RANT . Very poor install experience. 10 hours and just got it working.

2015-04-14 Thread Robin Laing
I waited until I had calmed down and edited this post. Originally it was written on Sunday April 12. This is a rant and there are bug reports due to my issues. Some are automatic from the install issues and others created or to be created by me. I have been working on this laptop all weeken

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread jd1008
On 04/14/2015 06:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/14/2015 05:31 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 04/14/2015 06:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/14/2015 04:43 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have 16GB swap, and 8GB RAM. So, what you suspect is not the case. It probably wouldn't hurt to check how much of your RAM and s

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/14/2015 05:31 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 04/14/2015 06:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/14/2015 04:43 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have 16GB swap, and 8GB RAM. So, what you suspect is not the case. It probably wouldn't hurt to check how much of your RAM and swap are available: free -h It's probably

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread jd1008
On 04/14/2015 06:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/14/2015 04:43 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have 16GB swap, and 8GB RAM. So, what you suspect is not the case. It probably wouldn't hurt to check how much of your RAM and swap are available: free -h It's probably not an issue, and you needn't post th

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/14/2015 04:43 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have 16GB swap, and 8GB RAM. So, what you suspect is not the case. It probably wouldn't hurt to check how much of your RAM and swap are available: free -h It's probably not an issue, and you needn't post the results unless there's something odd abo

Re: Crashes of tainted kernels

2015-04-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/16/2015 04:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/15 06:25, Joe Zeff wrote: My laptop reports several kerneloops every time it boots. AFAIK, there's nothing installed that taints the kernel, but 99% of the time abrt tells me that the kernel is tainted and that I can't report it. Suggestions?

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread jd1008
On 04/14/2015 04:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/14/2015 02:18 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 14.04.2015, John Schmitt wrote: Using maxcpus=1 in your grub command line is an ugly work-around, I agree. It simply doesn't work.. However, if your machine is waking up from sleep or hibernate, usi

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread jd1008
Thank you John. Is anyone working on this bug? I did not have this problem in 3.17 and prior. On 04/14/2015 02:57 PM, John Schmitt wrote: Using maxcpus=1 in your grub command line is an ugly work-around, I agree. However, if your machine is waking up from sleep or hibernate, using maxcpus=1 o

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/14/2015 02:18 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 14.04.2015, John Schmitt wrote: Using maxcpus=1 in your grub command line is an ugly work-around, I agree. It simply doesn't work.. However, if your machine is waking up from sleep or hibernate, using maxcpus=1 on your grub command line is going

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.04.2015, John Schmitt wrote: > Using maxcpus=1 in your grub command line is an ugly work-around, I agree. It simply doesn't work.. > However, if your machine is waking up from sleep or hibernate, using > maxcpus=1 on your grub command line is going to apply only until your > frozen system

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread John Schmitt
Using maxcpus=1 in your grub command line is an ugly work-around, I agree. However, if your machine is waking up from sleep or hibernate, using maxcpus=1 on your grub command line is going to apply only until your frozen system image (that is, the image of your running kernel that was running on a

Re: Firefox won't allow connection when site certificate is invalid

2015-04-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 09:22 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > On Apr 14, 2015 5:12 AM, "Patrick O'Callaghan" > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 20:18 -0500, g wrote: > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > > > > as yet, i have never been unable to accept a site's unrecognized > > > certificate. [fi

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: > So, use maxcpus=1 during first boot and 2nd boot? The machine is a quadcore XEON, reducing it to a single-core is not really something I want. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

[SOLVED] Re: Permanent NIC Setup from command line???

2015-04-14 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, James Hogarth wrote: On 14 Apr 2015 18:47, "Peter Ulrich Kruppa" wrote: > > Hi, > > this is the background to question: > > Last week I set up my first Fedora (21) server - everything went well until ... now, of course "I didn't do anything" (TM) ... all my network config

Re: Permanent NIC Setup from command line???

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 04/14/2015 12:47 PM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: So now my question: What would be "the" Fedora 21 way to set up a NIC permanently from command line? We have extensive documentation. :) http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Using_the_NetworkManager_Command_

Re: Permanent NIC Setup from command line???

2015-04-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 Apr 2015 18:47, "Peter Ulrich Kruppa" wrote: > > Hi, > > this is the background to question: > > Last week I set up my first Fedora (21) server - everything went well until ... now, of course "I didn't do anything" (TM) ... all my network configuration was gone. > First Aid was to set my NIC

Permanent NIC Setup from command line???

2015-04-14 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, this is the background to question: Last week I set up my first Fedora (21) server - everything went well until ... now, of course "I didn't do anything" (TM) ... all my network configuration was gone. First Aid was to set my NIC with the ip command - but this won't survive a reboot. Re

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-14 Thread Ntlworld
I simply use an expensive but fan-ridden cooler-master gaming pc chassis - enabled me to install things like disk caddies etc - in fact the chassis is more important if you ask me than The motherboard since I have upgraded mine twice since getting the chassis and then I am about to install wate

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/13/2015 11:35 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 14:45 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote: I agree that on cheap hardware this might be needed, however, I don't think it's the case on good systems. A lot of thought goes into the design of the hardware, so things like overheating don't occur. Speak

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread jd1008
On 04/14/2015 12:44 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 14.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: Also, I am losing files!!! Sorry for this long listing, but I think something is seriously wrong with the hibernation code. Does S2R work for you? Anyway, I have debugged some S2D problems in the last months, and my gut

Re: Firefox won't allow connection when site certificate is invalid

2015-04-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 14, 2015 5:12 AM, "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 20:18 -0500, g wrote: > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > > as yet, i have never been unable to accept a site's unrecognized > > certificate. [firefox 24.8.0] > > As I've explained, the problem is specifically with

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > simple-mtpfs.x86_640.2-3.fc21 so, did massive "yum update", installed that package, rebooted and i got a mount point for my phone. which is weird since now i have no idea why this ever worked before but ... i'll take the resu

Re: Missing feature

2015-04-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Damjan Činkole wrote: > In Fedora SOAS there is no install link like in most other LInux > distributions. > Could you make it in some of the future versions? Since this is about the Sugar on a Stick spin, you probably will get better results in contacting

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 04/14/2015 08:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > >> On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more > >>> general fedora issue --

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/14/2015 08:50 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> On 04/14/2015 08:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: >>> On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > currently running fedora rawhide but i

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 04/14/2015 08:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > >> On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more > >>> general fedora issue --

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/14/2015 08:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more >>> general fedora issue -- i could be wrong. whenever i plug in my HTC >>> android

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more > > general fedora issue -- i could be wrong. whenever i plug in my HTC > > android phone to my laptop (via USB), it's totally hit and m

Re: why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more > general fedora issue -- i could be wrong. whenever i plug in my HTC > android phone to my laptop (via USB), it's totally hit and miss > whether i get the phone's content mounted under

why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

2015-04-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more general fedora issue -- i could be wrong. whenever i plug in my HTC android phone to my laptop (via USB), it's totally hit and miss whether i get the phone's content mounted under /run/user/1000/gvfs, which allows me to copy pics out

Re: Firefox won't allow connection when site certificate is invalid

2015-04-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 20:18 -0500, g wrote: > > Has anyone else seen this? > > as yet, i have never been unable to accept a site's unrecognized > certificate. [firefox 24.8.0] As I've explained, the problem is specifically with Firefox 37. I already know it works with earlier versions. poc --

Re: F21 XFCE : no nm-applet icon

2015-04-14 Thread poma
On 13.04.2015 17:39, sean darcy wrote: > On 04/13/2015 03:11 AM, poma wrote: >> On 12.04.2015 17:48, sean darcy wrote: >>> Upgraded f21 XFCE. >>> >>> nm-applet is running: >>> >>>ps aux | grep nm-applet >>> user 2856 0.0 0.3 644532 29480 ?Sl 11:25 0:00 nm-applet >>> >>> but ther

Re: Reboot after hibernate failed to restore to previous session.

2015-04-14 Thread poma
On 14.04.2015 08:44, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 14.04.2015, jd1008 wrote: > >> Also, I am losing files!!! Sorry for this long listing, but I think >> something is seriously wrong with the hibernation code. > > Does S2R work for you? > > Anyway, I have debugged some S2D problems in the last months,