to rather than swapping tmpfs in and out

Re: Strange parted behaviour

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 12:38 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 08/08/2014 06:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz issued this missive: So I am making progress but saw a strange bit. #parted /dev/sdb mkpart uboot ext3 4 516 # parted /dev/sdb print Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB Sector size (logica

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/08/2014 09:51 AM, Tim issued this missive: Allegedly, on or about 08 August 2014, Kevin Wilson sent: Should it have #!/bin/bash as its first line ? My older Fedora install has #!/bin/sh as its first line in the rc.local file. Not sure if it really is using a lighter weight shell (which

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/08/2014 12:51 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 08 August 2014, Kevin Wilson sent: >> Should it have #!/bin/bash as its first line ? > > My older Fedora install has #!/bin/sh as its first line in the rc.local > file. Not sure if it really is using a lighter weight shell (which > sou

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 08 August 2014, Kevin Wilson sent: > Should it have #!/bin/bash as its first line ? My older Fedora install has #!/bin/sh as its first line in the rc.local file. Not sure if it really is using a lighter weight shell (which sounds like a good idea), or one is aliased to the

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 08 August 2014, Dennis Kaptain sent: > Rick Stevens suggested "systemctl mask tmp.mount" as a fix. I tried > that and then I couldn't log in. That sounds like a very old problem. I encountered that, many years ago, when I swapped hard drives on a PC. Check the permissio

Re: Strange parted behaviour

2014-08-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/08/2014 06:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz issued this missive: So I am making progress but saw a strange bit. #parted /dev/sdb mkpart uboot ext3 4 516 # parted /dev/sdb print Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Di

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Anthony Messina
On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:32:15 AM Dennis Kaptain wrote: > So, how do I turn off fedora's tmpfs forever so I can use my physical > /tmp partition and not consume all my valuable RAM? Or stated > otherwise, how do I disable tmpfs AND keep / read-write? systemctl mask tmp.mount -A -- Anthony

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Dennis Kaptain
2014-08-08 10:46 GMT-05:00 Chris Adams : > Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: >> While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy >> of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will >> consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of >

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy > of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will > consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of > RAM I suppose you'd never miss it unless you

how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Dennis Kaptain
While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of RAM I suppose you'd never miss it unless you are doing serious video editing or something lik

Strange parted behaviour

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I am making progress but saw a strange bit. #parted /dev/sdb mkpart uboot ext3 4 516 # parted /dev/sdb print Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 7969MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End SizeFile system Name

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:28:25PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote: > I want to run a binary of some Fedora application I wrote immediately > after reboot. > > I know that as a workaround I can wrap it as a systemd daemon, but I > prefer not to. You don't need to wrap it in anything -- whatever legitim

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/07/2014 03:59 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> so it went from 4 to 3 tmpfs processes?? >> or is it just the lack of the tmpfs process /tmp ?? > > First, /tmp starts out as just a directory on the root filesystem ("/"). > > Before your reboot, the system created a tmpfs filesystem and mounted >

SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am learning how to use parted in command line format. Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. Also learned that the unused 4Mb I am seeing on most SD cards is for a reason. To get on the

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/08/14 17:57, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Thanks a lot! > Should it have #!/bin/bash as its first line ? I don't believe it is necessary, but I add it as a force of habit. -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, Thanks a lot! Should it have #!/bin/bash as its first line ? Kevin On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/08/14 17:28, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> I want to run a binary of some Fedora application I wrote immediately >> after reboot. >> >> I know that as a workaround I can wra

Re: seg fault - how to track down cause!

2014-08-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 17:51 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > yes! use ps *** to get parent pid to follow, then i think the chant > is > something like, > > strace -f -p > > note, a lot of system call info gets dumped, but IMHO, the needle is > in > that haystack! > > you might want to log output to

Re: running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/08/14 17:28, Kevin Wilson wrote: > I want to run a binary of some Fedora application I wrote immediately > after reboot. > > I know that as a workaround I can wrap it as a systemd daemon, but I > prefer not to. > > In previous fedora distros, making it run across reboots was enabled > by addi

running a specified binary across reboots

2014-08-08 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello, Fedora users, I want to run a binary of some Fedora application I wrote immediately after reboot. I know that as a workaround I can wrap it as a systemd daemon, but I prefer not to. In previous fedora distros, making it run across reboots was enabled by adding an entry in /etc/rc.local.